RECENT CHINA BOOKS | China Books Review

This page lists all recent China books, defined broadly as any English-language book on or from China or the Sinophone world that was published in the last year. We update this list every other Thursday (monthly in the summer). If you think we have missed a book, please contact us with the publisher link. The categories below are designed to present a large quantity of books by broad groupings, not as a perfect classification, and carousels are capped at 25 titles. Blurbs are adapted from publisher copy.

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Chinese Encounters with America

Journeys that Shaped the Future of China

Eds. Deborah Davis, Terrill E. Lautz

May 27, 2025

Columbia University Press

The stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China's trajectory.

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Statelessness after Arendt

European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War

Eds. Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter

May 27, 2025

Manchester University Press

A study of statelessness in the Second World War, focusing on the Asian and Pacific theaters of the conflict.

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa

Aid Policies and Economic Development

Eds. R. Mireille Manga Edimo, Julien Rajaoson

May 27, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A look into the economic partnerships between African governments and China offered by the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized

China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities

John Beck

May 27, 2025

Melville House

A journalistic narrative of China's persecution of the predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and its pursuit of those who escaped beyond its borders.

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Buddhist Masters of Modern China

The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers

Ed. Benjamin Brose

May 27, 2025

Shambhala

A collection of the life stories and translated writings of eight Buddhist masters.

Buy

Passing the Torch

My Chinese American Journey

Winny Lin

May 23, 2025

BookBaby

A discovery of Chinese American history from a columnist for Southern Chinese Daily News.

Buy

Is China a Global Power?

The Three Great Walls of the Middle Kingdom

Francisco Leandro

May 21, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A geopolitical analysis of modern China through the lens of defensive realism.

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Ping

Lisa Lucas, Steven Landsberg

May 20, 2025

Historium Press

A novel blending family drama with political and historical events, alternating between the ping-pong diplomacy of 1971 and the present-day struggles of a family.

Buy

Wondrous Ocean of Eloquence

Histories of the Taklung Kagyu Tradition

Taklungpa Ngawang Namgyel (tr. Gyurme Dorje)

May 20, 2025

Snow Lion

A history of the Taklung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, composed in the seventeenth century.

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The US-China Rift and Its Impact on Globalisation

Crisis, Strategy, Transitions

Raffaele Sciortino

May 20, 2025

Haymarket Books

An analysis of the looming confrontation between the U.S. and China.

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Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times

Eds. Agota Révész, Duncan Freeman, Magnus Feldmann, Steven Langendonk

May 20, 2025

Bristol University Press

An edited volume examining the role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China.

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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Barbara Demick

May 20, 2025

Random House

A work of narrative nonfiction about twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption.

Buy

Writing to the Rhythm of Labor

Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1976

Bejamin Kindler

May 20, 2025

Columbia University Press

An examination of how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write.

Buy

Driving the Dragon

The Rise of the Chinese Car Industry

Mark Andrews

May 20, 2025

Veloce

A look at China's automotive industry.

Buy

The Crane of Angel Island

Avril LaPointe Calderwood

May 19, 2025

BookBaby

A novel about two teenagers trapped on Angel Island, one in 2019 and one in 1919.

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An Introduction to World China Studies

Zhan Wang, Yanhong Chu

May 18, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of seven key issues related to China.

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The Sound of Exile

European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947

Yating Tang

May 16, 2025

Syracuse University Press

An examination of how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai.

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Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

A Comparative Analysis

Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T. Corey Brennan

May 15, 2025

Bloomsbury Academic

An overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China.

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Call Me Emma

One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America

Makee

May 13, 2025

Street Noise Books

A novel about a teenage girl who has just immigrated from China to New York City.

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Transplants

Daniel Tam-Claiborne

May 13, 2025

Regalo Press

A novel following two young women in rural Qixian in pursuit of kinship and self-discovery.

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The Raider

The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II

Stephen R. Platt

May 13, 2025

Knopf

The story of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of America's first special forces who dedicated his life to bridging the cultural divide between the U.S. and China.

