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.

• Atherton, Andrew, and Newman, Alex. Entrepreneurship in China: The Emergence of the Private Sector. (London and New York: Routledge. 2018. x + 169 pp. £29.99. ISBN 978-1-138-65012-1.)

• Bartley, Tim. Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 351 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-19-879433-2.)

• Bolt, Paul J., and Cross, Sharyl N.. China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvii + 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-871951-9.)

• Bu, Liping. Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015. (London and New York: Routledge. 2017. xviii + 301 pp. £115.00. ISBN 978-1-138-84581-7.)

• Ceccagno, Antonella. City Making and Global Labor Regimes: Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry. (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. xvii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-59980-9.)

• Chan, Shelly. Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. xiv + 264 pp. $25.95; £19.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-7054-3.)

• Chan, Yuk Wah, and Koh, Sin Yee (eds.). New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. xv + 232 pp. £115.00. ISBN 978-1-138-06002-9.)

• Chang, Jui-te. Wusheng de yaojiao: Jiang Jieshi de shicongshi yu zhanshi Zhongguo (Silent but Significant: The Role of Chiang Kai-shek's Personal Secretariat in Wartime China). (Taipei: Commercial Press, 2017. 488 pp. NT$400.00. ISBN 978-957-05-3117-6.)

• Cheung, Fanny M., and Chiu, Stephen W. K. (eds.). Xianggang tequ ershi nian (HKSAR at 20). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2017. xiv + 572 pp. US$13.50; HK$90.00. ISBN 978-962-441-606-0.)

• Chiu, Stephen Wing-kai, Ting, Kwok-fai and Wan, Po-san (eds.). Jia zai Xianggang (Families in Hong Kong: A Collective Portrait). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2015.vii + 263 pp. US$12.00; HK$80.00. ISBN 978-962-441-601-5.)

• Conteh-Morgan, Earl. The Sino-African Partnership: A Geopolitical Economy Approach. (New York: Peter Lang, 2018. xiv + 246 pp. CHF 96.25. ISBN 978-1-4331-4727-2.)

• Copper, John F. Taiwan at a Tipping Point: The DPP's Return to Power. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. viii + 250 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-6969-9.)

• Dittmer, Lowell. China's Asia: Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. xii + 287 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-3756-8.)

• Elleman, Bruce A. Seaborne Perils: Piracy, Maritime Crime, and Naval Terrorism in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. xiii + 255 pp. £23.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-6019-1.)

• Fang, Qiang, and Li, Xiaobing. Power versus Law in Modern China: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. viii + 249 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-7393-1.)

• Fu, Diana. Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 193 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-1-108-43041-8.)

• Gallagher, Mary E. Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xviii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-44448-5.)

• Gu, Chien-Juh. The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans. (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2017. vii + 195 pp. £21.50. ISBN 978-0-8135-8605-2.)

• Heilmann, Sebastian. Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy Making Facilitated China's Rise. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018. viii + 267 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978-962-996-827-4.)

• Hsiao, Michael Hsin-huang, Wing-kai Chiu, Stephen and Wan, Po-san (eds.). Taiwan yu Xianggang de qingnian yu shehui bianmao (Youth and Social Change in Taiwan and Hong Kong). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2016. xiii + 306 pp. US$12.00; HK$80.00. ISBN 978-962-441-603-9.)

• Huang, Wei-Chao, and Zhou, Huizhong (eds.). The Impacts of China's Rise on the Pacific and the World. (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018. vii + 153 pp. $18.00. ISBN 978-0-88099-632-7.)

• Hui, Elaine Sio-ieng. Hegemonic Transformation: The State, Laws, and Labour Relations in Post-Socialist China. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018. xv + 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-349-70019-6.)

• Hurst, William. Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 295 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42720-3.)

• Ivanhoe, Philip J. Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 188 pp. £25.99. ISBN 978-0-19-084051-8.)

• Kim, Youngmin. A History of Chinese Political Thought. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. x + 273 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-745-65247-4.)

• Lee, Ching Kwan. The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in China. (University of Chicago Press, 2017. xvi + 209 pp. $30.00; £22.50. ISBN 978-0-226-34083-8.)

• Lee, Helene K. Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese. (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 180 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-8613-7.)

