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The China Quarterly , Volume 204 , December 2010, pp. 1032 - 1034
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2010

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.

Bovingdon, Gardner, The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xvi + 280 pp. $45.00; £31.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14758-3.)Cahill, James, Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. ix + 265 pp. £34.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25857-0.)Chang, Xiangqun, Guanxi or Li shang wanglai: Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, and Social Creativity in a Chinese Village. (Taipei: Airiti Press, 2010. 634 pp. NT$1,000.00. ISBN 978-986-6286-18-6.)Chow, Rey (edited by Bowman, Paul), The Rey Chow Reader. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xxiii + 289 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-14955-2.)Dai, Yingcong, The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009. xi + 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-98952-5.)Dikötter, Frank, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62. (London, Berlin and New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. xxi + 420 pp. ISBN 978-0-7475-9508-3.)Fallows, Deborah, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language. (New York: Walker, 2010. 205 pp. $22.00. ISBN 978-0-8027-7913-7.)Fardella, Enrico, A Win-win Compromise: La normalizzazione tra Stati Uniti e Cina all'epoca della riforma economica de Deng Xiaoping. (Levico Terme: Centro Studi Storia Europa Orientale Working Paper, 2009. 117 pp.)Fusek, Lois (trans. and introduction), Luo, Guanzhong, The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. xv + 299 pp. £49.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3406-7.)Goh, Meow Hui, Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier in the Yongming Era (483–493). (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. x + 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6859-7.)Gou, Sujian, Kassiola, Joel J., Zhang, Jijiao, Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions. (Lanham, Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. xvii + 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4742-9.)Greenaway, David, Milner, Chris, and Yao, Shujie, China and the World Economy. (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xxxiii + 250 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-23052152-0.)Guo, Sujian and Guo, Baogang (eds.), Greater China in an Era of Globalization. (New York: Lexington Books, 2010. xii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-3534-1.)Guy, R. Kent, Qing Governors and their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010. xii + 445 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99019-4.)Hao, Zhidong and Hao, Zhigang, Xijiaocun: yi ge Huabei nongzhuang de lishi bian (Xijiao Village: The Historical Transformation of a Rural Community in Northern China. (Macau: Universidade de Macau Press, 2009. xxxiv + 359 pp. ISBN 978-99937-986-7-5.)Ho, Tsai-man C. and Cheng, Louella (eds.), Economic Dynamism in the Sinospheres and Anglospheres: Identities, Integration and Competition. (Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2010. ix + 365 pp. ISBN 978-9-628-26951-8.)Huang, Yunte, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010. xx + 354 pp. $26.96; $33.50. ISBN 978-0-393-06962-4.)Johnson, David, Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xiv + 390 pp. £36.95; $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-03304-7.)Karl, Rebecca E., Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. xii + 200 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-4795-8.)Kayaoğlu, Turan, Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii + 237 pp. £55.00; $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76591-6.)Kong, Bo, China's International Petroleum Policy: Energy and Security. (Santa Barbara, CA and Oxford: Praeger Security International, 2010. xiii + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-313-37791-4.)Kong, Travis S. K., Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, and Golden Boy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xxiv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45189-5.)Lanza, Fabio, Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiii + 299 pp. £34.50; $50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15238-9.)Li, Ruru, The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvi + 335 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-995-1.)Louie, Kam, Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xi + 312 pp. HK$175.00. ISBN 978-988-8028-41-2.)Masselos, Jim (ed.), The Great Empires of Asia: How Asia's Mighty Empires Challenged the World. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2010. 240 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-500-25168-3.)Michel, Serge and Beuret, Michel, photographs by Paolo Woods, China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. (New York: Nation Books, 2009. vii + 306 pp. $17.50. ISBN 978-1-5685-9614-4.)National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan, East Asian Strategic Review 2010. (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2010. 268 pp. ¥3000.00. ISBN 978-4-7890-1398-7.)Oxfeld, Ellen, Drink Water, But Remember the Source: Moral Discourse in a Chinese Village. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xix + 292 pp. £16.95. ISBN 978-0-520-26095-5.)Qin, Yucheng, The Diplomacy of Nationalism: The Six Companies and China's Policy Towards Exclusion. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. x + 213 pp. £51.