January–March 2024
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 includes notifications of publication emailed by publishers.
Alekna, John. Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 374 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9781503638570.)
Azad, Shirzad. China and Iran Readjust Relations: Economic Implications of the Suspended Nuclear Deal. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 171 pp. £77.00. ISBN 9781666949704.)
Beckershoff, André. Social Forces in the Re-Making of Cross-Strait Relations: Hegemony and Social Movements in Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 292 pp. £108.00. ISBN 9781032498003.)
Cavanough, Edward Acton. Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 304 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781526178350.)
Chan, Steve. Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift: Implications for Competition between China and the United States. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 252 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009465557.)
Chen, Xiaojin. China's Left-Behind Children: Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $37.95. ISBN 9781978837140.)
Cheng, Tan Lee, and Wei, Lim Tai. The East Asian Negotiator. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2024. 249 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9789811280504.)
Chervin, Reed H. The Cold War in the Himalayas: Multinational Perspectives on the Sino-Indian Border Conflict, 1950–1970. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 284 pp. €124.00. ISBN 9789048559350.)
Creemers, Rogier, Papagianneas, Straton and Knight, Adam (eds.). The Emergence of China's Smart State. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. ix + 250 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781538184417.)
Demgenski, Philipp. Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 279 pp. $34.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472056378.)
Doyon, Jérôme, and Froissart, Chloé (eds.). The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 454 pp. $59.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466237.)
Duan, Diana Zhidan. Contingent Loyalties: State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856–1911). (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 316 pp. €136.00. ISBN 9789048558995.)
Dussel Peters, Enrique, Cook, James A. and Alter, Joseph S. (eds). Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life. (Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $55.00. ISBN 9780822947851.)
Guo, Jianning (ed.). How to Localize Marxism in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 208 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9781032410579.)
Han, Enze. The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 238 pp. £64.00. ISBN 9780197696583.)
He, Qiliang. The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949–1976. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 216 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9780824895594.)
Hillman, Ben, and Kou, Chien-wen (eds.). Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 303 pp. $60.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466190.)
Ho, Jennifer (ed.). Global Anti-Asian Racism. (Ann Arbor, MI: AAS/Columbia University Press, 2024. 220 pp. 18; £14.99. ISBN 9781952636400.)
Hsu, Hui-Lin. When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 192 pp. $38.00. ISBN 9789888842773.)
Ingleson, Elizabeth O'Brien. Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 352 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674251830.)
Islam, Md. Nazmul. Power of Bonding and Non-Western Emerging Great Powers Engagement: Comparing China and India's Soft Power Strategy in Pakistan. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. viii + 238 pp. £77.00. ISBN 9781666920994.)
Jin, Huan. The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 360 pp. £49.95. ISBN 9780674295872.)
Kinkley, Jeffrey. China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 224 pp. $68.00. ISBN 9780824895204.)
Kushner, Barak. The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 360 pp. $56.95. ISBN 9781501774010.)
Lee, Anru. Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 246 pp. $70.00. ISBN 9780824894283.)
Leung, Shuk Man. Utopian Fiction in China: Genre, Print Culture and Knowledge Formation, 1902–1912. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. xiii + 280 pp. €114.00. ISBN 9789004680388.)
Lin, Jacqueline Zhenru. Making National Heroes: The Exemplarist Production of Masculinities in Contemporary China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 192 pp. HK$450.00. ISBN 9789888842759.)
Liu, Shih-Diing, and Shi, Wei. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 240 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781399518260.)
Loh, Dylan M. H. China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781503638204.)
Maizels, Michael. Bringing Forth the New: Visual Art and the World of Contemporary China. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 248 pp. £17.99. ISBN 9781350341579.)
McAusland, Shane. The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll. (London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 288 pp. £35.00. ISBN 9781789147964.)
Meng, Wenting. Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach to International Peacebuilding. (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2024. 188 pp. $34.00. ISBN 9783838219073.)
Miller, Owen (ed.). State Capitalism and Development in East Asia since 1945. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €133.00; $160.00. ISBN 9789004251908.)
Ng, Sandy. Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 164 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789462988910.)
Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane. Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 338 pp. £35.99. ISBN 9781032517704.)
Otani, Junko (ed.). Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. ix + 301 pp. £92.00. ISBN 9781666937855.)
Pang, Laikwan. One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 276 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781503638815.)
Pei, Minxin. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 336 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674257832.)
Robinson, Guy M. Transforming Rural China. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024. 370 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781803928579.)
Roy, Indrajit, Eckhardt, Jappe, Stroikos, Dimitrios, and Davidescu, Simona (eds.). Rising Power, Limited Influence: The Politics of Chinese Investments in Europe and the Liberal International Order. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 288 pp. £76.00. ISBN 9780192887115.)
Shan, Patrick Fuliang. Li Dazhao: China's First Communist. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 332 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438496818.)
Shapiro, Judith. China's Environmental Challenges, 3rd Edition. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2024. 288 pp. $20.00. ISBN 9781509559695.)
Spires, Anthony J. Global Civil Society and China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £17.00. ISBN 9781009184168.)
Sullivan, Jonathan, and Nachman, Lev. Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2023. 176 pp. £22.25. ISBN 9781788216733.)
Tsai, Chia-hung and Yeh, Yao-Yuan (eds.). Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Taiwan and Its Strategic Neighbors. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. xviii + 304 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781666940978.)
Tsai, Weipin. The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 450 pp. £62.95. ISBN 9780674295889.)
Wang, Simeng (ed.). Chinese in France amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Daily Lives, Racial Struggles and Transnational Citizenship of Migrants and Descendants. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 375 pp. €135.00. ISBN 978-90-04-51109-5.)
Wang, Yuedan. Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2024. £37.95. ISBN 9780674295896.)
Wong, Chuen-Fung. Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. 254 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9780824895617.)
Wong, William Gee. Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9781439924877.)
Wu, Wei. Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231200691.)
Yan, Lianke, translated and with an introduction by Rojas, Carlos. Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 192 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478030393.)
Yan, Yifei. Getting Schools to Work Better: Educational Accountability and Teacher Support in India and China. London and New York: Routledge. 184 pp. £38.99. ISBN 9781003230380.)
Yang, Dali L. Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 416 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9780197756263.)
Zhang, Angela Huyue. High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 440 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9780197682258.)
Zhou, Shuxuan. From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2024. 200 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752679.)