October–December 2022

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 late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below includes notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

• Altehenger, Jennifer, and Ho, Denise Y. (eds.). Material Contradictions in Mao's China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2022. 264 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780295750859.)

• Ardizzoni, Sabrina. Hakka Women in Tulou Villages: Social and Cultural Constructs of Hakka Identity in Modern and Contemporary Fujian, China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 254 pp. €94.00. ISBN 9789004518186.)

• Becker, Jasper. Why Communism Failed. (London: Hurst, 2022. 352 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781787388062.)

• Bell, Daniel A., Acharya, Amitav, Bhargava, Rajeev and Xuetong, Yan. Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 334 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780520390980.)

• Bevan, Paul. ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’: An Urban Montage. Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai's Jazz Age. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 421 pp. €41.00. ISBN 9789004525368.

• Brown, Kerry, and Tzu-hui, Kalley Wu. The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China. (London: Zed Books, 2019. xxiii + 246 pp. ISBN 9781786995223.)

• Chabrowski, Igor Iwo. Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 367 pp. €116.00. ISBN 9789004519381.)

• Chan, Steve. Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $32.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231208451.)

• Cheek, Timothy, Ownby, David and A, Joshua. Fogel (eds). Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 400 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231195232.)

• Chen, Titus C. The Making of a Neo-Propaganda State: China's Social Media under Xi Jinping. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 236 pp. €127.00. ISBN 9789004519367.)

• Chen, Ya-chen. The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2022. 310 pp. £64.99. ISBN 9781527581326.)

• Curran, James. Australia's China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear. (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2022. 319 pp. $34.99. ISBN 9781742237152.)

• Fu, Hualing, and Hor, Michael (eds.). The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2023. 416 pp. $63.00. ISBN 9789888754199.)

• Gao, Henry, and Zhou, Weihuan. Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China's State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 225 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9781108830065.)

• Gartner, Scott, Huang, Chin-Hao, Li, Yitan and James, Patrick. Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 266 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781529209884.)

• Garver, John W. Crossing Borders: The Making of an American Asian Specialist. (Meadville, PA: Fulton Books, 2022. 284 pp. $30.95. ISBN 9781639858316.)

• Gazagnadou, Didier. Dialogue with Joseph Needham: From Biochemistry to History of Chinese Science and Technology. (Paris: Editions Kimé, 2021. 100 pp. €15.00. ISBN 9782380720020.)

• Hochstadt, Steve (ed.). A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai. (New York: Touro University Press, 2019. ix + 240 pp. ISBN 9781644691311.)

• Hofmann, Reto, and Ward, Max (eds.). Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 240 pp. £28.99. ISBN 9781350281127.)

• Hsiao, Li-Chun. The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 190 pp. $95.00; £73.00. ISBN 9781498569065.)

• Huang, Xian. Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197642771.)

• Kastner, Scott L. War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231198653.)

• Keevak, Michael. On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2023. 136 pp. $64.00. ISBN 9789888754281.)

• Kielman, Adam. Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 216 pp. $27.50. ISBN 9780226817804.)

• Ku, Inhoe, and Saunders, Peter. Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work, Family and Policy. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022. 256 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781800888975.)

• Kurlantzik, Joshua. Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 560 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780197515761.)

• Lackner, Michael and Lu, Zhao (eds.). Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 570 pp. €179.00. ISBN 9789004511279.)

• Lam, Joseph S. C. Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2022. 307 pp. $90.00. ISBN 9789888754328.)

• Lamoreaux, Janelle. Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 160 pp. $23.95. ISBN 9781478019336.)

• Liu, Jifeng. Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $119.95. ISBN 9780271092874.)

• Liu, Petrus. The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478019428.)

• Liu, Weidong, Dunford, Michael, Liu, Zhigao and Yang, Zhenshan. Exploring the Chinese Social Model: Beyond Market and State. (Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 2022. 198 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9781788214742.)

• Gyari, Lodi Gyaltsen. The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 800 pp. $40.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231206488.)

• Malsagne, Stéphane. “Avec toi au pouvoir, je suis tranquille”: Hua Guofeng (1921–2008). (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2022. 478 pp. €35.00. ISBN 9782846546072.)

• McGrath, Jason. Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 416 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517914035.)

• Mitchell, Ryan Martínez. Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 316 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108498968.)

• Münning, Mariana. Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901–1980) between Language Study and Language Planning. (Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2022. 311 pp. €44.90. ISBN 9783948791292.)

• Orlick, Thomas. China: The Bubble that Never Pops. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780197598610.)

• Prado-Fonts, Carles. Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. $34.95. ISBN 9780810144767.)

• Raffety, Erin. Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 220 pp. $29.99. ISBN 9781978829299.)

• Rofel, Lisa, and Rojas, Carlos (eds.). New World Orderings: China and the Global South. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 280 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781478019015.)

• Roth, Antoine. A Hierarchical Vision of Order: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy in Asia. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 224 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781529227505.)

• Rowen, Ian. One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022, 200 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9781501767692.)

• Scott, Ian. The Public Sector in Hong Kong (second edition). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 464 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888754038.)

• Shambaugh, David. Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780197667347.)

• Small, Andrew. No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West. (New York: Melville House, 2022. 288 pp. $29.99. ISBN 9781685890193.)

• Stuenkel, Oliver. The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (second edition). (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2020. vii + 264 pp. $100.00. ISBN 9781498567275.)

• Thilly, Peter. The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press 2022. 316 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781503634107.)

• Walsh, Barney. Ugandan Agency within China–Africa Relations: President Museveni and China's Foreign Policy in East Africa. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 232 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781350255470.)

• Weech, Edward. Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781526164551.)

• Welter, Albert. A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 pp. £47.99. ISBN 9780197606636.)

• Wong, Jennifer. Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 248 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9781350250338.)

• Wong, John D. Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $60.00; £48.95; €54.00. ISBN 9780674278264.)

• Wu, Fulong. Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes. (London: UCL Press, 2022. £25.00; Open Access. ISBN 9781800083349.)

• Xiang, Biao, and Qi, Wu (translated by Ownby), David. Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 268 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9789811949555.)

• Yang, Rui. The Chinese Idea of a University: Phoenix Reborn. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 164 pp. HK$550.00. ISBN 9789888754298.)

• Yip, Siu Hing, and Stenberg, Josh (eds). Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance. (London: Anthem Press, 2022. 486 pp. £120.00; $195.00. ISBN 9781785278075.)

• Yoshihara, Toshi. Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. 173 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781647122829.)

• Zhang, Lin. The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xvi + 292 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231195317.)

• Zhou, Xueguang. The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 350 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781009159401.)