April–July 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.
Alperovitch, Dmitri, and Graff, Garrett M.. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century. (New York: Hachette Books, 2024. 400 pp. $32.50. ISBN 9781541704091.)
Altan, Selda. Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. 256 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9781503638235.)
Anderson, James A. The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2024. 298 pp. $105.00. ISBN 9780295752778.)
Bond, Jennifer. Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 296 pp. £59.00. ISBN 9780197654798.)
Brown, Kerry. The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Quest for Power. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 400 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780300272925.)
Cai, Leiluo (ed.). Cai Yuanpei: Selected Writings on Education. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 382 pp. €235.00. ISBN 9789004519480.)
Cai, Shenshen. Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 168 pp. £76.50. ISBN 781350409453.)
Chan, Debby. Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. AU$60.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466350.)
Chan, Gerald. China's Health Silk Road: Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Governance. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024. 166 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781035320196.)
Chatwin, Jonathan. The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 200 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781350435711.)
Chen, Eric Yu Hai, and Treffurth, Yvonne. Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong: Navigating Clinical and Cultural Crossroads. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 280 pp. $71.00. ISBN 9789888842858.)
Chen, Jian. Zhou Enlai: A Life. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 840 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674659582.)
Core, Rachel S. Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 232 pp. $51.00. ISBN 9789888754267.)
Curtis, Simon, and Klaus, Ian. The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 280 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780300266900.)
Du, Jane. China's Labour Market, 1950–2050: The Role of Family Planning in Demographic and Income Transition. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. xiii + 163 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9783031531378.)
DuBois, Thomas David. China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History. (London: Reaktion Books, 2024. 296 pp. £18.00. ISBN 9781789148619.)
Elverskog, Johan. A History of Uyghur Buddhism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 296 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780231215251.)
Esarey, Ashley, and Han, Rongbin (eds.). The Xi Jinping Effect. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752815.)
Fang, Qiang, and Li, Xiaobing. China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment. (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024. 350 pp. €124.00. ISBN 9789087284411.)
Feng, Jin. The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China. (Ann Arbor, MI: AAS/Columbia University Press, 2024. 180 pp. $18.00; £14.99. ISBN 9781952636462.)
Fulda, Andreas. Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 256 pp. £21.00. ISBN 9781350357020.)
Hayes, Anna, Henry, Rosita and Wood, Michael (eds.). The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. AU$60.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466398.)
Hirata, Koji. Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 331 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009382267.)
Hu, Richard and Hu, Diane (eds.) How Australia Is Studied in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 182 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781032577210.)
Jacka, Tamara. Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. AU$60.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760466411.)
Jiang, Maggie Ying. Consumer Nationalism: Examining its Critical Impact on Multinational Businesses. (London and New York: Anthem Press, 2024. 174 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781839982859.)
Keane, John, and He, Baogong. China's Galaxy Empire: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780197629116.)
Kern, Martin, and Owen, Stephen (eds.). Qu Yuan and the Chuci. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 467 pp. €140.00. ISBN 9789004678385.)
Lam, Lap. Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887‒1945). (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 369 pp. €145.00. ISBN 9789004538917.)
Lampton, David M. Living U.S.–China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. 423 pp. $36.00. ISBN 9781538187258.)
Lessard, Bruno. The Cinema of Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labor. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 188 pp. $45.00. ISBN 9789888805778.)
Li, Simin. Remaking a Global Cantonese Community with Television and Social Media. (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2024. 128 pp. £40.00. ISBN 9781648890499.)
Liu, Cuilan. Buddhism in Court: Religion, Law and Jurisdiction in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 288 pp. £78.00. ISBN 780197663332.)
Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing. The New Politics of Beijing–Hong Kong Relations: Ideological Conflicts and Factionalism. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 304 pp. HK$700.00. ISBN 9789888805723.)
Massot, Pascale. China's Vulnerability Paradox: How the World's Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 312 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197771402.)