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3274-2.)Rainey, Lee Dian, Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials. (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xv + 262 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4051-8840-1.)Roberts, Rosemary A., Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xix + 285 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-17744-4.)Shen, Shuang, Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2010. x + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-4542-4.)Stalley, Phillip, Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xv + 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7153-7.)Strickland, John (ed.), Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910–1960. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xiv + 343 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-38-2.)Vu, Tuong, Paths of Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China and Indonesia. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-76180-2.)Weatherley, Robert, Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 203 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-54247-1.)Williams, Philip (ed.), Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 168 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-0925.)Wong, Ka-ying and Wan, Po-san, Xianggang 2007 nian quyihui xuanju toupiao xingwei (Voting Behaviour in the 2007 Hong Kong District Council Election). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, 2009. xiii + 190 pp. $9.00. ISBN 978-962-441-577-3.)Wong, Siu-lun and Wang, Cangbai (ed.), Population Policies and Development in China and India: Comparative Perspectives (Zhongguo yu Yindu de renkou zhengce yu fazhan: bijiao de shiye). (Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2009. xviii + 236 pp. ISBN 978-9-62826-948-8.)Yang, Qixian and Shi, Xiaomin (eds.), Reforming China: Theoretical Framework. (Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2010. xiv + 239 pp. $88.00. ISBN 978-9-81429-800-1.)Young, Simon N. M. and Cullen, Richard (eds.), Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-39-9.)Zhang, Jing, In Quest of Mushroom Clouds: Perspectives from the Chinese Side. (Levico Terme: Centro Studi Storia Europa Orientale Working Paper, 2009. 28 pp.)Zhong, Xueping, Mainstream Culture Refocussed: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-era China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. x + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3469-2.)Zhu, Zhiqun, China's New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xv + 248 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-0167-4.)

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Bovingdon, Gardner, The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xvi + 280 pp. $45.00; £31.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14758-3.)Google Scholar
Cahill, James, Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. ix + 265 pp. £34.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25857-0.)Google Scholar
Chang, Xiangqun, Guanxi or Li shang wanglai: Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, and Social Creativity in a Chinese Village. (Taipei: Airiti Press, 2010. 634 pp. NT$1,000.00. ISBN 978-986-6286-18-6.)Google Scholar
Chow, Rey (edited by Bowman, Paul), The Rey Chow Reader. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xxiii + 289 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-14955-2.)Google Scholar
Dai, Yingcong, The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009. xi + 352 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-98952-5.)Google Scholar
Dikötter, Frank, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62. (London, Berlin and New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. xxi + 420 pp. ISBN 978-0-7475-9508-3.)Google Scholar
Fallows, Deborah, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language. (New York: Walker, 2010. 205 pp. $22.00. ISBN 978-0-8027-7913-7.)Google Scholar
Fardella, Enrico, A Win-win Compromise: La normalizzazione tra Stati Uniti e Cina all'epoca della riforma economica de Deng Xiaoping. (Levico Terme: Centro Studi Storia Europa Orientale Working Paper, 2009. 117 pp.)Google Scholar
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Greenaway, David, Milner, Chris, and Yao, Shujie, China and the World Economy. (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xxxiii + 250 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-23052152-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guo, Sujian and Guo, Baogang (eds.), Greater China in an Era of Globalization. (New York: Lexington Books, 2010. xii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-3534-1.)Google Scholar
Guy, R. Kent, Qing Governors and their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644–1796. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010. xii + 445 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99019-4.)Google Scholar
Hao, Zhidong and Hao, Zhigang, Xijiaocun: yi ge Huabei nongzhuang de lishi bian (Xijiao Village: The Historical Transformation of a Rural Community in Northern China. (Macau: Universidade de Macau Press, 2009. xxxiv + 359 pp. ISBN 978-99937-986-7-5.)Google Scholar
Ho, Tsai-man C. and Cheng, Louella (eds.), Economic Dynamism in the Sinospheres and Anglospheres: Identities, Integration and Competition. (Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 2010. ix + 365 pp. ISBN 978-9-628-26951-8.)Google Scholar
Huang, Yunte, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010. xx + 354 pp. $26.96; $33.50. ISBN 978-0-393-06962-4.)Google Scholar
Johnson, David, Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xiv + 390 pp. £36.95; $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-03304-7.)Google Scholar
