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Books Received

(October–December 2019)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

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The China Quarterly , Volume 241 , March 2020 , pp. 298 - 299
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2020

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.

  • Allinson, Robert Elliott. The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong: Notations, Reflections and Insights. (London, New York, Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2020. xxiv + 231 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-350-05985-6.)

  • Brazelton, Mary Augusta. Mass Vaccination: Citizen's Bodies and State Power in Modern China. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xvii + 234 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-3998-9.)

  • Cai, Congyan. The Rise of China and International Law: Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-007360-2.)

  • Ci, Jiwei. Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. x + 420 pp. £36.95. ISBN 978-0-674-23818-3.)

  • Du, Chunmei. Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 251 pp. ISBN 978-0-812-25120-3.)

  • Han, Enze. Asymmetrical Neigbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-19-006078-7.)

  • Hsu, Becky Yang, and Madsen, Richard (eds.). The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. vii + 189 pp. $34.95; £27.00. ISBN 978-0-520-30632-5.)

  • Johnson, Elizabeth Lominska, and Johnson, Graham E.. A Chinese Melting Pot: Original People and Immigrants in Hong Kong's First “New Town.” (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. xiv + 213 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-89-8.)

  • Keliher, Macabe. The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xvi + 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-30029-3.)

  • Lam, Willy Wo-Lap. The Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. xii + 234 pp. £34.99. ISBN 978-0-367-18869-6.)

  • Landsberger, Stefan. Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University press, 2019. 232 pp. ISBN 978-94-6372-030-4.)

  • Li, Luzhou. Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State. (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2019. xv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-04317-5.)

  • Li, Mei. Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia. (London and New York: Anthem Press, 2020. xiii + 195 pp. ISBN 978-1-78527-202-8.)

  • Li, Xiaobing. Building Ho's Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019. xii + 283 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-7794-6.)

  • Ma, Ngok and Cheng, Edmund W.. The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 355 pp. ISBN 978-94-6298-456-1.)

  • Ma, Sheng-Mei. Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture. (London, New York, Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2020. xi + 246 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-5013-3220-1.)

  • Martin, Jeffrey T.Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China. (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. vii + 175 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-4005-3.)

  • Mattingly, Daniel C.The Art of Political Control in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 244 pp. £26.99. ISBN 978-1-108-72536-1.)

  • Meng, Bingchun. The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. xi + 225 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-46213-8.)

  • Nienhauser, William H. Jr.The Grand Scribe's Records. Volume IX — The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2019. l + 417 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-04610-9.)

  • Paper, Jordan. Chinese Religion and Familism: The Basis of Chinese Culture, Society, and Government. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xiv + 181 pp. ISBN 978-1-350-10360-3.)

  • Patterson, Wayne. William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports, 1860–1904. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2020. xvii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-6646-9.)

  • Schneider, Florian. Staging China: The Politics of Mass Spectacle. (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2019. 329 pp. ISBN 978-90-8728-3247.)

  • Stafford, Charles. Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv + 196 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-1-108-71655-0.)

  • Strauss, Julia C.State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign and Performance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-70165-5.)

  • Wang, Hei-Hsien. Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiii + 350 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-671-17182-1.)

  • Wang, Jing. The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. 312 pp. £31.95. ISBN 978-0-674-98092-1.)

  • Wells, Samuel F. Jr.Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War. (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2020. xiv + 586 pp. $45.00; £35.00. ISBN 978-0-231-19274-3.)

  • Yang, Kuisong (trans. Benton, Gregor and Zhen, Ye). Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 285 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-520-32528-9.)

  • Zhang, Jun. Driving Towards Modernity: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in China. (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 220 pp. £20.99. ISBN 879-1-5017-3840-1.)

  • Zhang, Lijun, and You, Ziying (eds.). Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xi + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-04410-5.)

  • Zhe, Ji, Fisher, Gareth and Laliberté, André. Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities and Reinvention. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. vii + 355 pp. $72.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7734-7.)

  • Zhou, Taomo. Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War. (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiii + 301 pp. ISBN 879-1-5017-3993-4.)

  • Zuo, Lala. Diversity in Great Unity: Regional Yuan Architecture. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. xvii + 226 pp. £72.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7731-6.)