R&L China Catalogue

books on China

2020

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment P.9

CONTENTS Biography

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Business & Economics

3

Education

6

Environment

8

History

10

International Relations

21

Law

32

Literature

33

Media

35

Performing Arts

43

Philosophy

45

Photography

48

Politics

49

Religion

57

Social Science

58

Travel

63

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Xi Jinping Red China, The Next Generation

By Agnès Andrésy

August 2018 170 pages Paperback 9780761869474 $36.99 Hardback 9780761866008 $69.00

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Biography

This book follows Chinese leader, Xi Jingping’s rise to power and the chaotic path of his succession to the head of the Party. As he begins his first term, Xi Jinping knows that many challenges lie ahead, with the absolute imperative to keep China “as stable as Mount Taishan.”

Agnès Andrésy, specializes in leaders and networks in China. She divides her time between Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong as a business consultant and strategic researcher on China. She was the editor-in-chief of the Chinarcanes subscription newsletter from 2003 to 2009, and also contributed to Études and the Asia Europe Journal. Her other books available in french from L’Harmattan are “Red princelings: The new leaders of China” (2004) and “Who’s Hu : The politics and networks of Hu Jintao, president of China” (2008).

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Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy

By Lawrence R. Sullivan

November 2017 546 pages Hardback 9781538108536 $121.00

The Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 crossreferenced entries on critical sectors of the economy including automobiles, banking and finance, national currency, economic regulation, trade and investment.

Lawrence R. Sullivan is a professor (emeritus) who taught at several institutions of higher learning, including Wellesley College, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. He is author and editor of several books including most recently Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China coauthored with Nancy Yang Liu. Paul Curcio is a veteran of financial news, working as a writer and editor at Dow Jones, AP Financial, and TheStreet. As an educator, he has taught courses in writing and journalism at the City University of New York for many years.

Table of Contents Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Lawrence R. Sullivan Reader’s Note Acronyms and Abbreviations Map Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Glossary Appendix Bibliography About the Authors

Business & Economics

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Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China Reform and Resistance in the Publishing Industry

By Jianhua Yao

December 2017 204 pages Paperback 9780739198513 $46.99 Hardback 9780739186640 $109.00

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This book concentrates on knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and China’s integration into the global political economy.

Jianhua Yao received his doctoral degree in sociology from Queen’s University, Canada, and his research interests include political economy, media and communication, and labor issues.

Business & Economics

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Museum Development in China Understanding the Building Boom Edited by Gail Dexter Lord, Guan Qiang, An Laishun and Javier Jimenez

August 2019 160 pages Hardback 9781538109977 $49.00

Growth of Chinese museums in the 21st century reflects the government’s Museum Development Plan for 2011-2020 to open one museum per 250,000 people, with the goal of attracting one billion visitors. This book builds our knowledge of the roles of China’s museums through social and political changes, governance, and the private and public sectors.

Gail Lord is one of the world’s foremost museum, gallery, and cultural planners. Cofounder and President of Lord Cultural Resources, her clients include the Nanjing Museum, Beijing Association of Science and Technology, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Louvre, Tate Modern, and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, just to name a few. She is an art critic, feature writer, frequent commentator, public speaker, and the co-author of several books including Cities, Museums, and Soft Power and Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations. Gail is a Member of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in the French Ministry of Culture. In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters, by McMaster University.

Guan Qiang is currently Deputy Administrator of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, in charge of Chinese Museums Association and ICOM China.

He has been working in the field of archaeological research, exhibition curating, cultural heritage protection and museum management over the past 30 years and including extensive experience at China’s renowned Palace Museum.

An Laishun holds Ph.D. in Chinese history and Masters in museology. He is the Vice President of the International Council of Museums, Vice President and Secretary General of the Chinese Museums Association. For 34 years, Dr. An has served the museum sector in various positions at the national, regional and international levels. Working closely with colleagues around the world, he has concentrated his efforts on increasing regional and international cooperation between museums by contributing to the success of a number of programs and projects, and on internationalizing Chinese museums.

Javier Jimenez is a museum and cultural planner with project experience in more than 20 countries. Since joining Lord Cultural Resources inBusiness 2008, Javier been involved in 5 & has Economics consulting projects for renowned institutions including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the King Abdulaziz Center in Saudi Arabia, the Ayala Museum, the Nanjing Museum, and

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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language Emerging Trends Edited by Ko-Yin Sung

October 2019 250 pages Hardback 9781498574792 $95.00

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Education

This edited collection, with a focus on Chinese as a second or foreign language acquisition, consists of research studies that address one of three emerging themes: information and communication technology (ICT), young learners, and Chinesecharacter teaching and learning.

Ko-Yin Sung is associate professor of Chinese at Utah State University and coordinator of the Chinese language program.

August 2018 134 pp

(Mis)Reading Different Cultures

American Universities in China

Interpreting International Children’s Literature from Asia

Lessons from Japan

By Yukari Takimoto Amos and Daniel Miles Amos

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

9781475836899 I $46.00 I HB 9781475836905 I $23.00 I PB

By Dennis T. Yang

November 2017 116 pp 9781498554534 I $85.00 I HB

Children’s Literature from Asia in Today’s Classrooms

Handbook of Comparative Education Law

Towards Culturally Authentic Interpretations

Selected Asian Nations Edited by Charles J. Russo

By Yukari Takimoto Amos and Daniel Miles Amos

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers August 2018 122 pp

November 2017 160 pp

9781475843675 I $46.00 I HB 9781475843682 I $23.00 I PB

9781475839531 I $63.00 I HB 9781475839548 I $32.00 I PB

Multimodalities and Chinese Students’ L2 Practices

Performed Culture in Chinese Language Education

Positioning, Agency, and Community

A Culture-Based Approach for U.S. Collegiate Contexts

By Min Wang

By Guangyan Chen

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

April 2020 180 pp

September 2020 248 pp

9781498594561 I $90.00 I HB

9781498584951 I $95.00 I HB

Education

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Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks

By Elizabeth Brunner

July 2019 200 pages Hardback 9781793606129 $90.00

This book is an in-depth study on the use of social media in environmental activism in China. The author weaves together post-structuralist theory, media theory, social movement theory, and environmental communication studies to analyze concepts such as wild public networks and force majeure in the context of contemporary social movements.

Elizabeth Brunner is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion at Idaho State University.

Table of Contents Introduction: The Entangled Environments of Degradation and Activism Chapter 1: The Environmental Impacts of China’s “Opening”: A Rising Culture of Protest Chapter 2: Social Movements over Wild Public Networks Chapter 3: Social Movements as Force Majeure: Xiamen’s 2007 PX Protest Chapter 4: The Disappointment in Dalian Chapter 5: Maoming: Networks of Corruption and Activism Conclusion: Force Majeure: Understanding Social Media, Social Movements, and Rhetoric as Force

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Environment

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Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment

By Lawrence R. Sullivan and Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan

October 2019 386 pages Hardback 9781538120354 $95.00

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on environmental degradation including air and water pollution, deforestation, desertification, and resource depletion.

