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 2024.
New English Books in the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 116 – Winter 2023/24
Ai, Weiwei, Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir (New York: Ten Speed Graphic, 2024), 471 pp.
Chan, Steve, Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift: Implications for Competition Between China and the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 242 pp.
Cheng, T.J., Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden, A Chinese Rebel Beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023), 410 pp.
Cheng, Wendy, Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023), 258 pp.
Cui, Wei, The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 288 pp.
Dollar, David, and Yiping Huang, eds., The Digital Financial Revolution in China (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2022), 330 pp.
Dykstra, Maura D., Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), 262 pp.
Garlick, Jeremy, Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 223 pp.
He Qiliang, The People’s West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2023), 201 pp.
Hillenbrand, Margaret, On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 378 pp.
Hu, Richard, Reinventing the Chinese City (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 306 pp.
Huang, Shan Shanne, The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s: Demystifying China’s Society and Social Classes in the Post-Mao Era (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 276 pp.
Jia, Fusheng, Migrant Workers’ Education in China: Changing Discourses and Practices (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 191 pp.
Jin Chongji, Survey of Chinese History in the Twentieth Century, trans. Carrisa Fletcher (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 634 pp.
Johnson, Ian, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 381 pp.
Kern, Brian, Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle (Oxford: Bui Jones, 2023), 255 pp.
Lampton, David M., Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), 423 pp.
Lee, Jennifer Dorothy, Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978– 1985 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024), 193 pp.
Leese, Daniel, and Amanda Shuman, eds., Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 321 pp.
Lei, Ya-Wen, The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), 398 pp.
Li, David Daokui, China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict (New York: W.W. Norton, 2024), 278 pp.
Li, Jie, Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 341 pp.
Li, Xiaobing, China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2023), 285 pp.
Li Yang and Zhang Xiaojing, Xiang Nan: Champion of Reform in Fujian (London: ACA Publishing Ltd., 2016), 290 pp.
Link, Perry, and Wu Dazhi, I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 553 pp.
Liu Shouying, Land System Reform and China’s Economic Development (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 523 pp.
Liu Yazhou, Great Power Strategy and China-U.S. Relations, trans. Ren Zhi (New York: Bouden House, 2023), 188 pp.
Mahtani, Shibani, and Timothy McLaughlin, Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (New York: Hachette, 2023), 325 pp.
Mungello, D.E., Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), 173 pp.
Ni, Shibei, From One Child to Two Children: Opportunities and Challenges for the One-Child Generation Cohort in China (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 238 pp.
Pei, Minxin, The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024), 321 pp.
Pini, Mario Filippo, Things That a Diplomat in China Should Not Have Seen (Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice, 2022), 366 pp.
Rithmire, Meg E., Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 368 pp.
Saich, Tony, and Zhang Kunling, Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China’s Hukou System Evolution (Singapore: World Scientific, 2024), 217 pp.
Shi, Song, China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024), 368 pp.
Shu, Xiaoling, and Jingjing Chen, Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023), 231 pp.
Strange, Austin, Chinese Global Infrastructure (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 94 pp.
Tsang, Steve, and Olivia Cheung, The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 280 pp.
Wang, Fei-Ling, The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2024), 458 pp.
Zhao, Suisheng, ed., China’s Big Power Ambition Under Xi Jinping: Narratives and Driving Forces (New York: Routledge, 2024), 276 pp.
New Chinese-Language Books on Taiwan in the Fairbank Center Collection
崩世代: 財團化、貧窮化與少子女化的危機 (台北市: 台灣勞工陣線協會, 2011)
不義遺址: 轉型正義的空間實踐 [Sites where Injustices were Committed: Spatial Practice of Transitional Justice] (臺北市: 促進轉型正義委員會, 游觀創意策略有限公司, 2022)
從三等秘書到駐美代表: 一個台灣外交官的雜憶 (臺北市: 允晨文化實業股份有限公司, 2023)
當代台灣社會的族群想像 (台北市: 群學, 2003)
高等崩壞: 市場化、官僚化、與少子女化的危機 (新北市: 群學, 2015)
國家與認同: 一些外省人的觀點 (台北市: 群學, 2010)
競選傳播與臺灣社會 (臺北市: 揚智文化, 2004)
錢復回憶錄典藏版. 卷一, 1935-1979外交風雲動 (臺北市: 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司, 2021)
錢復回憶錄典藏版. 卷二, 1979-1988華府路崎嶇 (臺北市: 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司, 2021)
錢復回憶錄典藏版. 卷三, 1988-2005政經變革的關鍵現場 (臺北市: 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司, 2021)
錢復回憶錄典藏版. 卷四, 2005-2023退而不休的使命傳承 (臺北市: 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司, 2023)
人權讀本: 公民與政治權利篇 (新北市: 群學, 2015)
人權讀本: 經濟、社會與文化權利篇 (新北市: 群學, 2015)
受困的思想: 臺灣重返世界 (新北市: 衛城出版, 2016)
台灣地方政治讀本: 來自青年世代的提問、實踐與反思 (新北市: 左岸文化出版, 2023)
台灣經濟四百年 (臺北市: 春山出版有限公司, 2023)
台灣選舉史 (臺中市: 好讀出版有限公司, 2016)
土地正義: 從土地改革到土地徵收, 一段被掩蓋、一再上演的歷史 (新北市: 遠足文化, 2016)
危殆生活: 無家者的社會世界與幫助的網絡 (臺北市: 春山出版有限公司, 2021)
無法送達的遺書: 記那些在恐怖年代失落的人 (臺北市: 春山出版有限公司, 2022)
矽島的危與機: 半導體與地緣政治 (新竹市: 國立陽明交通大學出版社, 2022)
一衣帶水: 台港社會議題縱橫 [Near Neighbours: Issues in Taiwan and Hong Kong Societies] (香港: 香港中文大學香港亞太研究所, 2014)
余英時評政治現實 (新北市中和區: INK印刻文學, 2022)
照破: 太陽花運動的振幅、縱深與視域 (新北市: 左岸文化, 2016)
自治之夢: 日治時期到二二八的臺灣民主運動 (臺北市: 春山出版, 2020)
族群、國家治理、與新秩序的建構: 新自由主義化下的族群性 (新北市: 群學, 2018)