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The China Quarterly , Volume 209 , March 2012 , pp. 256 - 258
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2012

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.

Andrade, Tonio, Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. xv + 431 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14455-9.)Barr, Michael, Who's Afraid of China? The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2011. vi + 154 pp. £16.99; $29.95. ISBN 978-1-84813-590-1.)Barthes, Roland, Travels in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011. xi + 225 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-5080-7Beckett, Gulbahar H. and Postiglione, Gerard A., China's Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact of Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiii + 231 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-59605-3.)Bernstein, Richard, A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 270 pp. $15.99. ISBN 978-0-375-86960-0.)Biderman, Stan, with photography by Minette, Kathryn, Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses into Art, Politics, and Culture in China and Tibet. (Santa Fe, NM: Irony Press, 2011. 142 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-98326360-9.)Billioud, Sébastien, Thinking through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan's Moral Metaphysics. (Leiden: Brill, 2012. xii + 255 pp. €105.00; $144.00. ISBN 978-900-421-5535.)Blake, G. Fred, Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011. ix + 276 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3532-3.)Brady, Anne-Marie (ed.), China's Thought Management. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi + 209 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61673-7.)Brown, Kerry, Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. xxv + 250 pp. £32.00. ISBN 978-981-4350-02-0.)Chellaney, Brahma, Water: Asia's New Battleground. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011. ix + 386 pp. £20.75. ISBN 978-1-58901-771-9.)Chen, Minglu, Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprises in the People's Republic of China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xi + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-60013-2.)Chey, Jocelyn and Milner Davis, Jessica (eds.), Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 312 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-52-7.)Chung, Jae Ho (ed.), China's Crisis Management. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiv + 151 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-67780-6.)Cooke, Fang Lee, Human Resource Management in China: New Trends and Practices. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55380-3.)Dahlman, Carl J., The World under Pressure: How China and India are Influencing the Global Economy & Environment. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. xxii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7713-1.)Deng, Zhenglai and Guo, Sujian (eds.), Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2011. xiii + 218 pp. £39.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-6522-5.)Fell, Dafydd, Government and Politics in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xvii + 276 pp. £23.99. ISBN 978-0-415-57542-3.)Fokkema, Douwe, Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 448 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-350-6.)Fu, Xiaolan (ed.), China's Role in Global Economic Recovery. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xxv + 303 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-415-67034-0.)Gipouloux, Francois, The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 13th–21st Century. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. x + 407 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-85793-426-0.)Gompert, David C., and Saunders, Phillip C., The Paradox of Power: Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability. (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2011. xxvi +197 pp. ISBN 978-0-16-089760-3.)Gong, Haomin, Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. viii + 192 pp. £47.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3531-6.)Holdsworth, May and Munn, Christopher (eds.), Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xiv + 525 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-66-4.)Hsueh, Roselyn, China's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. xvi + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7743-0.)Johnson, Kendall (ed.), Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US–China Relations. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xi + 234 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-54-1.)Keay, John, China: A History (paperback edition). (New York: Basic Books, 2011 (2009). xix + 578 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978-0-465-02518-3.)Kolla'r, Miroslav, Ein Leben im Konflikt: P. Franz Xaver Biallas SVD (1878–1936). Chinamissionar and Sinologe im Licht seiner Korrespondenz. (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2011. vii + 910 pp. €90.00. ISBN 978-3-8050-0579-1.)Leeb, Stephen, Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life. (New York and Boston: Business Plus, 2011. xxv + 239 pp. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-446-57623-9.)Zhenyun, Liu, trans. Goldblatt, Howard, Cell Phone. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2011. 249 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-9836599-2-1.)Liu, Xiaobo (Foreword by Havel, Václav), No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems. (Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xxii + 345 pp. £22.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06147-7.)Lu, Caizhen, Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xxviii + 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61822-9.)Malik, Mohan, China and India: Great Power Rivals. (Boulder and London: FirstForumPress, 2011. xiii + 467 pp. ISBN 978-1-935049-41-8.)Manonelles Moner, Laia, Arte experimental en China: Conversaciones con artistas. (Barcelona: Edicions bellaterra, 2006. 