Lawrence R. Sullivan is a professor emeritus of political science, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and a research associate, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York City. He is co-editor and co-translator of several works on the Chinese environment including China’s Water Crisis by Ma Jun (2004) and The River Dragon has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China’s Yangtze River and Its People (1998) by Dai Qing.

Nancy Y. Liu has conducted research at Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center, New York City, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Biology, College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York where she also conducts cancer research.

Environment

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A Century of Change in a Chinese Village The Crisis of the Countryside

By Lin Juren and Xie Yuxi Edited by Linda Grove

May 2018 318 pages Hardback 9781538112359 $85.00

This compelling book analyzes the dramatic changes in rural Chinese society as a result of rapid urbanization. Building on eight decades of studies of the village of Lengshuigou, Chinese sociologists examine the fundamental changes over the last century that have radically transformed centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order.

Lin Juren is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Shandong University.

Xie Yuxi is lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Shandong University.

Linda Grove is professor emerita at Sophia University in Tokyo, where she was vice president for research and international exchange.

Table of Contents

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History

List of Measures List of Figures and Tables Chronology Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Lengshuigou in Time and Space Chapter 2 Changes in Village Politics and Village Elites Chapter 3 Lineage and Family Relationships Chapter 4 Social Structure and Social Life Chapter 5 Cultural Tradition and Folk Customs Chapter 6 Social Relationships and Network Structures Chapter 7 Economic Structure and Development Chapter 8 Transformation and Future of the Village Epilogue References Index About the Editor

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A Century of Student Movements in China The Mountain Movers, 1919–2019 Edited by Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang

December 2019 342 pages Hardback 9781793609168 $115.00

The book looks through five generations of Chinese students since the May Fourth Movement in 1919, explains how their ideas, actions, and impact ran like a thread through many governments and institutions that have shaped modern China, and indicates where China came from and what the country became.

Xiaobing Li is professor and chair of the Department of History and Geography and the director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Qiang Fang is professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

History

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Modern China Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

By Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine

April 2019 656 pages Paperback 9781538103869 $69.00 Hardback 9781538103852 $138.00

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History

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History, U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of many books, including Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927; Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989; Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question; Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–30: The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army; High Sea’s Buffer: The Taiwan Patrol Force, 1950–1979; Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy; International Competition in China, 1899–1991: The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy; and China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors.

S. C. M. Paine is the William S. Sims Professor of History and Grand Strategy in the Strategy and Policy Department, U.S. Naval War College. She is the author of Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontiers, winner of the Jelavich Book Prize; The Sino- Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy; The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949, winner of the Leopold Prize + PROSE Award for European & World History; and The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War.

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The Origins of the Modern World A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By Robert B. Marks

July 2019 320 pages Paperback 9781538127032 $32.00 Hardback 9781538127025 $89.00

Now in a new edition, this clearly written and engrossing book presents a global and environmental narrative of the origins of the modern world since 1400. Robert Marks constructs a story in which Asia, Africa, and the New World play major roles and points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment.

Robert B. Marks is Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College. His books include China: Its Environment and History (Rowman & Littlefield). He is the recipient of Whittier College’s Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award.

History

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The Rise of Tea Culture in China The Invention of the Individual

By Bret Hinsch

June 2018 172 pages Paperback 9781538117811 $31.00 Hardback 9781442251786 $94.00

This distinctive and enlightening book explores the development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. By linking tea to individualism, Hinsch’s deeply researched book makes an original and influential contribution to the history of Chinese culture.

Bret Hinsch is professor in the Department of History at Fo Guang University, Yilan, Taiwan. He is the author of Masculinities in Chinese History, Women in Early Imperial China, and Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China.

Table of Contents Timeline of Major Chinese Dynasties Introduction Chapter One: The Rise of Tea Chapter Two: Power Chapter Three: Lu Yu Chapter Four: Connoisseurship Chapter Five: Morality Chapter Six: Transcendence Chapter Seven: Manhood Glossary Bibliography

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History

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Women and China's Revolutions

By Gail Hershatter

November 2018 424 pages Paperback 9781442215696 $36.00 Hardback 9781442215689 $104.00

Using gender as its analytic lens, this deeply knowledgeable text illuminates the places where the Big History of China’s past two centuries intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people. Based on formidable scholarship, Gail Hershatter’s beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China’s modern history.

Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past and Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century.

Table of Contents List of Photos Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Gendered Labor of Empire, 1800–1840 2 Disturbances, 1840–1900 3 Revolutionary Currents, 1895–1912 4 Imagined Futures, 1912–27 5 Regulatory Regimes, 1928–37 6 Wartime Women, 1928–41 7 Wartime Women, 1935–49 8 The Socialist Construction of Women, 1949–78 9 Capitalized Women, 1978– Glossary Notes Works Cited Index About the Author History

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Canton Days

Celestial Women

British Life and Death in China

Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing

By John M. Carroll

By Keith McMahon Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2020 358 pp

January 2020 312 pp

9781538136294 I $39.00 I PB

9781442255012 I $94.00 I HB 9781538141434 I $29.00 I PB

China’s Assistance Program in Xinjiang

The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

A Sociological Analysis

A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance

By Yuhui Li Edited by Anson H. Laytner and Jordan Paper

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books September 2018 178 pp

October 2019 290 pp

9781498539395 I $90.00 I HB

9781498550260 I $99.50 I HB 9781498550284 I $42.99 I PB

The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War

November 2017 342 pp 9781498570053 I $110.00 I HB

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History

East and Southeast Asia 2018-2019

The Great American Dream

By Steven A. Leibo

By Roger B. Jeans

Series: World Today (Stryker)

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers August 2018 336 pp 9781475841824 I $23.00 I PB

East and Southeast Asia 2019-2020

Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China

Series: World Today (Stryker)

By Felicity Lufkin

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2019 344 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books

May 2019 292 pp

9781475852516 I $25.00 I PB

9781498526289 I $100.00 I HB 9781498526302 I $42.99 I PB

High Tide in the Korean War

Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea

How an Outnumbered American Regiment Defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni

By James E. Hoare Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East

By Leo Barron Imprint: Stackpole Books May 2020 336 pp

October 2019 742 pp

9780811738989 I $21.95 I PB

9781538119730 I $150.00 I HB

Historical Dictionary of Tibet

The Letters and Diaries of Colonel John Hart Caughey, 1944–1945

By John Powers and David Templeman

With Wedemeyer in World War II China

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East October 2020 880 pp 9781538130216 I $220.00 I HB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Edited by Roger B. Jeans Imprint: Lexington Books June 2018 270 pp 9781498574976 I $100.00 I HB

