This list of books received at The China Quarterly during the period stated is intended to serve as an up-to-date guide to books published on imperial, modern and contemporary China. Andrews-Speed, Philip, The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 280 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-28224-7.)Benney, Jonathan, Defending Rights in Contemporary China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xi + 197 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-69430-8.)Carrillo, Beatriz, and Goodman, David S. G. (eds.), China's Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012. xii + 164 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-78100-572-9.)Chan, Kwok-Shing, A Localized Culture of Welfare: Entitlements, Stratification and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village. (Lanham, Boulder, CO: Lexington Books, 2012. xi + 223 pp. £39.95. ISBN: 978-0-7391-6687-1.)Chao, Emily, Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2012. xiii + 248 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99223-5.)Collins, Neil, and Cottey, Andrew, Understanding Chinese Politics: An Introduction to Government in the People's Republic of China. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. ix + 202 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-7190-8428-7.)Copper, John F, The KMT Returns to Power: Elections in Taiwan 2008 to 2012. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2013. x + 249 pp. £44.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-7477-7.)Cunich, Peter, A History of the University of Hong Kong, Vol. 1. 1911–1945. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xxvi + 649 pp. ISBN 978-988-8139-21-7.)Ding, Xiaojiong, Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012. xviii + 239 pp. £44.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-2963-0.)Domenach Jean-Luc, (trans. by Holoch, George), China's Uncertain Future. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xii + 192 pp. £22.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15224-2.)Evans, Brian L., Pursuing China: Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer. (Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2012. x + 295 pp. ISBN 978-0-88864-600-2.)Fang, Xiaoping, Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China. (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. xiii + 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1-58046-433-8.)Gernet, Jacques. Die Begegnung Chinas mit dem Christentum. (Sankt Augustin, Germany: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2012. xx + 413 pp. ISBN 978-3-8050-0603-3.)Griffiths, Michael B., Consumers and Individuals in China: Standing Out, Fitting In. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi + 231 pp. £80.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-53572-4.)Guo, Xuezhi, China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv + 486 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02323-9.)Hao Ping, Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China. (Los Angeles, CA: Bridge21 Publications, 2012. xxiii + 423 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-936940-37-0.)Harrell, Paula S., Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2012. xi + 406 pp. ISBN 978-1-937385-20-0.)He Weifang, In the Name of Justice: Striving for the Rule of Law in China. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012. xlix + 269 pp. £23.99; $34. 95. ISBN 978-0-8157-2290-8.)Howard, Keith (ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2012. xiii + 277 pp. £22.50. ISBN 978-1-4094-3907-3.)Knaus, John Kenneth, Beyond Shangri-La: America and Tibet's Move into the Twenty-First Century. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. xvii + 355 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-5234-1.)Lam, Tong, A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State: 1900–1949. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 263 pp. £41.95. ISBN 978-0-520-26786-2.)Lewis, Joanna I., Green Innovation in China: China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xx + 282 pp. $27.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15330-0.)Li, Huaiyin, Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xii + 338 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3608-5.)Li, Mingjiang (ed.), China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and Contentions. (Lanham, Boulder, CO: Lexington Books, 2012. vii + 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-7677-1.)Li, Xiaoyun, Gubo, Qi, Lixia, Tang, Lixia, Zhao, Leshan, Jin, Zhanfeng, Guo and Jin, Wu, Agricultural Development in China and Africa: A Comparative Analysis. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xviii + 310 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-84971-388-7.)Liu, Liyan, Red Genesis: The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903–1921. (New York: SUNY Press, 2012. xv + 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4384-4503-8.)Lo, Jung-pang (edited and with commentary by Elleman, Bruce A.), China as a Sea Power 1127–1368: A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People during the Southern Song and Yuan Periods. (Singapore: NUS Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xx + 378 pp. ISBN 978-9971-69-505-7.)Malik, Khalid, Why Has China Grown So Fast for So Long? (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvii + 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-807883-8.)Morris, Meaghan, and Hjort, Mette (eds.), Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Academic Activism. (Durham and London: Duke University Press; Hong Kong: Hong University Press, 2012. xiii + 297 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-932643-02-2.)Nathan, Andrew J., and Scobell, Andrew, China's Search for Security. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xxiii + 406 pp. £22.95; $32.95. ISBN 978-0-231-13050-8.)Paine, S. C. M., The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 487 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02069-6.)Qing, Jiang (trans. by Ryden, Edmund; ed. by Bell, Daniel A. and Fan, Ruiping), A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. x + 256 pp. $39.50; £27.95. ISBN 978-0-691-15460-2.)Rapp, John A., Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Continuum Books, 2012. xi + 292 pp. £18.99. ISBN: 978-1-4411-7880-0.)Roberts, Claire, Photography and China. (London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 200 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-1-86189-911-8.)Sin-Lin (trans. by Levine, Steven I.), Shattered Families, Broken Dreams: Little-known Episodes from the History of the Persecution of Chinese Revolutionaries in Stalin's Gulag. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2012. xv + 459 pp. $75. 00. ISBN 978-1-937385-18-7.)Sun, Jing, Japan and China as Charm Rivals: Soft Power and Regional Diplomacy. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. xii + 231 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-11833-5.)Tam, Waikeung, Legal Mobilization under Authoritarianism: The Case of Post-Colonial Hong Kong. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. xiii + 219 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03199-9.)Tan, Chee-Beng (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xvi + 506 pp. £125.00. ISBN 978-0-415-60056-9.)Wheeler, Norton, The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization: Invited Influence. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xix + 220 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-50657-1.)Yang, Keming, Capitalists in Communist China. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 211 pp. £57.50. ISBN: 978-1-4411-7880-0.)Yang, Liu, China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2012. 302 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-9800484-9-0.)Yang, Yisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962. (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012. xxvi + 629 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-374-27793-2.)Yoshihiro, Ishikawa (trans. by Fogel, Joshua A.), The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xiv + 502 pp. £38.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15808-4.)Yu, Anthony C. (trans. by), The Journey to the West (revised edition). Volume I. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xx + 552 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-226-97132-2.)Yu, Anthony C. (trans. by), The Journey to the West (revised edition). Volume II. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 410 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-226-97134-6.)Yu, Anthony C. (trans. by), The Journey to the West (revised edition). Volume III. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 422 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-226-97137-7.)Yu, Anthony C. (trans. by), The Journey to the West (revised edition). Volume IV. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvi + 428 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-226-97139-1.)Zhu, Xufeng, The Rise of Think Tanks in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xiii + 210 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-66900-9.)