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Books received

January–March 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2021

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The China Quarterly , Volume 246 , June 2021 , pp. 637 - 639
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

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. The list below does not include all the books that have been received since the closure of our office due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

  • Ahlers, Anna L., Hansen, Mette Halskov, and Svarverud, Rune. The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 148 pp. $15.99; £13.99. ISBN 9781952636127 [e-book].)

  • Cathcart, Adam, Green, Christopher, and Denney, Steven. Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 440 pp. $129.00. ISBN 9789462987562.)

  • Cohen, Jerome A., Alford, William P., Lo, Chang-fa (eds.). Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation. (Singapore: Springer, 2019. xii + 706 pp. £111.50. ISBN 9789811303494.)

  • Denton, Kirk A. The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post–Martial Law Taiwan. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2021. 284 pp. HK$620.00; US$79.00. ISBN 9789888528578.)

  • Eggleston, Karen, Donahue, John D., and Zeckhauser, Richard J.. The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector: Public–Private Collaboration in China and the United States. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 230 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108837071.)

  • Elfstrom, Manfred. Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xviii + 225 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108831109.)

  • Fang, Xiaoping. China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao. (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 312 pp. $55.00. ISBN 9780822946625.)

  • Fell, Dafydd. Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 306 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9781003127505 [e-book].)

  • Fong, Brian C.H., Jieh-min, Wu and Nathan, Andrew. China's Influence and the Centre–Periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 392 pp. £33.29. ISBN 9781003088431.)

  • Garside, Roger. China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom. (Stanford, CA: University of California Press, 2021. 256 pp. $23.95; £20.00. ISBN 9780520380974.)

  • Ghiselli, Andrea. Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9780198867395.)

  • Gold, Thomas, and Veg, Sebastian (eds.). Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2020. 263 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9781557291912.)

  • Goldstein, Joshua. Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 338 pp. $34.95; £29.00. ISBN 9780520299818.)

  • Guo, Jinhai. The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China. (Springer, 2020. 358 pp. £71.50. ISBN 9789811572081.)

  • Guo, Xuezhi. The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power. (London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £90.00. 434 pp. ISBN 9781108480499.)

  • Haddad, Mary Alice. Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia's Environmentalists. (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2021. 352 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780262542357.)

  • Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian and Jaschok, Maria. Ethnographies of Islam in China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. 320 pp. £102.00. ISBN 9780824886431.)

  • Harris, Rachel. Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2020. 266 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780253050205.)

  • He, Xin. Divorce in China: Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes. (New York: NYU Press, 2021. 304 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9781479805532.)

  • Hou, James. The Commercialization of Pharmaceutical Patents in China. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2021. 256 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781789908220.)

  • Szu-chien, Hsu, Tsai, Kellee S. and Chang, Chun-chih (eds.). Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Relations under Authoritarianism. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $32.95. ISBN 9780674251199.)

  • Kaufmann, Lena. Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 306 pp. €105.00. ISBN 9789463729734.)

  • Lindtner, Sylvia. Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $75.00; £62.00. ISBN 9780691179483.)

  • Liu, Xielin, Wang, Xiao and Hu, Yimei. Catch-up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises: Exploring Large Infrastructure Projects. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. 160 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781781003817 [e-book].)

  • Lu, Xiaoning. Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949–1966). (Leiden: Brill, 2021. xii + 200 pp. €110.00; $132.00. ISBN 9789004423527 [e-book].)

  • Mrockova, Natalie. Corporate Bankruptcy Law in China: Principles, Limitations and Options for Reform. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021. 360 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781509932443.)

  • Noellert, Matthew. Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 358 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9780472132119.)

  • Pan, Jennifer. Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780190087432.)

  • Poh, Angela. Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 350 pp. €109.00. ISBN 9789463722353.)

  • Reardon, Lawrence C. A Third Way: The Origins of China's Current Economic Development Strategy. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 326 pp. $60.00. ISBN 9780674247888.)

  • Schneider, Florian (ed.). Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity, 2021. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 350 pp. €105.00. ISBN 9789463727853.)

  • Smith, James M. and Bolt, Paul J. (eds.). China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021. 300 pp. $110.95. ISBN 9781647120788.)

  • Sun, Jing. Red Chamber, World Dream: Actors, Audience, and Agendas in Chinese Foreign Policy and Beyond. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. ix + 224 pp. ISBN 9780472074860.)

  • Suryanarayana, P. S. The Elusive Tipping Point: China–India Ties for a New Order. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2021. 276 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9789811225833.)

  • Tang, Xiaoyang. Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approaches and Impacts of China–Africa Economic Cooperation. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xx + 273 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108415293.)

  • Tsimonis, Konstantinos D. The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 320 pp. €99.00. ISBN 9789462989863.)

  • Wang, Lingzhen. Revisiting Women′s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 312 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478010807.)

  • Westad, Odd Arne. Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 216 pp. $29.95; £23.95; €27.00. ISBN 9780674238213.)

  • Wong, Y. Yvon. Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. xiv + 289 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781501752995 [e-book].)

  • Wu, Di. Affective Encounters: Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 246 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781350102439.)

  • Yapp, Hentyle Minor. China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781478011552.)

  • Zeng, Ka, and Li, Xiaojun. Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. xvii + 301 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9780472074709.)

  • Zhang, Angela. Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 272 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9780198826569.)