History

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Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage When Antiquity Met Modernity in China

By Dong Wang Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives August 2020 304 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

THE MARITIME SILK ROAD AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WEST

The Maritime Silk Road and Cultural Communication between China and the West

By Yan Chen Imprint: Lexington Books

October 2020 224 pp 9781498544054 I $100.00 I HB

9781538141106 I $95.00 I HB

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Overcoming Ptolemy

The Secret History Of America's First Central Intelligence Agency

The Revelation of an Asian World Region

By Geoffrey C. Gunn

By Richard Harris Smith Series: AsiaWorld Imprint: Lyons Press Imprint: Lexington Books October 2019 456 pp

December 2018 324 pp

9781592287291 I $16.95 I PB

9781498590136 I $115.00 I HB

The Phony Reformer

Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors

Greed, Status, and Patronage in Late Qing China

China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato Imprint: Lexington Books

June 2018 180 pp

October 2018 222 pp

9781538112397 I $62.00 I HB 9781538112403 I $29.00 I PB

9781498537049 I $95.00 I HB 9781498537063 I $39.99 I PB

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History

Shanghai Faithful

The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de PrĂŠmare in Eighteenth-Century China

Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family

By Jennifer Lin

By D. E. Mungello

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Lexington Books

September 2018 336 pp

June 2019 154 pp

9781442256934 I $36.00 I HB 9781538121276 I $22.00 I PB

9781498595643 I $85.00 I HB

Street Without Joy

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage

The French Debacle in Indochina

Negotiating Dispossession

By Bernard B. Fall

Edited by Shelly Bhoil and Enrique Galvan-Alvarez

Series: Stackpole Military History Series

Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture

Imprint: Stackpole Books January 2018 424 pp

November 2018 262 pp

9780811736541 I $24.95 I PB

9781498552387 I $95.00 I HB

To the Diamond Mountains

War and Occupation in China

A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea

February 2018 216 pp 9781442205031 I $76.00 I HB 9780810896215 I $28.00 I PB

Imprint: Lexington Books

By Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938

Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Edited by Charles Bright and Joseph W. Ho

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Series: Studies in Christianity in China

September 2019 336 pp 9781611462319 I $115.00 I HB 9781611462333 I $42.99 I PB

Imprint: Lehigh University Press

History

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William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China

Women in Ancient China

By Bret Hinsch

War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports, 1860–1904

Series: Asian Voices

By Wayne Patterson

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Lexington Books

November 2019 258 pp

May 2018 226 pp

9781498566469 I $95.00 I HB

9781538115404 I $79.00 I HB

Women in Early Medieval China

Women in Tang China

By Bret Hinsch

By Bret Hinsch

Series: Asian Voices

Series: Asian Voices

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2018 234 pp

November 2019 256 pp

9781538117965 I $85.00 I HB

9781538134894 I $99.00 I HB

Women Shall Not Rule

The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization

Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao

By Juanjuan Peng

By Keith McMahon

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2020 310 pp

March 2020 206 pp

9781442222892 I $89.00 I HB 9781538141946 I $29.00 I PB

9781498507011 I $95.00 I HB

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History

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Africa and China How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China Edited by Aleksandra W. Gadzala

December 2017 246 pages Paperback 9781786606563 $45.00 Hardback 9781442237759 $102.00

With case studies from the technology, natural resource, security, manufacturing, and financial sectors, the volume shows not only how African realities shape Chinese actions, but also how African governments and entrepreneurs are learning to leverage their competitive advantages and to negotiate the growing Chinese presence across the continent.

Editor: Aleksandra W. Gadzala is a geopolitical risk and social impact consultant focused on emerging and frontier markets. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford.

Contributors: Lucy Corkin works at Rand Merchant Bank, a South African investment bank, and is a Research Associate of the Africa-Asia Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Joshua Eisenman is assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) in Washington, DC. Iginio Gagliardone is British Academy Research Fellow and a member of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford.

Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School.

Mark Kaigwa is a consultant, technologist and blogger based in Nairobi, Kenya and a recognized leader in Africa's emerging media industry.

Giles Mohan is Professor of International Development at the UK’s Open University.

International Relations Barry Sautman is a political scientist and lawyer at Hong Kong University of Science &

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Beyond the Brink Escalation and Conflict in U.S.China Economic Relations

By Matthew P. Goodman

January 2020 84 pages Paperback 9781442281363 $45.00

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An effort to model U.S.-China economic conflict finds that Washington and Beijing are set on a path of continued escalation. The report makes recommendations for U.S. policymakers seeking to engage in successful economic bargaining with China.

Matthew P. Goodman is senior vice president, senior adviser for Asian economics, and holds the Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

International Relations

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China and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Strategic Partnership in a Changing World

By Muhamad S. Olimat

May 2018 284 pages Paperback 9781498545044 $46.99 Hardback 9781498545020 $105.00

This book examines China’s relations with member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It highlights the depth of China’s ties with the region bilaterally and multilaterally on a five-dimensional approach: political relations, trade relations, energy security, security cooperation, and cultural relations.

Dr. Muhamad S. Olimat is professor of international relations and Middle East studies at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy.

Table of Contents 1 China and the Arab Gulf Countries: An Overview 2 Multilateralism: A Five Dimensional Approach 3 Rivalry, Competition, and Accommodation: A Tridimensional Approach 4 China and Bahrain 5 China and Kuwait 6 China and Oman 7 China and Qatar 8 China and Saudi Arabia 9 China and the United Arab Emirates 10 China and the Arab Gulf Countries: Prospects and Conclusions

International Relations

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China–South Korea Relations in the New Era Challenges and Opportunities

By Min Ye

August 2019 198 pages Paperback 9780739198582 $36.99 Hardback 9780739198568 $95.00

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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to China–South Korea relations. It integrates recent theoretical advances in international relations with conventional wisdom in the study of East Asia. The analysis reveals a complicated and dynamic process that defines the bilateral relationship in the new century.

Min Ye is professor of political science at Coastal Carolina University.

Table of Contents 1 A Brief Review of China-South Korea Relations 2 Understanding the New Dynamics in China-South Korea Relations 3 Economics-Politics Nexus between China and South Korea 4 “Soft” Clashes in China-South Korea Relations 5 China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement: A Springboard to the Future?