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Contesting Inequalities

Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China

Siyuan Yin

May 13, 2025

Stanford University Press

An examination of different forms of mediated labor activism in China to survey the politics and impact of worker mobilization and actions.

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Icy Fruit

How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across Taiwan

Charlotte Cheng (illus. Vivian Mineker)

May 13, 2025

Rocky Pond Books

A children's picture book biography of a Taiwanese ice pop entrepreneur.

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Apple in China

The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

Patrick McGee

May 13, 2025

Scribner

A look at how Apple helped build China's dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state.

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From Microfinance to Middle Class?

How to Improve Female Entrepreneurship Programs in China and India

Tonia Warnecke

June 10, 2025

Edward Elgar Publishing

An examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India.

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Current Affairs

China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa

Aid Policies and Economic Development

Eds. R. Mireille Manga Edimo, Julien Rajaoson

May 27, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A look into the economic partnerships between African governments and China offered by the Belt and Road Initiative.

Buy

Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized

China's Relentless Persecution of Uyghurs and Other Ethnic Minorities

John Beck

May 27, 2025

Melville House

A journalistic narrative of China's persecution of the predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and its pursuit of those who escaped beyond its borders.

Buy

Is China a Global Power?

The Three Great Walls of the Middle Kingdom

Francisco Leandro

May 21, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A geopolitical analysis of modern China through the lens of defensive realism.

Buy

The US-China Rift and Its Impact on Globalisation

Crisis, Strategy, Transitions

Raffaele Sciortino

May 20, 2025

Haymarket Books

An analysis of the looming confrontation between the U.S. and China.

Buy

Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times

Eds. Agota Révész, Duncan Freeman, Magnus Feldmann, Steven Langendonk

May 20, 2025

Bristol University Press

An edited volume examining the role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China.

Buy

An Introduction to World China Studies

Zhan Wang, Yanhong Chu

May 18, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of seven key issues related to China.

Buy

Contesting Inequalities

Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China

Siyuan Yin

May 13, 2025

Stanford University Press

An examination of different forms of mediated labor activism in China to survey the politics and impact of worker mobilization and actions.

Buy

Foreign Investment in China

Understanding the Corporate Legal Landscape

Roberto Gilardino

May 9, 2025

Choir Press

A guide to Chinese corporate law for foreign-invested enterprises.

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China in the Caribbean

Trade, Investment, and Geopolitical Influence

Roger Hosein, Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Rebecca Gookool-Bosland

May 8, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An overview of the relationship between China and the Caribbean region, focusing on trade and development linkages with CARICOM.

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Comparing Socialist Approaches

Economics and Social Security in Cuba, China, and Vietnam

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

May 6, 2025

University of Pittsburgh Press

An analysis of two main socialist models across Cuba, China, and Vietnam.

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Unfinished Transformation

Domestic Politics and International Relations since the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wonhyuk Lim

May 6, 2025

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/Brookings Institution Press

An exploration of how domestic and international transformation can address trends of increasing inequality at home and decreasing inequality among countries, particularly U.S.-China competition.

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In Search of Green China

Tianjie Ma

May 5, 2025

Polity

A look at China's environmental history and consciousness from environmental campaigner and reporter Ma Tianjie.

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Rising India and China

Strategic Rivalry in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific, Volume 2

B.R. Deepak

May 5, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of the trajectory of Sino-Indian relations, spanning from the aftermath of the 1962 war in the Himalayas to the growing rivalries in the Indo-Pacific.

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Chinese International Relations Theory

As Emerging from Practice and Policy

Eds. Jonathan Ping, Anna Hayes, Brett McCormick

May 5, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of how fundamental aspects of China's rapidly evolving arena of international relations theory are emerging directly from practice and policy.

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Be Water

Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests

Ming-sho Ho

May 2, 2025

Temple University Press

A look at the dynamics of the 2019 uprisings in Hong Kong from the perspective of agency power.

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Beyond Coercion

The Politics of Inequality in China

Alexsia T. Chan

June 12, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A perspective on the mechanisms of social control practiced by authoritarian regimes, focusing on the Chinese state.

