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.
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Chow, Renee Y. Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism. (Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. xv + 185 pp. ISBN 978-9971-69-833-1.)
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Cumming, Douglas, Firth, Michael, Hou, Wenxuan and Lee, Edward (eds.). Sustainable Entrepreneurship in China: Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Reforms. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiv + 191 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-41252-2.)
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Denoon, David B.H. (ed.). China, the United Sattes, and the Future of Central Asia. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2015. ix + 445 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-1-4798-4122-6.)
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Farrer, James, and Field, Andrew David. Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2015. viii + 266 pp. $27.50; £19.50. ISBN 978-0-226-26288-8.)
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Freeman, Carla P. China and North Korea: Strategic and Policy Perspectives from a Changing China. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi + 261 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-137-45562-9.)
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Friedman, Jeremy. Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. x + 291 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-2376-4.)
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Godement, François. Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016 v + 266 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-2538-1.)
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Grano, Simona A. Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xi + 205 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-83140-7.)
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Haft, Jeremy R. Unmade in China: The Hidden Truth about China's Economic Miracle. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2015. xxi + 263 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-8401-7.)
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Hansen, Valerie. The Silk Road: A New History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 [2012]. xix + 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-021842-3.)
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Haun, Phil. Coercion, Survival, and War: Why Weak States Resist the United States. (Stanford, CA: Stanford Security Studies, 2015. xii + 271 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9283-7.)
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He, Baogang. Governing Taiwan and Tibet: Democratic Approaches. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. viii + 263 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-9971-1.)
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Ho, Cheuk-Yuet. Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of House Ownership in China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2015. xiv + 222 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-0683-0.)
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Hornibrook, Jeff. A Great Undertaking: Mechanization and Social Change in a Late Imperial Chinese Coalmining. (Community Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015. ix + 275 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-5687-4.)
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Hu, Minghui. China's Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xi + 285 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99476-5.)
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Hung, Po-yi. Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 205 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-1-137-49407-8.)
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Idema, Wilt L. Passion, Poverty and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. viii + 453 pp. ISBN 978-1-938134-65-4.)
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Jie, Yu (trans. Hsu, H.C.; foreword by Béja, Jean-Philippe). Steel Gate to Freedom: The Life of Liu Xiaobo. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xi + 237 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-3713-1.)
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Jing, Yijia (ed.). The Road to Collaborative Governance in China. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi + 241 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-52519-2.)
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Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka. The Han: China's Diverse Majority. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiii + 187 pp. £33.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99467-3.)
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Kaczmarski, Marcin. Russia–China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xvi + 176 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-79659-1.)
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K'ung, Shang-Jen (intr. Zeitlin, Judith T.). The Peach Blossom Fan. (New York: New York Review Books, 2015. xxix + 312 pp. $17.95.; £11.99. ISBN 978-1-59017-876-8.)
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Lee, Charlotte P. Training the Party: Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-Era China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 251 pp. £64.99.; $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-09063-7.)
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Leung, Joe C.B., and Xu, Yuebin. China's Social Welfare. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2015. xviii + 232 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-8057-6.)
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Li, Ji. God's Little Dragon: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii + 218 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99472-7.)
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Li, Miao. Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xx + 255 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-74238-2.)
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Liao, Tim F., Hara, Kimie and Wiegand, Krista. The China–Japan Border Dispute: Islands of Contention in Multidisciplinary Perspective. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. xii + 202 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-4299-4.)
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Liu, Hwa-Jen. Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xv + 225 pp. $27.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-8952-1.)
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Lo, Catherine Yuk-Ping. HIV/AIDS in China and India: Governing Health Security. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xv + 280 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-137-50419-7.)
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Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing. Hong Kong's Indigenous Democracy: Origins, Evolutions and Contentions. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi + 186 pp. £63.00. ISBN 978-1-137-39713-3.)
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Malek, Roman. The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ. Volume 4a. Annotated Bibliography (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2015. 638 pp. ISBN 978-1-909662-68-1.)
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Mengin, Françoise. Fragments of an Unfinished War: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China. (London: Hurst, 2015. xix + 393 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-1-84904-470-7.)
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Mungello, D. E. The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xviii + 174 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-5048-2.)
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Nield, Robert. China's Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence in the Treaty Port Era. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015. xxxix + 359 pp. £48.50 ISBN 978-988-8139-28-6.)
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Rocca, Jean-Louis. A Sociology of Modern China. (London: Hurst, 2015. ix + 177 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-84904-353-3.)
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Saunders, Phillip C, and Scobell, Andrew. PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. x + 346 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9625-5.)
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Shen, Zhihua, and Xia, Yafeng. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership 1945-1959: A New History. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2015. xiv + 400 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-49851169-8.)
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Sun, Guofeng. Financial Reforms in Modern China: A Frontbencher's Perspective. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii + 248 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-50346-6.)
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Sun, Guofeng. Reforms in China's Monetary Policy: A Frontbencher's Perspective. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-50446-3.)
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Sutter, Robert G. The United States and Asia: Regional Dynamics and Twenty-First-Century Relations. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. x + 327 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-2633-3.)
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Tanner, Harold M. Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. xi + 365 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-253-01692-8.)
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Tran, Lisa. Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. viii + 235 pp. £49.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-4589-1.)
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Tse, Edward. China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiami, Tencent and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business. (London: Portfolio Penguin, 2015. xiv + 256 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-241-24038-0.)
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Wang, Chi. Obama's Challenge to China: The Pivot to Asia. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. vii + 321 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-442-4.)
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Wang, Gungwu. Another China Cycle: Committing to Reform. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. v + 264 pp. ISBN 978-981-4522-64-9.)
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Wright, Teresa. Party and State in Post-Mao China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2015. xvii + 221 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6384-5.)
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Yang, Guobin (ed.). China's Contested Internet. (Copenhagen: NiAS Press, 2015. xii + 310 pp. ISBN 978-87-7694-176-5.)
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Yang, Jie. Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xxv + 255 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-5660-2.)
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Ye, Luo (complied by) (trans. Inglis, Alister D.). The Drunken Man's Talk: Tales from Medieval China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xxiii + 214 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99473-4.)
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Yü, Dan Smyer. Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics. (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. xii + 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-61451-553-1.)
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Zhang, Chi. The Domestic Dynamics of China's Energy Diplomacy. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2016. xvi + 368 pp. $125.00.; £83.00. ISBN 978-981-4696-73-9.)
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Zhang, Feng. Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xv + 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9389-6.)
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Zhang, Xiaoming. Deng Xiaoping's Long war: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979–1991. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 277 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-2124-1.)
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Zimmermann, Basile. Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. xii + 277 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-262-02905-6.)
