China Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of China Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927–1976: Building on Fear Qiang Fang Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021 336 pp. €115.00 ISBN 978-94-6372-945-166
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China Liz P.Y. Chee Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021 276 pp. $26.95 ISBN 978-1-4780-1404-146
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China Laurence Coderre Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022 220 pp. £17.87 ISBN 978-1-4780-1430-039
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition Yi-Lin Chiang. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 265 pp. $27.95 (pbk). ISBN 978069121048333
Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen Jifeng Liu. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 233 pp. $119.95 (hbk). ISBN 978027109287427
Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach and Justyna Jaguscik (eds.). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2023. 484 pp. $129.00 (hbk). ISBN 978162196624
CQY volume 251 Cover and Back matter21
Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China Fang Xu Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021 261 pp. $105.00ISBN 978-1-7936-3531-020
Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965 Yu Zhang Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020 306 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-4720-5433-519
A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness and the Ghost after Mao Emily Ng Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020 xii + 204 pp. $34.95; £27.00 ISBN 978-0-520-30303-419
Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97 Florence Mok. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2023. 296 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97815261519
The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China: Policymaking, Funding, Talent, and Organization Yutao Sun and Cong Cao. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 244 pp. £95.18
CQY volume 260 Cover and Back matter17
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China Tamara Jacka. Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 314 pp. AU$60.00 (also available Open Access). ISBN 978176046641116
The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China Jiang Jiehong. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2024. 272 pp. €139.00; $151.00 (hbk). ISBN 978900453742215
Mobilising China’s One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC Orna Naftali. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 280 pp. £90.00 (hbk). ISBN 978139951941015
Books received14
The Political Economy of China's Local Debt14
Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China Yiu-Wai Chu. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. viii + 280 pp. £19.99 (pbk). ISBN 978147449387114
Plea Leniency and Prosecution Centredness in China's Criminal Process13
Identifying China’s Long 1980s13
The Logic of Partial RMB Internationalization: PRC Perspectives on “Financial War”13
Engendering China–Africa Encounters: Chinese Family Firms, Black Women Workers and the Gendered Politics of Production in South Africa13
Temporary Leaders and Stable Institutions: How Local Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs Institutionalize China's Low-Carbon Policy Experiments13
Homosexual Stories, Family Stories: Neo-Confucian Homonormativity and Storytelling in the Chinese Gay Community12
Raising Dogs that Bite: How Pastoralists and Breeders Care for Tibetan Mastiffs12
Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations Beibei Tang. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 175 pp. $49.95 (hbk). ISBN 978150176926911
Rethinking Authority in China's Border Regime: Regulating the Irregular Franziska Plümmer Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022 317 pp. €117.00 ISBN 978-94-6372-635-111
Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State Jeffrey A. Javed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 312 pp. $34.95 (pbk). ISBN 978047205549411
Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest Suzanne E. Scoggins Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021 ix + 187 pp. $39.95 ISBN 978-1-501-75558-311
Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film Thomas Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 236 pp. $30.00; £25.00 (pbk). ISBN 978023120401910
Gendered Pathways to the County-level People's Congress in China10
The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below Edited by Richard Madsen Leiden: Brill, 2021 178 pp., €116.00; $140.00 ISBN 978-90-04-46517-610
Words like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China Caterina Fugazzola. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023. 168 pp. $25.95 (pbk). ISBN 978143992147010
Legitimacy of China's Counter-Terrorism Approach: The Mass Line Ethos Chi Zhang. Singapore, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xvii + 132pp. £44.99 (hbk), ISBN 978981193107910
Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda9
Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing9
CQY volume 249 Cover and Back matter9
The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies9
Chinese Science Fiction: Concepts, Forms, and Histories Edited by Mingwei Song, Nathaniel Isaacson and Hua Li. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 305 pp. £87.00 (e-book). ISBN 97830315354139
Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms Edited by Björn Ahl Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 288 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-1-1088-3330-19
The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period9
Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty Aynne Kokas. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xx + 340 pp. $27.95 (pbk). ISBN 97801976205029
Can Grid Governance Fix the Party-state's Broken Windows? A Study of Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China8
Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China8
Gobal Hong Kong: Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora Edited by Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To. London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 212 pp. £145.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810328968928
CQY volume 256 Cover and Front matter8
The “Wolf Warrior Cycle”: Chinese Blockbusters in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative8
Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State Luzhou Li Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019 312 pp. $40.00 ISBN 978-0-262-04317-58
Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China Charlotte Bruckermann New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020 247 pp. $135.00; £99.00 ISBN 978-1-78920-357-87
The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 440 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231197
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan Robin Visser. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 352 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802311998107
Regarding Mao's Alleged Speech about the Dalai Lama on 15 November 19567
The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant: Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Yanhong Yin. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 237 pp. HK$495.00 (hbk). ISBN 7
The Cultural Governance of Death in Shenzhen7
Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream: Narratives, Witnesses and Marginal Spaces Elena Pollacchi. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 241 pp. €106.00 (hbk). ISBN 97894637218377
Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China7
Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho Sarah Hanisch Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022 x + 185 pp. HK$500.00 ISBN 978-988-8754-01-47
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Yi, Manchu and Han People in Rural China, 2002–20187
Lu Xun's Affirmative Biopolitics: Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence Wenjin Cui. New York and London: Routledge, 2022. x+260 pp. $170.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810321020307
Political Fact-checking and Its Effects on Public Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from China6
Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021 333 pp. $34.95 ISBN 978-0-472-03873-26
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media6
China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications6
Awakening to China's Rise: Europe's Foreign and Security Policies toward the People's Republic of China Hugo Meijer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 336 pp. £81.00 (hbk). ISBN 97801988655376
Accommodating China's Floating Population: Local Variations and Determinants of Housing Policies for Rural Migrant Workers6
China and the International Human Rights Regime, 1982–2017 Rama Siu Inboden Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 xv + 296 pp. £75.00; $99.99 ISBN 978-1-108-84107-86
Mainland China's Taiwan Policy: From Peaceful Development to Selective Engagement Xin Qiang. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 138 pp. £35.99 (pbk). ISBN 97803677563076
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China Amy Zhang. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036392945
Career Mobility and Performance Evaluation of China's SOE Managerial Elites5
The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought Wang Hui (edited by Michael Gibbs Hill). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. xxviii + 1059 pp. $75.00 (hbk). ISBN 97806740467645
Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness Chih-Yu Shih Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2021 140 pp. $77.00; HK$600.00 ISBN 978-988-8754-04-55
Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? Olivia Cheung. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. xvi + 190 pp. €117.00 (hbk). ISBN 97894637202985
Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach to International Peacebuilding Wenting Meng. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2023. 187 pp. €29.90; $34.00 (pbk). ISBN 97838382190735
Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China Ke Li. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 344 pp. $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781503632011 - Decoupling: Gender Injustice i5
The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China: Toward a Statecraft Beyond Science Chen-cheng Wang. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 356 pp. $135.00 (hbk). ISBN 97816669296905
China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier Thomas White. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 264 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802957524335
Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 213 pp. £19.79 (pbk). ISBN 97813502314814
The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War Parks M. Coble. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 290 pp. £30.00. US$39.99 (hbk). ISBN 97810092976154
Direct Election, Bureaucratic Appointment and Local Government Responsiveness in Taiwan4
How Australia is Studied in China Edited by Richard Hu and Diane Hu. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 182 pp. £135.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810325772104
CQY volume 249 Cover and Front matter4
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands Edited by ADAM CATHCART, CHRISTOPHER GREEN and STEVEN DENNY Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021 440 pp. €139.00 ISBN 978-94-6298-756-24
China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900–50 Phillip B. Guingona. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 274 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810093592454
People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xv + 353 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 97898119377504
Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang. London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 222 pp. £35.99 (pbk, also available Open Access). ISBN 97810324089654
Participation without Contestation: NGOs’ Autonomy and Advocacy in China4
From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World Ethos Allen Chun. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 291 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 94
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong Michael C. Davis. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2024. 280 pp. $17.99 (pbk). ISBN 97819526364484
Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China Ying Qian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. xiii + 305 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802312044774
The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China Kimberley Ens Manning. New York: Cornell University Press, 2023. 402 pp. $36.96 (pbk). ISBN 97815017714154
Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market Ying Zhu. New York: The New Press, 2022. 370 pp. US$32.99 (hbk). ISBN 97816209721824
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China Shitong Qiao. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 264 pp. £100.00 (hbk). ISBN 97811088402794
More Graduates, Fewer Skills? Vocational Education Expansion and Skilled Labour Shortages in China4
