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.

• Altehenger, Jennifer. Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1989. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xviii + 388 pp. £35.95; €45.00. ISBN 978-0-674-98385-4.)

• Ames, Roger T., and Jia, Jinhua (eds.). Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. ix + 400 pp. £72.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7289-2.)

• Benton, Gregor, and Liu, Hong. Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. xiv + 286 pp. $34.95; £27.00. ISBN 978-0-52029-843-9.)

• Billé, Franck and Urbansky, Sören (eds.). Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. vii + 276 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7579-4.)

• Brady, Anne-Marie. China as a Polar Great Power. (Cambridge, UK, and Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center. xix + 273 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-1-31683200-4.)

• Brown, Kerry. China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of Its Power. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2018. xii + 195 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-2457-0.)

• Dirlik, Arif, Liao, Ping-hui, and Chuang, Ya-Chung (eds.). “Taiwan: The Land Colonianisms Made,” special issue Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 45 (3). (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, August 2018. 198 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-0357-1.)

• Frantz, Erica. Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix + 188 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-19-088020-0.)

• Fu, Hualing, Gillespie, John, Nicholson, Pip and Partlett, William. Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 448 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42481-3.)

• Gardner, Daniel K. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. vi + 294 pp. £16.95. ISBN 978-0-19-069612-2.)

• Gewirtz, Julian. Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. 416 pp. $39.95; £28.95; €36.00. ISBN 978-0-674-97113-4.)

• Hird, Derek, and Song, Geng (eds.). The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. 254 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-85-0.)

• Hockx, Michel, Judge, Joan and Mittler, Barbara (eds.). Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxix + 421 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-41199-8.)

• Hong Fincher, Leta. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. (London: Verso, 2018. 248 pp. $26.95; £16.99. ISBN 978-1-78663-364-4.)

• Huang, Xin. The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era: Women's Life Stories in Contemporary China. (New York: SUNY Press, 2018. xxvi + 278 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-01-4384-7061-0.)

• Huntington, Rania. Ink and Tears: Memory, Mourning, and Writing in the Yu Family. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. xxv + 275 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-6709-6.)

• Khan, Sulmaan Wasif. Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xi + 320 pp. £21.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97709-9.)

• Li, Danhui, and Xia, Yafeng. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959–1973. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. xvi + 325 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-1166-7.)

• Li, Su (ed. Yongle, Zhang and Bell, Daniel A.; trans. Ryden, Edmund). The Constitution of Ancient China. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. vii + 292 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-691-17159-3.)

• Liang, Xiaosheng (trans. Goldblatt, Howard). Confessions of a Red Guard: A Chinese Novelist Recounts His Experiences during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2018. x + 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-937385-75-0.)

• Magnus, George. Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. x + 236 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-0-300-23319-3.)

• Maissen, Thomas, and Mittler, Barbara. Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance – and Why That Matters: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. xvii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-057396-1.)

• Naughton, Barry. The Chinese Economy: Adaptation and Growth (second edition). (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2018 [2017].vii + 594 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-53479-6.)

• Nordholt, Hendrik Schulte. China and the Barbarians: Resisting the Western World Order. (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2018. ix + 361 pp. ISBN 978-90-8728-278-3.)

• O’Neill, Daniel C. Dividing ASEAN and Conquering the South China Sea: China's Financial Power Projection. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. xii + 261 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-96-6.)

• Oidtmann, Max. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xvii + 330 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-23118-406-9.)

• Paul, T.V. Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. xv + 239 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22848-9.)

• Po, Ronald C. The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 292 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42461-5.)

• Schak, David C. Civility and Its Development: The Experiences of China and Taiwan. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. viii + 199 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-97-3.)

• Schneider, Florian. China's Digital Nationalism. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvii + 291 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-087680-7.)

• Shambaugh, David (ed.). The China Reader. Sixth Edition – Rising Power. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2016.xvi + 547 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-939-708-2.)

• Shen, Zhihua, and Xia, Yafeng. A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xiv + 357 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18826-5.)

• Sinn, Elizabeth, and Munn, Christopher (eds.). Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841–1984. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. xix + 198 pp. $50.00; £41.95. ISBN 978-988-8390-84-7.)

• Wong, Wai Ching Angela, and Chiu, Patricia P.K.. Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. vi + 274 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-92-8.)

• Wright, Teresa. Popular Protest in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2018. xiii + 249 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-0356-8.)

• Wu, Fuzuo. Energy and Climate Policies in China and India: A Two-Level Comparative Study. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xv + 314 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42040-2.)

• Xu, Jilin (ed. and trans. Ownby, David). Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxxii + 218 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-47075-9.)

• Zhao, Yun (ed.). International Governance and the Rule of Law in China under the Belt and Road Initiative. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 329 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42014-3.)

• Zheng, Yongnian, and Huang, Yanjie (eds.). Market in State: The Political Economy of Domination in China. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 478 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-46157-3.)

• Zhou, Erliu. My Uncle Zhou Enlai. (London: ACA Publishing Ltd., 2018. xiii + 434 pp. $21.99; £15.99. ISBN 978-1-910760-27-7.)