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Books received

July–September 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2022

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The China Quarterly , Volume 252 , December 2022 , pp. 1346 - 1348
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

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 may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

  • Alpermann, Björn. Le Xinjiang: la Chine et les Ouïghours. (Würzburg: Würzburg University Press, 2022. ix + 251 pp. Open Access, ISBN 9783958261914 [ebook].)

  • Aust, Stefan, and Geiges, Adrian (trans. Steuer, Daniel). Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 240 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781509555147.)

  • Baillargeon, David, and Taylor, Jeremy E. (eds.). Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 264 pp. £76.50. ISBN 9781350252608.)

  • Barrett, Gordon. China's Cold War Science Diplomacy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 258 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108844574.)

  • Carolan, Mary Ann McDonald. Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2022. 200 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781438490618.)

  • Cheah, Pheng, and Hau, Caroline S. (eds.). Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 344 pp. ISBN 9781478016687.)

  • Chorzempa, Martin. The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology. (New York: Public Affairs Books, 2022. 320 pp. $29.00. ISBN 9781541700703.)

  • Chou, Chih-p'ing, and Lin, Carlos Yu-Kai (eds.). Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. $39.95. ISBN 9780472055265.)

  • Clements, Jonathan. A Short History of Beijing. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2022. 208 pp. $18.95. ISBN 9781913368463.)

  • Delury, John. Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 408 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781501765971.)

  • Deng, Yong. China's Strategic Opportunity: Change and Revisionism in Chinese Foreign Policy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781009101134.)

  • Ding, Iza. The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 258 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9781501760372.)

  • Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, Zhang, Cong Ellen and Yao, Ping (eds.). Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 272 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9780295751221.)

  • Fitzgerald, John. Cadre Country: How China Became the Communist Party. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2022. x + 342 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9781742237480.)

  • Fjeld, Heidi E. The Return of Polyandry: Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022. 232 pp. $135.00; £99.00. ISBN 9781800736078.)

  • Fredman, Zach. The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 334 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781469669588.)

  • Frolic, B. Michael. Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 454 pp. $42.95 ISBN 9781487540883.)

  • Gao, Xingjian (edited and translated by Lee, Mabel; translated by Qian), Yan. Calling for a New Renaissance. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2022. 312 pp. $129.99. ISBN 9781621966548.)

  • Gipouloux, François. Merchant Networks, Economic Institutions and Business Practices in Late Imperial China. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022. 328 pp. £100.00. ISBN 9781800889897.)

  • Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J. Hostile Forces: How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197643204.)

  • Han, Xiaorong (ed; translated by Zeng, Qiang). Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 290 pp. €171.00; $206.00. ISBN 9789004515185.)

  • Hawes, Colin S. C. The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 392 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108838139.)

  • Huang, Chin-Hao. Power and Restraint in China's Rise. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 240 pp. $35.00; £28.00. ISBN 9780231204651.)

  • Javed, Jeffrey A. Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 312 pp. $34.97. ISBN 9780472055494.)

  • Kyong-McClain, Jeff, Meeuf, Russell and Chang, Jing Jing (eds.). Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 268 pp. HK$650.00. ISBN 9789888528530.)

  • Lary, Diana. China's Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 250 pp. £22.00. ISBN 9781009073622.)

  • Li, Ke. Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China. (Berkeley, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 344 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781503613140.)

  • Lim, C. L. Treaty for a Lost City: The Sino-British Joint Declaration. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 300 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781108972307.)

  • Lin, Le. The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 248 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780226821511.)

  • Lin, Shuanglin. China's Public Finance: Reforms, Challenges, and Options. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 475 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781009096843.)

  • McLaren, Anne E. Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2022. 360 pp. $119.99 ISBN 9781621966456.)

  • Meijer, Hugo. Awakening to China's Rise: European Foreign and Security Policies toward the People's Republic of China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9780198865537.)

  • Milner Davis, Jessica. Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 336 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781032009162.)

  • Ng, Michael. Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 212 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781108830027.)

  • Ratigan, Kerry E. Local Politics and Social Policy in China: Let Some Get Healthy First. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 243 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781316512470.)

  • Schweig, Meredith. Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 248 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780226819587.)

  • Shirk, Susan. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 424 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780190068516.)

  • Small, Andrew. The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future. (London: Hurst, 2022. 304 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781787387782.)

  • Tellis, Ashley J. Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2022. ix + 303 pp. Free. No ISBN.)

  • Torigian, Joseph. Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. 316 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9780300254235.)

  • de Villiers, Nicholas. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. $25.00. ISBN 9781517913182.)

  • Wallace, Jeremy L. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Ideology, Information, and Authoritarianism in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197627662.)

  • Wang, Shucheng. Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 310 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009152563.)

  • Wang, Yan. Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing Public Compliance. (London: LSE Press, 2022. Open Access. ISBN 9781909890886.)

  • Wang, Yuhua. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 352 pp. $35.00; £28.00 ISBN 9780691215167.)

  • Weatherley, Robert. Mao's China and Post-Mao China: Revolution, Recovery and Rejuvenation. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2022. 420 pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781800612754.)

  • Wu, Weiping, and Gao, Qin (eds.). China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 248 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781512823011.)

  • Xu, Youwei, and Wang, Y. Yvon. Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964–1988. (Cham: Springer, 2022. xxvii + 371 pp. £99.99. ISBN 9783030996871.)

  • Zhang, Chi. Legitimacy of China's Counter-Terrorism Approach: The Mass Line Ethos. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 149 pp. £89.99. ISBN 9789811931079.)

  • Zhao, Quansheng. Great Power Strategies: The United States, China and Japan. (New York and London: Routledge, 2023. 310 pp. £125.00. ISBN 9781032287850.)