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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 978069121048363
The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927–1976: Building on Fear Qiang Fang Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021 336 pp. €115.00 ISBN 978-94-6372-945-141
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China Liz P.Y. Chee Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021 276 pp. $26.95 ISBN 978-1-4780-1404-133
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China Laurence Coderre Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022 220 pp. £17.87 ISBN 978-1-4780-1430-028
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 978-0-520-30303-426
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Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China Fang Xu Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021 261 pp. $105.00ISBN 978-1-7936-3531-024
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 978-0-4720-5433-520
Engendering China–Africa Encounters: Chinese Family Firms, Black Women Workers and the Gendered Politics of Production in South Africa19
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
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 978027109287418
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 978162196618
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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 97815261517
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China Tamara Jacka. Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 314 pp. AU$60.00 (also available Open Access). ISBN 978176046641117
Plea Leniency and Prosecution Centredness in China's Criminal Process16
The Political Economy of China's Local Debt14
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Homosexual Stories, Family Stories: Neo-Confucian Homonormativity and Storytelling in the Chinese Gay Community13
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 978139951941013
The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China Jiang Jiehong. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2024. 272 pp. €139.00; $151.00 (hbk). ISBN 978900453742213
Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China Yiu-Wai Chu. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. viii + 280 pp. £19.99 (pbk). ISBN 978147449387113
The Logic of Partial RMB Internationalization: PRC Perspectives on “Financial War”12
Temporary Leaders and Stable Institutions: How Local Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs Institutionalize China's Low-Carbon Policy Experiments11
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 978-1-501-75558-310
Raising Dogs that Bite: How Pastoralists and Breeders Care for Tibetan Mastiffs10
Rethinking Authority in China's Border Regime: Regulating the Irregular Franziska Plümmer Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022 317 pp. €117.00 ISBN 978-94-6372-635-110
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
Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society Relations Beibei Tang. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 175 pp. $49.95 (hbk). ISBN 978150176926910
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 978047205549410
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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
Legitimacy of China's Counter-Terrorism Approach: The Mass Line Ethos Chi Zhang. Singapore, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xvii + 132pp. £44.99 (hbk), ISBN 97898119310799
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 China9
Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda9
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 97802312040199
The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below Edited by Richard Madsen Leiden: Brill, 2021 178 pp., €116.00; $140.00 ISBN 978-90-04-46517-69
Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China9
The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period8
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
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 97830315354138
The “Wolf Warrior Cycle”: Chinese Blockbusters in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative8
The Educational Outcomes of Children’s Migration Strategies8
Little to Lose: Exit Options and Attitudes towards Automation in Chinese Manufacturing8
Gendered Pathways to the County-level People's Congress in China8
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
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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
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
Regarding Mao's Alleged Speech about the Dalai Lama on 15 November 19567
Political Fact-checking and Its Effects on Public Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from China7
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
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II KELLY A. HAMMOND Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 xv + 294 pp. $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4696-5965-77
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
Accommodating China's Floating Population: Local Variations and Determinants of Housing Policies for Rural Migrant Workers6
China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications6
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
The Cultural Governance of Death in Shenzhen6
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Yi, Manchu and Han People in Rural China, 2002–20186
Policy Experimentation Trapped in Tiao-driven Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of National Park Policy in China6
America the Failure? Critical Narratives of the United States in Chinese State Media6
The Political Economy of China's Dramatically Improved Coal Safety Record6
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 6
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
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 97801988655375
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
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
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
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China Amy Zhang. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036392945
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 978-1-108-84107-85
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
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
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
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
Direct Election, Bureaucratic Appointment and Local Government Responsiveness in Taiwan4
Career Mobility and Performance Evaluation of China's SOE Managerial Elites4
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
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
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
Global China at 20: Why, How and So What?4
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
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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 (h4
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 97814813162484
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
Participation without Contestation: NGOs’ Autonomy and Advocacy in China4
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 97806740467644
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
Developmental Peace: Theorizing China's Approach to International Peacebuilding Wenting Meng. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2023. 187 pp. €29.90; $34.00 (pbk). ISBN 97838382190734
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
Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials’ Appearance System3
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
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 97898888057163
