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Books Received

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The China Quarterly , Volume 258 , June 2024 , pp. 607 - 609
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

January–March 2024

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.

  • Alekna, John. Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 374 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9781503638570.)

  • Azad, Shirzad. China and Iran Readjust Relations: Economic Implications of the Suspended Nuclear Deal. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 171 pp. £77.00. ISBN 9781666949704.)

  • Beckershoff, André. Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 292 pp. £108.00. ISBN 9781032498003.)

  • Cavanough, Edward Acton. Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 304 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781526178350.)

  • Chan, Steve. Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift: Implications for Competition between China and the United States. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 252 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009465557.)

  • Chen, Xiaojin. China's Left-Behind Children: Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $37.95. ISBN 9781978837140.)

  • Cheng, Tan Lee, and Wei, Lim Tai. The East Asian Negotiator. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2024. 249 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9789811280504.)

  • Chervin, Reed H. The Cold War in the Himalayas: Multinational Perspectives on the Sino-Indian Border Conflict, 1950–1970. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 284 pp. €124.00. ISBN 9789048559350.)

  • Creemers, Rogier, Papagianneas, Straton and Knight, Adam (eds.). The Emergence of China's Smart State. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. ix + 250 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781538184417.)

  • Demgenski, Philipp. Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 279 pp. $34.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472056378.)

  • Doyon, Jérôme, and Froissart, Chloé (eds.). The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 454 pp. $59.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466237.)

  • Duan, Diana Zhidan. Contingent Loyalties: State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856–1911). (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 316 pp. €136.00. ISBN 9789048558995.)

  • Dussel Peters, Enrique, Cook, James A. and Alter, Joseph S. (eds). Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life. (Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $55.00. ISBN 9780822947851.)

  • Guo, Jianning (ed.). How to Localize Marxism in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 208 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9781032410579.)

  • Han, Enze. The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 238 pp. £64.00. ISBN 9780197696583.)

  • He, Qiliang. The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949–1976. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 216 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9780824895594.)

  • Hillman, Ben, and Kou, Chien-wen (eds.). Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 303 pp. $60.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466190.)

  • Ho, Jennifer (ed.). Global Anti-Asian Racism. (Ann Arbor, MI: AAS/Columbia University Press, 2024. 220 pp. 18; £14.99. ISBN 9781952636400.)

  • Hsu, Hui-Lin. When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 192 pp. $38.00. ISBN 9789888842773.)

  • Ingleson, Elizabeth O'Brien. Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 352 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674251830.)

  • Islam, Md. Nazmul. Power of Bonding and Non-Western Emerging Great Powers Engagement: Comparing China and India's Soft Power Strategy in Pakistan. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. viii + 238 pp. £77.00. ISBN 9781666920994.)

  • Jin, Huan. The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 360 pp. £49.95. ISBN 9780674295872.)

  • Kinkley, Jeffrey. China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 224 pp. $68.00. ISBN 9780824895204.)

  • Kushner, Barak. The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 360 pp. $56.95. ISBN 9781501774010.)

  • Lee, Anru. Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 246 pp. $70.00. ISBN 9780824894283.)

  • Leung, Shuk Man. Utopian Fiction in China: Genre, Print Culture and Knowledge Formation, 1902–1912. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. xiii + 280 pp. €114.00. ISBN 9789004680388.)

  • Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 192 pp. HK$450.00. ISBN 9789888842759.)

  • Liu, Shih-Diing, and Shi, Wei. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 240 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781399518260.)

  • Loh, Dylan M. H. China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781503638204.)

  • Maizels, Michael. Bringing Forth the New: Visual Art and the World of Contemporary China. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 248 pp. £17.99. ISBN 9781350341579.)

  • McAusland, Shane. The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll. (London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 288 pp. £35.00. ISBN 9781789147964.)

  • Meng, Wenting. Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach to International Peacebuilding. (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2024. 188 pp. $34.00. ISBN 9783838219073.)

  • Miller, Owen (ed.). State Capitalism and Development in East Asia since 1945. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €133.00; $160.00. ISBN 9789004251908.)

  • Ng, Sandy. Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 164 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789462988910.)

  • Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane. Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 338 pp. £35.99. ISBN 9781032517704.)

  • Otani, Junko (ed.). Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. ix + 301 pp. £92.00. ISBN 9781666937855.)

  • Pang, Laikwan. One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 276 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781503638815.)

  • Pei, Minxin. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 336 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674257832.)

  • Robinson, Guy M. Transforming Rural China. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024. 370 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781803928579.)

  • Roy, Indrajit, Eckhardt, Jappe, Stroikos, Dimitrios, and Davidescu, Simona (eds.). Rising Power, Limited Influence: The Politics of Chinese Investments in Europe and the Liberal International Order. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 288 pp. £76.00. ISBN 9780192887115.)

  • Shan, Patrick Fuliang. Li Dazhao: China's First Communist. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 332 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438496818.)

  • Shapiro, Judith. China's Environmental Challenges, 3rd Edition. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2024. 288 pp. $20.00. ISBN 9781509559695.)

  • Spires, Anthony J. Global Civil Society and China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £17.00. ISBN 9781009184168.)

  • Sullivan, Jonathan, and Nachman, Lev. Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2023. 176 pp. £22.25. ISBN 9781788216733.)

  • Tsai, Chia-hung and Yeh, Yao-Yuan (eds.). Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Taiwan and Its Strategic Neighbors. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. xviii + 304 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781666940978.)

  • Tsai, Weipin. The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 450 pp. £62.95. ISBN 9780674295889.)

  • Wang, Simeng (ed.). Chinese in France amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Daily Lives, Racial Struggles and Transnational Citizenship of Migrants and Descendants. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 375 pp. €135.00. ISBN 978-90-04-51109-5.)

  • Wang, Yuedan. Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2024. £37.95. ISBN 9780674295896.)

  • Wong, Chuen-Fung. Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 254 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9780824895617.)

  • Wong, William Gee. Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9781439924877.)

  • Wu, Wei. Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231200691.)

  • Yan, Lianke, translated and with an introduction by Rojas, Carlos. Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 192 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478030393.)

  • Yan, Yifei. Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China. London and New York: Routledge. 184 pp. £38.99. ISBN 9781003230380.)

  • Yang, Dali L. Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 416 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9780197756263.)

  • Zhang, Angela Huyue. High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 440 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9780197682258.)

  • Zhou, Shuxuan. From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2024. 200 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752679.)