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The China Quarterly , Volume 199 , September 2009 , pp. 825 - 828
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2009

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.

1Ashiwa, Yoshiko, and Wank, David L. (eds.), Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. vi + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5842-0.)2Banham, Tony, We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942–45. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xviii + 354 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-960-9.)3Bateman, Sam and Emmers, Ralf (eds.), Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Cooperative Management Regime. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xv + 252 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46943-2.)4Bays, Daniel H. and Widmer, Ellen (eds.), China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxii + 405 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5949-6.)5Blankert, Jan Willem, China Rising: Will the West Be Able to Cope. The Real Long-Term Challenge of the Rise of China. (London and Singapore: World Scientific, 2009. xiv + 160 pp. £21.00. ISBN 978-981-283-795-0.)6Button, Peter, Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xv + 316 pp. €114.00; $169.00. ISBN 978-9-0041-7095-7.)7Cai, Fang, and Du, Yu (eds.), The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Vol. 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and its Policy Implications. (Leiden: Brill, 2009. xli + 286 pp. $148.00; Euro 99.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16576-2.)8Chang, Doris T., Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03395-7.)9Chen, Lai (translated by Ryden, Edmond), Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. x + 386 pp. €125.00; $185.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16578-6.)10Chou, Bill K.P., Government and Policy-Making Reform in China: The Implications of Governing Capacity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 167 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-43704-2.)11Copper, John F., Taiwan: Nation-State or Province (Fifth edition). (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 978-0-8133-4422-5.)12Ellis, R. Evan, China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores. (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xiii + 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-58826-675-0.)13Garrison, Jean A., China and the Energy Equation in Asia. (Boulder and London: FirstForumPrress, 2009. xi + 185 pp. £56.50, ISBN 978-1-935049-05-0.)14Ghani, Ejaz and Ahmed, Sadiq (eds.), Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi + 467 pp. ISBN 978-019-8066004-8.)15Gong, Ting and Ma, Stephen K. (eds.), Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxi + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-48408-4.)16Grafstein, Robert and Wen, Fan (eds.), A Bridge Too Far: Commonalities and Differences between China and the United States. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. xx + 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-2887-9.)17Gregory, Neil, Nollen, Stanley, and Tenev, Stoyan, New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India. (Washington DC and Stanford CA: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2009. xvii + 255 pp. £18.95. ISBN 978-0-8213-6478-9.)18Guilloux, Antoine, Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvii + 204 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46953-1.)19Hao, Yufan, Wei, C. X. George, and Dittmer, Lowell (eds.), Challenges to Chiense Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. vi + 377 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8131-9202-4.)20Horner, Charles, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a Global Context. (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2009. xiv + 224 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8203-3334-2.)21Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael and Lin, Cheng-yi (eds.), Rise of China: Beijing's Startegies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 312 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46882-4.)22Ip, Manying, The Dragon and the Taniwha: Ma-ori and Chinese in New Zealand. (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. x + 374 pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-436-9.)23Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. 450 pp. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-423-6.)24Kadeer, Rebiya, with Cavelius, Alexandra, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struglle for Peace with China. (Kales Press, 2009. xix + 426 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-9798456-1-1.)25Kastner, Scott L., Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6204-5.)26Katz, Paul R., Divine Justice: Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 224 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-415-44345-6.)27Lall, Marie and Vickers, Edward (eds.), Education as a Political Tool in Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45259-5.)28Lee, Keun, Kim, Joon-Han and Woo, Wing Thye (eds.), Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viiii + 220 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46939-5.)29Lei, Chun Kwok and Yao, Shujie, Economic Convergence in Greater China: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxiv + 238 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-43581-9.)30Li, Huaiyin, Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xv + 402 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8.)31Li, Linda Chelan (ed.), Towards Responsible Government in East Asia: Trajectories, Intentions and Meanings. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 137 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45316-5.)32Lin, George C.S., Developing China: Land, Politics and Social Conditions. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxiii + 343 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-41322-0.)33Lin, Julia C. (edited and translated by), Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology. (Armonk, NY, and London, UK: M.E.Sharpe, 2009. lxvi + 205 pp. £21.50, ISBN 978-0-7656-2368-3.)34Liu, Xin, The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism and Corporeality of the Contemporary World. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. xii + 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-545-3.)35Mackerras, Colin and Clarke, Michael (eds.), China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 194 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45317-2.)36Martzloff, Jean-Claude, Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.C.–1644). (Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 2009. 464 pp. €50.00. ISBN 978-2-7453-1911-1.)37Mendes, Errol P. and Srighantan, Sakunthala (eds.), Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009. xvi + 421 pp. $29.00. ISBN 978-0-7766-0709-2.)38Merkel-Hess, Kate, Pomeranz, Kenneth L. and Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (eds.), China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. xii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-6660-6.)39Monson, Jamie, Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii + 199 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-253-35271-2.)40Mühlhann, Klaus, Criminal Justice in China: A History. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. 365 pp. £22.95; €27.00; $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-03323-8.)41Qiu, Jack Linchuan, Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2009. xvi + 303 pp. £22.95, ISBN 978-0-262-17006-2.)42Rojas, Carolos and Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xi + 288 pp. £80.00, ISBN 978-0-415-46880-0.)43Ru, Xin, Lu Xueyi, and Li, Peilin (eds.), The China Society Yearbook. Volume 2: Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Development. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxv + 250 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-16801-5.)44Schmitt, Gary J. (ed.), The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition. (New York: Encounter Books, 2009. xii + 181 pp. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-59403-231-9.)45Schuessler, Axel, Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa. (Honolulu: University of Haiwai‘i Press, 2009. xxiv + 421 pp. $58.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3264-3.)46Siu, Helen F. and Ku, Agnes S. (eds.), Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xx + 487 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-918-0.)47Tanner, Harold M., China: A History. (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009. xii + 610 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-915-2.)48Wood, Frances, The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 283 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-300-15436-8.)49Xie, Lei, Environmental Activism in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 213 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-47869-4.)50Dongping, Yang (ed.), The China Educational Development Yearbook. Volume 1. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxvi + 363 pp. €114.00; $169.00. ISBN 978-90-04-17178-7.)51Yang, Dali and Zhao, Litao (eds.), China's Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects. (Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2009. xiii + 200 pp. £37.00. ISBN 978-981-283-424-9.)52Yu, Haiqing, Media and Cultural Transformation in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xi + 217 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-44755-3.)53Zachmann, Urs Matthias, China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-48191-5.)54Zhang, Xaioling and Yongnian, Zheng (eds.), China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. vii + 160 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46230-3.)55Zheng, Tiantian, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-81665903-6.)56Zhou, Li'an, Zhuanxingzhong de difang zhengfu: guanyuan jili yu zhili (Local Governments in Transition: The Incentives of Bureaucrats and Governance). (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2008, 339 pp. RMB45.00, ISBN 978-7-5432-1530-6.)

References

1Ashiwa, Yoshiko, and Wank, David L. (eds.), Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. vi + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5842-0.)Google Scholar
2Banham, Tony, We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942–45. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xviii + 354 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-960-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3Bateman, Sam and Emmers, Ralf (eds.), Security and International Politics in the South China Sea: Towards a Cooperative Management Regime. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xv + 252 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46943-2.)Google Scholar
4Bays, Daniel H. and Widmer, Ellen (eds.), China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxii + 405 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5949-6.)Google Scholar
5Blankert, Jan Willem, China Rising: Will the West Be Able to Cope. The Real Long-Term Challenge of the Rise of China. (London and Singapore: World Scientific, 2009. xiv + 160 pp. £21.00. ISBN 978-981-283-795-0.)Google Scholar
6Button, Peter, Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xv + 316 pp. €114.00; $169.00. ISBN 978-9-0041-7095-7.)Google Scholar
7Cai, Fang, and Du, Yu (eds.), The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Vol. 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and its Policy Implications. (Leiden: Brill, 2009. xli + 286 pp. $148.00; Euro 99.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16576-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
8Chang, Doris T., Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-03395-7.)Google Scholar
9Chen, Lai (translated by Ryden, Edmond), Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. x + 386 pp. €125.00; $185.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16578-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10Chou, Bill K.P., Government and Policy-Making Reform in China: The Implications of Governing Capacity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 167 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-43704-2.)Google Scholar
11Copper, John F., Taiwan: Nation-State or Province (Fifth edition). (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009. xii + 275 pp. ISBN 978-0-8133-4422-5.)Google Scholar
12Ellis, R. Evan, China in Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores. (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xiii + 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-58826-675-0.)Google Scholar
13Garrison, Jean A., China and the Energy Equation in Asia. (Boulder and London: FirstForumPrress, 2009. xi + 185 pp. £56.50, ISBN 978-1-935049-05-0.)Google Scholar
14Ghani, Ejaz and Ahmed, Sadiq (eds.), Accelerating Growth and Job Creation in Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxvi + 467 pp. ISBN 978-019-8066004-8.)Google Scholar
15Gong, Ting and Ma, Stephen K. (eds.), Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxi + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-48408-4.)Google Scholar
16Grafstein, Robert and Wen, Fan (eds.), A Bridge Too Far: Commonalities and Differences between China and the United States. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. xx + 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-2887-9.)Google Scholar
17Gregory, Neil, Nollen, Stanley, and Tenev, Stoyan, New Industries from New Places: The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India. (Washington DC and Stanford CA: The World Bank and Stanford University Press, 2009. xvii + 255 pp. £18.95. ISBN 978-0-8213-6478-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
18Guilloux, Antoine, Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvii + 204 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46953-1.)Google Scholar
19Hao, Yufan, Wei, C. X. George, and Dittmer, Lowell (eds.), Challenges to Chiense Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. vi + 377 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8131-9202-4.)Google Scholar
20Horner, Charles, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a Global Context. (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2009. xiv + 224 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8203-3334-2.)Google Scholar
21Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael and Lin, Cheng-yi (eds.), Rise of China: Beijing's Startegies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 312 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46882-4.)Google Scholar
22Ip, Manying, The Dragon and the Taniwha: Ma-ori and Chinese in New Zealand. (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. x + 374 pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-436-9.)Google Scholar
23Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. 450 pp. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-423-6.)Google Scholar
24Kadeer, Rebiya, with Cavelius, Alexandra, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struglle for Peace with China. (Kales Press, 2009. xix + 426 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-9798456-1-1.)Google Scholar
25Kastner, Scott L., Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6204-5.)Google Scholar
26Katz, Paul R., Divine Justice: Religion and the Development of Chinese Legal Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 224 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-415-44345-6.)Google Scholar
27Lall, Marie and Vickers, Edward (eds.), Education as a Political Tool in Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45259-5.)Google Scholar
28Lee, Keun, Kim, Joon-Han and Woo, Wing Thye (eds.), Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viiii + 220 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46939-5.)Google Scholar
29Lei, Chun Kwok and Yao, Shujie, Economic Convergence in Greater China: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxiv + 238 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-43581-9.)Google Scholar
30Li, Huaiyin, Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xv + 402 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8.)Google Scholar
31Li, Linda Chelan (ed.), Towards Responsible Government in East Asia: Trajectories, Intentions and Meanings. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 137 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45316-5.)Google Scholar
32Lin, George C.S., Developing China: Land, Politics and Social Conditions. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxiii + 343 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-41322-0.)Google Scholar
33Lin, Julia C. (edited and translated by), Twentieth-Century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology. (Armonk, NY, and London, UK: M.E.Sharpe, 2009. lxvi + 205 pp. £21.50, ISBN 978-0-7656-2368-3.)Google Scholar
34Liu, Xin, The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism and Corporeality of the Contemporary World. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. xii + 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-84545-545-3.)Google Scholar
35Mackerras, Colin and Clarke, Michael (eds.), China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 194 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45317-2.)Google Scholar
36Martzloff, Jean-Claude, Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.C.–1644). (Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 2009. 464 pp. €50.00. ISBN 978-2-7453-1911-1.)Google Scholar
37Mendes, Errol P. and Srighantan, Sakunthala (eds.), Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives. (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009. xvi + 421 pp. $29.00. ISBN 978-0-7766-0709-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
38Merkel-Hess, Kate, Pomeranz, Kenneth L. and Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (eds.), China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. xii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-7425-6660-6.)Google Scholar
39Monson, Jamie, Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii + 199 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-253-35271-2.)Google Scholar
40Mühlhann, Klaus, Criminal Justice in China: A History. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. 365 pp. £22.95; €27.00; $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-03323-8.)Google Scholar
41Qiu, Jack Linchuan, Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2009. xvi + 303 pp. £22.95, ISBN 978-0-262-17006-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
42Rojas, Carolos and Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xi + 288 pp. £80.00, ISBN 978-0-415-46880-0.)Google Scholar
43Ru, Xin, Lu Xueyi, and Li, Peilin (eds.), The China Society Yearbook. Volume 2: Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Development. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxv + 250 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-16801-5.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
44Schmitt, Gary J. (ed.), The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition. (New York: Encounter Books, 2009. xii + 181 pp. $21.95. ISBN 978-1-59403-231-9.)Google Scholar
45Schuessler, Axel, Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa. (Honolulu: University of Haiwai‘i Press, 2009. xxiv + 421 pp. $58.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3264-3.)Google Scholar
46Siu, Helen F. and Ku, Agnes S. (eds.), Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xx + 487 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-918-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
47Tanner, Harold M., China: A History. (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009. xii + 610 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-915-2.)Google Scholar
48Wood, Frances, The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 283 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-300-15436-8.)Google Scholar
49Xie, Lei, Environmental Activism in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 213 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-47869-4.)Google Scholar
50Dongping, Yang (ed.), The China Educational Development Yearbook. Volume 1. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxvi + 363 pp. €114.00; $169.00. ISBN 978-90-04-17178-7.)Google Scholar
51Yang, Dali and Zhao, Litao (eds.), China's Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects. (Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2009. xiii + 200 pp. £37.00. ISBN 978-981-283-424-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
52Yu, Haiqing, Media and Cultural Transformation in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xi + 217 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-44755-3.)Google Scholar
53Zachmann, Urs Matthias, China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-48191-5.)Google Scholar
54Zhang, Xaioling and Yongnian, Zheng (eds.), China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. vii + 160 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46230-3.)Google Scholar
55Zheng, Tiantian, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-81665903-6.)Google Scholar
56Zhou, Li'an, Zhuanxingzhong de difang zhengfu: guanyuan jili yu zhili (Local Governments in Transition: The Incentives of Bureaucrats and Governance). (Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 2008, 339 pp. RMB45.00, ISBN 978-7-5432-1530-6.)Google Scholar