258 pp. ISBN 978-84-7290-535-1.)Otis, Eileen, Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China. (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7649-3.)Peterson, Glen, Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. x + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61670-6.)Philips Johnson, Tina, Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. xliv + 221 pp. £39.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-6440-2.)Reilly, James, Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xv + 331 pp. $45.00; £31.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15806-0.)Schmidt-Glitzer, Helwig, China: Eine Herausforderung für den Western: Plädoyer für differentielle kulturelle Kompetenz. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. 134 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-06583-2.)Tang, Guan H., Copyright and the Public Interest in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. xiii + 283 pp. £79.95. ISBN 978-0-85793-106-1.)Voci, Paola, China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010 xxiv + 259 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-0-415-46452-9.)Willis, John E. (ed.), Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy: From “Tribute System” to “Peaceful Rise.” (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2010. xx + 132 pp. ISBN 978-0-9836599-8-3.)Sin Kiong, Wong (ed.), Confucianism, Chinese History and Society. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. 300 pp. £32.00; $48.00. ISBN 978-981-4374-47-7.)Wright, Tim, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xvi + 250 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49328-4.)Yang, Fenggang, Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 245 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-973564-8.)Yu, Dan Smyer, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi + 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-57532-4.)Zang, Xiaowei (ed.), Understanding Chinese Society. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. x + 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61989-9.)Zang, Xiaowei, Islam, Family Life and Gender Inequality in Urban China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-68366-1.)Zeng, Ka, and Eastin, Joshua, Greening China: The Benefits of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2011. 239 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11768-0.)Zhang, ZhongXiang, Energy and Environmental Policy in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. xvi + 175 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-546-8.)

References

Andrade, Tonio, Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. xv + 431 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14455-9.)Google Scholar
Barr, Michael, Who's Afraid of China? The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2011. vi + 154 pp. £16.99; $29.95. ISBN 978-1-84813-590-1.)Google Scholar
Barthes, Roland, Travels in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011. xi + 225 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-5080-7Google Scholar
Beckett, Gulbahar H. and Postiglione, Gerard A., China's Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact of Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiii + 231 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-59605-3.)Google Scholar
Bernstein, Richard, A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 270 pp. $15.99. ISBN 978-0-375-86960-0.)Google Scholar
Biderman, Stan, with photography by Minette, Kathryn, Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses into Art, Politics, and Culture in China and Tibet. (Santa Fe, NM: Irony Press, 2011. 142 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-98326360-9.)Google Scholar
Billioud, Sébastien, Thinking through Confucian Modernity: A Study of Mou Zongsan's Moral Metaphysics. (Leiden: Brill, 2012. xii + 255 pp. €105.00; $144.00. ISBN 978-900-421-5535.)Google Scholar
Blake, G. Fred, Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011. ix + 276 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3532-3.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brady, Anne-Marie (ed.), China's Thought Management. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi + 209 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61673-7.)Google Scholar
Brown, Kerry, Hu Jintao: China's Silent Ruler. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. xxv + 250 pp. £32.00. ISBN 978-981-4350-02-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chellaney, Brahma, Water: Asia's New Battleground. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011. ix + 386 pp. £20.75. ISBN 978-1-58901-771-9.)Google Scholar
Chen, Minglu, Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprises in the People's Republic of China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xi + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-60013-2.)Google Scholar
Chey, Jocelyn and Milner Davis, Jessica (eds.), Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 312 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-52-7.)Google Scholar
Chung, Jae Ho (ed.), China's Crisis Management. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiv + 151 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-67780-6.)Google Scholar
Cooke, Fang Lee, Human Resource Management in China: New Trends and Practices. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xii + 252 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55380-3.)Google Scholar
Dahlman, Carl J., The World under Pressure: How China and India are Influencing the Global Economy & Environment. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. xxii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7713-1.)Google Scholar
Deng, Zhenglai and Guo, Sujian (eds.), Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2011. xiii + 218 pp. £39.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-6522-5.)Google Scholar
Fell, Dafydd, Government and Politics in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xvii + 276 pp. £23.99. ISBN 978-0-415-57542-3.)Google Scholar
