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Books Received

(July–September 2013)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2013

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The China Quarterly , Volume 216 , December 2013 , pp. 1099 - 1101
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2013 

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.

  • Antholis, William, Inside Out, India and China: Local Politics go Global. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013, vii + 215 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8157-2510-7.)

  • Armstrong, Charles K., Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. viii + 307 pp. $35.00; £22.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-5082-2.)

  • Bonnin, Michel, The Lost Generation: The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968–1980). (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2013. xxxix + 515 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978-962-996-481-8.)

  • Brady, Anne-Marie, and Brown, Douglas (eds.), Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. viii + 277 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-52865-8.)

  • Brook, Timothy, Mr Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. xxii + 199 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-1-62040-143-9.)

  • Choi, Susanne Y. P., and Cheung, Fanny M. (eds.), Women and Girls in Hong Kong: Current Situations and Future Challenges. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. xvii + 323 pp. ISBN 978-962-441-595-7.)

  • Chu, Yiu-Wai, Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China. (New York: SUNY Press, 2013. viii + 219 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-4645-5.)

  • Chuang, Ya-chung, Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2013. xiii + 269 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978-962-996-546-4.)

  • Davis, Milner Jessica, and Chey, Jocelyn, Humour in Chinese Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xxii + 348 pp. ISBN 978-988-8139-24-8.)

  • Day, Alexander F., The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. vii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03967-4.)

  • De Bary, Theodore Wm., The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-2315-3510-6.)

  • Diamond, Larry, Plattner, Marc F. and Chu, Yun-han, Democracy in East Asia: A New Century. (Baltimore MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2013. xxx + 257 pp. £15.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-0968-9.)

  • Dikötter, Frank, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–57. (London: Bloomsbury, 2013. xix + 376 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-4088-3757-3.)

  • Ferrari, Rossella, Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. (London, New York and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2012. xviii + 365 pp. ISBN 978-0-8574-2-045-9.)

  • Haddad, John R., America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, and Salvation. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. viii + 283 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-1-4399-0689-7.)

  • Hathaway, Michael H., Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2013. xi + 258 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27620-8.)

  • Hilderbrandt, Timothy.Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 217 pp. £55.00; $90.00. ISBN 978-1-107-02131-0.)

  • Holloway, Kenneth W., The Quest for Ecstatic Morality in Early China. (Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 161 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-19-994174-2.)

  • Jinba, Tenzin.In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. xvii + 170 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99307-2.)

  • Kahler, Miles, and Macintyre, Andrew, Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context. (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. x + 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8364-4.)

  • Lafitte, Gabriel, Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2013. x + 204 pp. ISBN 978-1-78032-435-7.)

  • Leibold, James, Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013. xiii + 65 pp. $10.00 ISBN 978-0-86638-233-5.)

  • Mengin, Françoise, Fragments d'une guerre inachevée: les entrepreneurs taiwanais et la partition de la Chine. (Paris: Karthala, 2013. 519 pp. ISBN 978-2-811-10852-6.)

  • Miller, Manjari Chatterjee, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv + 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8652-2.)

  • Musgrove, Charles D.China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix + 316 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3628-3.)

  • Qi, Ye, Annual Review of Low-Carbon Development in China: 2010. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xxix + 726 pp. £38.00; $58.00. ISBN 978-981-4425-33-9.)

  • Quark, Amy A., Global Rivalries: Standard Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2013. xiii + 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-05067-6.)

  • Richter, Antje, Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. x + 235 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99278-5.)

  • Robinson, Luke, Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. viii + 198 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-29839-3.)

  • Rossabi, Morris (ed.), Eurasian Influences on Yuan China. (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013. xviii + 236 pp. £38.50. ISBN 978-981-4459-72-3.)

  • Rossabi, Morris.A History of China. (Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 2014. xxvi + 426 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-57718-113-2.)

  • Schoenhals, Michael, and Sarsevnov, Karin (eds.), Imagining Mass Dictatorships: The Individual and the Masses in Literature and Cinema. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi + 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-33068-0.)

  • Sharp, Jonathan (ed.), The China Renaissance: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the 18th Communist Party Congress. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xii + 321 pp. £19.00. ISBN 978-981-4522-86-1.)

  • Silbergeld, Jerome, and Ching, Dora C. Y. (eds.), The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture. (Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2013. xiii + 553 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-15859-4.)

  • Siu, Victoria M. Cha-Tsu, Gardens of a Chinese Emperor: Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736–1796. (Lanham, MD and Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. xxxii + 267 pp. ISBN 978-1-61146-128-2.)

  • Stockmann, Daniela, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxii + 334 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01844-0.)

  • Summers, Tim, Yunnan – A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia: A Case Study of China's Political and Economic Relations with Its Neighbours. (Oxford, Cambridge and New Delhi: Chandos Publishing, 2013. xxvi + 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-85709-444-5.)

  • Teng, Emma Jinhua, Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842–1943. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. xvii + 331 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-0-520-27627-7.)

  • Tsang, Steve (ed.), The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics and Culture. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiv + 222 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-00989-0.)

  • Weinstein, Jodi L., Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. xiii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99327-0.)

  • Wills, Michael, and Hathaway, Robert M. (eds.), New Security Challenges in Asia. (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xxii + 273 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1010-4.)

  • Wolfendale, Stuart, Imperial to International: A History of St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xviii + 331 pp. 450.00; £34.50. ISBN 978-988-8139-87-3.)

  • Wong, Chack-kie, Po-san, Wan and Chi-kin, Law (eds.), Cong shejing zhibiao kan Xianggang shehui bianqian (Hong Kong in Transition: Economic and Social Indicators of Development). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. x + 228 pp. $9.00. ISBN 978-962-441-593-3.)

  • Wortzel, Larry M., The Dragon Extends Its Reach: Chinese Military Power Goes Global. (Washington, DC: Potomak Books, 2013. xv + 238 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-61234-405-8.)

  • Wu, Fulong, Zhang, Fangzhu and Webster, Chris (eds.), Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism. (London and New York: Routledge. 2014. xxiv + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-53455-0.)

  • Xing, Li (ed.) with Farah, Abdulkadir Osman, China–Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xiv + 207 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-6478-5.)

  • Yang, Xiong (trans. by Nylan, Michael), Exemplary Figures: Fayan. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2013. xli + 315 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-29599-2891.)

  • Young, Jason, China's Hukou System: Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi + 205 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-27730-5.)

  • Yueh, Linda, China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xviii + 349 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920578-3.)

  • Zeng, Jin, State-Led Privatization in China: The Politics of Economic Reform. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xx + 191 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-70280-5.)

  • Zhang, Yue, The Fragmented Politics of Urban Conservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xii + 201 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8166-8369-7.)

  • Zheng, Victor Wan-tai and Tsai-man, Ho, Huaren jiazu qiye yu gupiao shichang (Chinese Family Enterprises and the Stock Market). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. vii + 263 pp. $10.50. ISBN 97-962-441-594-0.)

  • Zheng, Yi, Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle-Class Taste. (London and New York: Routledge. 2014. xi + 117 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55969-0.)

  • Zheng, Yongnian, Contemporary China: A History since 1978. (Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013. xvii + 237 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-470-65580-1.)