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 new books collected in winter 2022 – 2023.
New English Books at the Fairbank Center Collection
No. 114 – Winter 2022 – 2023
Alden, Chris and Álvaro Méndez, China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 281 pp.
Altehenger, Jennifer, and Denise Y. Ho, eds., Material Contradictions in Mao’s China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022), 254 pp.
Aust, Stefan, and Adrian Geiges, Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World, trans. Daniel Steuer (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2022), 219 pp.
Bakken, Børge, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2023), 306 pp.
Barrett, Gordon, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 258 pp.
Branigan, Tania, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution (London: Faber, 2023), 284 pp.
Brookes, Adam, Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City (London: Chatto & Windus, 2022), 371 pp.
Carrai, Maria Adele, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi, eds., The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), 447 pp.
Cheung, Tai Ming, Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 400 pp.
Chiang, Yi-Lin, Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 265 pp.
deLisle, Jacques, and Guobin Yang, eds., The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2022), 427 pp.
Delury, John, Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 397 pp.
DeMare, Brian, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022), 186 pp.
Dikötter, Frank, China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022), 390 pp.
Dimitrov, Martin K., Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 470 pp.
Downey, John T., Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee, Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-held POW (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 329 pp.
Dreyer, June Teufel, and Jacques deLisle, eds., Taiwan in the Era of Tsai Ing-Wen: Changes and Challenges (London: Routledge, 2023), 334 pp.
Esherick, Joseph W., China in Revolution: History Lessons (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), 423 pp.
Fitzsimmons, David, Australia’s Relations with China: The Illusion of Choice, 1972-2022 (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023), 196 pp.
Gao, Henry, and Weihuan Zhou, eds., Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China’s State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 199 pp.
Gerwitz, Julian B., Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022), 418 pp.
Joshi, Manoj, Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya (London: Hurst & Company, 2022), 289 pp.
Joske, Alex, Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World (Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant, 2022), 268 pp.
Kurlantzick, Joshua, Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 534 pp.
Liang, Hong, China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World, trans. Emily Goedde (London: Verso, 2021), 307 pp.
Liu, Huwy-min Lucia, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023), 270 pp.
Liu, Yawei, and Susan A. Thornton, Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Civil Society and NGOs in U.S.-China Relations: A Report on U.S.-China Relations (San Francisco: Blurb, 2022), 160 pp.
Marquis, Christopher, and Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 372 pp.
Millwood, Pete, Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 376 pp.
Ng, Michael, Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 211 pp.
Ong, Lynette H., Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 263 pp.
Potter, Philip B.K., and Chen Wang, Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China’s New Silk Road (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 284 pp.
Roach, Stephen S., Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 437 pp.
Rofel, Lisa, and Carlos Rojas, eds., New World Orderings: China and the Global South (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023), 268 pp.
Rowen, Ian, One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 177 pp.
Shirk, Susan L., Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 410 pp.
Svejnar, Jan, and Justin Yifu Lin, eds., China and the West (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2022), 176 pp.
Szonyi, Michael, and Tarun Khanna, eds., Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, From Antiquity to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 382 pp.
Tursun, Perhat, The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, trans. Darren Byler and Anonymous (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 136 pp.
Wallace, Jeremy L., Seeking Truth & Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 273 pp.
Wang, Yuhua, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), 329 pp.
Wei Xue, Aviva, and Kate Rose, Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 213 pp.
Wu, Jiemin, Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model, trans. Stacy Mosher (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), 497 pp.
Wu, Ming, China’s Future: A Biography of Xi Jinping (Hong Kong: CNHK Publications, 2012), 616 pp.
Wu, Weiping, and Qin Gao, eds., China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), 235 pp.
Xiang, Biao, and Qi Wu, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, trans. David Ownby (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 275 pp.
Xiao, Gang, Financing China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Investments and Infrastructure (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021), 107 pp.
Xin, Qiang, Mainland China’s Taiwan Policy: From Peaceful Development to Selective Engagement (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022), 129 pp.
Yoshihara, Toshi, Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaign and the Founding of China’s Navy (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022), 159 pp.
Zhang, Changdong, Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021), 331 pp.
Zhang, Lin, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), 292 pp.
Zhao, Suisheng, The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023), 344 pp.
Zhou, Xueguang, The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 351 pp.