Meritocracy, Suzhi Education and the Use of Live-Streaming Technology in Rural Schools in Western China3
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
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
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
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 97819526364483
Leader of the Pack? Changes in “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” after a Politburo Collective Study Session3
Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform3
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
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty Pang Laikwan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 276 pp. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN 97815036388153
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
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The Old Conflict in the New Economy? Courier Resistance on Outsourcing Platforms in China3
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
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CQY volume 248 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
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. 258p2
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
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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
Hong Kong Anti-colonial Nationalism during the Chinese Language Campaign2
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 978-981-121-279-62
Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China Xian Huang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. £26.49 (pbk). ISBN 97801976427712
Digital Fandoms and the 227 Incident: A Case of “Cancel Culture with Chinese Characteristics”2
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
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
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
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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 97810094458492
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 978-1-108-84425-32
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
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
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
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
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xi + 353 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802311991931
Leaping over the Dragon's Gate: The “Air Silk Road” between Henan Province and Luxembourg1
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
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
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
Organizing Dots and Lines: Eastern Hui and the Adaptation of the CCP's Nationalities Work in the Revolutionary Era1
China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?1
Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness MANFRED ELFSTROM Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 xviii + 200 pp. £75.00; $99.99 ISBN 978-1-10883-110-91
Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates1
Bureaucratic Shirking in China: Is Sanction-based Accountability a Cure?1
Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption Jeremy Garlick. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 232 pp. £21.99 (pbk). ISBN 97813502523181
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 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
Institutional Changes, Influences and Historical Junctures in the Communist Youth League of China1
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Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China1
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
Manipulation without Resistance: Consensus Elections in Rural China1
Notes on Contributors1
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
Estimating the Impact of Rural Hukou Status on Earnings for College Graduates in China1
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
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
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
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
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
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The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus. London: Pluto Press, 2023. 240 pp. £16.99 (pbk). ISBN 97807453429551
Decoding Political Trust in China: A Machine Learning Analysis1
The Footballization of China: Strategies for World Cup Glory Sten Söderman. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 180 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 97818039282581
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China LINGZHEN WANG Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2021 xiv + 293 pp. $25.95 ISBN 978-1-4780-1080-71
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
Charity with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Charitable Foundations between the Party-state and Society Katja Levy and Knut Benjamin Pissler Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing 320 pp. £90.00 ISB1
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations ODD ARNE WESTAD Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021 ix + 205 pp. $29.95; £23.95 ISBN 978-0-674-23821-31
Religion and Trust in Hong Kong1
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
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
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
Shifting Strategies: The Politics of Radical Change in Provincial Development Policy in China1
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
Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao Joseph Torigian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 316 pp. $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 90
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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
Sovietology in Post-Mao China: Aspects of Foreign Relations, Politics, and Nationality, 1980–1999 Jie Li. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 320 pp. €127.00; $141.00 (hbk). ISBN 97890045409100
China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xx + 484 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802312100100
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
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China Jie Li. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 360 pp. $35.00; £30.00 (pbk). ISBN 97802312062730
Social Organizations in Rural China: From Autonomy to Governance0
The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China Xin Zhang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. xi + 288 pp. $45.00 (hbk). ISBN 97806742783870
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
“Dig Deep and Reach Wide”: The Changing Politics of the Chinese Communist Party's Consultative Information System0
Central–Local Relations in China: A Case Study of Heilongjiang's GMO Ban0
Taiwan's Presidents: Profiles of the Majestic Six John F. Copper. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 242 pp. £36.99 (pbk). ISBN 97810326979010
Elite Capture and Corruption: The Influence of Elite Collusion on Village Elections and Rural Land Development in China0
The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class: Labor Activism and Passivity in China Elly Leung. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. xxv + 182 pp. $159.99 (hbk). ISBN 97830308331210
Chinese Environmental Law Yuhong Zhao Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 471 pp. £34.00; $49.99 ISBN 978-1-1076-9628-00
Contingent Attachment: Long-term Lived Experience in the Redevelopment of a Third Front Neighbourhood0
Migrant Workers’ Education in China: Changing Discourses and Practices Fusheng Jia. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 191 pp. £90.00. $108.00 (hbk). ISBN 97813501707280
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