Each semester, the Fairbank Center Collection of the H. C. Fung Library at Harvard University acquires new books. Below is a list of books collected in the summer/fall of 2025.
New Books in the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 119 – Summer/Fall 2025
Abrams, Abraham. China’s Stealth Fighter: The J-20 “Mighty Dragon” and the Growing Challenge to Western Air Dominance (Yorkshire, UK: Air World, 2024), 290 pp.
Altehenger, Jennifer, and Aaron William Moore, eds. How Maoism was Made: Reconstructing China, 1949–1965 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), 361 pp.
Andrews, Mark. Driving the Dragon: The Extraordinary Rise of the Chinese Car Industry (UK: Veloce, 2025), 224 pp.
Arai, Andrew Gevurtz, ed. Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st Century East Asia (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 2025), 187 pp.
Badiucao, and Melissa Chan. You Must Take Part in Revolution (New York: Street Noise, 2025), 223 pp.
Black, Carol Tung Fan. China’s Ruling Elite: The Complex Cycles of Power (UK: Paramount Legacy Press, 2025), 204 pp.
Brands, Hal, ed. Lessons from the New Cold War: America Confronts the China Challenge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), 307 pp.
Brown, Kerry. Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island that will Dictate Our Future (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2024), 251 pp.
Chan, Alexsia T. Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Inequality in China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 210 pp.
Chin, Ko-lin. Counterfeited in China: The Operations of Illicit Businesses (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2025), 285 pp.
Cohen, Jerome A. Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), 360 pp.
Davis, Deborah, and Terry Lautz, eds. Chinese Encounters with America: Journeys that Shaped the Future of China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), 375 pp.
Deepak, B. R. Rising India and China: Strategic Rivalry in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific (vols. 1 and 2) (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), 318 pp. and 355 pp.
Du, Daisy Yan, John A. Crespi, and Yiman Wang, eds. Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025), 440 pp.
Feng, Emily. Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China (New York: Crown, 2025), 285 pp.
Frick, James. China in the World Bank, IMF, and WIPO: Understanding Trends in Global Governance Behavior (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), 245 pp.
Fu, Jun. China’s Pathways to Prosperity: Abductive Reflections on Reforms and Opening-Up (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), 333 pp.
Gutner, Tamar. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China’s Multilateral Experiment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 156 pp.
Hill, Emily M., ed. Chiang Kai-shek’s Critical Years, 1935–50 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025), 279 pp.
Ho, Ming-sho. Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2025), 236 pp.
Hunzeker, Michael A., and Mark A. Christopher. America’s Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2025), 230 pp.
Kindler, Benjamin. Writing to the Rhythm of Labor: Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942–1976 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), 280 pp.
Krischer, Olivier, and Chen Shuxia. Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s (Canberra: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 2025), 339 pp.
Jardine, Bradley, and Edward Lemon. Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia (London: Hurst, 2025), 359 pp.
Lai, Kaori. Portraits in White, tr. Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), 241 pp.
Lee, Ching Kwan. Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2025), 332 pp.
Lee, Francis L. F. Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics Between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025), 307 pp.
Li, Cheng, Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025), 277 pp.
Li, Lianjiang. Political Trust in China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025), 159 pp.
Li Shaomin. From Mao’s Art Soldier to Xi’s Cartoonist: Political Cartoons (Norfolk: VA: Center for Modern China Foundation, 2024), 200 pp.
Lin, James. In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and Modern Taiwan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025), 267 pp.
Lin, Zhongjie. Constructing Utopias: China’s New Town Movement in the 21st Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 338 pp.
Link, Perry. The Anaconda in the Chandelier: Writings on China (Philadelphia: Paul Dry, 2025), 287 pp.
Liu, Qian. Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness Through Intergenerational Relationships (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025), 219 pp.
Ma Tianjie. In Search of Green China (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2025), 257 pp.
Ma, Zhiying. Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025), 206 pp.
Mariani, Paul P. China’s Church Divided: Bishop Louis Jin and the Post-Mao Catholic Revival (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2025), 334 pp.
Mavroidis, Petros C., and André Sapir. China and the World: Why Multilateralism Still Matters (Princeton. NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025), 242 pp.
Maxwell, Andrew. The Silent Architect: Xi Jinping, A Name that Echoes Through the Halls of Global Diplomacy, Economics, and Power (North Haven, CT, 2025), 148 pp.
McGee, Patrick. Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company (New York: Scribner, 2025), 437 pp.
Muscolino, Micah S. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025), 306 pp.
Nachman, Lev. Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025), 205 pp.
Newmann, William Waltman. Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy to Nixon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025), 470 pp.
Ping, Jonathan, Anna Hayes, and Brett McCormick. Chinese International Relations Theory: As Emerging from Practice and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2025), 216 pp.
Révész, Ágota, Duncan Freeman, Magnus Feldmann, and Steven Langendonk. Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2025), 280 pp.
Rozman, Gilbert, Yun Sun, and Danielle F.S. Cohen. Xi Jinping’s Quest for a Sinocentric Asia, 2013–2024 (New York: Routledge, 2025), 231 pp.
Santasombat, Yos, Kian Cheng Lee, and Decha Tangseefa, eds. China’s BRI in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Methodologies (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2025), 303 pp.
Schatz, Edward, and Rachel Silvey, eds. Seeing China’s Belt and Road (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 253 pp.
Schwankert, Steven. The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors (New York: Pegasus, 2025), 237 pp.
Shambaugh, David. Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 417 pp.
Sheridan, Michael. The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China (London: Headline, 2024), 345 pp.
Singarevélou, Pierre. Tianjin Cosmopolis: An Alternative History of Globalization, tr. Stephen W. Sawyer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025), 368 pp.
Torigian, Joseph. The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025), 704 pp.
Tsai, Wen-Hsuan. The Inner Court of Communist China: Elites and their Bureaucratic Institutions in an Authoritarian System (1921–2022) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025), 210 pp.
Tsai, Wen-Husan. A Tight Grip: State Power and Control in Modern China (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025), 186 pp.
Tsang, Eileen Yuk-ha. Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China (New York: New York University Press, 2025), 232 pp.
Tu, Hang. Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025), 326 pp.
Vakulabharanam, Vamsi. Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 286 pp.
van der Putten, Frans-Paul. China Resurrected: A Modern Geopolitical History (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), 222 pp.
Wang, Dan. Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (New York: Norton, 2025), 260 pp.
Wang, Hongying. The Political Economy of China (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2024), 332 pp.
Wang, Xian. Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025), 287 pp.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey. The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2025), 102 pp.
West, Nigel. China’s Spies: Beijing’s Espionage Offensive (Barnsley, UK: Frontline, 2025), 184 pp.
Wuthnow, Joel, and Phillip C. Saunders. China’s Quest for Military Supremacy (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2025), 244 pp.
Xu, Chenggang. Institutional Genes: Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 773 pp.
Xu, Zhiyuan. Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China (London: Head of Zeus, 2017), 305 pp.
Yin, Qingfei. State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnam Border (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 298 pp.
Yin, Siyuan. Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025), 245 pp.
You, Ziying. Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025), 248 pp.
Zhang, Amy. Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024), 198 pp.
Zhou Bo. Should the World Fear China? (London: Hurst, 2025), 480 pp.