Global China at 20: Why, How and So What?4
Sinoglossia Edited by Andrea Bachner, Howard Chiang and Yu-lin Lee. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 280 pp. HK$700.00 (hbk). ISBN 97898888057164
Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964–1988 Edited by Youwei Xu and Y. Yvon Wang. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Spring3
Acknowledgements3
Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution Daryl R. Ireland. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. 302 pp. $69.99 (hbk). ISBN 97814813162483
Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform3
Chinese Perspectives on Global Governance and China Edited by Yu Keping, translated by Frances Chan Leiden: Brill, 2021 261 pp. €135.00; $162.00 ISBN 978-90-04-43942-93
Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966 Qiliang He. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 180 pp. HK$650.00 (hbk). ISBN 97898888056003
Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China Longtao He Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 xiii + 275 pp. £97.50 ISBN 978-981-16-1879-63
Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China Bin Xu Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 xi + 274 pp. £ 85.00 ISBN 978-1-108-84425-33
Digital Fandoms and the 227 Incident: A Case of “Cancel Culture with Chinese Characteristics”3
Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials’ Appearance System3
Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands Xiaoxuan Lu. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023. 344 pp. $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 97814773275553
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US–China Relations† Pete Millwood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi + 336 pp. £47.99; $59.99 (h3
The Old Conflict in the New Economy? Courier Resistance on Outsourcing Platforms in China3
Books Received3
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty Pang Laikwan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 276 pp. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036388153
Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China Xian Huang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. £26.49 (pbk). ISBN 97801976427713
The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025. 310 pp. £26.99 (pbk). ISBN 97810094458493
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Singapore: World Scientific, 2020 276 pp. $88.00 ISBN 978-981-121-279-63
Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise Sungmin Rho. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xii + 200 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810091612063
Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study Alexandra Grey Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021 342 pp. €102.95 ISBN 978-1-5015-1774-73
Leader of the Pack? Changes in “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” after a Politburo Collective Study Session3
Books Received3
Meritocracy, Suzhi Education and the Use of Live-Streaming Technology in Rural Schools in Western China3
From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange Jeff Kyong-McCain and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 258p3
Water Lords: Beijing’s Drinking Water and Its Carriers, 1644–1937 Lei Zhang. Leiden: Brill, 2025. 182 pp. €116.00 (hbk). ISBN 97890046932413
Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia Christopher Carothers Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022 xi + 290 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-1-316-51328-62
CQY volume 254 Cover and Back matter2
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xi + 353 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802311991932
Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China's State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System Henry Gao and Weihuan Zhou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 250 pp. £85.00 (hbk).2
CQY volume 248 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s Chien-Wen Kung Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022 318 pp. $54.95 ISBN 978-1-5017-6221-52
Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a Post-War Settlement, 1942–1949: Treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet Zhaodong Wang. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. 241 pp. £18.50 (pbk). ISBN 978311135562
Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China Siyuan Yin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 257 pp. $30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036425602
The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. xx + 410 pp. $38.00; £30.00 (hbk). ISBN 97803002670822
Leaping over the Dragon's Gate: The “Air Silk Road” between Henan Province and Luxembourg2
Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice David J. Mozina Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021 348 pp. $68.00 ISBN 978-0-8248-8341-62
CQY volume 250 Cover and Front matter2
Hong Kong Anti-colonial Nationalism during the Chinese Language Campaign2
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus. London: Pluto Press, 2023. 240 pp. £16.99 (pbk). ISBN 97807453429552
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer Robert L. Suettinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 488 pp. $39.95 (hbk) ISBN 97806742728042
Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China2
Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China Zhansui Yu. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 266 pp. $70.00 (hbk). ISBN 97814875443482
A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities Jean Yen-chun Lin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802311945182
China’s Quest for Military Supremacy Joel Wuthnow and Phillip C. Saunders. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025, 288 pp. £19.99; €23.99 (pbk). ISBN 97815095569461
China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy Dylan M. H. Loh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $75.00 (hbk). ISBN 97815036382041
Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption Jeremy Garlick. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 232 pp. £21.99 (pbk). ISBN 97813502523181
The Chinese Idea of a University: Phoenix Reborn Rui Yang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 164 pp. HK$550.00 (hbk). ISBN 97898887542981
Public Opinion, Policy Responses, and Party Politics under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Taiwan and Its Strategic Neighbors Edited by Chia-hung Tsai and Yao-Yuan Yeh. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 21
Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China Jérôme Doyon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 206 pp. $29.95 (pbk). ISBN 97804720555791
Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947–1986 Kristof Van den Troost. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 257 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97813995217651
Books Received1
Estimating the Impact of Rural Hukou Status on Earnings for College Graduates in China1
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China Shellen Xiao Wu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 309 pp. US$32.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036368421
China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?1
US–Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis? Ryan Hass, Bonnie Glaser and Richard Bush. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2023. v + 177 pp. $23.40 (pbk). ISBN 97818157399991
The Footballization of China: Strategies for World Cup Glory Sten Söderman. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 180 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97818039282581
Made in China: When US–China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 352 pp. £29.95 (hbk). ISBN 97806742518301
Evolutionary Governance in China: State–Society Relations under Authoritarianism Edited by Szu-Chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai and Chun-Chih Chang Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021 396 pp. $32.91
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City Darren Byler Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022 296 pp. $27.00 ISBN 978-1-478-0150-21
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China Iza Ding. New York: Cornell University Press, 2022. 258 pp. $49.95 (hbk). ISBN 97815017603721
Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan Wei-Ping Lin Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 xviii + 310 pp. Open Access ISBN 978-1-0090-2348-11
An Ecological History of Modern China Stevan Harrell. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 582 pp. $29.99; £35.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802957517191
Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates1
China's Health Silk Road: Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Governance Gerald Chan. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 166 pp. $110.00 (hbk). ISBN 97810353201961
Shifting Strategies: The Politics of Radical Change in Provincial Development Policy in China1
Organizing Dots and Lines: Eastern Hui and the Adaptation of the CCP's Nationalities Work in the Revolutionary Era1
The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State Wei Cui Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 288 pp. £85.00 ISBN 978-1-108-49142-61
Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films Luke White Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2020 x + 240 pp. $80.00 ISBN 978-0-8248-8157-31
CQY volume 252 Cover and Front matter1
CQY volume 258 Cover and Back matter1
Manipulation without Resistance: Consensus Elections in Rural China1
Drawn-out Protests in China's Rustbelt: Land Revenue and the Limits to Bargained Authoritarianism1
Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery Andrew G. Walder. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 276 pp. $30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036352271
The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020 xv + 241 pp. $30.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0916-11
The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations David Zweig. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2024. xxiv + 222 pp. $26.00; £22.00 (p1
The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China Cora Lingling Xu. New York: SUNY Press, 2025. 256 pp. $35.95 (pbk). ISBN 97988558019101
China and the Pursuit of Harmony in World Politics: Understanding Chinese International Relations Theory Adam Grydehøj and Ping Su London and New York: Routledge, 2022 vii + 78 pp. £44.99 ISBN 978-1-01
Government Supervision and Control Mechanisms for the Carbon Market in China: A Principal-Agent Perspective1
Religion and Trust in Hong Kong1
Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Party Organization in State-owned Enterprises0
Contingent Attachment: Long-term Lived Experience in the Redevelopment of a Third Front Neighbourhood0
Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China Lynette H. Ong. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 263 pp. £22.99 (pbk). ISBN 97801976287750
Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System Jerry C. Zee Oakland: University of California Press, 2021 xviii + 311 pp. $29.95 ISBN 978-0-520-38409-50
Orchestration: China's Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe James Reilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 268 pp. $74.00 (hbk). ISBN 97801975263470
SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic Belinda Kong. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2024. 301 pp. $28.95 (pbk). ISBN 97814780256650
The Belt Road and Beyond: State Mobilized Globalization in China, 1998–2018 Min Ye. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 240 pp. £89.00; $105.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781108479561 - One Be0
Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China Hanchao Lu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi + 358 pp. $39.99 (hbk). ISBN 97810091809860
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns Shenshen Cai. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 168 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97813504094600
Policy Experimentation as Communication with the Public: Social Policy, Shared Responsibility and Regime Support in China0
“One China” Contention in China–Taiwan Relations: Law, Politics and Identity0
Rangeland Governance and Practices in Amdo Tibet, China: Legal Pluralism in Pastoral Communities0
Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics Thomas Heberer. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 236 pp. £130.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032400
Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-century China: Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle Sandy Ng. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 164 pp. €104.00 (hbk). ISBN 0
Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers Jennifer Pan Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 225 pp. £19.99; $29.95 ISBN 978-0-1900-8743-20
Universal and Particular: Ideological Developments in the Contemporary Chinese Confucian Revival Movement (2000–2020) Wei Shi. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 252 pp. €115.00 (hbk). ISBN 97890046879360
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