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Books received

April–June 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

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The China Quarterly , Volume 247 , September 2021 , pp. 931 - 933
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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 may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

  • Ahl, Björn (ed.). Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £85.00. ISBN 9781108833301.)

  • Becker, Jasper. Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy. (London: Hurst, 2021. 344 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781787384675.)

  • Bonin, Hubert. Banking in China (1890s–1940s). (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 362 pp. £96.00. ISBN 9780367466572.)

  • Brown, Jeremy. June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. (Cambridge University Press, 2021. £22.99. ISBN 9781107657809.)

  • Chee, Liz P. Y. Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-1-4780-1404-1.)

  • Cheek, Timothy, Mühlhahn, Klaus and van de Ven, Hans (eds.). The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xx + 282 pp. £59.99. ISBN 9781108842778.)

  • Chen, Albert H. Y. The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on “One Country, Two Systems.” (Hong Kong: City University Press, 2021. 440 pp. HK$238.00. ISBN 9789629374501.)

  • Chhabra, Tarun, Doshi, Rush, Hass, Ryan and Kimball, Emilie (eds.). Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 428 pp. $45.95. ISBN 9780815739166.)

  • Coderre, Laurence. Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-1-4780-1430-0.)

  • Dickson, Bruce. The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. x + 315 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780691186641.)

  • Drahos, Peter. Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century. (Oxford University Press, 2021, 272 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9780197545362.)

  • Fang, Qiang. The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927–1976: Building on Fear. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 336 pp. €115.00. ISBN 9789463729451.)

  • Farquhar, Judith, and Lai, Lili. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780226763651.)

  • Feldman, Steven. Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 328 pp. $120.00; £92.00. ISBN 9781793616678.)

  • Fell, Dafydd, and Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael. Taiwan Studies Revisited. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 252 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9780367201722.)

  • Gu, Weixia. Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and their Interactions. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 288 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781138823594.)

  • Hass, Ryan. Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 240 pp. £18.99. ISBN 9780300251258.)

  • Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern. China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 264 pp. €99.00. ISBN 9789463725149.)

  • Ho, Wai-Chung. Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 342 pp. €115.00. ISBN 9789463729932.)

  • Holdsworth, May, and Munn, Christopher. Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 340 pp. $49.00. ISBN 9789888528127.)

  • Hoon, Hian Teck. The Singapore Economy: Dynamism and Inclusion. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 364 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9780367218706.)

  • Howlett, Zachary M. Meritocracy and its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. xiv + 266 pp. ISBN 9781501754456 [ebook].)

  • Hu, Tingting. Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films. (Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2021. 180 pp. £70.00. ISBN 9781789760927.)

  • Inboden, Rana Siu. China and the International Human Rights Regime. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 296 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108841078.)

  • Jones, Brian Christopher (ed.). Democracy and Rule of Law in China's Shadow. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021. 272 pp. £70.00. ISBN 9781509933969.)

  • Kelly, Jason. Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $39.95; £31.95; €36.00. ISBN 9780674986497.)

  • Klieger, P. Christiaan. Tibet: A History Between Dream and Nation State. (London: Reaktion Books, 2021. 324 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781789144024.)

  • Kohama, Masako and Grove, Linda (eds.). Gender History in China. (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2021. 518 pp. $69.95. ISBN 9784814003426.)

  • Levy, Katja, and Knut, B. Pissler. Charity with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Charitable Foundations between the Party-state and Society. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020. 320 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781788115063.)

  • Li, Huaiyin. The Making of the Modern Chinese State, 1600–1950. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 350 pp. $34.99. ISBN 9781138362451.)

  • Li, Luzhou. Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State. (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2019. xv + 296 pp. ISBN 9780262043175.)

  • Li, Peter J. Animal Welfare in China: Culture, Politics and Crisis. (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2021. 378 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9781743327395.)

  • Liang, Shuming (trans. Li Ming). Fundamentals of Chinese Culture. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 416 pp. €135.00. ISBN 9789463729659.)

  • Lincoln, Toby. An Urban History of China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 273 pp. $29.99. ISBN 9781316647288.)

  • Liu, Amy H. The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021. 228 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781439920138.)

  • Liu, Xiaohong, and Zhang, Zhengyi (eds.). Chinese Private International Law. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021. 352 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781509924370.)

  • Ma, Shaoling. The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9781478011477.)

  • Martin, Peter. China's Civilian Army: The Inside Story of China's Quest for Global Power. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 272 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9780197513705.)

  • Morgan, Stephen. The Chinese Economy. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021. 336 pp. £16.99; $25.00. ISBN 9781788210812.)

  • Mozina, David J. Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. 368 pp. $68.00. ISBN 9780824883416.)

  • Mungello, D. E. This Suffering is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 186 pp. $85.00; £65.00. ISBN 9781538150290.)

  • Ong, Soon Keong. Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938. (Ithaka, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. xii + 226 pp. ISBN 9781501756184.)

  • Potter, Pitman. Exporting Virtue? China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2021. 268 pp. £89.95. ISBN 9780774865555.)

  • Pritchard, Bill (ed.). Global Production Networks and Rural Development: Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China. (Edward Elgar, 2021. 192 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781800883871.)

  • Rea, Christopher. Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $30.00; £24.00. ISBN 9780231188135.)

  • Rigger, Shelley. The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 236 pp. $79.00; £61.00. ISBN 9781442219588.)

  • Saich, Tony. From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2021. 560 pp. $39.95; £31.95; €36.00. ISBN 9780674988118.)

  • Santos, Gonçalo. Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780295747408.)

  • Scoggins, Suzanne. Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 198 pp. $19.95. ISBN 9781501755590 [e-book].)

  • Shambaugh, David. China's Leaders: From Mao to Now. (Oxford: Polity Press, 2021. xiv + 416 pp. £25.00; $29.95. ISBN 9781509546510.)

  • Smith, Nick R. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 336 pp. $27.00. ISBN 9781517910921.)

  • Stenberg, Josh. Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance. (London: Anthem Press, 2022. 250 pp. £120.00, $195.00. ISBN 9781785278075.)

  • Stevenson, Caroline M. Britain's Second Embassy to China: Lord Amherst's “Special Mission” to the Jiaqing Emperor in 1816. (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021. xii + 391 pp. ISBN 9781760464097.)

  • Sutter, Robert G. Chinese Foreign Relations, 5th Edition. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. 422 pp. $45.00; £35.00. ISBN 9781538138298.)

  • Terrill, Ross. Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. 290 pp. $24.99; £18.95. ISBN 9780761871965.)

  • Wang, Chi. A Compelling Journey from Peking to Washington: Building a New Life in America. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. 210 pp. $45.99; £35.00. ISBN 9780761853855.)

  • Wang, Peggy. The Future History of Chinese Contemporary Art. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 256 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517909161.)

  • Weber, Isabella M. How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 368 pp. £23.99. ISBN 9781032008493.)

  • Willock, Nicole. Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231197076.)

  • Xie, Kailing. Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China's Privileged Young Women. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. xvii + 305 pp. €79.99; £69.99; $99.99. ISBN 9789811611384.)

  • Xu, Bin. Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £85.00. ISBN 9781108844253.)

  • Yuan, Elaine Jingyan. The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 200 pp. $50.00. ISBN 9781487508135.)

  • Zhang, Youlang. Local Government Innovativeness in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 108 pp. £45.00. ISBN 9780367460839.)

  • Zhang, Yu. Going to the Countryside: The Rural in Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 306 pp. $80.00. ISBN 9780472074433.)

  • Zhao, Yuhong. Chinese Environmental Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. £39.99. ISBN 9781107696280.)