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.

• Ai, Janette, Politics and Traditional Culture: The Political Use of Traditions in Contemporary China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. x + 254 pp. $95.00; £63.00. ISBN 978-981-4596-75-6.)

• Andrews, Bridie, and Bullock, Mary Brown, Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. ix + 435 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-253-01490-0.)

• Baker, Maurice, Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. ix + 118 pp. $18.00; £12.00. ISBN 978-981-4623-78-0.)

• Bergsten, C. Fred, Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Minner, Sean, Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States. (Washington, DC: PIIE Press, 2014. viii + 440 pp. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-88132-691-8.)

• Bolesta, Andrzej, China and Post-Socialist Development. (Bristol, UK: The Policy Press, 2015. viii + 296 pp. £70.00; $110.00. ISBN 978-1-44732-150-7.)

• Cai, Yongshun, States and Agents in China: Disciplining Government Officials. (Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9351-3.)

• Charlton, Sue Ellen M., Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan (Fourth edition). (Philadelphia, PA: Westview Press, 2015. xvi + 380 pp. $42.00. ISBN 978-0-8133-4883-4.)

• Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek, China's Japan Policy: Adjusting to New Challenges. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xviii + 466 pp. £91.00. ISBN 978-981-4596-41-1.)

• Chung, Chien-peng, Contentious Integration: Post-Cold War Japan–China Relations in the Asia-Pacific. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. ix + 187 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-1998-9.)

• Ci, Jiwei, Moral China in the Age of Reform. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. x + 230 pp. £19.99; $29.99. ISBN 978-1-107-64631-5.)

• Clark, Anthony E., Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2014. xx + 219 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99400-0.)

• Daily, Christopher A., Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013, xiii + 261 pp. £41.50. ISBN 978-988-8208-03-6.)

• Deiwiks, Shu-Jyuan, Führer, Bernhard and Geulen, Therese (eds.), with an introduction by Osterwalder, Alois, Europe Meets China, China Meets Europe: The Beginnings of European–Chinese Scientific Exchange in the 17th Century. (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2014. vii + 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-8050-0621-7.)

• Dillon, Michael, Deng Xiaoping: The Man who Made Modern China. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. xxii + 330 pp. ISBN 978-1-78076-895-3.)

• Goh, Evelyn, The Struggle for Order: Hegemony, Hierarchy, and Transition in Post-Cold War East Asia. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 xvii + 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-959936-3.)

• Gruzinski, Serge, The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century. (Oxford: Polity Press, 2014. viii + 293 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6712-6.)

• Guo Qingwang and Jia Junxue, Structural Reform in China's Regional Governments, Vol. 2. (Honolulu, HI: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2015. 253 pp. ISBN 978-1-62320-042-8.)

• Han, Xiaorong, Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894–1932. (New York: SUNY Press, 2014. xii + 346 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-5383-5.)

• Heath, Timothy R., China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiii + 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-6201-9.)

• Helleiner, Eric, and Kirshner, Jonathan (eds.), The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. xiii + 274 p. ISBN 978-0-8014-7959-5.)

• Horesh, Niv, Kim, Hyun Jin and Mauch, Peter, Superpower, China? Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. ix + 137 pp. $95.00; £63.00. ISBN 978-981-4619-15-8.)

• Huang, Xuelei, Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922–1938. (Leiden: Brill, 2014. xv + 381 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-27933-9.)

• Hurley, Shing, When the Phoenix Comes Home: My China Now and as I Remember it (2nd edition). (Charleston, SC: Createspace Independent Pub, 2014. 283 pp. ISBN 978-1-49522-215-3.)

• Kinkley, Jeffrey C., Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, xvi + 285 pp. £30.95; $45.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16768-0.)

• Kinzelbach, Katrin. The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. 229 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-69846-7.)

• Kliman, Daniel M., Fateful Transitions: How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vii + 234 pp. $59.95; £39.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4653-7.)

• Lee, Haiyan, The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 362 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8591-4.)

• Leng, Tse-Kang, and Wu, Yu-Shan, Chinese Models of Development: Global, Local and Comparative Perspectives. (Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2014. xviii + 301 pp. £59.95. ISBN 978-0-7931-9226-9.)

• Leventhal, Dan, How to Leap a Great Wall in China: The China Adventures of a Cross-Cultural Trouble-Shooter. (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2014. xiii + 182 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-1-937385-58-3.)

• Li, Jie, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xvi + 261 pp. $30.00; £20.50, ISBN 978-0-231-16717-8.)

• Li, Yuwen (ed.), Administrative Litigation Systems in Greater China and Europe. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xviii + 265 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-3608-5.)

• Li, Yuwen, The Judicial System and Reform in Post-Mao China: Stumbling Towards Justice. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv + 283 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-6305-4.)

• Lim, Boon Keng (trans. Chunbao, Yan), Essays of Lim Boon Keng on Confucianism. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xiv + 241 pp. $28.00; £18.00. ISBN 978-981-4727-78-4.)

• Lu, Jie, Varieties of Governance in China: Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xi + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-937874-6.)

