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Books Received

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The China Quarterly , Volume 255 , September 2023 , pp. 830 - 832
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

April–June 2023

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 late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

  • Brown, Kerry. China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 208 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781350267244.)

  • Brussee, Vincent. Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire. (Cham: Springer, 2023. 204 pp. £109.99. ISBN 9789819921881.)

  • Chen, Zhongping. Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898–1918. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 404 pp. $70.00. ISBN 9781503636248.)

  • Chun, Allen. From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World. (Cham: Springer, 2023. 291 pp. £109.99. ISBN 9789819920174.)

  • Dunlop, Fuchsia. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 464 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241516980.)

  • Feldman, Steven P. Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 196 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781032362694.)

  • Feng, Xingyuan, He, Guangwen, Sun, Tongquan and Ljungwall, Christer. Finance in Rural China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 162 pp. £34.99 ISBN 9781032439914.)

  • Gao, Jia. Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings: A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000. (London: Anthem Press, 2023. 250 pp. £80.00; $110.00. ISBN 9781839982880.)

  • Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei. Negotiating a Chinese Federation: The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China's Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919–1923. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 278 pp. €121.00. ISBN 9789004528642.)

  • Harrell, Stevan. An Ecological History of Modern China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 582 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780295751719.)

  • He, Longtao, and Gangopadhyay, Jagriti (eds.). Eldercare Issues in China and India. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 250 pp. £104.00. ISBN 9781032183794.)

  • Huang, Yuxing. China's Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023. CA$75.00. 274 pp. ISBN 978074868112.)

  • Ireland, Daryl R. (ed.). Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. 302 pp. $69.99. ISBN 9781481316248.)

  • Johnson, David. The Stage in the Temple: Ritual Opera in Village Shanxi. (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies [University of California], 2022. 190 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9781557292018.)

  • Johnson, Ian. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 400 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241524947.)

  • Kang, Xiaofei. Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 304 pp. £66.00. ISBN 9780197654477.)

  • Kipnis, Andrew. The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 190 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780520381971.)

  • Kong, Travis S. K. Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478019862.)

  • Lee, Haiyan. A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 352 pp. $32.50. ISBN 9780226825250.)

  • Li, Yiwen. Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 245 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009303101.)

  • Link, Perry, and Dazhi, Wu. I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 568 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780231206341.)

  • Liu, Huwy-min Lucia. Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 270 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781501767227.)

  • Lopes, Helena F. S. Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 342 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009311786.)

  • Lu, Hanchao. Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £30.00. ISBN 9781009180986.)

  • Luo, Di. Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900–1945. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. $180.00; €150.00. ISBN 9789004524736.)

  • Ploberger, Christian, Ngampamuan, Soavapa and Song, Tao (eds.). China's Belt and Road Initiative: The Impact on Sub-regional Southeast Asia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 193 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9780367518530.)

  • Rawson, Jessica. Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 448 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780295752365.)

  • Rodenbiker, Jesse. Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 264 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9781501769009.)

  • Rodríguez-Merino, Pablo A. Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China's Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang. (London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 262 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9781032311036.)

  • Rong, Xinjiang. The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. €237.00. ISBN 9789004512580.)

  • Ruckus, Ralf. The Left in China: A Political Cartography. (London: Pluto Press, 2023. 240 pp. £16.99. ISBN 9780745342955.)

  • Silverberg, Ann L. A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 252 pp. HK$700.00. ISBN 9789888754342.)

  • Simpson, Tim. Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 384 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517900311.)

  • Starr, Julie E. Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2023. 228 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295751764.)

  • Su, Junjie. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism in China: A Critical Approach. (Bristol: Channel View Publications, 2023. 232 pp. £109.95. ISBN 9781845418632.)

  • Tang, Beibei. Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 186 pp. $46.95. ISBN 9781501769269.)

  • Wang, Chen-cheng. The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China: Toward a Statecraft beyond Science. (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2023. 342 pp. $135.00. ISBN 9781666929690.)

  • Wang, Xiaobo. Pleasure of Thinking. (London: Penguin Books, 2023. 224 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780241648520.)

  • Womack, Brantly. Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 300 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009393836.)

  • Xu, Aymeric. From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism: Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China. (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenburg, 2022. 263 pp. £18.50. ISBN 9783111122205.)

  • Xue, Aviva, and Rose, Kate. Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 224 pp. £19.79. ISBN 9781350231481.)

  • Yang, Lili. Higher Education, State and Society: Comparing the Chinese and Anglo-American Approaches. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 288 pp. £81.00. ISBN 9781350293434.)

  • Yu, Kaho. China's Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 144 pp. HK$550.00. ISBN 9789888805631.)

  • Zhang, Xiaotong. Linkage Power Europe: The EU's Trade Negotiations with China (1975–2019). (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 342 pp. £140.00. ISBN 9781032410326.)

  • Zhao, Jamie J. Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 248 pp. HK$600.00. ISBN 9789888805617.)

  • Zhao, Wei. Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 350 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781032280158.)