Each semester, the Fairbank Center Collection of the H. C. Fung Library at Harvard University acquires new books in English and Chinese. Below is a list of books collected for Fall 2026.
New English Books in the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 121 – Fall 2026
Ai Weiwei, On Censorship (London: Thames & Hudson, 2026), 87 pp.
Akins, Harrison, Adversary and Ally: How China Shapes the Frontier Politics of India and Pakistan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2026), 286 pp.
Baum, Emily, and Albert Wu, eds., Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2026), 362 pp.
Benton, Gregor, and Yang Yang, eds., The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile and Diaspora, trans. Gregor Benton and Yang Yang (Chicago: Haymarket, 2025), 1215 pp.
Blecher, Marc, The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose (New York: Routledge, 2026), 256 pp.
Brazinsky, Gregg A., Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 266 pp.
Brown, Kerry, Mao: Power and Contradiction (London: Reaktion, 2026), 270 pp.
Cao, Xuenan, Chinese Media Improvisations: Thriving on Deficits (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2026), 274 pp.
Cheang, Kai Hang, Sideways Developments: Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026), 240 pp.
Dawley, Evan N., Taiwan: A People’s History (London: Reaktion, 2026), 312 pp.
Dikötter, Frank, Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity (New York: Bloomsbury, 2026), 362 pp.
Dillon, Michael, Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026), 330 pp.
Driessen, Miriam, Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty (Oakland: University of California Press, 2026), 206 pp.
Freeman, Eyck, Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026), 432 pp.
Gurtov, Mel, China Inside and Out: Politics and Policies in a Turbulent World (New York: Bloomsbury, 2025), 241 pp.
Han, Rongbin, Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2026), 218 pp.
Healy, Gavin, A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026), 294 pp.
Hillman, Ben, and Fengyuan Ji, eds., The Communist Party of China: Understanding the Durability of the World’s Most Powerful Political Organization (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 340 pp.
Horton, Chris, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (London: Macmillan, 2025), 328 pp.
Hsu, Szu-chien, Kellee S. Tsai, and Chun-chih Chang, eds., Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021), 396 pp.
Huang, Yasheng, Statism with Chinese Characteristics: A History of China’s Reforms and Reversals, Second Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 363 pp.
Jiang, Dongxian, Why China Needs Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026)
Kennedy, Andrew B., Rebellious Follower: China’s Search for Science, Technology, and Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026), 224 pp.
Lanza, Fabio, Urban Revolution: People’s Communes in Beijing (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 277 pp.
Lau, Ting Hui, Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking against Chinese Settler Colonialism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2026), 238 pp.
Lin, Justin Yifu, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, Second Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 392 pp.
Liu, Adam Y., Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China’s Banking Explosion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026), 216 pp.
Liu, Shih-Diing, and Wei Shi, Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025), 240 pp.
Liu, Yi-Ling, The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2026), 326 pp.
Lu, Miao, The Transsion Approach: Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025), 176 pp.
Ma, Xiao, Rethinking Political Meritocracy: An Attention- Based Approach (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 89 pp.
Malešević, Gordana, ed., Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026), 333 pp.
Muscolino, Micah S., ed., Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China’s Mao Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2026), 321 pp.
Ngai, Joe, and Nick Leung, The Next China is Still China: An Insider’s Playbook for Winning in the New Era (New York: Scribner, 2026), 318 pp.
Peng, Sheng, Jimmy Carter and China: Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 2026), 328 pp.
Pollio, Andrea, Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital (Oakland: University of California Press, 2026), 218 pp.
Postiglione, Gerard A., Higher Education in China: Domestic Demands and Global Aspirations (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), 297 pp.
Potter, Pitman B., China and the Rules-Based International Order: Globalized Populism and Crisis Response (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2026), 309 pp.
Repnikova, Maria, Competing for Soft Power: China’s Image-Making in Africa (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 265 pp.
Schoenhals, Michael, Eyes and Ears: Secret Agent Work in Cold War China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 255 pp.
Setzekorn, Eric, On the Brink: A Military History of Taiwan (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2026), 259 pp.
Shaw, Eros, Mark Larrimore, and Michael Clifton, eds., Blessed are those who Mourn: Chinese Tongzhi Catholics’ Tales (Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2022), 369 pp.
Smith, S.A., Communism in an Enchanted World: Chinese Folk Religion Under Mao Zedong (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 382 pp.
Smith, S.A., Supernatural Politics: Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949-79 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 385 pp.
Stanzel, Volker, Newspeak and Newthink: China’s “Rejuvenation” of its Memory (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026), 231 pp.
Tang, Denise Tse-Shang, Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2026), 186 pp.
