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Books received

(April–June 2020)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2020

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The China Quarterly , Volume 243 , September 2020 , pp. 899 - 901
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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.

  • Ang, Yuen Yuen. China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 258 pp. ISBN 9781108778350 [ebook].)

  • Breward, Christopher, and MacDonald, Juliette (eds.). Styling Shanghai. (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 344 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781350051133.)

  • Chan, Jenny, Selden, Mark and Pun, Ngai. Dying for an iPhone. (London: Pluto, 2020. xvi + 273 pp. ISBN 9781786806253 [ebook].)

  • Chen, Lingchei Letty. The Great Leap backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years. (New York: Cambria Press, 2020. 306 pp. $114.99. ISBN 9781604979923.)

  • Cheng, P. Political Development in Hong Kong. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2020. vii + 699 pp. ISBN 9789811203190 [ebook].)

  • Chuang, Julia. Beneath the China Boom Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 256 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780520305458.)

  • Clark, Anthony E. China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral. (University of Washington Press, 2020. 240 pp. $60.00. ISBN 9780295746678.)

  • Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (sixth edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780231191999.)

  • Dunch, Ryan, and Esarey, Ashley (eds.). Taiwan in Dynamic Transition Nation Building and Democratization. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2020. 256 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780295746807.)

  • Feng, Huiyun and He, Kai (eds.). China's Challenges and International Order Transition Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 330 pp. $80.00. ISBN 9780472131761.)

  • Frangville, Vanessa, and Gwennael, Gaffric. China's Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 262 pp. £44.99. ISBN 9780429056093.)

  • Gerth, Karl. Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 384 pp. $20.00. ISBN 9781108889377 [ebook].)

  • Ghosh, Arunabh. Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp. £38.00; $45.00. ISBN 978069119476 [ebook].)

  • Heberer, Thomas and Schubert, Gunter. Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2020. xxi + 251 pp. ISBN 9789811212802 [ebook].)

  • Ho, Christine I. Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People's Republic of China. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, 320 pp. ISBN 9780520309623.)

  • Hung, Wu, Cacchione, Orianna, Mehring, Christine and Smith, Trevlor. The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China. (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 2019. 264 pp. $45.00. £34.00. ISBN 9780935573602.)

  • Jaros, Kyle. China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $95.00; £78.00. ISBN 9780691190723 [ebook].)

  • Jones, Andrew F. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 304 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781517902070.)

  • Jones, Catherine and Teitt, Sarah (eds.). China–North Korea Relations. (Edward Edgar, 2020. 232 pp. ISBN 9781788979702 [ebook].)

  • Kolodko, Grzegorz W. China and the Future of Globalization: The Political Economy of China's Rise. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 200 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9781788315500.)

  • Kwong, Charles C.L. The Chinese Economy and its Challenges Transformation of a Rising Economic Power. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 168 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781138785014.)

  • LaPaglia, Gino. The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 264 pp. $95.00; £73.00. ISBN 9781498588317.)

  • Lean, Eugenia. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $65.00; £54.00. ISBN 9780231193481.)

  • Li, Yuhang. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 316 pp. $65.00; £54.00. ISBN: 9780231190121.)

  • Ma, Qing-Ping. What Drives China's Economy: Economic, Socio-Political, Historical and Cultural Factors (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 136 pp. £45.00. ISBN 9780367179755.)

  • Monteath, Peter, Fitzpatrick, Matthew P. (eds.). Colonialism, China and the Chinese Amidst Empires. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 210 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781138389403.)

  • Mou, Yu. The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. (London: Hart Publishing, 2020. 280 pp. £63.00. ISBN 9781509913039 [ebook].)

  • Neves, Joshua. Underglobalization: Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781478008057.)

  • Ng, Emily. A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. xii + 204 pp. ISBN 9780520972636 [ebook].)

  • Opper, Marc. People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 402 pp. $90.00. ISBN 9780472131846.)

  • Pang, Laikwan. The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 240 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9780472131785.)

  • Patterson Giersch, C. Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781503611641.)

  • Shih, Chih-yu, Manomaivibool, Prapin, Tanigaki, Mariko and Singh, Swaran, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness (Singapore: World Scientific, 2020. xxxvi + 438 pp. ISBN 9789811212352 [ebook].)

  • Siu, Kaxton. Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 232 pp. £59.99. ISBN 9789813291225.)

  • Stockton, Hans, and Yeh, Yao-Yuan (eds.). Taiwan: The Development of an Asian Tiger. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 247 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9781626378346.)

  • Tesfaye, Aaron. China in Ethiopia: The Long-Term Perspective. (New York: SUNY Press, 2020. xiv + 177 pp. ISBN 9781438478357 [ebook].)

  • Walsh, Michael J. Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231193573.)

  • Wise, Carol. Dragonomics: How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. xx + 308 pp. ISBN 9780300224092.)

  • Wong, Magdalena. Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2020. xi + 162 pp. ISBN 9789888528424.)

  • Xu, Shaoshi (ed.). BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Industrial Layout Study. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 590 pp. ISBN 9780429201523 [ebook].)

  • Xue, Lei. Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2020. $65.00; £54.00. 240 pp. ISBN 9780295746364.)

  • Xun, Zhou. The People's Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983. (Montreal: McGill University Press, 2020. xiv + 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-2280-0327-4 [ebook].)

  • Yang, Mayfair. Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. x + 374 pp. ISBN 9781478009245 [ebook].)

  • Ye, Min. The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China, 1998–2018. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 252 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9781108479561.)

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

  • Zhou, Zhang-Yue. Global Food Security What Matters? (London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 300 pp. £39.99. ISBN 9781138222793.)