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Books received

(April–June 2019)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2019

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The China Quarterly , Volume 239 , September 2019 , pp. 845 - 846
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2019 

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.

  • Benton, Gregor, and Chongyi, Feng (eds.). Poets of the Chinese Revolution: Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, Mao Zedong, Zheng Chaolin. (London and New York: Verso, 2019. xix + 291 pp. ISBN 978-1-78873-468-4.)

  • Brandt, Loren and Rawski, Thomas G. (eds.). Policy, Regulation, and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxi + 505 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-70369-7.)

  • Cabestan, Jean-Pierre. China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship? (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. vii + 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-5381-2958-6.)

  • Chau, Adam Yuet. Religion in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. xv + 250 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-7916-7.)

  • Culp, Robert. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xv + 371 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18416-8.)

  • Driessen, Miriam. Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 208 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-988-8528-04-2.)

  • Fang, Qiang, and Li, Xiaobing. Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. xxxi + 366 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-7431-0.)

  • Farrer, James. International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xii + 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-8153-8263-8.)

  • Fravel, M. Taylor. Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvii + 376 pp. £27.00. ISBN 978-0-691-15213-4.)

  • Frazier, Mark W. The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xv + 296 pp. £26.99. ISBN 978-1-108-72219-3.)

  • Fu, Jia-Chen. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xi + 276 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-74403-2.)

  • Guo, Xuezhi. The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Inspiration, Legitimacy, and Power. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiii + 423 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-108-48049-9.)

  • Holdstock, Nick. China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019 [2015]. xviii + 299 pp. ISBN 978-1-78831-979-9.)

  • Lim, Kean Fan. On Shifting Foundations: State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China. (Hokoben, NJ, and Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2019. xi + 238 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-1-119-34456-8.)

  • Lim, Shirley Jennifer. Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2019. x + 246 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4399-1834-0.)

  • Lovell, Julia. Maoism: A Global History. (London: The Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-1-847-92249-6.)

  • Lu, Suping (edited and introduced by). A Dark Page in History: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Recorded in British Diplomatic Dispatches, Admiralty Documents, and U. S. Naval Intelligence Reports (New, updated edition). (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Hamilton Books, 2019 [2012]. xxxvi + 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-7094-4.)

  • Mastro, Oriana Skylar. The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-3220-1.)

  • Matsuzawa, Setsuko. Activating China: Local Actors, Foreign Influence, and State Response. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. x + 171 pp. ISBN 978-0-8153-6034-6.)

  • Ning, Xiangdong. Family Spirit: The Power behind the Inheritance of Lee Kum Kee through the Centuries. (Hong Kong: ET Press, 2019. 283 pp. HK$188.00; NT$830.00. ISBN 978-988-8501-44-1.)

  • Nyman, Jonna. The Energy Paradox: Rethinking Energy (In)security in the US and China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. x + 177 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-882044-4.)

  • Ong, Kok-Chung, Zheng, Victor and Wong, Siu-lun. Biography of Lee Man Tat: Legend of the Sauce King. (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 2019. 402 pp. HK$218.00. ISBN 978-962-04-4428-9.)

  • Pulford, Ed. Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between. (London: Hurst and Company, 2019. xix + 346 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-78738-138-4.)

  • Rea, Christopher (trans. and introduced by). China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. vi + 263 pp. ISBN 978-1-939161-94-9.)

  • Roskam, Cole. Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843–1937. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. viii + 293 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-295-74478-0.)

  • Ryan, Janette. Education in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. x + 242 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6410-1.)

  • Saunders, Philip C., Ding, Arthur S., Scobell, Andrew, Yang, Andrew N.D., and Wuthnow, Joel (eds.). Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms. (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2019. xi + 768 pp. ISBN 978-1-797-05190-1.)

  • Shen, Yang. Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xvii + 215 pp. ISBN 978-981-13-5816-6.)

  • U, Eddy. Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. xix + 226 pp. £27.00. ISBN 978-0-520-30369-0.)

  • van Dongen, Els. Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii + 276 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42130-0.)

  • Veg, Sebastian. Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. ix + 352 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-19140-1.)

  • Vogel, Ezra F. China and Japan: Facing History. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. x + 523 pp. £28.95. ISBN 978-0-674-91657-9.)

  • Wemheuer, Felix. A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-56550-0.)

  • William, Joseph A. (ed.). Politics in China: An Introduction (third edition). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxi + 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-087071-3.)

  • Wu, Jieh-min. Xunzu Zhongguo: Taishang, Guangdong moshi yu quanqiu zibenzhuyi (Rent-Seeking Developmental State in China: Taishang, Guangdong Model and Global Capitalism). (Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, and Cambridge, MA: Harvard Yenching Insitute, 2019. 464 pp. NTD700.00. ISBN 978-986-350-336-1.)

  • Yan, Xuetong. Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvi + 260 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-19008-2.)

  • Zhang, Qi, and Liu, Mingxing. Revolutionary Legacy, Power Structure, and Grassroots Capitalism under the Red Flag in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 348 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-108-47492-4.)