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Books received

(July–September 2021)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2022

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The China Quarterly , Volume 248 , Issue 1 , December 2021 , pp. 1254 - 1255
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

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. The list below may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

  • Brown, William N. Chasing the Chinese Dream: Four Decades of Following China's War on Poverty. (Singapore: Springer, 2021. xxiii + 224 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9789811606533.)

  • Byler, Darren. In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony. (New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2021. 159 pp. $15.99. ISBN 9781735913629.)

  • Cabestan, Jean-Pierre. Demain la Chine: guerre ou paix? (Paris: Gallimard, 2021. 278 pp. €22.00. ISBN 9782072951619.)

  • Fan, Elsa L. Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 208 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9781517907655.)

  • Grydehøj, Adam, and Su, Ping. China and the Pursuit of Harmony in World Politics: Understanding Chinese International Relations Theory. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 104 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9781032194660.)

  • Gueorguiev, Dimitar. Retrofitting Leninism: Participation without Democracy in China. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780197555675.)

  • Gunn, Geoffrey C. Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong: Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 266 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108833257.)

  • Guo, Zhonghua. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Citizenship. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 534 pp. £240.00. ISBN 9781032126913.)

  • Hamilton, Peter E. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 440 pp. $140.00; £108.00. ISBN 9780231184847.)

  • Hsu, Cho-yun (trans. Ownby, David). The Transcendental and the Mundane: Chinese Cultural Values in Everyday Life. (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021. 308 pp. $60.00. ISBN 9789882372122.)

  • Huang, Grace C. Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 442 pp. $55.00; £44.95; €49.50. ISBN 9780674260139.)

  • Hui, Calvin. The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xi + 267 pp. $35.00; £28.00. ISBN 9780231192491.)

  • Jiang, Jiehong. The Otherness of the Everyday: Twelve Conversations from the Chinese Art World During the Pandemic. (Bristol: Intellect, 2021. 222 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781789384390.)

  • Kurlantzick, Joshua. Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197515761.)

  • Large, Daniel. China and Africa: The New Era. (Oxford: Polity, 2021. 250 pp. £50.00; €56.50. ISBN 9781509536320.)

  • Lee, Francis L. F., and Chan, Joseph M.. Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 360 pp. $119.00. ISBN 9789463728447.)

  • Li, Chunling. China's Youth: Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 399 pp. $37.99. ISBN 9780815739364.)

  • Li, Hua. Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. ix + 234 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9781487508234.)

  • Liang, Bin, and Liu, Jianhong. Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 344 pp. $80.00. ISBN 9780472132690.)

  • Lin, Wei-Ping. Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 310 pp. £79.99. ISBN 9781316519370.)

  • Madsen, Richard (ed). The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below. (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. x + 178 pp. €116.00; $140.00 [e-book]. ISBN 9789004465183.)

  • Mo, Yajun. Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 318 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9781501761041.)

  • Patey, Luke. How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780190061081.)

  • Pieke, Frank N., and Iwabuchi, Koichi (eds). Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 352 pp. $34.95; £27.00. ISBN 9780520299870.)

  • Pollacchi, Elena. Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream: Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spaces. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 246 pp. €99.00. ISBN 9789463721837.)

  • Reilly, James. Orchestration: China's Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 284 pp. $74.00. ISBN 9780197526347.)

  • Rhoads, Edward J. M. War and Revolution in South China: The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936–1951. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2021. 220 pp. HK$490.00; $63.00. ISBN 9789888528660.)

  • Shen, Wei. Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 354 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108490986.)

  • Shih, Chih-yu. Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2021. 140 pp. $77.00. ISBN 9789888754045.)

  • Solinger, Dorothy. Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 360 pp. $95.00; £73.00. ISBN 9781538154953.)

  • Stroup, David R. An Exploration into China's Largest Muslim Ethnic Community: Pure and True. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2022. 268 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9780295749822.)

  • Sun, Ken Chih-Yan. Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9781501754876.)

  • Tan, Yeling. Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. xvi + 219 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9781501759635.)

  • Tsai, Lily L. When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xii + 250 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9781108794862.)

  • Wang, Cangbai. Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas: Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 190 pp. £96.00. ISBN 9780367466299.)

  • Wang, Simeng. Chinese Migrants in Paris. (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. x + 186 pp. €95,00; $114.00. ISBN 9789004460744.)

  • White, Luke. Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2020. x + 240 pp. $80.00. ISBN 9780824881573.)

  • Xu, Fang. Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 276 pp. $105.00; £81.00. ISBN 9781793635310.)

  • Zhang, Changdong. Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2021. 350 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9780472075010.)

  • Zhao, Tingyang (trans. Harroff, Joseph E.). All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 332 pp. $29.95; £24.00. ISBN 9780520325029.)

  • Zhou, Chenshu. Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 282 pp. $34.95; £27.00. ISBN 9780520343399.)

  • Zhu, Tian. Catching Up to America: Culture, Institutions, and the Rise of China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi + 273 pp. $34.99. ISBN 9781009017657.)