Fokkema, Douwe, Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 448 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-350-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fu, Xiaolan (ed.), China's Role in Global Economic Recovery. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xxv + 303 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-415-67034-0.)Google Scholar
Gipouloux, Francois, The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 13th–21st Century. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. x + 407 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-85793-426-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gompert, David C., and Saunders, Phillip C., The Paradox of Power: Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability. (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2011. xxvi +197 pp. ISBN 978-0-16-089760-3.)Google Scholar
Gong, Haomin, Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. viii + 192 pp. £47.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3531-6.)Google Scholar
Holdsworth, May and Munn, Christopher (eds.), Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xiv + 525 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-66-4.)Google Scholar
Hsueh, Roselyn, China's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. xvi + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7743-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, Kendall (ed.), Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US–China Relations. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xi + 234 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-54-1.)Google Scholar
Keay, John, China: A History (paperback edition). (New York: Basic Books, 2011 (2009). xix + 578 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978-0-465-02518-3.)Google Scholar
Kolla'r, Miroslav, Ein Leben im Konflikt: P. Franz Xaver Biallas SVD (1878–1936). Chinamissionar and Sinologe im Licht seiner Korrespondenz. (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2011. vii + 910 pp. €90.00. ISBN 978-3-8050-0579-1.)Google Scholar
Leeb, Stephen, Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life. (New York and Boston: Business Plus, 2011. xxv + 239 pp. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-446-57623-9.)Google Scholar
Zhenyun, Liu, trans. Goldblatt, Howard, Cell Phone. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2011. 249 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-9836599-2-1.)Google Scholar
Liu, Xiaobo (Foreword by Havel, Václav), No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems. (Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. xxii + 345 pp. £22.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06147-7.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lu, Caizhen, Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xxviii + 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61822-9.)Google Scholar
Malik, Mohan, China and India: Great Power Rivals. (Boulder and London: FirstForumPress, 2011. xiii + 467 pp. ISBN 978-1-935049-41-8.)Google Scholar
Manonelles Moner, Laia, Arte experimental en China: Conversaciones con artistas. (Barcelona: Edicions bellaterra, 2006. 258 pp. ISBN 978-84-7290-535-1.)Google Scholar
Otis, Eileen, Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China. (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 214 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7649-3.)Google Scholar
Peterson, Glen, Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. x + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61670-6.)Google Scholar
Philips Johnson, Tina, Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. xliv + 221 pp. £39.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-6440-2.)Google Scholar
Reilly, James, Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xv + 331 pp. $45.00; £31.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15806-0.)Google Scholar
Schmidt-Glitzer, Helwig, China: Eine Herausforderung für den Western: Plädoyer für differentielle kulturelle Kompetenz. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011. 134 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-06583-2.)Google Scholar
Tang, Guan H., Copyright and the Public Interest in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. xiii + 283 pp. £79.95. ISBN 978-0-85793-106-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Voci, Paola, China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010 xxiv + 259 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-0-415-46452-9.)Google Scholar
Willis, John E. (ed.), Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy: From “Tribute System” to “Peaceful Rise.” (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2010. xx + 132 pp. ISBN 978-0-9836599-8-3.)Google Scholar
Sin Kiong, Wong (ed.), Confucianism, Chinese History and Society. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. 300 pp. £32.00; $48.00. ISBN 978-981-4374-47-7.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Tim, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xvi + 250 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49328-4.)Google Scholar
Yang, Fenggang, Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii + 245 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-973564-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yu, Dan Smyer, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi + 222 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-57532-4.)Google Scholar
Zang, Xiaowei (ed.), Understanding Chinese Society. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. x + 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61989-9.)Google Scholar
Zang, Xiaowei, Islam, Family Life and Gender Inequality in Urban China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiii + 233 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-68366-1.)Google Scholar
Zeng, Ka, and Eastin, Joshua, Greening China: The Benefits of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2011. 239 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11768-0.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhang, ZhongXiang, Energy and Environmental Policy in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. xvi + 175 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-546-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar