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The China Quarterly , Volume 197 , March 2009 , pp. 232 - 235
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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.

Ambler, Tim, Witzel, Morgen and Xi, Chao, Doing Business in China (third edition). (London and New York: Routledge, 2009 [2000], xiii + 289 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-415-43632-8.)Baptandier, Brigitte, (trans. Fryklund, Kristin), The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii + 374 pp.$65.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-4666-3.)Bellér-Hann, Ildikó, Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880–1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xv + 476 pp.€115.00; $171.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16675-2.)Bergstein, Fred C., Freeman, Charles, Lardy, Nicholas R. and Mitchell, Derek J., China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities. (Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008. xix + 269 pp.£20.50. ISBN 978-0-88132-417-4.)Brandtstädter, Susanne and Santos, Gonçalo D. (eds.), Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008. xii + 264 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45697-5.)Brown, Jeremy, and Pickowicz, Paul G. (eds.), Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, xii + 462 pp.£33.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02616-2.)Ch'ien, Ssu-ma (edited by Nienhauser, William H. Jr.), The Grand Scribe's Records. Volume VIII: The Memoirs of Han China, Part 1. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xlix + 449 pp.$49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34028-3.)Chan, Ming K. (ed.), China's Hong Kong Transformed: Retrospect and Prospect Beyond the First Decade. (Hong Kong: City University Press, 2008. xx + 362 pp.HK$228.00; $38.00. ISBN 978-962-937-168-5.)Cheung, Tai Ming, Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi + 279 pp.$39.95; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-4692-4.)Chiu, Melissa and Zheng, Shengtian (eds.), Art and China's Revolution. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. vii + 259 pp.£40.00. ISBN 978-0-300-14064-4.)Chu, Yun-Han, Diamond, Larry, Nathan, Andrew J. and Shin, Doh Chull (eds.), How East Asians View Democracy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xv + 309 pp.$50.00; £29.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14534-3.)Cohen, Paul A., Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. xxiv + 354 pp.£23.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25579-1.)Cooney, Kevin J. and Sato, Yoichiro (eds.), The Rise of China and International Security: America and China Respond. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 264 pp.£70.00. ISBN 978-0-415-43396-9.)Croissant, Doris, Yeh, Catherine Vance and Mostow, Joshua S. (eds.), Performing “Nation”: Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880–1940. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xv + 445 pp.€99.00; $159.00 ISBN 978-90-04-17019-3.)D'arelli, Francesco and Melasecchi, Benjamino (foreword by Gnoli, Gherardo), Serie Orientale Roma, I-C: A Detailed Catalogue. (Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2008. 203 pp. €20.00. ISBN 978-88-6323-268-4.)Dickson, Bruce J., Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 278 pp.£15.99; $24.99. ISBN 978-0-521-70270-6.)Dikötter, Frank, The Age of Openness: China Before Mao. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. vii + 131 pp.$24.95. ISBN 978-962-209-920-3.)Evans, Harriett, The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008. xi + 233 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-7425-5478-8.)Faure, Michel and Ying, Song (eds.), China and Traditional Environmental Liability: Legal Remedies for Transboundary Pollution. (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008. xx + 360 pp.£85.00. ISBN 978-1-84720-752-4.)Field, Stephen L., Ancient Chinese Divination. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xvi + 142 pp.£34.50. ISBN 978-0-8248-3245-2.)Gilley, Bruce and Diamond, Larry, Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan. (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. vii + 307 pp.$24.50. ISBN 978-1-58826-593-7.)Goldschmidt, Asaf, The Evolution of Chinese Medicine, Song Dynasty, 960–1200. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viii + 261 pp.£85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-42655-8.)Goldstein, Melvyn, Jiao, Ben and Lhundrup, Tanzen, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. xvi + 236 pp.£14.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25682-8.)Gong, Han, Banished! A Novel. (Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2009. x + 250 pp.$26.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3340-4.)Harris, Rachel, The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia: The Uyghur Twelve Muqam. (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xvii + 157 pp.$54.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-6382-9.)He, Kai, Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 209 pp.£80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46952-4.)Heisig, James W. and Richardson, Timothy W., Remembering Simplified Hanzi. Book 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. v + 424 pp.$25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3323-7.)Heisig, James W. and Richardson, Timothy W., Remembering Traditional Hanzi. Book 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. v + 433 pp.$25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3324-4.)Huang, Yasheng, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii + 348 pp.£15.99; $30.00. ISBN 978-0-521-89810-2.)Landry, Pierre F., Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local elites in the Post-Mao Era. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 295 pp.£50.00; $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88235-4.)Laozi, , trans. Ryden, Edmund, Daodejing. