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Books Received

(October–December 2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

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The China Quarterly , Volume 225 , March 2016 , pp. 290 - 292
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2016 

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.

  • Berti, Riccardo. Victim–Offender Reconciliation in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. vii + 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-52753-0.)

  • Billioud, Sébastien, and Thoraval, Joël. The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-025814-6.)

  • Brown, Jeremy, and Johnson, Matthew D. (eds.). Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. vi + 468 pp. £36.95. ISBN 978-0-674-2820-4.)

  • Callahan, William A.China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 [2013]. xiii + 212 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-023523-9.)

  • Chang, Bi-yu. Place, Identity and National Imagination in Post-War Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xviii + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78828-2.)

  • Cheng, Hongming. Financial Crime in China: Developments, Sanctions, and the Systemic Spread of Corruption. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiv + 194 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-137-43529-3.)

  • Chung, Jae Ho (ed.). Assessing China's Power. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiv + 299 pp. £24.00. ISBN 978-1-137-53707-2.)

  • Clark, Paul, Pang, Laikwan and Tsai, Tsan-Huang (eds.). Listening to China's Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ix + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-47910-5.)

  • Cliff, Roger. China's Military Power: Assessing Current and Future Capabilities. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 362 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-50295-6.)

  • Copper, John F.China's Foreign Aid and Investment Diplomacy, Volume I: Nature, Scope, and Origins. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. x + 282 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978-1-137-55181-8.)

  • Copper, John F.China's Foreign Aid and Investment Diplomacy, Volume II: History and Practice in Asia, 1950–Present. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 273 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978-1-137-55182-5.)

  • Copper, John F.China's Foreign Aid and Investment Diplomacy, Volume III: Strategy Beyond Asia and Challenges to the United States and the International Order. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 317 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978-1-137-55183-2.)

  • Cornet, Candice, and Blumenfield, Tami (eds.). Doing Fieldwork in China… with Kids: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic. (Copenhagen: NIASS Press, 2016. xi + 208 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-87-7694-170-3.)

  • Dikötter, Frank. The Discourse of Race in Modern China (fully revised and expanded second edition). (London: Hurst & Company, 2015 [1994]. xix + 216 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-1-84904-488-2.)

  • Engebretsen, Elisabeth L., and Schroeder, William F. (eds.). Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures. (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2015. xiii + 274 pp. ISBN 978-87-7694-155-0.)

  • Feng, Chuan, Nelson, Leyton P. and Simon, Thomas W.. China's Changing Legal System: Lawyers & Judges on Civil & Criminal Law. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xix + 264 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-1-137-45205-4.)

  • Feng, Linda Rui. City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'An and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China. (Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2015. x + 197 pp. £57.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4106-5.)

  • French, Howard. China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa. (New York: Vintage Books, 2014. xi + 285 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-307-94665-2.)

  • Gipouloux, François (ed.). China's Urban Century: Governance, Environment and Socio-Economic Imperatives. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. xxii + 287 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-78471-508-3.)

  • Griffin, Nicholas. Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History behind the Game that Changed the World. (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2015 [2014]. xi + 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-63450-556-7.)

  • Hasmath, Reza, and Hsu, Jennifer Y. J. (eds.). NGO Governance and Management in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xiv + 202 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-90997-7.)

  • He, Huaihong. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2015. xl + 248 pp. $34.00. ISBN 978-081572573-2.)

  • Horesh, Niv (ed.). Toward Well-Oiled Relations? China's Presence in the Middle East following the Arab Spring. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 239 pp. £62.50. ISBN 978-1-137-53978-6.)

  • Hung, Ho-fung. The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xxiv + 232 pp. $35.00; £24.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16418-4.)

  • Jin, Dengjian. The Great Knowledge Transcendence: The Rise of Western Science and Technology Reframed. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 312 pp. £63.00. ISBN 978-1-137-52793-6.)

  • Li, Minqi. China and the 21st Century Crisis. (London: Pluto Press, 2016. 221 pp. ISBN 978-0-7453-3538-4.)

  • Li, Minqi. The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy. (London: Pluto Press, 2008. xix + 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-7453-2772-3.)

  • Li, Ruru (eds.). Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. x + 282 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-1-137-56747-5.)

  • Li, Xiaobing, and Shan, Patrick Fuliang. Ethnic China: Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance. (Lanham, MD and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2015. xxvii + 283 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-0728-8.)

  • Liebman, Benjamin L., and Milhaupt, Curtis J. (eds.). Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxv + 454 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-025025-6.)

  • Liu, Haiming. From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States. (New Brunswick, Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 202 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-8135-7474-5.)

  • Liu, Petrus. Queer Marxism in Two Chinas. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. x + 244 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6004-9.)

  • Ma, Sheng-mei. The Last Isle: Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. ix + 197 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-78348-338-9.)

  • McLeod, Alexus. Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy: A Comparative Approach. (London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. xviii + 196 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-1-78348-345-7.)

  • Meyer-Clement, Elena. Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China: Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xx + 262 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-91723-1.)

  • Ng, Wing Chung. The Rise of Cantonese Opera. (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xv + 266 pp. £42.00. ISBN 978-0-252-03911-9.)

  • Ou, Nianzhong, and Yongkang, Liang (eds.). Mao's Lost Children: Stories of Rusticated Youth of China's Cultural Revolution. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2015. xv + 364 pp. ISBN 978-1-937385-67-5.)

  • Paltemaa, Lauri. Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China: Tianjin, 1958–85. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. x + 218 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-138-83139-1.)

  • Queen, Sarah A. and Major, John S. (eds. and trans.). Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Attributed to Dong Zhongshu). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 681 pp. $65.00; £45.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16932-5.)

  • Riedel, Bruce. JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War. (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2015. xv + 231 pp. $29.00; £21.50. ISBN 978-0-815-72699-9.)

  • Rithmire, Meg E.Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii + 218 pp. £22.99; $34.99. ISBN 978-1-107-53987-7.)

  • Rompard, Ralf Robert. Through the Great Wall: A Western Acupuncture Doctor in the People's Republic of China. (Kibworth, UK: Book Guild Publishing, 2015. vii + 263 pp. £12 99. ISBN 978-1-910508-76-3.)

  • Smith, Richard J.The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xii + 618. £24.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-2193-2.)

  • So, Alvin Y. and Chu, Yin-Wah. The Global Rise of China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2015. xiv + 297 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6474-3.)

  • Sommer, Matthew H.Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. xiii + 478 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-520-28703-7.)

  • Sun, Wanning, and Sinclair, John (eds.). Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking Transnationalism. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xiv + 229 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-85940-1.)

  • Tran, Lisa. Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. viii + 235 pp. £49.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-4589-1.)

  • Tsai, Ming-Chang. Global Exposure in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Microglobalization. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. xii + 195 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-4146-5.)

  • Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924–1951. Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2015. xx + 248 pp. ISBN 978-1-937385-80-4.)

  • Wong, Kam C.Policing in Hong Kong. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiv + 277 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-1-137-55707-0.)

  • Woronov, T. E.Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. viii + 185 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9692-7.)

  • Zeng, Jinghan. The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion. (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 237 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-1-137-53367-8.)

  • Zhang, Yingjin (ed.). A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. (Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. xiv + 573 pp. ISBN 978-1-118-45162-5.)

  • Zheng, Tiantian. Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 244 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978-0-8166-9200-2.)