• Li, Cheng. The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2017. xvi + 354 pp. £42.00. ISBN 978-981-3232-18-1.)

• Linehan, Paul Michael. The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China: Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. vii + 276 pp. ISBn 978-1-4985-5727-6.)

• Liu, Sida, and Halliday, Terence C.. Criminal Defence in China: The Politics of Lawyers in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix + 200 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-1-316-61484-6.)

• Lukin, Alexander. China and Russia: The New Rapprochement. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. xvii + 220 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-2171-5.)

• Marchetti, Gina. Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. x + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-6657-0.)

• Mei, Xiao. Chongqing's Red Culture Campaign: Simulation and Its Social Implications. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. viii + 153 pp. £105.00. ISBN 978-1-138-22231-1.)

• Minzner, Carl. End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxii + 255 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-067208-9.)

• Mueggler, Erik. Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text and World in Southwest China. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. x + 336 pp. £19.00; $25.00. ISBN 978-0-226-48100-5.)

• Ng, Wendy. The Political Economy of Competition Law in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxxi + 385 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-15440-7.)

• Oi, Jean C., and Goldstein, Steven M. (eds.). Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. ix + 225 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-0400-1.)

• Peng, Chun. Rural Land Takings Law in Modern China: Origin and Evolution. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 336 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-19093-1.)

• Qiu, Jack Linchuan (ed.). Media and Society in Networked China. (Leiden: Brill, 2017. xiii + 226 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35513-2.)

• Reardon-Anderson, James (ed.). The Red Star and the Crescent: China and the Middle East. (London: Hurst & Company, 2018. xi + 327 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-84904-821-7.)

• Rolland, Nadège. China's Eurasian Century? Political and Strategic Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative. (Seattle, WA, and Washington, DC: The National Bureau of Asian research, 2017. xi + 195 pp. ISBN 978-1-939131-50-8.)

• Sun, Hongmei. Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2018. ix + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-74319-6.)

• Sun, Yutao, and Grimes, Seamus. China and Global Value Chains: Globalization and the Information and Communications Technology Sector. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. xii + 179 pp. £115.00. ISBN 978-1-138-28907-9.)

• Sutter, Robert G. US–China Relations: Perilous Past, Uncertain Present (third edition). (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield. 2018. 330 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-1-5381-0534-4.)

• Tsui, Brian. China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x + 291 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-107-19623-0.)

• Tunsjø, Øystein. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States and Geostructural Realism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ix + 271 pp. $65.00; £54.95. ISBN 978-0-231-17654-5.)

• Wong, Lily. Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xv + 229 pp. $60.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18338-3.)

• Wu, John C. H. Beyond East and West. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. xxv + 384 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-268-10366-8.)

• Wu, Yi. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. xvii + 282 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4677-0.)

• Xiao, Ying. China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization. (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. xi + 313 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-4968-1260-5.)

• Yang, Dennis T. American Universities in China: Lessons from Japan. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. vii + 106 pp. £54.95. ISBN 978-1-4985-5453-4.)

• Yang, Yuqing. Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands: Harmonious Heterotopia. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. x + 243 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-0297-9.)

• Yasuda, John K. On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xix + 258 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-107-19964-4.)

• Zheng, Victor Wan-tai, Wan, Po-san and Wong, Kevin Tze-wai (eds.). 2012 Xianggang lifahui xuanju: minyi diaocha yu fenxi (2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election: Opinion Polls and Analysis). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2016. xiv + 328 pp. US$12.00; HK$80.00. ISBN 978-962-441-605-3.)

• Zheng, Victor Wan-tai, and Leung, Kai-chun (eds.). Aomen duiwai guanxi: quyu zhenghe yu jiaoliu (Macau in Relations: Regional Interaction and Integration). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2016. x + 282 pp. US$12.00; HK$80.00. ISBN 978-962-441-604-6.)

• Zheng, Victor Wan-tai, and Wan, Po-san (eds.). 2011 Xianggang quyihui xuanju: minyi diaocha yu fenxi (2011 Hong Kong District Council Election: Opinion Polls and Analysis). (Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2015. xii + 212 pp. US$10.50; HK$70.00. ISBN 978-962-441-602-2.)