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 Winter/Spring of 2026.
New Books in the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 120 – Winter/Spring 2026
Alsudairi, Mohammed, and Andrea Ghiselli. Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures: In the Eye of the Beholder (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 73 pp.
Blanke, Anja, Julia C. Strauss, and Klaus Mühlhahn, eds. Revolutionary Transformations: The People’s Republic of China in the 1950s (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 291 pp.
Bratton, Benjamin, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, and Bogna Konior, eds. Machine Decision is not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2025), 396 pp.
Broy, Nikolas, Flourishing Fasts: Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025), 480 pp.
Cha, Victor D., Ellen Kim, and Andy Lim. China’s Weaponization of Trade: Resistance Through Collective Resilience (New York: Columbia University Press, 2026), 389 pp.
Chang, Jung. Fly, Wild Swans (New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025), 309 pp.
Cheng Lei. Cheng Lei: A Memoir of Freedom (New York: HarperCollins, 2025), 383 pp.
Chu, Shiuon. Reinventing Examination and the State in Twentieth-Century China and Taiwan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2025), 283 pp.
Cole, J. Michael. The Taiwan Tinderbox (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2025), 244 p.
Erickson, Andrew S., Conor M. Kennedy, and Ryan D. Martinson, eds. Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion (Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2024), 494 pp.
Fang, Hanming, and Marshall W. Meyer, eds. The Arc of the Chinese Economy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 323 pp.
Hall, Simon. Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World (London: Faber and Faber, 2025), 447 pp.
Hu Anyan. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, trans. Jack Hargreaves (New York: Astra House, 2025), 319 pp.
Jia, Ruixue, Hongbin Li, and Claire Cousineau. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025), 242 pp.
Kepe, Marta, and Scott W. Harold, eds. Building Taiwan’s Resilience: Insights into Taiwan’s Civilian Resilience Against Acts of War (Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2025), 59 pp.
Kim, Jiye. The Future of the South China Sea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026), 226 pp.
Le, Lin. China’s Conservative Turn: The Origins of Xi Jinping’s New Era (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2025), 256 pp.
Leng, Ning. Politicizing Business: How Firms are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 209 pp.
Li, He. Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars: The Battle of Ideas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025), 228 pp.
Lin, Jian, Wilfred Yang Wang, and Ping Sun. Chinese Platforms: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2026), 216 pp.
Lind, Jennifer. Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025), 228 pp.
Liu, Yun. Blue Skies over Wuhan: The Evolution of Environmental Protection Policy in Hubei, 1970s-80s (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025), 215 pp.
Molinaro, Dennis. Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War against Canada (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2025), 328 pp.
Ng, Joel, ed. The Dragon’s Emerging Order: Sino-centric Multilateralism and Global Responses (Singapore: World Scientific, 2026), 200 pp.
Nissim, Roger. The Placemakers of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025), 110 pp.
Pei, Minxin. The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025), 327 pp.
Ping, Lei. Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), 322 pp.
Saich, Tony. Governance and Politics of China (Fifth edition, fully revised and updated) (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), 400 pp.
Shuang, Xuetao. Hunter, trans. Jeremy Tiang (London: Granta Magazine Editions, 2025), 281 pp.
Smith, Jason RB. A World Beyond Poverty: China’s Roadmap to a Shared Future ([Publisher not identified], 2025), 525 pp.
Song, Chenyang. Nationalist and Popular Culture Practices on Social Media: A Digital Ethnography of Chinese Online Fandom Nationalists (Verlag: transcript, 2025), 239 pp.
Stockmann, Daniela, and Ting Luo. Governing Digital China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 273 pp.
Tang, Wenfang, and Ying Xia. Proud and Angry: Political Culture in Post-British Hong Kong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 230 pp.
Trémon, Anne-Christine. From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China (New York: Berghahn, 2023), 258 pp.
Wang, Peng, and Wanlin Lin. Extralegal Governance: The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 211 pp.
Zanatta, Pier Luigi. China Then: Reporting on the Old “New China”: a Memoir (Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books Ltd., 2025), 143 pp.
Zhang, Kangkang. Disenchantment: 1980-1983 Vol. I Fracture, trans. Stacy Mosher (New York: Bouden House, 2025), 571 pp.
Zhang, Kangkang. Disenchantment: 1983-1986 Vol. II Mirror Image, trans. Stacy Mosher (New York: Bouden House, 2025), 562 pp.
Zhang, Kangkang. Disenchantment: 1987-1989 Vol. III The Crossing, trans. Stacy Mosher (New York: Bouden House, 2025), 499 pp.