Winter Acquisitions at the H. C. Fung Library: New Publications by Tyler Jost, Kevin Rudd, Eva Dou, Koji Hirata, and More

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 in winter 2025.

New English Books in the Fairbank Center Collection

No. 118 – Winter 2025

Ang, Cheng Guan, The Third Indochina War: An International History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 215 pp.

Chan, Steve, Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War (New York: Cambridge University Preewss, 2024), 64 pp.

Chen, Jie, ed., Taiwan and the Cause of Democratization in China: Inspiration and Support (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2024), 180 pp.

Chou, Catherine Lila, and Mark Harrison, Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2024), 212 pp.

Clifford, Mark L., The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic (New York: Free Press, 2024), 264 pp.

Copper, John F., Taiwan’s Presidents: Profiles of the Majestic Six (London: Routledge, 2025), 229 pp.

Cunningham, Fiona S., Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in In International Security (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025), 378 pp

Dimitrov, Martin K., The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 92 pp.

Dou, Eva, House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2024), 406 pp.

Har-El, Shai, China and the Palestinian Organizations: 1964–1971 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 170 pp.

Hirata, Koji, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 355 pp.

International Poverty Reduction Center in China, Poverty Alleviation Case Analysis in China: Poverty Alleviation Best Practice via Practices and SDG Strategies (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2024), 125 pp.

Jost, Tyler, Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 382 pp.

Khan, Sulmaan Wasif, The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between (New York: Basic Books, 2024), 323 pp.

Leutert, Wendy Elizabeth, China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 212 pp.

Liao, Kim, Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), 319 pp.

Long, Yan, Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 388 pp.

Lüqiu, Luwei Rose, Reporting Sexual Violence and #MeToo in Asia: The View from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan (London: Routledge, 2025), 97 pp.

Ma, Sheng-mei, China Pop! Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2024), 261 pp.

McCourt, David, M., The End of Engagement: America’s China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 297 pp.

Meyer, Eric, Xi Jinping: L’Empereur du Silence (Paris: Delcourt/Encrages, 2024), 232 pp.

Naftali, Orna, Mobilising China’s One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarism in the PRC (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024), 272 pp.

Rudd, Kevin, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 604 pp.

Spires, Anthony J., Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024), 301 pp.

Suettinger, Robert L., The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024), 479 pp.

Sun, Yutao, and Cong Cao, The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 244 pp.

Tian Honghong, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2025), 429 pp.

Vortherms, Samantha A., Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024), 279 pp.

Westad, Odd Arne, and Chen Jian, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024), 408 pp.

Xu, Jing, “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 258 pp.

Yan Xiaojun, Engineering Stability: Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024), 224 pp.

Zhang Qin, A Solitary Traveler in the Long Night, trans. Howard Goldblatt (Melbourne: Images Publishing, 2024), 249 pp.

Zheng, Yanqiu, In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875‑1974 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024), 245 pp.