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Books Received

(April–June 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2017

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The China Quarterly , Volume 231 , September 2017 , pp. 837 - 838
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2017 

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.

  • Ang, Yuen Yuen. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016. xvi + 326 pp. £18.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-0020-0.)

  • Benton, Gregor (ed.). Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. xv + 1269 pp. ISBN 978-1-60846-554-5.)

  • Brazinsky, Gregg A. Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiii + 425 pp. ISBN 978-1-4696-3170-7.)

  • Chun, Allen. Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolotics of Cultural Identification. (New York: SUNY Press, 2017. xii + 284 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-6471-8.)

  • deLisle, Jacques, and Goldstein, Avery (eds.). China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st century. (Washington, DC: Brookings Insitution Press, 2017. viii + 439 pp. £30.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-2969-3.)

  • Dirlik, Arif. Complicities: The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism. (Chicago: Prickly Paragism Press, 2017. 147 pp. ISBN 978-0-9966355-3-0.)

  • Feng, Xianghong. Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xxvi + 182 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-0995-4.)

  • Fu, Xinian (ed. Steinhardt, Nancy S.; trans. Harrer, Alexandra). Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. xxxii + 390 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-15999-7.)

  • Gabbiani, Luca (ed.). Urban Life in China, 15th–20th Centuries: Communities, Institutions, Representations. (Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2016. 359 pp. €45.00. ISBN 978-2-85539-147-2.)

  • Gunn, Geoffrey C. (ed.). Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. x + 224 pp. $50.00; £42.00. ISBN 978-988-8390-51-9.)

  • Hsu, Jennifer Y. J. State of Exchange: Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government. (Vancouver and Toronto: UCB Press, 2017. xvi + 206 pp. £62.00. ISBN 978-0-7748-3364-6.)

  • Jain, B. M. China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 152 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9339-6.)

  • Koga, Yukiko. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xxvii + 307 pp. $27.50; £19.50. ISBN 978-0-226-41213-9.)

  • Lee, Ann. Will China's Economy Collapse? (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2017. x + 127 pp. £9.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-2014-5.)

  • Li, Yi. Chinese Colonial Burma: A Migrant Community in a Multiethnic State. (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. xviii + 262 pp. £13.40. ISBN 978-1-137-53701-0.)

  • Lin, Justin Yifu, and Wang, Yan. Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvi + 216 pp. ISBN 978-1-316-60715-2.)

  • Liu, Jieyu. Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work. (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. x + 158 pp. £17.20. ISBN 978-1-137-50574-3.)

  • Lu, Xing. The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. xvi + 261 pp. $49.99. ISBN 978-1-61117-752-7.)

  • Nyíri, Pál. Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. ix + 206 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-295-74131-4.)

  • Obendiek, Helena. “Changing Fate”: Education, Poverty and Family Support in Contemporary Chinese Society. (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2016. xi + 238 pp. ISBN 978-3-643-90851-3.)

  • Panda, Jagannath P. India–China Relations: Politics of Resources, Identity and Authority in a Multipolar World Order. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xx + 273 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-83359-3.)

  • Qiu, Miaojin (trans. Huie, Bonnie). Notes of a Crocodile. (New York: New York Review of Books, 2017. 242 pp. $15.95; £9.99. ISBN 978-1-68137-076-7.)

  • Roberts, Priscilla and Carroll, John M. (eds.). Hong Kong in the Cold War. (Hong Kong University Press, 2017. xi + 253 pp. £42.00; $50.00. ISBN 978-988-8208-00-5.)

  • Schillinger, Nicholas. The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers (Lexington Books, 2017. x + 416 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-3168-9.)

  • Song, Priscilla. Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China. (Princeton University Press, 2017. xvi + 296 pp. £22.95; $27.95. ISBN 978-0-69117478-5.)

  • Sorace, Christian P. Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017. xii + 231 pp. £36.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-0753-7.)

  • Stewart, Alexander Blair. Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah: Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity among the Hui of Qinghai Province. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. x + 221 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-64638-4.)

  • Stromseth, Jonathan R., Malesky, Edmund J. and Gueorguiev, Dimitar D.. China's Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xix + 326 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-55332-3.)

  • Teiwes, Frederick, and Sun, Warren. Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps Toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976–1981. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xxii + 350 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-85658-5.)

  • Vickers, Edward, and Xiaodong, Zeng. Education and Society in Post-Mao China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 395 pp. £105.00. ISBN 978-0-415-59739-5.)

  • Volland, Nicolai. Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xii + 281 pp. $60.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18310-9.)

  • Yang, Hon-Lun, and Saffle, Michael (eds.). China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. xiv + 328 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13031-3.)

  • Yang, Lu. China–India Relations in the Contemporary World. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 139 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-12020-4.)

  • Yang, Miaoyang. Learning to Be Tibetan: The Construction of Ethnic Identity at Minzu University of China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. ix + 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-4463-4.)

  • Zavoretti, Roberta. Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. xviii + 202 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99924-1.)

  • Zhu, Yun. Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Texts, 1890–1937. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-3629-5.)