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxxvi + 187 pp.£8.99. ISBN 978-0-19-920855-5.)Larçon, Jean-Paul (ed.), Chinese Multinationals. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. xxx + 269 pp.£17.00. ISBN 978-981-283-559-8.)Larson, Wendy, From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xii + 322 pp.$55.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-00775-7.)Leese, Daniel (ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of China. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxiii + 1110 pp.€249.00; $388.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16863-3; ISSN 0921-5239.)Li, Minqii, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. (London: Pluto Press, 2008. xix + 208 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-7453-2772-3.)Li, Rex, A Rising China and Security in East Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvii + 297 pp.£24.99; $47.95. ISBN 978-0-415-44941-0.)Lo, Bobo, Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. xii + 277 pp.$32.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-5340-7.)Lorge, Peter A., The Asian Military Revolution. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi + 188 pp.£24.99. ISBN 978-0-521-60954-8.)Nielsen, Ingrid and Smyth, Russell (eds.), Migration and Social Protection in China. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2008. x + 265 pp.£36.00. ISBN 978-981-279-049-1.)O'Brien, Kevin (ed.), Popular Protest in China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. x + 274 pp.£35.95; $55.00; €38.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03060-2.)Peck, Graham (new introduction by Kapp, Robert A.), Two Kinds of Time. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008 [1950], xxv + 752 pp. $28.95; £16.99. ISBN 978-0-295-98852-8.)Rosemont, Henry Jr. and Ames, Roger T., The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of Xiajing. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2009. xv +132 pp.$22.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3348-0.)Rôske, Jana S., Searching for the Way: Theory of Knowledge in Pre-Modern and Modern China. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. xvi + 356 pp.$52.00. ISBN 978-962-996-327-9.)Ross, Robert S. and Feng, Zhu (eds.), China's Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of International Politics. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. viii + 323 pp.$22.95; £11.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-7444-6.)Rotberg, Robert I. (ed.), China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. ix + 339 pp.$29.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-7561-4.)Schenk, Catherine R., Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges: Historical Perspectives. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xiii + 201 pp.£60.00. ISBN 978-0-230-20946-6.)Schmalzer, Sigrid, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2008. xix + 346 pp.$85.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-223-73860-4.)Shih, Fang-long, Thompson, Stuart and Tremlett, Paul-François (eds.), Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 218 pp.$150.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46666-0.)Song, Ligang and Woo, Wing Thye (eds.), China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change. (ANU E Press, Asia Pacific Press, Brookings Institution Press and Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2008. xviii + 428 pp.£18.99. ISBN 978-0-8157-3123-8.)Su, Chi, Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs. (New York and London: Routledge, 2008. xix + 342 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46454-3.)Tan, Pamela, The Chinese Factor: An Australian Woman's Life in China from 1950 to 1979. (Kenthurst, Australia: Rosenberg, 2008. 272 pp.£13.50. ISBN 978-1-877058-74-5.)Tao, Xie, U.S.–China Relations: China Policy on Capitol Hill. (New York and London: Routledge, 2008. xvi + 203 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-77688-2.)Thunø, Mette (ed.), Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China. (Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2007. xii + 281 pp.£15.99; $27.00. ISBN 978-87-7694-000-3.)Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N., Global Shanghai, 1850–2010: A History in Fragments. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 170 pp.£21.99. ISBN 978-0-415-21328-8.)Wu, Irene S., From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xiv + 187 pp.$45.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-5962-5.)Wu, Yanrui, Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in China. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 169 pp.£55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-20212-2.)Yang, Dongping (ed.), The China Environment Yearbook, Vol. 2: Changes and Struggles. (Leiden: Brill, 2008. xxv + 375 pp.$148.00; €99.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16800-8.)Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui, Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2008. vii + 464 pp.£17.95. ISBN 978-0-520-09864-00.)Yu, Keping, Globalization and Changes in China's Governance. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. 275 pp. €69.00; $103.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15682-1.)Yuann, James K. and Inch, Jason, Supertrends of Future China: Billion Dollar Business Opportunities for China's Olympic Decade. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2008. xvii + 286 pp.£15.00. ISBN 978-981-281-439-5.)Yung, Bell, The Last of China's Literati: The Music, Poetry, and Life of Tsar Teh-yun. (Hong Kong: Hong University Press, 2008. xviii + 180 pp.HK$295.00. ISBN 978-962-209-916-6.)Zhong, Lena Y., Communities, Crime and Social Capital in Contemporary China. (Cullompton, Devon, and Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2009. xiii + 277 pp.£40.00. ISBN 978-1-84392-405-0.)