Karl, Rebecca E., Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. xii + 200 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-4795-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kayaoğlu, Turan, Legal Imperialism: Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii + 237 pp. £55.00; $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76591-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kong, Bo, China's International Petroleum Policy: Energy and Security. (Santa Barbara, CA and Oxford: Praeger Security International, 2010. xiii + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-313-37791-4.)Google Scholar
Kong, Travis S. K., Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, and Golden Boy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xxiv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45189-5.)Google Scholar
Lanza, Fabio, Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiii + 299 pp. £34.50; $50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15238-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Li, Ruru, The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvi + 335 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-995-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Louie, Kam, Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xi + 312 pp. HK$175.00. ISBN 978-988-8028-41-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Masselos, Jim (ed.), The Great Empires of Asia: How Asia's Mighty Empires Challenged the World. (London: Thames and Hudson, 2010. 240 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-500-25168-3.)Google Scholar
Michel, Serge and Beuret, Michel, photographs by Paolo Woods, China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. (New York: Nation Books, 2009. vii + 306 pp. $17.50. ISBN 978-1-5685-9614-4.)Google Scholar
National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan, East Asian Strategic Review 2010. (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2010. 268 pp. ¥3000.00. ISBN 978-4-7890-1398-7.)Google Scholar
Oxfeld, Ellen, Drink Water, But Remember the Source: Moral Discourse in a Chinese Village. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xix + 292 pp. £16.95. ISBN 978-0-520-26095-5.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Qin, Yucheng, The Diplomacy of Nationalism: The Six Companies and China's Policy Towards Exclusion. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. x + 213 pp. £51.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3274-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rainey, Lee Dian, Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials. (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xv + 262 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4051-8840-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roberts, Rosemary A., Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xix + 285 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-17744-4.)Google Scholar
Shen, Shuang, Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2010. x + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-4542-4.)Google Scholar
Stalley, Phillip, Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xv + 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7153-7.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strickland, John (ed.), Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910–1960. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xiv + 343 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-38-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vu, Tuong, Paths of Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China and Indonesia. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-76180-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weatherley, Robert, Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xi + 203 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-54247-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, Philip (ed.), Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 168 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-0925.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wong, Ka-ying and Wan, Po-san, Xianggang 2007 nian quyihui xuanju toupiao xingwei (Voting Behaviour in the 2007 Hong Kong District Council Election). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, 2009. xiii + 190 pp. $9.00. ISBN 978-962-441-577-3.)Google Scholar
Wong, Siu-lun and Wang, Cangbai (ed.), Population Policies and Development in China and India: Comparative Perspectives (Zhongguo yu Yindu de renkou zhengce yu fazhan: bijiao de shiye). (Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2009. xviii + 236 pp. ISBN 978-9-62826-948-8.)Google Scholar
Yang, Qixian and Shi, Xiaomin (eds.), Reforming China: Theoretical Framework. (Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2010. xiv + 239 pp. $88.00. ISBN 978-9-81429-800-1.)Google Scholar
Young, Simon N. M. and Cullen, Richard (eds.), Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-39-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhang, Jing, In Quest of Mushroom Clouds: Perspectives from the Chinese Side. (Levico Terme: Centro Studi Storia Europa Orientale Working Paper, 2009. 28 pp.)Google Scholar
Zhong, Xueping, Mainstream Culture Refocussed: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-era China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. x + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3469-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhu, Zhiqun, China's New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance. (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xv + 248 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-0167-4.)Google Scholar