Tang, Ling, Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025), 196 pp.
Tsai, Wen-Hsuan, Reshaping the State: Chinese Political Institutions under Xi Jinping (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2026), 287 pp.
Tsang, Steve, and Olivia Cheung, China’s Global Strategy under Xi Jinping (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026), 296 pp.
Wang, Aihe, Painting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2026), 321 pp.
Wang, Alex L., Chinese Global Environmentalism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 90 pp.
Wang, Chenyi, Mao’s Final Legacies and the Sino-Vietnamese War, 1971-79 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2026), 262 pp.
Wang, Mengqi, Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s Housing Market (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026), 170 pp.
Wang, Yueduan, The New Dual State: Judicial Autonomy and Political Control in China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 235 pp.
Whiting, Susan H., Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict over Land in China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 231 pp.
Wong, Audrye, Subversion and Seduction: China’s Economic Statecraft (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026), 316 pp.
Xi Jinping, The Governance of China (v.4) (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2022), 658 pp.
Xi Jinping, The Governance of China (v.5) (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2025), 635 pp.
Xu Guoqi, The Idea of China: A Contested History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026), 306 pp.
Zhao Dingxin, Politics of Legitimacy: State-Society Relations and Patterns of Chinese Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2026), 292 pp.
Zhao Quansheng, Ye Min, and Sun Taiyi, eds., A Series in Memory of Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston: Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2025), 149 pp.
Zhou, Mujun, The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026), 265 pp.
New Chinese-Language Books in the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 49 – Fall 2026
1. 陈慕华主管计划生育 [Chen Muhua Oversees Family Planning] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2026)
2. 從大饑荒到文化大革命: 一個紅衛兵的告白 (新北市: 聯經, 2026)
3. 從《共同綱領》到 “五四憲法” — — 論人民共和國的政治－法律哲學 (澳門: 啟蒙時代, 2020)
4. 当代西藏工作理论思考与实践 (北京: 中国藏学出版社, 2023)
5. 党员干部 “八小时外” 100条纪律红线 (北京: 中国方正出版社, 2025)
6. 动荡中国 [Turbulent China] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2026)
7. 方舱记忆: 万众一心抗疫情 (上海: 上海科学技术文献出版社, 2020)
8. 福爾摩沙意識形態: 東方殖民主義與臺彎民族主義的興起 1895-1945 [The Formosan Ideology: Oriental Colonialism and the Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism, 1895-1945] (臺北市: 春山, 2025)
9. 恭祝季音前辈百岁晋一纪念 (2024)
10. 恭祝陆超棋前辈百龄初度纪念 (2024)
11. 恭祝钱李仁前辈期颐大寿纪念 (2024)
12. 郭罗基访谈录 — — 一生充当反对派 [A Lifelong Opposition: Interview with Guo Luoji] (上/下) (Texas: Fellows Press of America, 2025)
13. 國運的轉危為安: 再探民國政府遷臺初期的軍事與外交 (1949-1955) [Setting the Course from Peril to Peace: Re-Examining the Republic of China’s Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the Early Years on Taiwan, 1949-1955] (臺北市: 民國曆史文化學社, 2024)
14. 國運的轉危為安: 再探民國政府遷臺初期的軍事與外交 (1949-1955) (二版) [Setting the Course from Peril to Peace… (Second edition)] (臺北市: 民國曆史文化學社, 2024)
