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Books Received

(October–December 2013)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2014

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The China Quarterly , Volume 217 , March 2014 , pp. 304 - 306
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2014 

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.

  • Beardson, Timothy, Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China's Future. (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. vii + 496 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-300-16524-5.)

  • Blumenfield, Tami, and Silverman, Helaine (eds.), Cultural Heritage Politics in China. (New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg and London: Springer, 2013. xviii + 297 pp. €18,00. ISBN 978-1-4614-6873-8.)

  • Cao, Liqun, Sun, Ivan Y. and Hebenton, Bill (eds.), The Routledge Book of Chinese Criminology. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xxvii + 352 pp. £140.00. ISBN 978-0-415-50040.)

  • Chen, Fei, and Thwaites, Kevin, Chinese Urban Design: The Typomorphological Approach. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xv + 244 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-3388-0.)

  • Chen, Weigang, Confucian Marxism: A Reflection on Religion and Global Justice. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. x + 352 pp. $156.00; €112,00. ISBN 978-90-04-228986.)

  • Cheung, Chiu-yee (ed.), Nicai yu huawen wenxue lunwenji (Nietzsche and Chinese Literature). (Singapore: World Scientific Singapore, 2014. xvi + 324 pp. $23.00. ISBN 978-981-4556-81-1.)

  • Cole, Bernard D., Asian Maritime Strategies: Navigating Troubled Waters. (Annapolis, MY: Naval Institute Press, 2013 xiv + 304 pp. $34.95; £22.49. ISBN 978-1-59114-162-4.)

  • Crook, Isabel Brown, and Gilmartin, Christina Kelley, with Xiji, Yu, Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China. (Lanham, MD, and Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013 xxiv + 301 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-2574-9.)

  • Feng, Li, and Branner, David Prager, Writing and Literacy in Early China: Studies from the Columbia Early China Seminar. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. viii + 494 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-9937-9.)

  • Gittings, Danny, Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. 413 pp. ISBN 978-988-8139-49-1.)

  • Haboush, JaHyun Kim, and Robinson, Kenneth R. (trans. and ed.), A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Han. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xxxi + 235 pp. £30.95; $45.00 ISBN 978-0-231-16370.)

  • Halper, Lezlee Brown, and Halper, Stephan, Tibet: An Unfinished Story. (London: Hurst and Company, 2013. xix + 367 pp. ISBN 978-1-84904-359-5.)

  • Han, Enze, Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China.(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 207 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-993629-8.)

  • Hannas, William C., Mulvenon, James and Puglisi, Anna B., Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernization. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013 xvii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-82142-1.)

  • Harris, Rachel, Pease, Rowan and Tan, Shzr Ee, Gender in Chinese Music. (Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge UK: University of Rochester Press, 2013. viii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-1-58046-443-7.)

  • Harwood, Russell, China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014. xviii + 230 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-0-295-99338-6.)

  • Horesh, Niv, Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. xii + 364 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8719-2.)

  • Jersild, Austin, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xi + 330 pp. $36.95 ISBN 978-1-4696-1159-4.)

  • Keaveney, Christopher T., The Cultural Evolution of Postwar Japan: The Intellectual Contributions of Kaizō's Yamamoto. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xii + 254 pp. £56.50. ISBN 978-1-137-36621-4.)

  • Keith, Michael, Lash, Scott, Arnoldi, Jakob and Rooker, Tyler, China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013 xiv + 330 pp. £27.99. ISBN 978-0-415-49706.)

  • Kelleher, M. Theresa (trans and ed.), The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood. (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2013. xliii +187 pp. £9.95; $13.00. ISBN 978-1-62466-042-9.)

  • Li, Xiaobing, and Tian, Xiansheng (eds.), Evolution of Power: China's Stuggle, Survival and Success. (Lanham, Boulder, Plymouth, Toronto: Lexington Books, 2014. xxx + 396 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-7391-8497-4.)

  • Lin, Chun, China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History and Contemporary Politics. (New York and Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. viii + 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-30125-3.)

  • Lo, Carlos Wing-Hung, and Tang, Shui-Yan, Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xii + 301 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-415-53038-5.)

  • Lu, Tracey L-D, Museums in China: Power, Politics and Identities. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xvii + 235 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-82855-0.)

  • McDermott, Joseph P., The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, Volume 1: Village, Land and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi + 466 pp. £65.00; $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-04622-1.)

