April–June 2023

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 late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

• Brown, Kerry. China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 208 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781350267244.)

• Brussee, Vincent. Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire. (Cham: Springer, 2023. 204 pp. £109.99. ISBN 9789819921881.)

• Chen, Zhongping. Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898–1918. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 404 pp. $70.00. ISBN 9781503636248.)

• Chun, Allen. From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World. (Cham: Springer, 2023. 291 pp. £109.99. ISBN 9789819920174.)

• Dunlop, Fuchsia. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 464 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241516980.)

• Feldman, Steven P. Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 196 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781032362694.)

• Feng, Xingyuan, He, Guangwen, Sun, Tongquan and Ljungwall, Christer. Finance in Rural China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 162 pp. £34.99 ISBN 9781032439914.)

• Gao, Jia. Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings: A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000. (London: Anthem Press, 2023. 250 pp. £80.00; $110.00. ISBN 9781839982880.)

• Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei. Negotiating a Chinese Federation: The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China's Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919–1923. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 278 pp. €121.00. ISBN 9789004528642.)

• Harrell, Stevan. An Ecological History of Modern China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 582 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780295751719.)

• He, Longtao, and Gangopadhyay, Jagriti (eds.). Eldercare Issues in China and India. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 250 pp. £104.00. ISBN 9781032183794.)

• Huang, Yuxing. China's Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023. CA$75.00. 274 pp. ISBN 978074868112.)

• Ireland, Daryl R. (ed.). Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. 302 pp. $69.99. ISBN 9781481316248.)

• Johnson, David. The Stage in the Temple: Ritual Opera in Village Shanxi. (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies [University of California], 2022. 190 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9781557292018.)

• Johnson, Ian. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 400 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241524947.)

• Kang, Xiaofei. Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. £66.00. ISBN 9780197654477.)

• Kipnis, Andrew. The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 190 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780520381971.)

• Kong, Travis S. K. Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478019862.)

• Lee, Haiyan. A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 352 pp. $32.50. ISBN 9780226825250.)

• Li, Yiwen. Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 245 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009303101.)

• Link, Perry, and Dazhi, Wu. I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 568 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780231206341.)

• Liu, Huwy-min Lucia. Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 270 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781501767227.)

• Lopes, Helena F. S. Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 342 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009311786.)

• Lu, Hanchao. Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30.00. ISBN 9781009180986.)

• Luo, Di. Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900–1945. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. $180.00; €150.00. ISBN 9789004524736.)

• Ploberger, Christian, Ngampamuan, Soavapa and Song, Tao (eds.). China's Belt and Road Initiative: The Impact on Sub-regional Southeast Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 193 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9780367518530.)

• Rawson, Jessica. Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 448 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780295752365.)

• Rodenbiker, Jesse. Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 264 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9781501769009.)

• Rodríguez-Merino, Pablo A. Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 262 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9781032311036.)

• Rong, Xinjiang. The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. €237.00. ISBN 9789004512580.)

• Ruckus, Ralf. The Left in China: A Political Cartography. (London: Pluto Press, 2023. 240 pp. £16.99. ISBN 9780745342955.)

• Silverberg, Ann L. A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 252 pp. HK$700.00. ISBN 9789888754342.)

• Simpson, Tim. Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 384 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517900311.)

• Starr, Julie E. Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 228 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295751764.)

• Su, Junjie. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China: A Critical Approach. (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2023. 232 pp. £109.95. ISBN 9781845418632.)

• Tang, Beibei. Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 186 pp. $46.95. ISBN 9781501769269.)

• Wang, Chen-cheng. The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China: Toward a Statecraft beyond Science. (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023. 342 pp. $135.00. ISBN 9781666929690.)

• Wang, Xiaobo. Pleasure of Thinking. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 224 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780241648520.)

• Womack, Brantly. Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 300 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009393836.)

• Xu, Aymeric. From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism: Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China. (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2022. 263 pp. £18.50. ISBN 9783111122205.)

• Xue, Aviva, and Rose, Kate. Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 224 pp. £19.79. ISBN 9781350231481.)

• Yang, Lili. Higher Education, State and Society: Comparing the Chinese and Anglo-American Approaches. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 288 pp. £81.00. ISBN 9781350293434.)

• Yu, Kaho. China's Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 144 pp. HK$550.00. ISBN 9789888805631.)

• Zhang, Xiaotong. Linkage Power Europe: The EU's Trade Negotiations with China (1975–2019). (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 342 pp. £140.00. ISBN 9781032410326.)

• Zhao, Jamie J. Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 248 pp. HK$600.00. ISBN 9789888805617.)

• Zhao, Wei. Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 350 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781032280158.)