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Books received

(July–September 2020)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

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The China Quarterly , Volume 244: Change, Contradiction and the State: Higher Education in Greater China , December 2020 , pp. 1189 - 1190
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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.

  • Benabdallah, Lina. Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China–Africa Relations. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 204 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780472126897 [e-book].)

  • Bonin, Hubert. French Banking in China (1890–1940s). Business in the French Concessions. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 214 pp. £33.29. ISBN 9780429265075.)

  • Brown, Kerry. China. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. 224 pp. £12.99 €15.90. ISBN 9781509541485.)

  • Chan, Cora, and de Londras, Fiona (eds.). China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law? (London: Hart Publishing, 2020. 368 pp. £76.50. ISBN 9781509928156 [e-book].)

  • Cordoba, Cyril. Au-delà du rideau de bambou: Relations culturelles et amitiés politiques sino-suisses (1949–1989). (Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil, 2020. 432 pp. €29.90. ISBN 9782889303373.)

  • Cui, Jing. Collaborative Governance of Local Governments in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 156 pp. £16.99. ISBN 9780429054457 [e-book].)

  • Elfstrom, Manfred, and Li, Yao. Contentious Politics in China: Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences. (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2019. 96 pp. $70.00; €84.00. ISBN 9789004425118.)

  • Evans, Harriet. Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. xiii + 288 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781478008156.)

  • Fearnley, Lyle. Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp. $27.36. ISBN 9781478011057 [e-book].)

  • Knapp, Ronald G., Miller, Terry E. and Jie, Liu. China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. 480 pp. $65.00 ISBN 9781952461026.)

  • Lampton, David M., Ho, Selina, and Kuik, Cheng-Chwee. Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 336 pp. $29.95; £25.00 ISBN 9780520976160 [e-book].)

  • Larus, Elizabeth Freund. Politics and Society in Contemporary China (2nd ed.) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2020. 323 pp. $32.50 ISBN 9781626379336.)

  • Li, Yifei, and Shapiro, Judith. China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet. (Cambridge, Oxford and Boston, MA: Polity, 2020. 240 pp. £11.99. ISBN 9781509543137.)

  • Liu, Jun. Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China. Oxford University Press, 2020. 230 pp. $99.95. ISBN 9780190887261.

  • Looney, Kristen Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 234 pp. $45.00. ISBN 9781501748844.)

  • Meyskens, Covell F. Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 292 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781108784788 [e-book]).

  • Ye, Min. The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 252 pp. £75.00 ISBN 9781108479561.)

  • Mitter, Rana. China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $27.95; £22.95; €25.00. ISBN 97-0674984264.)

  • Murphy, Rachel. The Children of China's Great Migration. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ix + 286 pp. £ 75.00. ISBN 9781108834858.)

  • Pfister, Lauren F. Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 444 pp. $125.00; £96.00. ISBN 9781498593564.)

  • Ptáčková, Jarmila. Reconstructing Lifeways on the Tibetan Plateau: Exile from the Grasslands. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2020. 188 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9780295748184.)

  • Ren, Xuefei. Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 208 pp. $95.00; £78.00. ISBN 9780691203409.)

  • Schluessel, Eric. Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 304 pp. $140.00; £108.00. ISBN 9780231197540.)

  • Smith, Richard. China's Engine of Environmental Collapse. (London: Pluto Press, 2020. 320 pp. £9.99. ISBN 9781786806635 [e-book].)

  • Templeman, Kharis, Chu, Yun-han and Diamond, Larry. Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2020. 420 pp. $89.95. ISBN 9781626379046.)

  • Wang, Zhongyan. Remodelling Democracy: Managed Elections and Mobilized Representation in Chinese Local Congresses. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 340 pp. $120.00; £92.00. ISBN 9781793621085.)

  • Wu, Shenqing. Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 384 pp. $140.00; £108.00. ISBN 9780231192200.)

  • Zhang, Li. Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 224 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780520975392 [e-book].)

  • Zhou, Ling. Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer: Handling Consumer Disputes in Contemporary China. (London: Hart Publishing, 2020. 176 pp. £29.70. ISBN 9781509931064 [e-book].)

  • Zhu, Yujie. Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 168 pp. €85.00. ISBN 9789462985674.)