6 Balancing between Allies and Rivals: External Players of China-South Korea Relations 7 Setting Sail in the New Century

International Relations

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Foreign Relations of the PRC The Legacies and Constraints of China's International Politics since 1949

By Robert G. Sutter

July 2018 384 pages Paperback 9781538107478 $42.00 Hardback 9781538107461 $104.00

Now in a fully updated edition, this cogent book examines the international relations of the PRC since its founding in 1949. Sutter provides a balanced assessment of the country’s recent successes and advances as well as the legacies and constraints that hamper it, especially in nearby Asia—long the focus of China’s foreign policy attention.

Robert G. Sutter was an analyst of Asian and Pacific affairs and American foreign policy for the U.S. government for thirty years. He is now professor of practice of international affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1.Assessing China’s Role in World Affairs 2.Mao’s Changing Course in Foreign Affairs, 1949–69 3.Maneuvering between the United States and USSR, 1969–89 4.Chinese Foreign Relations after the Cold War 5.Patterns in Decision Making and International Outlook 6.China’s Changing Importance in World Affairs 7.Relations with the United States 8.Relations with Neighboring Asian Countries 9.Relations beyond Nearby Asia 10.Outlook Chronology Glossary of Key Terms Selected Bibliography

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Iran and China A New Approach to Their Bilateral Relations

By Shirzad Azad

March 2020 156 pages

This study is a broad analysis of diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations between Iran and China since the 1980s. It provides new perspectives on critical recent developments and outlines a prospective path for the future.

Paperback 9781498544597 $36.99

Shirzad Azad received his PhD in international relations from Seoul National University.

Hardback 9781498544573 $89.00

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Table of Contents Chapter 1: The 1980s: Marking a Watershed in Sino–Iranian Ties Chapter 2: Under Eminences Grises: Vowing Perpetual Partnership Chapter 3: Same Talks, Contrasting Connotations: Civilizational Nuances Chapter 4: Principlism Engages Pragmatism: Failures and Frictions Chapter 5: A New Era: Toward Strategic Equilibrium

International Relations

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The Myth of China’s No Strings Attached Development Assistance A Caribbean Case Study

By Theodor Tudoroiu

November 2019 234 pages Hardback 9781793603227 $95.00

The goal of this book is to show that the frequently mentioned “no strings attached” nature of China’s development assistance to its partners in the Global South is nothing more than a myth. Using a Caribbean case study, the book analyzes the details of Beijing’s political, economic, and social conditionalities.

Theodor Tudoroiu is senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Amanda Ramlogan-Gangabissoon is doctoral student at the Institute of International Relations of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Conditionality and Socialization 3. China’s Mixed Record in the Global South 4. China’s Political Conditionality 5. China’s Economic Conditionality 6. China’s Social Conditionality 7. Too Early for Conditionality: the Geopolitical Dimension 8. Analysis and Conclusion

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Tomorrow's Silk Road Assessing an EU-China Free Trade Agreement

By Jacques Pelkmans and Joseph Francois

June 2018 332 pages

The first comprehensive and in-depth economic and regulatory analysis of a possible Free Trade Area (FTA) between China and the EU.

Paperback 9781786607874 $50.00

Jacques Pelkmans is Senior Fellow at CEPS (www.ceps.eu) in Brussels and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Between 2001 and August 2012, he was Jan Tinbergen Chair and Director of the Economics Department at the College. A Ph.D. in economics from Tilburg University, he has been associate professor of economics at the European University Institute in Florence, professor of economics at the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) and professor for European Economic Integration at Maastricht University. He was a Council member at the WRR (think-tank of the Dutch Prime minister) 2001-07.

Hardback 9781786607867 $120.00

Joseph Francois is Managing Director and professor of economics at the World Trade Institute. He also serves as deputy director of the NCCR Trade Regulation. Previously he was professor of economics (with a chair in economic theory) at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. He is a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, senior research fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project. He serves on the editorial board of the Review of Development Economics, and the World Trade Review.

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International Relations

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

America in Retreat AMERICA IN RETREAT

By Mel Gurtov

Edited by Luisa Marcela Ossa and Debbie Lee-DiStefano

November 2018 256 pp

Series: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving Imprint: Lexington Books

9781498587082 I $95.00 I HB

Foreign Policy under Donald Trump

Series: World Social Change Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers September 2020 216 pp 9781538145661 I $79.00 I HB

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific

Changing Regional Alliances for China and the West

Edited by Michael Clarke, Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley

Edited by David Lane and Guichang Zhu

Imprint: Lexington Books

Series: Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics

February 2020 254 pp

November 2017 348 pp

9781498582759 I $95.00 I HB

9781498562331 I $110.00 I HB

China and East Africa

Imprint: Lexington Books

China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia

Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows

Myth or Reality?

By B. M. Jain

Edited by Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu and Purity Wakabari Kiura

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books December 2019 298 pp

March 2020 182 pp

9781498576147 I $95.00 I HB

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China's Strategic Partnerships in Latin America

Donald J. Trump and China

Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991–2015

Imprint: Hamilton Books

By John Franklin Copper

By Yanran Xu November 2018 168 pp

Imprint: Lexington Books

9781498544696 I $95.00 I HB 9781498544719 I $36.99 I PB

August 2019 164 pp 9780761871187 I $19.99 I PB

Historical Dictionary of Chinese Foreign Affairs

By Lawrence R. Sullivan Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East

September 2018 584 pp

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

India in the Era of China’s Belt and Road Initiative INDIA IN THE ERA OF CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

By Anil Sigdel Imprint: Lexington Books

August 2020 262 pp 9781793601636 I $105.00 I HB

9781538111611 I $120.00 I HB

The Logic of Irregular War

Political Economy of China– Taiwan Relations

Asymmetry and America’s Adversaries

Origins and Development

Edited by Ilan Berman

By Chien-Kai Chen

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Lexington Books

November 2017 128 pp

May 2018 242 pp

9781538105412 I $65.00 I HB

9781498568050 I $95.00 I HB

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How Modi Responds to Xi

International Relations

Putin and His Neighbors

The South China Sea Disputes

Russia's Policies toward Eurasia

Past, Present, and Future

By Dina R. Spechler and Martin C. Spechler

By Nalanda Roy Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

November 2019 162 pp

October 2018 178 pp

9781498588713 I $90.00 I HB

9781498536233 I $95.00 I HB 9781498536257 I $36.99 I PB

South Korea's Changing Foreign Policy The Impact of Democratization and Globalization

Transforming Our World TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD

President George H. W. Bush and American Foreign Policy Edited by Andrew Natsios Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

By Wonjae Hwang Imprint: Lexington Books November 2018 142 pp

December 2020 308 pp

9781498531849 I $89.00 I HB 9781498531863 I $36.99 I PB

9781538143445 I $38.00 I HB

The United States and Asia

US-China Relations

Regional Dynamics and Twenty-First-Century Relations

Perilous Past, Uncertain Present

By Robert G. Sutter

By Robert G. Sutter Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Series: Asia in World Politics

October 2019 362 pp 9781538126448 I $99.00 I HB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2017 336 pp 9781538105337 I $115.00 I HB 9781538105344 I $48.00 I PB

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Chinese Language in Law Code Red

By Deborah Cao

November 2017 214 pages Hardback 9781498503952 $95.00

This book explores the Chinese language used in law and analyzes the associated linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese context and cross-linguistically. It investigates the linguistic and cultural landscape associated with Chinese law through an examination of a number of keywords and linguistic usages.