Meyer, Thomas, and de Sales Marques, José Luís (eds.). The EU and China: Avoiding a New Cold War. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 152 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9781032677644.)
Minami, Kazushi. People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 270 pp. $31.95. ISBN 9781501774157.)
Mosher, Steven W. The Devil and Communist China: From Mao down to Xi. (Charlotte, NC: Tan Books, 2024. 304 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9781505126501.)
Mullaney, Thomas S. The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 376 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9780262047517.)
Palmer, Susan J., Mahmut, Dilmurat and Udun, Abdulmuqtedir. Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 176 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781350418332.)
Pan, Lu (ed.). The 70's Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 269 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9789888805709.)
Parello-Plesner, Jonas. The Battle for Taiwan. (Independently published, 2024. 163 pp. $9.99. ASIN: B0CZRYS4RZ.)
Pokorny, Lukas K., and Winter, Franz (eds.). Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 240 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781350289567.)
Pulford, Ed. Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. 352 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781503639027.)
Qu, Baokui. An Inquiry into Education. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 228 pp. €198.00. ISBN 9789004686588.)
Ruprecht, Andreas. Red Dragon Bombers: China's Long-range Bomber Force since 1956. (Kien, Austria: Harpia Publishing, 2024. 256 pp. £43.50. ISBN 9781950394142.)
Saarela, Mårten Söderblom. The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 250 pp. €105.00. ISBN 9789004685291.)
Sanger, David E. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West. (New York: Crown, 2024. 528 pp. $33.00. ISBN 780593443590.)
Shi, Wei. Universal and Particular: Ideological Developments in the Contemporary Chinese Confucian Revival Movement (2000–2020). (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 216 pp. €115.00. ISBN 9789004687936.)
Sobolik, Michael. Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance. (Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute, 2024. 192 pp. $21.95. ISBN 9781682479506.)
Song, Mingwei, Isaacson, Nathaniel and Li, Hua (eds.) Chinese Science Fiction: Concepts, Forms, and Histories. (Cham: Springer, 2024. 305 pp. £109.99. ISBN 9783031535406.)
Stevenson-Yang, Anne. Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy. (London: Bui Jones, 2024. 176 pp. £12.99. ISBN 9781739424312.)
Thieme, Reiner. Der gesellschaftsrechtliche Haftungsdurchgriff in der Volksrepublik China. (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2024. 262 pp. €79.90. ISBN 9783428190584.)
Thorley, Martin. All that Glistens: Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain. (London: Hurst, 2024. 280 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781805260073.)
Wang, Feng. China's Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 272 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009444927.)
Wang, Frances Yaping. The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 252 pp. £59.00. ISBN 9780197757505.)
Wang, Yingyao. Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231214797.)
White, Thomas. China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2024. 264 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752433.)
Whitehead, Kate. Pandemic Minds: COVID-19 and Mental Health in Hong Kong. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 244 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9789888842896.)
Wu, Chien-Huei. Switching Diplomatic Recognition between Taiwan and China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 254 pp. £130.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781032442860.)
Xing, Li, and Vadell, Javier (eds.). China–US Rivalry and Regional Reordering in Latin America and the Caribbean. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 290 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781032646909.)
Yang, Fan. Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. $29.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472056798.)
Yang, Shiyu. Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages: The Case of Beijing. (Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2024. 236 pp. €45.00. ISBN 9783837669145.)
Yue, Jianyong. Crony Compradore Capitalism: The Institutional Origins of China's Rise and Decline. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 351 pp. £109.00. ISBN 9783031531538.)
Zhang, Amy. Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China. (Stanford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781503639294.)
Zhong, Yang, and F, Ronald. Inglehart (eds.). China as Number One? The Emerging Values of a Rising Power. (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, 2024. 248 pp. £69.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472076352.)
Zhou, Ying. Education and Democracy in China: To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901–1937. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 275 pp. €110.00. ISBN 9789004687875.)