15. 黄河流域大型水利工程文献资料选编: 1950 ~ 1995 [华东师范大学文献史料中心] (上海: 东方出版中心, 2024)
16. 纪念胡赵与八九民运卅五周年论文集 (纽约: 博登书屋, 2024)
17. 江青年谱 [Jiang Qing Chronology] [余汝信] (香港: 新世纪, 2026)
18. 解殖中國史 [Decolonizing Chinese History] (新北市: 有理文化, 2025)
19. 金融监管: 理论与实践 (北京: 中信出版社, 2025)
20. 巨浪後: 國安法時代的香港與香港人 (新北市: 左岸文化, 2025)
21. 李慎之口述往事 (東京都日野市: 読道, 2025)
22. 炼狱归魂 — — 大饥荒年代 “星火” 案幸存者的回忆 (1957-1981) [Return from Purgatory: A Memoir of Surviving China’s Great Famine and the ‘Spark’ Case] [向承鉴] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2024)
23. 林明生活账本: 1976-2000 [华东师范大学社会主义历史与文献研究院中国当代史研究中心] (上海: 东方出版中心, 2024)
24. 劉金獅回憶錄: 勇敢堅韌的革命者 (臺北市: 前衛, 2024)
25. 麦苗青 菜花黄 — — 大饥荒川西纪实 (纽约: 博登书屋, 2024)
26. 毛澤東和「新中國」: 延綿不絕的政治運動與其深層的戰爭思維 [宋永毅] (新北市: 聯經, 2026)
27. 美国国务院与中美关系缓和研究: 1969 ~ 1972 (北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2015)
28. 名耆杨钧泰文集 [Collected Works of Famous Senior Juntai Yang] (美国: 求真出版社, 2024)
29. 彭真: 毛澤東的「親密戰友」(1941-1966) (新北市: 聯經, 2024)
30. 企业IT架构转型之道: 阿里巴巴中台战略思想与架构实战 (北京: 机械工业出版社, 2017)
31. 认识中国: 乡村的前途与中国现代化 (北京: 生活 · 读书 · 新知三联书店, 2025)
32. 杉树坡: 一个家族的百年故事 [郭于华] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2024)
33. 社会分层十五讲 (北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2024)
34. 生产队纪事 [华东师范大学社会主义历史与文献研究院中国当代史研究中心] (上海: 东方出版中心, 2024)
35. 枢纽: 3000年的中国 (长沙: 湖南文艺出版社, 2023)
36. 数智重生: 战略求变与组织焕新 (北京: 机械工业出版社, 2025)
37. 数字疾驰: 外卖骑手与平台经济劳动秩序 (上海: 上海人民出版社, 2024)
38. 送葬 [Dies Irae] [许章润] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2025)
39. 臺彎人的抵抗與認同 (1920-1950) [增訂版] (臺北市: 春山, 2025)
40. 臺彎史是什麼? (新北市: 大家; 遠足, 2025)
41. 探寻社会学之旅: 20位当代美国社会学家眼中的社会学 (北京: 北京大学出版社, 2019)
42. 天津某粮管干部工作笔记摘编（四）党务行政部分: 1951年-1965年 [华东师范大学中国当代史研究中心] (上海: 东方中心, 2020)
43. 同时代人物录 (上/下) [Records of Contemporaries] [郭罗基] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2026)
44. 文革死亡档案 (纪时文学出版社, 2005)
45. 文革中公民抗争的文字记录 (上/下) [Documentary Records of Citizen Resistance in the Cultural Revolution) (Volume I / Volume II) (New Jersey: BeAuthor Press, 2026)
46. 我是寨子里长大的女孩 (上海: 上海译文出版社, 2025)
47. 新冠肺炎浩劫: 一場本來完全可以避免的大災難 [胡平] (台北市: 允辰文化, 2024)
48. 血的黎明 [老鬼] (東京都日野市: 読道, 2026)
49. 一個人或一個時代: 習近平執政十週年的檢視 (台北市: 五南, 2022)
50. 怎样做好新时代巡察工作 (北京: 东方出版社, 2023)
51. 戰地之框: 從漁村到預備戰地的魔幻時光, 在軍管實驗下成為馬祖人 (臺北市: 春山, 2024)
52. 章元善日记 [华东师范大学中国当代史研究中心] (上海: 东方出版中心, 2023)
53. 制度基因: 中國制度與極權主義制度的起源 [Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism] (臺北市: 國力台灣大學出版中心, 2024)
54. 中国当代史研究（五）内部交流本 (上海: 华东师范大学社会主义历史与文献研究院中国当代史研究中心, 2024)
55. 中国会成为民主国家吗？[Will China become a Democratic Country?] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2026)
56. 中国抗日战争史论稿 (北京: 中共党史出版社, 2018)
57. 中国农村 “土地换保障” 的实践反思与理性建构 (上海: 上海三联书店, 2012)
58. 中国农村 “土地换保障” 的实践反思与理性建构 – 2版 (上海: 上海三联书店, 2015)
59. 中国式母女 (上海: 上海译文出版社, 2025)
60. 中国新能源汽车产业发展报告 · 2024 (北京: 社会科学文献出版社, 2024)
61. 中台实践: 数字化转型方法论与解决方案 (北京: 机械工业出版社, 2020)
62. 中台战略: 中台建设与数字商业 (北京: 机械工业出版社, 2019)
63. 注視: 都蘭野書 [龍應台] (臺北市: 時報文化, 2024)
64. 走向共产党之后的中国: 转型八论 [Toward a Post-Communist China: Eight Treatises on Transformation] (上/中册) [吴国光] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2024)
65. 走向婚姻的一步: “90后” 流动青年未婚同居过程研究 (上海: 上海社会科学院出版社, 2025)
66.左冲右突: 胡耀邦、赵紫阳与计划生育 [Rushing Left and Right: Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang and Family Planning] (纽约: 博登书屋, 2026)