References

Ambler, Tim, Witzel, Morgen and Xi, Chao, Doing Business in China (third edition). (London and New York: Routledge, 2009 [2000], xiii + 289 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-415-43632-8.)Google Scholar
Baptandier, Brigitte, (trans. Fryklund, Kristin), The Lady of Linshui: A Chinese Female Cult. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii + 374 pp.$65.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-4666-3.)Google Scholar
Bellér-Hann, Ildikó, Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880–1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xv + 476 pp.€115.00; $171.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16675-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bergstein, Fred C., Freeman, Charles, Lardy, Nicholas R. and Mitchell, Derek J., China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities. (Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008. xix + 269 pp.£20.50. ISBN 978-0-88132-417-4.)Google Scholar
Brandtstädter, Susanne and Santos, Gonçalo D. (eds.), Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008. xii + 264 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45697-5.)Google Scholar
Brown, Jeremy, and Pickowicz, Paul G. (eds.), Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2007, xii + 462 pp.£33.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02616-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ch'ien, Ssu-ma (edited by Nienhauser, William H. Jr.), The Grand Scribe's Records. Volume VIII: The Memoirs of Han China, Part 1. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xlix + 449 pp.$49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34028-3.)Google Scholar
Chan, Ming K. (ed.), China's Hong Kong Transformed: Retrospect and Prospect Beyond the First Decade. (Hong Kong: City University Press, 2008. xx + 362 pp.HK$228.00; $38.00. ISBN 978-962-937-168-5.)Google Scholar
Cheung, Tai Ming, Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi + 279 pp.$39.95; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-4692-4.)Google Scholar
Chiu, Melissa and Zheng, Shengtian (eds.), Art and China's Revolution. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. vii + 259 pp.£40.00. ISBN 978-0-300-14064-4.)Google Scholar
Chu, Yun-Han, Diamond, Larry, Nathan, Andrew J. and Shin, Doh Chull (eds.), How East Asians View Democracy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xv + 309 pp.$50.00; £29.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14534-3.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, Paul A., Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. xxiv + 354 pp.£23.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25579-1.)Google Scholar
Cooney, Kevin J. and Sato, Yoichiro (eds.), The Rise of China and International Security: America and China Respond. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 264 pp.£70.00. ISBN 978-0-415-43396-9.)Google Scholar
Croissant, Doris, Yeh, Catherine Vance and Mostow, Joshua S. (eds.), Performing “Nation”: Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880–1940. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xv + 445 pp.€99.00; $159.00 ISBN 978-90-04-17019-3.)Google Scholar
D'arelli, Francesco and Melasecchi, Benjamino (foreword by Gnoli, Gherardo), Serie Orientale Roma, I-C: A Detailed Catalogue. (Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2008. 203 pp. €20.00. ISBN 978-88-6323-268-4.)Google Scholar
Dickson, Bruce J., Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 278 pp.£15.99; $24.99. ISBN 978-0-521-70270-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dikötter, Frank, The Age of Openness: China Before Mao. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. vii + 131 pp.$24.95. ISBN 978-962-209-920-3.)Google Scholar
Evans, Harriett, The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008. xi + 233 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-7425-5478-8.)Google Scholar
Faure, Michel and Ying, Song (eds.), China and Traditional Environmental Liability: Legal Remedies for Transboundary Pollution. (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008. xx + 360 pp.£85.00. ISBN 978-1-84720-752-4.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Field, Stephen L., Ancient Chinese Divination. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xvi + 142 pp.£34.50. ISBN 978-0-8248-3245-2.)Google Scholar
Gilley, Bruce and Diamond, Larry, Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan. (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. vii + 307 pp.$24.50. ISBN 978-1-58826-593-7.)Google Scholar
Goldschmidt, Asaf, The Evolution of Chinese Medicine, Song Dynasty, 960–1200. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viii + 261 pp.£85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-42655-8.)Google Scholar
Goldstein, Melvyn, Jiao, Ben and Lhundrup, Tanzen, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009. xvi + 236 pp.£14.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25682-8.)Google Scholar
Gong, Han, Banished! A Novel. (Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2009. x + 250 pp.$26.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3340-4.)Google Scholar
Harris, Rachel, The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia: The Uyghur Twelve Muqam. (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xvii + 157 pp.$54.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-6382-9.)Google Scholar
He, Kai, Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii + 209 pp.£80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46952-4.)Google Scholar
Heisig, James W. and Richardson, Timothy W., Remembering Simplified Hanzi. Book 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. v + 424 pp.$25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3323-7.)Google Scholar
Heisig, James W. and Richardson, Timothy W., Remembering Traditional Hanzi. Book 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. v + 433 pp.$25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3324-4.)Google Scholar