Deborah Cao is professor at Griffith University.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Linguistic Dimensions in Chinese Law: Problems and Perspectives Chapter 2: Keywords of Law Chapter 3: Doing Justice Linguistically Chapter 4: Yuan: Injustice as a Keyword Chapter 5: Linguistic and Cultural Meanings of Rights in Chinese Chapter 6: Legal Speech Acts and Chinese Legislative Performatives Chapter 7: Is the Chinese Legal Language More Ambiguous and Vague

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A Study of Literary Trends in China Since the 1980s The Revival of Classical and Modern Literature

By Teresa Chi-Ching Sun

March 2019 86 pages Hardback 9780761871088 $60.00

This book traces the revival of Chinese literature after China’s reform in the 1980s, examining the literature and language portion of the College Entrance Examination (CEE) from 1954–2007 in order to show how the restoration of Classical literature in its original meaning has replaced literature that served Communist political ideology.

Teresa Chi-Ching Sun has taught Chinese cultural history at the University of California, Irvine, California State University at Los Angeles, California State University at Long Beach, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Her previous publications include The Admission Dispute: Asian Americans Versus University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The CEE as a Reflection of Changing Chinese Politics Chapter One A Brief History of Chinese Literature and Politics from the End of the Imperial Period to the 1980s Chapter Two The Rise and Reversal of Communism as Reflected on the CEE (1950-1980) Chapter Three The Revival of Traditional Chinese Literature in the Modern Period: The CEE after 1980 Chapter Four The CEE and the Scientific Turn: The Future of Literary Studies in China Conclusion China’s Renaissance and its Global Future Bibliography About the Author Literature 33

Chinese Drama and Society

Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore

By Teresa Chi-Ching Sun

Witnesses to Social and Cultural Transformations in the Chinese Community

Imprint: Hamilton Books

By Bing Wang Imprint: Lexington Books August 2019 114 pp

November 2017 202 pp

9780761871316 I $30.99 I PB

9781498535151 I $90.00 I HB

Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody

Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China

By Shudong Chen

By Yu Zhang

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books

Bonds and Boundaries

October 2018 278 pp

December 2017 270 pp

9781498573382 I $95.00 I HB

9781498557856 I $105.00 I HB

Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women's Literature

Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands Harmonious Heterotopia

Imagining Home

By Yuqing Yang

By Fang Tang

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books December 2019 204 pp

December 2017 262 pp

9781498595469 I $90.00 I HB

9781498502979 I $110.00 I HB

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China in the Era of Social Media An Unprecedented Force for An Unprecedented Social Change

CHINA IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Edited by Junhao Hong

August 2020 Hardback 9781793608741 $125.00

China in the Era of Social Media examines the unique characteristics of Chinese social media and the impact of social media on the country’s unprecedented social transformation, political change, ruling communist ideology, and public discourse and public opinions.

Junhao Hong is professor in the Department of Communication at State University of New York and distinguished guest professor of Shanghai University, China.

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Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture Global Perspectives Edited by Tim Trausch

November 2018 238 pages Hardback 9781786609021 $135.00

Signs and images of the Chinese martial arts genre are increasingly included in the media of global popular culture. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is constructed as one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, neither are the essays in this collection.

Tim Trausch is a research associate in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on Chinese media culture and aesthetics. He has published essays on Chinese-language film and television, and a book on the aesthetics of martial arts cinema. His current work focuses on photography and modernity in late imperial and Republican-era China.

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Introduction: Martial Arts and Media Culture in the Information Era: Glocalization, Heterotopia, Hyperculture (Tim Trausch) The Demise of the Wuxia Film? - The Mutation of a Genre from Manifestation of Crisis to Postmodern Pastiche and Reaffirmation of Centralized Power (Clemens von Haselberg) Transposing Jianghu in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema From the 20th Century to the 21st Century (Helena Wu)A Touch of Sin, Translation, and Transmedial Imagination (Carlos Rojas)The Effortless Lightness of Action: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films in the Age of Immediacy (Man-Fung Yip)Imagining Transcultural Mediascapes: Martial Arts, African Appropriation, and the Deterritorializing Flows of Globalization (Ivo Ritzer)From the Boxers to Kung Fu Panda: The Chinese Martial Arts in Global Entertainment (John Christopher (Chris) Hamm)Bruce Lee, Bruceploitation, and Beyond: Renegotiating Discourses of Original and Copy (Tim Trausch) David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Kin-Yan Szeto)In Search of the 36th Virtual Chamber - Martial Arts in Video Games From Screen Fighting to Wuxia Worldbuilding (Andreas Rauscher) The MUD Era: The Origins of Chinese Martial Arts Online Games (Zheng Baochun, Wang Mingwei) Martial Arts and Media Supplements (Paul Bowman)

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Chinese Media in Africa Perception, Performance, and Paradox

By Emeka Umejei

August 2020 Hardback 9781498593960 $90.00

CHINESE MEDIA IN AFRICA

Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox is a contribution to the debate on Chinese media expansion into Africa. Interviews bring to light the paradoxical nature of Chinese media organizations that both preach equality with Africa and simultaneously promote Chinese hegemony in the media.

Emeka Umejei is visiting assistant professor in communication and multimedia design at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

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Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou

By Wilfred Yang Wang

October 2019 196 pages Hardback 9781786607324 $135.00

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in urban Chinese cities.

Wilfred Yang Wang is an Independent Researcher.

Table of Contents Introduction Place, locality and digital media in China / 1. Minjian Society: identity, culture and digital media / 2. Two tales of one city: across the state and commoners / 3.

Bodily practice: Digitizing the Guangzhou body / 4. Geographical knowledge: reproducing Guangzhou / 5. Opinion leadership: Re-configuring the city-nation dialectic / Conclusion: From Guangzhou to China: rethinking digital media research of China / Appendix: Notes on methods / References

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Media Imperialism Continuity and Change Edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner Mirrlees

October 2019 344 pages Hardback 9781538121542 $95.00

This book brings together researchers in international communication and global media studies to revisit and advance the concept of media imperialism for 21st century research. Using cases across the globe, this volume is essential for understanding communications media in unequal economic, geopolitical and cultural-ideological power relations.

Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University.

Tanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Communication and Digital Media Studies program, and the VicePresident of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA).

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Propaganda, Media, and Nationalism in Mainland China and Hong Kong

By Luwei Rose Luqiu

October 2018 170 pages Hardback 9781498573146 $90.00

This book presents a conceptual discussion of propaganda and the nature of media in China and Hong Kong. It looks at two case studies of Chinese media control including the presentation of Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet and the misrepresentation of the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong.

Luwei Rose Luqiu is assistant professor at the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Chapter 1. Defining Propaganda Chapter 2. Nationalist Propaganda in Chinese State Media: Four Independence Movements Chapter 3. Measure Nationalist Propaganda Strategy in Close Society Chapter 4. How Chinese Government Control Media in Hong Kong Chapter 5. Framing Contest: Why China’s State Propaganda Backfired in Hong Kong Chapter 6. Role of Media for Challengers of State Power in an Open Society Conclusion References About the Author

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Silencing Chinese Media The "Southern Weekly" Protests and the Fate of Civil Society in Xi Jinping's China

By Guan Jun

August 2020 184 pages Hardback 9781538142264 $85.00

This gripping insider’s account highlights the internal debates and public protests at the Southern Weekly, a newspaper known for pushing the envelope on media controls. In his first-person account of a seminal moment as Xi Jinping tightened his grip, Guan Jin provides an ominous warning on the path ahead for Chinese media and civil society.

Guan Jun is a former Southern Weekly journalist and author.

Kevin Carrico is senior lecturer in Chinese studies at Monash University.

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Willing Collaborators Foreign Partners in Chinese Media Edited by Michael Keane, Brian Yecies and Terry Flew

June 2018 270 pages Hardback 9781786604248 $135.00

As China looks to reinvigorate its soft power by drawing on the creative inputs of foreign media producers and technical expertise, this book explores how and why creative workers are moving to the Mainland from East Asia, and how they are navigating the challenges of producing creative and critical content in a politically constrained environment.

Michael Keane is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies at Curtin University.

He is Program Leader of the Digital China Lab. http://ccat-lab.org/program/digitalchina-lab/ His key research interests are the digital transformation in China; East Asian cultural and media policy; and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia. He is editor of the Handbook of China’s Cultural and Creative Industries (2016), and author of China’s Television Industry (2015), Creative Industries in China: Art, Design and Media (2013), and China’s New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Regional Investment (2011).

Brian Yecies is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong, where he teaches and researches on film, digital media, creative industries, innovation ecosystems, and cultural policy. He is the author of The Changing Face of Korean Cinema, 1960-2015 (2016), and Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 18931948 (2011) – both with Ae-Gyung Shim. He is also a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Willing Collaborators: Negotiating Change in East Asian Media Production”, and Council for Australian Arab RelationsDFAT project "Networking Women Entrepreneurs in Sydney and Dubai: Innovation Hubs, Sustainable Policies and Strategies for Success”.

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Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications and a Chief Investigator with the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (2012), Global Creative Industries (2013), New Media: An Introduction (Oxford, 2014) and co-author of Media Economics (2015).

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Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater

By Tan Ye

March 2020 560 pages Hardback 9781538120637 $125.00

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Chinese Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,500 cross-referenced entries on performers, directors, producers, designers, actors, theaters, dynasties, and emperors.

Tan Ye is a professor of Chinese and Comparative Theater at the University of South Carolina, a visiting professor at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts and Beijing Normal University. He has taught the subject at American colleges for almost three decades and been invited as a quest lecturer by many Chinese schools, including the National Academy of Theatre Arts and Shanghai Theater Academy.

Table of Contents Editor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff) Acknowledgments Reader’s Note Preface to the Second Edition Map of China Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Glossary Bibliography General Beijing Opera Legend and Kun Opera Variety Opera About the Author Performing Arts

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Singing in Mandarin A Guide to Chinese Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire

By Katherine Chu and Juliet Petrus

September 2020 384 pages Hardback 9781538131411 $90.00

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Chinese composers have a growing presence on international stages, and Mandarinlanguage vocal repertoire is becoming richer and more prevalent. Singing in Mandarin is the definitive guide for singing in Mandarin. The first part focuses on the sounds of the Chinese language while the second focuses on the classical vocal repertoire in Mandarin.

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Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care Integrating Relational Self, Power, and Democracy

By Lijun Yuan

May 2019 182 pages Hardback 9781498558181 $90.00

Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity, in order to reclaim the egalitarian aspects and develop openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics.

Lijun Yuan is professor of philosophy at Texas State University.

Table of Contents Part I Chapter 1 Strength and Weakness of Early Confucian Ethics on Women Chapter 2 A Debate about Minben and Minzhu: Toward Caring Democracy Part II Chapter 3 Feminist Critiques of Gender Inequality and Ethics of Care Chapter 4 Notions of Reciprocity: Kongzi, Kant, Beauvoir, and Critiques of Gender Roles Chapter 5 Methodology of the Ethics of Care: Integrating Care and Justice Part III Chapter 6 Hume’s Sympathy, Mengzi’s Empathy, Feminist Interpretations: Extensive Virtue Chapter 7 China’s Population Policy: Aging, Gender, and Sustainability

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Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy A Unifying Pluralist Account

By Bo Mou

November 2018 388 pages Hardback 9781498560412 $120.00

The work explains a unifying pluralist account of truth that combines representative truthconcern approaches in Chinese philosophy to posit one foundation of the various movements of thought in Chinese philosophy that pursue “how things are.” Mou contributes a unique, Eastern view to contemporary exploration of the philosophical issue of truth.

Bo Mou is professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.

Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism: Normative Basis, Background, Methodology and Structure Chapter 2: Truth-Concern Approach in Yi-Jing Philosophy Chapter 3: Truth-Concern Approach in Gongsun Long’s Philosophy Chapter 4: Truth-Concern Approach in Later Mohism Chapter 5: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Confucianism Chapter 6: Truth-Concern Approaches in Classical Daoism Chapter 7: Jointly-Rooted Perspectivism as a Unifying Pluralist Account Appendixes References Index About the Author

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Transcultural Feminist Philosophy Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese – American Encounters

By Yuanfang Dai

December 2019 296 pages Hardback 9781498564816 $95.00

Yuanfang Dai argues that it is possible to speak generally of women’s oppression despite the fact that women experience gender oppression in different forms. She proposes that it is necessary to explore the possibilities of transcultural feminist solidarity among women across cultural differences.

Yuanfang Dai is assistant professor in the department of writing, rhetoric, and American cultures and the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University.