  • Metzger, Thomas A., The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel: Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2012 xxiii + 795 pp. £64.50. ISBN 978-962-996-488-7.)

  • Moskowitz, Marc L., Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. xxii + 184 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27632-1.)

  • Nathan, Andrew J., Diamond, Larry and Plattner, Marc F. (eds.), Will China Democratize? (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 xx + 311 pp. £19.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-1243-6.)

  • Nielsen, Chris P., and Ho, Mun S., Clearer Skies over China: Reconciling Air Quality, Climate, and Economic Goals. (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2013. ix + 433 pp. £34.99. ISBN 978-0-262-01988-0.)

  • Pettis, Michael, Avoiding the Fall: China's Economic Restructuring. (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013. viii + 157 pp. ISBN 978-0-87003-407-7.)

  • Poindexter, Dennis F., The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests. (Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland and Co., 2013. 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-7271-0.)

  • Potter, Pitman B., China's Legal System. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013 xiv + 267 pp. £15.99 ISBN 978-0-7456-6269-5.)

  • Powell, Jason L., China, Aging and Theory.(New York: Nova Science, 2013. 82 pp. ISBN 978-1-62100-905-3.)

  • Schlaeger, Jesper, E-Government in China: Technology, Power and Local Government Reform. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. x + 170 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-81978-7.)

  • Shao, Binhong (ed.), China and the World: Balance, Imbalance and Rebalance. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. xii + 337 pp. $148.00; €114,00. ISBN 978-90-04-25583-8.)

  • Smith-Finley, Joanne, The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur–Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. xxvii + 453 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-25491-6.)

  • So, Alvin Y., Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. xi + 200 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-981-4449-64-9.)

  • Song, Yuwu, Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Co., 2013. 443 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-3582-1.)

  • Tunsjø, Øystein, Security and Profit in China's Energy Policy: Hedging against Risk. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xvii + 316 pp. $45.00; £30.95 ISBN 978-0-231-16508-2.)

  • van der Veer, Peter, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. xi + 282 pp. £16.95; $24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-12815-3.)

  • Wang, Chi, The United States and China since World War II: A Brief History. (Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2013. xii + 218 pp. £25.95. ISBN 978-0-765-62290-6.)

  • Wang, Hung-jen, The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations Scholarship. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2013. viii + 194 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-7850-8.)

  • Watt, John R., Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems amid War. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. xiii + 339 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-25645-3.)

  • Houkai, Wei, Yeqian, Wang and Mei, Bai, The Micro-Analysis of Regional Economy in China: A Perspective of Firm Relocation. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. xxvii + 350 pp. £78.00. ISBN 978-981-4452-25-0.)

  • Xu, Youyu, and Ze, Hua, In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon: Stories of Repression in the New China. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 236 pp., $16.00. ISBN 978-1-137-27879-1.)

  • Yahuda, Michael, Sino-Japanese Relations after the Cold War: Two Tigers Sharing a Mountain. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. x + 146 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-0-415-84308-9.)

  • Yeh, Emily T., Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi + 322 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-80145-155-3.)

  • Yep, Ray (ed.), Negotiating Autonomy in Greater China: Hong Kong and Its Sovereign Before and After 1997. (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2013. xiii + 207 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-87-7694-120-8.)

  • Zenz, Adrian, ‘Tibetanness’ under Threat? Neo-integrationaism, Minority Education and Career Strategies in Qinghai, P.R. China (Leiden and Boston: Global Oriental, 2014. xvi + 341 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-25796-2.)

  • Daye, Zhang, trans. by Tan, Xiaofei, The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014. viii + 200 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8719-2.)

  • Zhang, Jinghong, Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. xi + 249 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99323-2.)

  • Zhang, Joy Y., and Barr, Michael, Green Politics in China. (London: Pluto Press, 2013. viii + 159 pp. ISBN 978-0-7453-3299-4.)

  • Shukai, Zhao, Township Governance and Institutionalization in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. v + 372 pp. £84.00. ISBN 978-981-4405-91-9.)

  • Tianyong, Zhou, The China Dream and the China Path. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. xviii + 265 pp. £63.00. ISBN 978-981-4472-66-1.)

  • Zhiqun, Zhu, China's New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance (second edition). (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013 xiii + 276 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-5292-8.)

  • Zhu, Dandan, 1956: Mao's China and the Hungarian Crisis. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. vi + 310 pp. ISBN 978-1-933947-70-9.)