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Books Received

(January–March 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2017

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The China Quarterly , Volume 230 , June 2017 , pp. 560 - 562
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2017 

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.

  • Admussen, Nick. Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. viii + 218 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-5652-6.)

  • Angle, Stephen C. and Tiwald, Justin. Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction. (Malden, MA, and Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. ix + 296 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6249-7.)

  • Auslin, Michael R. The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. xviii + 279 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-0-300-21222-8.)

  • Bo, Zhiyue. China's Political Dynamic under Xi Jinping. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2017. xiii + 197 pp. $108.00; £90.00. ISBN 978-981-3146-30-3.)

  • Brasó Broggi, Carles. Trade and Technology Networks in the Chinese Textile Industry: Opening Up Before the Reform. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. ix + 221 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-49404-7.)

  • Brown, Rajeswary Ampalavanar. The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xvii + 471 pp. £125.00. ISBN 978-1-138-92988-3.)

  • Bulman, David J. Incentivized Development in China: Leaders, Governance, and Growth in China's Countries. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-16629-5.)

  • Burns, Lawton Robert and Liu, Gordon G.. China's Healthcare System and Reform. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxiv + 458 pp. £34.99. ISBN 978-1-316-61646-8.)

  • Bush, Richard C. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016. xiv + 377 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-8157-2812-2.)

  • Chan, Roy Bing. The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. xi + 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99899-2.)

  • Choi, Susanne Y. P. and Peng, Yinni. Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. x + 179 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-28828-7.)

  • Chong, Gladys Pak Lei. Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. xii + 281 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-1-78348-988-6.)

  • Clinton, Maggie. Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017. xi + 268 pp. $25.95; £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6377-4.)

  • Erickson, Andrew S. (ed.). Chinese Naval Shipbuilding: An Ambitious and Uncertain Course. (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2016. xvii + 357 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-68247-081-7.)

  • Erie, Matthew S. China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii + 447 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-05337-3.)

  • Fenby, Jonathan. Will China Dominate the 21st Century? (Second edition). (Malden, MA, and Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. v + 141 pp. £9.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-1097-9.)

  • Feng, Bang-Yan. The Fung Group at 110: Four Generations of Enterprise and Evolution. (Singapore: Cengage Learning, 2017. xi + 193 pp. ISBN 978-981-4773-76-8.)

  • Hearn, Adrian H. and Myers, Margaret (eds.). The Changing Currents of Transpacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond. (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017. viii + 162 pp. ISBN 978-162637-564-2.)

  • Heilmann, Sebastian (ed.). China's Political System. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. 542 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-7735-9.)

  • Hong, Yu. Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy. (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 225 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978-0-252-08239-9.)

  • Jones, Stephen. Daoist Priests of the Li Family: Ritual Life in Village China. (St Petersburg, FL: Three Pines Press, 2017. ix + 406 pp. ISBN 978-1-931483-34-6.)

  • Kajanus, Anni. Chinese Student Migration, Gender and Family. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. ix + 194 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-50909-3.)

  • Karl, Rebecca E. The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017. xii + 216 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6321-7.)

  • Kasai, Minoru and Scott, Basil. Two Pilgrims Meet: In Search of Reconciliation between China and Japan. (London: New Generation Publishing, 2016. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-78719-057-3.)

  • Kawamura, Noriko. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. vii + 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99517-5.)

  • Kilcourse, Carl S. Taiping Theology: The Localization of Christianity in China, 1843–64. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. xvii + 281 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-54314-1.)

  • Lee, Anne. Will China's Economy Collapse? (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2017. x + 127 pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-2014-5.)

  • Li, Xiaobing and Tian, Xiangsheng (eds.). Urbanization and Party Survival in China: People vs Power. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xxviii + 317 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-4199-2.)

  • Lim, Tai Wei and Xiaojuan, Ping. Tycoons in Hong Kong: Between Occupy Central and Beijing. (London: Imperial College Press, 2016. viii + 233 pp. £98.00; $118.00. ISBN 978-1-78326-979-2.)

  • Lin Roberts, Jayde. Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. xvii + 200 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99667-7.)

  • Lopez, Donald S. Jr. and Jinpa, Thupten. Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit's Quest for the Soul of Tibet. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 302 pp. £23.95. ISBN 978-0-674-65970-4.)

  • Lupke, Christopher. The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion. (Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press. 2016. xviii + 375 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-913-8.)

  • Noesselt, Nele. Chinesische Politik. (Stuttgart: UTB, 2016. 272 pp. €24.99. ISBN 978-3-8252-4533-7.)

  • Nyíri, Pál. Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work in the World. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. ix + 206 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-74131-4.)

  • Nyíri, Pál and Tan, Danielle (ed.) (Foreword by Gungwu, Wang). Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, Ideas from China are Changing a Region. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99930-2.)

  • O'Donnell, Mary Ann, Wong, Winnie and Back, Jonathan (eds.). Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 283 pp. $35.00; £24.50. ISBN 978-0-226-40112-6.)

  • Pang, Laikwan. The Art of Cloning: Creative Production during China's Cultural Revolution. (London and New York: Verso, 2017. xii + 308 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-78478-520-8.)

  • Pickowticz, Paul G. and Zhang, Yingjin (eds.). Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. vii + 203 pp. £54.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-7023-7.)

  • Rachman, Gideon. Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond. (New York: Other Press, 2016. xxv + 307 pp. $25.95. ISBN 978-159051851-9.)

  • Ransmeier, Johanna S. Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. ix + 395 pp. £39.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97197-4.)

  • Rocca, Jean-Louis. The Making of the Chinese Middle Class: Small Comfort and Great Expectations. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. xiii + 281 pp. £108.00. ISBN 978-1-137-39338-8.)

  • Saxer, Martin and Zhang, Juan. The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations across China's Borders. (Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 268 pp. ISBN 978-94-6298-258-1.)

  • Schlesinger, Jonathan. World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii + 271 pp. £54.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9996-6.)

  • Silbergeld, Jerome and Wang, Eugene Y.. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xii + 457 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4674-3.)

  • Skinner, William (ed. by Harrell, Stevan and Lavely, William). Rural China on the Eve of the Revolution. Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949–1950. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiv + 265 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99942-5.)

  • Suryanarayana, P. S. Smart Diplomacy: Exploring China–India Synergy. (Hackensack, NJ: World Century Publishing Corporation, 2016. xii + 317 pp. ISBN 978-1-938134-68-5.)

  • Truex, Rory. Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv + 213 pp. ISBN 978-1-316-62370-1.)

  • Wang, Peng. The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-875840-2.)

  • Zhiyong, Xu. To Build a Free China: A Citizen's Journey. (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 2017. xiii + 297 pp. £68.50. ISBN 978-1-62637-584-0.)

  • Xu, Yanran. China's Strategic Partnership in Latin America: Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991–2015. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. ix + 156 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-4469-6.)

  • Yang, Shang (edited and translated by Pines, Yuri). The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. viii + 351 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-231-17988-1.)

  • Zheng, Wang. Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1964. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. xv + 380 pp. $34.95; £27.95. ISBN 978-0-520-29229-1.)