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Books received

(January–March 2020)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2020

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The China Quarterly , Volume 242 , June 2020, pp. 609
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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. The list below does not include all the books that have been received since the closure of our office due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

  • Baum, Emily. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix + 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-55824-0.)

  • Chen, Jie. The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement: Assessing China's Only Open Political Opposition. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. viii + 226 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-78471-102-3.)

  • Dillon, Michael. Zhou Enlai: The Enigma behind Chairman Mao. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. xi + 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-78831-930-0.)

  • Du, Juan. The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 376 pp. £28.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97528-6.)

  • Hillenbrand, Margaret. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. xx + 292 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0800-2.)

  • Ho, Denise Y.Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 308 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-40614-7.)

  • Jepson, Nicholas. In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xvii + 354 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18797-8.)

  • Lee, Ching Kwan, and Sing, Ming. Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Occupy Movement. (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. 270 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-4092-3.)

  • Ling, Minhua. The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. xi + 270 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-1-5036-1076-7.)

  • Ma, Yingyi. Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education. (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18458-8.)

  • Park, Alyssa M.Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945. (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xv + 281 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-3836-4.)

  • Urbansky, Sören. Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. xiii + 367 pp. £34.00. ISBN 978-0-691-18168-4.)

  • Wei, John. Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020. x + 206 pp. ISBN 978-988-8528-27-1.)

  • Zhang, Haoheng. Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xi + 281 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-3043-7.)