Huang, Yasheng, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii + 348 pp.£15.99; $30.00. ISBN 978-0-521-89810-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Landry, Pierre F., Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local elites in the Post-Mao Era. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 295 pp.£50.00; $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88235-4.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laozi, , trans. Ryden, Edmund, Daodejing. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxxvi + 187 pp.£8.99. ISBN 978-0-19-920855-5.)Google Scholar
Larçon, Jean-Paul (ed.), Chinese Multinationals. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. xxx + 269 pp.£17.00. ISBN 978-981-283-559-8.)Google Scholar
Larson, Wendy, From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xii + 322 pp.$55.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-00775-7.)Google Scholar
Leese, Daniel (ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of China. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxiii + 1110 pp.€249.00; $388.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16863-3; ISSN 0921-5239.)Google Scholar
Li, Minqii, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. (London: Pluto Press, 2008. xix + 208 pp.£19.99. ISBN 978-0-7453-2772-3.)Google Scholar
Li, Rex, A Rising China and Security in East Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvii + 297 pp.£24.99; $47.95. ISBN 978-0-415-44941-0.)Google Scholar
Lo, Bobo, Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. xii + 277 pp.$32.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-5340-7.)Google Scholar
Lorge, Peter A., The Asian Military Revolution. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi + 188 pp.£24.99. ISBN 978-0-521-60954-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nielsen, Ingrid and Smyth, Russell (eds.), Migration and Social Protection in China. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2008. x + 265 pp.£36.00. ISBN 978-981-279-049-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O'Brien, Kevin (ed.), Popular Protest in China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. x + 274 pp.£35.95; $55.00; €38.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03060-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peck, Graham (new introduction by Kapp, Robert A.), Two Kinds of Time. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008 [1950], xxv + 752 pp. $28.95; £16.99. ISBN 978-0-295-98852-8.)Google Scholar
Rosemont, Henry Jr. and Ames, Roger T., The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of Xiajing. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2009. xv +132 pp.$22.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3348-0.)Google Scholar
Rôske, Jana S., Searching for the Way: Theory of Knowledge in Pre-Modern and Modern China. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. xvi + 356 pp.$52.00. ISBN 978-962-996-327-9.)Google Scholar
Ross, Robert S. and Feng, Zhu (eds.), China's Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of International Politics. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. viii + 323 pp.$22.95; £11.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-7444-6.)Google Scholar
Rotberg, Robert I. (ed.), China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. ix + 339 pp.$29.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-7561-4.)Google Scholar
Schenk, Catherine R., Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges: Historical Perspectives. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xiii + 201 pp.£60.00. ISBN 978-0-230-20946-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schmalzer, Sigrid, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2008. xix + 346 pp.$85.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-223-73860-4.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shih, Fang-long, Thompson, Stuart and Tremlett, Paul-François (eds.), Re-Writing Culture in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xiv + 218 pp.$150.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46666-0.)Google Scholar
Song, Ligang and Woo, Wing Thye (eds.), China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change. (ANU E Press, Asia Pacific Press, Brookings Institution Press and Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2008. xviii + 428 pp.£18.99. ISBN 978-0-8157-3123-8.)Google Scholar
Su, Chi, Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs. (New York and London: Routledge, 2008. xix + 342 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-46454-3.)Google Scholar
Tan, Pamela, The Chinese Factor: An Australian Woman's Life in China from 1950 to 1979. (Kenthurst, Australia: Rosenberg, 2008. 272 pp.£13.50. ISBN 978-1-877058-74-5.)Google Scholar
Tao, Xie, U.S.–China Relations: China Policy on Capitol Hill. (New York and London: Routledge, 2008. xvi + 203 pp.£75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-77688-2.)Google Scholar
Thunø, Mette (ed.), Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China. (Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2007. xii + 281 pp.£15.99; $27.00. ISBN 978-87-7694-000-3.)Google Scholar
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N., Global Shanghai, 1850–2010: A History in Fragments. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 170 pp.£21.99. ISBN 978-0-415-21328-8.)Google Scholar
Wu, Irene S., From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xiv + 187 pp.$45.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-5962-5.)Google Scholar
Wu, Yanrui, Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in China. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x + 169 pp.£55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-20212-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yang, Dongping (ed.), The China Environment Yearbook, Vol. 2: Changes and Struggles. (Leiden: Brill, 2008. xxv + 375 pp.$148.00; €99.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16800-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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