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The Edge of the World A Visual Adventure to the Most Extraordinary Places on Earth

By The Editors of Outside Magazine

January 2019 288 pages Paperback 9781493041008 $19.95 Hardback 9781493029969 $26.00

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The Edge of the World is a stunning collection of the best photography ever published by Outside magazine, the leader in outdoor adventure photography and journalism.

Covering Outside’s most compelling stories from throughout the years, it offers readers an inside look through the lens of the world’s top adventure photographers.

Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue was published in September 1977. Its mission statement is “to inspire active participation in the world outside through award-winning coverage of the sports, people, places, adventure, discoveries, health and fitness, gear and apparel, trends and events that make up an active lifestyle.”

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Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft A Global Perspective Edited by Yi Edward Yang

August 2019 310 pages Hardback 9781498583442 $115.00

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of China's economic statecraft and its challenges. The contributors explore the various factors and dynamics that determine the effectiveness of China's efforts to turn its wealth into global power.

Yi Edward Yang is professor of political science at James Madison University.

Wei Liang is professor of international policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

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China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era Edited by Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim and Frank Cibulka

December 2018 264 pages

This book examines the countries of Southeast Asia and how their relations with China have been transformed under the Chinese President Xi Jinping with intensified territorial assertiveness and increased economic diplomacy.

Hardback 9781498581110 $95.00

Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim is research fellow with International Public Policy Pte. Ltd.

Frank Cibulka is adjunct associate professor Zayed University in Abu Dhabi.

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China Tomorrow Democracy or Dictatorship?

By Jean-Pierre Cabestan

June 2019 218 pages Paperback 9781538129586 $32.00

This book makes a compelling case for the continuing strength of China’s one-party system. Leading scholar Jean-Pierre Cabestan shows that most Chinese, influenced by China’s traditional culture and even more so by the regime’s Soviet ideology, institutions, and modus operandi, are choosing security, stability, and prosperity over democracy.

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University.

He is also senior research fellow in France’s National Center for Scientific Research.

Hardback 9781538129579 $88.00

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The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation

By Paul Michael Linehan

December 2017 286 pages

This study examines the culture of leadership—within the government, the Communist Party, and business—in contemporary China. The author analyzes the conflict between traditional Chinese values, communist ideology, and Western liberalism.

Hardback 9781498557276 $105.00

Paul Michael Linehan received a doctorate from Georgetown University.

Table of Contents Part I: Overview Chapter 1: Traditional Chinese Ideology, Philosophy, and Values: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism Part II: Political Leaders of Modern China: Factors, Values, and Issues Chapter 2: Chinese Leadership Biographies, Events, and Paths Chapter 3: Sun Yat Sen: Patron to All Chapter 4: Yuan Shikai: Opportunity Knocks Chapter 5: Rising Ideologies: Setting the Stage Chapter 6: Jiang Jieshi: A Confucian Dictator by Any Other Name Chapter 7: Mao Zedong: Peasant Among Equals Chapter 8: Deng Xiaoping: Nine Lives: Enduring Legacy Chapter 9: Jiang Zemin: Deng’s Economic Reform to Technocracy Chapter 10: The Long March Ascent of Hu Jintao Chapter 11: Prelude to Xi Jinping: The Fifth Generation of Leadership Chapter 12: Xi Jinping: Princeling of the People Part III: The Education of Tomorrow's CCP Leaders Chapter 13: The Central Party School: The Name Says It All Part IV: Conclusion: Leadership Looking Glass: The Lens of Its Past, the Vision of Its Future Chapter 14: Moving Beyond or Seeking Retribution for its Past Humiliation?

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The Politics and Philosophy of Chinese Power The Timeless and the Timely

By R. James Ferguson and Rosita Dellios

November 2018 334 pages Paperback 9781498548854 $42.99 Hardback 9780739192948 $110.00

This book examines the politics, philosophy, and history of Chinese power, focusing on social, strategic, and diplomatic trends that have shaped China for over three thousand years. By probing political and philosophical trends, it provides an alternative analysis for the rise of contemporary China.

R. James Ferguson is director of Bond University’s Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies and assistant professor of international relations at the Faculty of Society and Design.

Rosita Dellios is associate professor of international relations at Bond University.

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Timeliness: Using the Past to Change the Present Chapter 2 Embracing Shi: The Timely Configuration of Power as Skilful Means Chapter 3 Imperial Stratagems:The Polycentric Mediation of Power Chapter 4 The Use And Abuse of Nationalism: Empowering the Republic?

Chapter 5 People’s Party, People’s Army: The Dialectics of Revolution Chapter 6 From Comprehensive National Power to Competitive Regionalism Chapter 7 Unicorns and Dragons - The Search for Chinese Strategic Culture

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America and Its Rivals

American and Chinese Energy Security

A Comparison Among the Nations of China, Russia, and the United States

A Grand Strategic Approach

By Ryan Opsal

By Michael D. Dulberger Imprint: Lexington Books Imprint: Bernan Press August 2018 396 pp

February 2019 228 pp

9781598889987 I $120.00 I PB

9781498580786 I $100.00 I HB

Asia's Quest for Balance

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the ChineseSpeaking World

China's Rise and Balancing in the Indo-Pacific

September 2018 334 pp 9781538106334 I $80.00 I HB

By Jay L. Batongbacal, Elliot Brennan, Tetsuo Kotani, Evan A. Laksmana, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Hunter Marston, Rory Medcalf, Sylvia Mishra, C. Raja Mohan, Prashanth Parameswaran, Tran Truong Thuy and Ha Anh Tuan Edited by Jeff M. Smith Series: American Foreign Policy Council

Reorienting the Political

By Kai Marchal and Carl K. Y. Shaw Imprint: Lexington Books August 2019 290 pp 9781498536264 I $110.00 I HB 9781498536288 I $39.99 I PB

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

China Rx

China's Asia

Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War

By Lowell Dittmer

By Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh

Series: Asia in World Politics

Imprint: Prometheus

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2018 304 pp

February 2018 302 pp

9781633883819 I $25.00 I HB

9781442237551 I $90.00 I HB 9781442237568 I $39.00 I PB

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China's Cyber Warfare

Corruption and Anticorruption in Modern China

The Evolution of Strategic Doctrine

By Jason R. Fritz

Edited by Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li

Imprint: Lexington Books

Imprint: Lexington Books November 2018 216 pp

December 2018 398 pp

9781498537070 I $100.00 I HB 9781498537094 I $39.99 I PB

9781498574310 I $120.00 I HB

ERIC VOEGELIN’S ASIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought

Globalisms

By Lee Trepanier

By Manfred B. Steger

Series: Political Theory for Today

Series: Globalization

Facing the Populist Challenge

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Lexington Books August 2020 254 pp