• Manicom, James, Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014. xii + 266 pp. £26.00. ISBN 978-1-62616-035-4.)

• Mathews, John A., Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is Driving the Next Great Transformation. (Stanford, CA: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2015. xxi + 346 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9150-2.)

• Meyer, Karl E., and Brysac, Shareen Blair, The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 354 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-1-137-27976-7.)

• Naktsang, Nulo (trans. Cargill, Angus and Lhamo, Sonam), My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. liv + 281 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-5726-1.)

• Nielsen, Gert Holmgaard, Walking a Tightrope: Defending Human Rights in China. (Copenhagen: NIASS Press, 2014. xxxii + 277 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-87-7694-131-4.)

• Qian, Jiwei, and Blomqvist, Åke, Health Policy Reform in China: A Comparative Perspective. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. viii + 354 pp. £83.00. ISBN 978-981-4425-88-9.)

• Reuter, Etienne, and Jing Men, China–EU Green Cooperation. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xlviii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-981-4571-12-8

• Ryan, Jennifer, Chen, Lincoln C. and Saich, Tony, Philanthropy for Health in China. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. x + 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-01450-4.)

• Saich, Tony (ed.), Political Governance in China. (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2014. xxvii + 735 pp. ISBN 978-1-78195-383-9.)

• Schuman, Michael, Confucius and the World He Created. (New York: Basic Books, 2015. xxv + 270 pp. $28.99. ISBN 978-0-465-02551-0.)

• Shen, Qinna, and Rosenstock, Martin (eds.), Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2014. ix + 306 pp. ISBN 978-1-782-38360-4)

• Shimada, Kenji (Translated with an Introduction by Fogel, Joshua A.), Shimada Kenji. Scholar, Thinker, Reader: Selected Writings on the Intellectual History of Modern China. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2014. xiv + 192 pp. $38.00. ISBN 978-1-937385-52-1.)

• Sun, Wanning, Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xvii + 301 pp. £44.95, ISBN 978-1-4422-3677-6.)

• Takeuchi, Hiroki, Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance and Authoritarian Rule. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii + 234 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-05684-8.)

• Tan Chee-Beng (ed.), After Migration and Religious Affiliation: Religions, Chinese Identities and Transnational Networks. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xxxxiii + 382 pp. £91.00. ISBN 978-981-4583-90-9.)

• Tan, Fiona, Tan Siak Kew: Going Against the Grain. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xii + 108 pp. $18.00; £12.00. ISBN 978-981-4623-60-5.)

• Thum, Rian, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 323 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-59855-3.)

• Tilt, Bryan, Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xvii + 259 pp. $30.00; £20.50, ISBN 978-0-231-17011-6.)

• van de Ven, Hans, Lary, Diana, and MacKinnon, Stephen R. (eds.), Negotiating China's Destiny in World War II. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 319 pp. £39.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-8966-0.)

• Wallace, Jeremy L., Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-937899-9.)

• Wang, Hui (trans. Hill, Michael Gibbs), China From Empire to Nation-State. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiv + 179 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04695-5.)

• Wang, James Jixian, Port-City Interplays in China. (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. xii + 188 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-2689-5.)

• Wang, Weiguang (trans. Yusheng, Huang), Social Change in Contemporary China and the Theory of Social Contradictions: The Social Class and Interest Group Analysis in Contemporary China. (Reading, UK: Paths International, 2014. xvi + 333 pp. ISBN 978-1-84464-267-0.)

• Ye, Min, Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvi + 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-05419-6.)

• Yu, Eilo W. Y., and Chan, Ming K. (eds.), China's Macao Transformed: Challenges and Development in the 21st Century. (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2014. cv + 411 pp. ISBN 978-962-937-207-1.)

• Yuan, Zhigang (ed.), Economic Transition in China: Long-Run Growth and Short-Run Fluctuations. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. xxvi + 502 pp. ISBN 978-981-4569-97-2.)

• Yuen, Derek M.C., Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read The Art of War. (London: Hurst and Company, 2014. xii + 214 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-84904-242-0.)

• Zhang, Lu, Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 240 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-03085-5.)

• Zhang, Runhua, The Constitutional and Legal Development of the Chinese Presidency. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. xiv + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-8989-4.)

• Zhang, Shaoying, and McGhee, Derek, Social Policies and Ethnic Conflict in China: Lessons from Xinjiang. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ix + 205 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-1-137-43665-8.)

• Zhang, Shu Guang, Beijing's Economic Statecraft during the Cold War, 1949–1991. (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2014. xiv + 477 pp. £42.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-1583-3.)

• Zhang, Yinde, Mo Yan, le lieu de la fiction. (Paris: Seuil, 2014. 295 pp. ISBN 978-2-02-111427-0.)

• Zhu Xiaoyang, Topography of Politics in Rural China: The Story of Xiaocun. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015 ix + 278 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-981-4522-70-0.)

• Zou, Lixing, China's Rise: Development-Oriented Finance and Sustainable Development. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xxxix + 448 pp. £83.00. ISBN 978-981-4596-66-4.)