September 2019 240 pp

9781498598613 I $100.00 I HB

9781538129456 I $32.00 I PB

Governance Innovation and Policy Change

North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society

Recalibrations of Chinese Politics under Xi Jinping

Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process

Edited by Nele Noesselt Series: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development October 2018 226 pp 9781498580243 I $95.00 I HB

Imprint: Lexington Books

By Ahlam Lee Imprint: Lexington Books April 2019 186 pp 9780739192665 I $95.00 I HB 9781498529723 I $36.99 I PB

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Polarized Cities Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China

The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia

Edited by Dorothy J. Solinger

By Jeff Kingston

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2018 208 pp

August 2019 312 pp

9781538116470 I $78.00 I HB 9781538116487 I $39.00 I PB

9781442276864 I $85.00 I HB

Rise of the Revisionists

Why Communist China isn’t Collapsing

Russia, China, and Iran

The CCP’s Battle for Survival and State-Society Dynamics in the Post-Reform Era

Edited by Gary J. Schmitt Series: American Enterprise Institute

By Feng Sun and Wanfa Zhang

Imprint: AEI Press

Imprint: Lexington Books April 2018 122 pp

January 2020 280 pp

9780844750132 I $45.00 I HB 9780844750149 I $19.95 I PB

9781498567152 I $95.00 I HB

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Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society

By Joshua Esler

June 2020 338 pages Hardback 9781498584647 $115.00

This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan Buddhism is both adapting to contemporary Chinese society and reorienting the lives of Han practitioners.

Joshua Esler is lecturer and researcher in Asian studies at Sheridan College.

Table of Contents Introduction: Tibetan Buddhism as a Worldview Chapter One: The State, Popular Imagination, and Traditional Chinese Cosmology Chapter Two: Superscribing New Meaning on Guan Gong, the Chinese ‘God of War’ Chapter Three: The Confucian Revival and Tibetan Buddhism Chapter Four: Pragmatism, Protestantism and Tibetan Buddhism in Hong Kong Chapter Five: Tibetan Deities and Spirits in a Multilayered Tibetan Landscape Chapter Six: Chinese Ghosts and Tibetan Buddhism Conclusion: Tibetan Buddhism Engaging Contemporary China: Continuity, Change, and Authenticity

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Chinatown Unbound Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China

By Kay Anderson, Ien Ang, Andrea Del Bono, Donald McNeill and Alexandra Wong

January 2019 256 pages

This book will provide a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in our understanding of Chinatown, through an in-depth case study of Sydney’s Chinatown.

Hardback 9781786608987 $125.00

Kay Anderson, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney, Australia Donald McNeill, Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia Alexandra Wong, Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia Andrea del Bono, PhD Graduate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Chinatown unbound / 2. Chinatown in Australia's Asian Century: Beyond the Enclave / 3. The city beyond Chinatown: Towards a trans-Asian urbanism / 4. Sydney's Chinatown in demographic profile / 5. Doing business in Chinatown: beyond the 'ethnic sub-economy' / 6. Towards Asia-Town? Chinatown's Cultural Diversity / 7. Consuming Chinatown: The rise of a youthful, Asian-Australian culture of place / 8. Branding Chinatown: Assembling Chineseness / 9. Curating Chinatown: Public art beyond orientalism / 10. Chinatown's future and the prefiguration of an Australian trans-Asian metropolis / 11. Conclusion

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The City as Power Urban Space, Place, and National Identity Edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen

November 2018 328 pages Paperback 9781538118269 $40.00 Hardback 9781538118252 $90.00

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces.

By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

Alexander C. Diener is associate professor of geography at the University of Kansas.

Joshua Hagen is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern State University.

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Cultural Policy and East Asian Rivalry The Hong Kong Gaming Industry

By Anthony Y. H. Fung

May 2018 168 pages Paperback 9781783486250 $32.95 Hardback 9781783486243 $100.00

Cultural Policy and East Asian Rivalry is an exploration of the market, challenges and competition in the Hong Kong gaming industry in relation to a wider Chinese and East Asian context. This book looks at the impact of the lack of cultural policy on creative industries.

Anthony Y.H. Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the Pearl River Chair Professor at Jinan University, China.

Table of Contents Acknowledgements / 1. Game Industry and Cultural Policy / 2. The Hong Kong Game Industry / 3. The Game Industry, Markets, and Cultural Policies in China / 4. Global and East Asian Cultural Policies and Market / 5. Global Creative Clusters / Conclusion: Hong Kong’s Creative Industries and East Asian Rivalry / Bibliography / Index

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Social Science

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Identity and Social Networks A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in the United States

By Cynthia Baiqing Zhang

October 2019 160 pages Hardback 9781498546577 $90.00

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students’ new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang is assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Central Washington University.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Identity and Social Networks Chapter 2: Context Chapter 3: Religious Identity and Sociocultural Environments Chapter 4: Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Network, and the Sociocultural Link between Ethnic and Student Identities Chapter 5: Evolution of Networks and Multiple Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and Family (Group and Role) Identities

Social Science

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Pornography, Ideology, and the Internet A Japanese Adult Video Actress in Mainland China

By Zhang Mei

October 2018 242 pages Hardback 9781498560887 $95.00

This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turn reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.

Zhang Mei is assistant professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Table of Contents Introduction 1. Sola in Japan: An “Ordinary” Girl and “Unordinary” Idol 2. Sola as a Weapon of Resistance for Chinese Internet Users 3. Two Chinese Agencies Repositioning Sola 4. A Case of Promotion: Negotiation between Commercial News Portals and the Two Agencies 5. Sola’s Image Transformation: Becoming a Site of Contestation 6. Sola’s Image Transformation and Chinese Youth’s Identity 7. Sola Going Back to Japan as “the Most Famous Japanese in China” Conclusion

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Adventures on the China Wine Trail How Farmers, Local Governments, Teachers, and Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the Wine World

By Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly

February 2020 210 pages Hardback 9781538133521 $32.00

In this exuberant book, the authors share their adventures on the China wine trail to meet the farmers, entrepreneurs, and teachers who are changing the wine world. They explore wine tourism hotspots, talk to winemakers searching for good grapes, take us to lush mountains and an arid desert, all in the search for the future of Chinese wine.

Cynthia Howson is senior lecturer in Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Pierre Ly is associate professor of international Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound, where he teaches a popular course about the Idea of Wine.

Travel

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China Tripping Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic Edited by Jeremy A. Murray, Perry Link and Paul G. Pickowicz

February 2019 168 pages Paperback 9781538123706 $25.00 Hardback 9781538123690 $75.00

This unique book is the first to bring together a group of leading China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the PRC. Covering nearly a half-century, these stories open a vivid window on a rapidly evolving country and on the zigzag learning curve of the China trippers themselves.

Jeremy A. Murray is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.

Perry Link is Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside.

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

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