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The Judicial System of China

Xin He

April 28, 2025

Oxford University Press

A systemic study of Chinese courts after Xi Jinping took power and reformed its judiciary.

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Red Flags

A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left

David Camfield

April 24, 2025

Fernwood Publishing

A history of communism aiming to engage with the current political trends to develop an alternative to capitalism.

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Hong Kong Politics After the National Security Law

Autocratization and its Consequences

Eds. Stephan Ortmann, Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan

April 22, 2025

Routledge

An edited innovative assessment of the impact of the National Security Law on Hong Kong politics.

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Chinese Diaspora Politics in Australia

Transnational Repression and Social Governance

Abigail Young

April 22, 2025

Routledge

A look at the historical and political evolution of the Chinese diaspora and an examination of Australia's approach to national security policies.

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Command of Commerce

America's Enduring Economic Power Advantage over China

Ben A. Vagle, Stephen G. Brooks

April 18, 2025

Oxford University Press

An argument that the U.S. maintains greater economic power than China.

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China’s Bilateral Relations and Order Transition in the Indo-Pacific

Eds. Kai He, Feng Liu

April 17, 2025

World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd

An examination of China's bilateral relations with five players in the Indo-Pacific: the United States, Japan, India, Australia, and ASEAN.

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Xi Jinping’s Quest for a Sinocentric Asia, 2013-2024

Deciphering Chinese Strategic Thinking in a Pivotal Period

Gilbert Rozman, Yun Sun, Danielle F.S. Cohen

April 15, 2025

Routledge

An examination of China's foreign policy.

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A Great Clamour

Encounters with China and Its Neighbours

Pankaj Mishra

April 13, 2025

India Penguin

An account of contemporary Asia that explores the contradictions and dynamism of modern-day China.

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Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China

Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform

Hale Eroğlu

April 1, 2025

Columbia University Press

An exploration of how a group of key figures navigated the challenges faced by Chinese Muslims in the early twentieth century, and a transnational intellectual history of Chinese Muslim thought.

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History

Chinese Encounters with America

Journeys that Shaped the Future of China

Eds. Deborah Davis, Terrill E. Lautz

May 27, 2025

Columbia University Press

The stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China's trajectory.

Buy

Statelessness after Arendt

European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War

Eds. Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter

May 27, 2025

Manchester University Press

A study of statelessness in the Second World War, focusing on the Asian and Pacific theaters of the conflict.

Buy

Passing the Torch

My Chinese American Journey

Winny Lin

May 23, 2025

BookBaby

A discovery of Chinese American history from a columnist for Southern Chinese Daily News.

Buy

Wondrous Ocean of Eloquence

Histories of the Taklung Kagyu Tradition

Taklungpa Ngawang Namgyel (tr. Gyurme Dorje)

May 20, 2025

Snow Lion

A history of the Taklung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, composed in the seventeenth century.

Buy

The Sound of Exile

European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947

Yating Tang

May 16, 2025

Syracuse University Press

An examination of how Central European Jewish refugees employed music as a means of reconstructing cultural identity amid turmoil and displacement in Shanghai.

Buy

Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China

A Comparative Analysis

Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan, T. Corey Brennan

May 15, 2025

Bloomsbury Academic

An overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China.

Buy

The Raider

The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II

Stephen R. Platt

May 13, 2025

Knopf

The story of forgotten World War II hero Evans Carlson, commander of America's first special forces who dedicated his life to bridging the cultural divide between the U.S. and China.

Buy

China and Africa in the Middle Ages

Teobaldo Filesi (tr. David L. Morison)

May 8, 2025

Routledge

An account of China's early relations with Africa, the development of China's navy, the visits of the great Ming expeditionary fleets, and why Chinese shipyards ceased activity by the end of the 15th century.

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An Australian in China

George Ernest Morrison

May 8, 2025

A first-person narrative of an Australian who lived in early 20th-century China.

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Bitter Creek

An Epic Poem

Teow Lim Goh

May 6, 2025

Torrey House Press

A lyric Chinese epic of the American West that reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.

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Maoism with Italian Characteristics

China's Global Influence and the Italian Left, 1956-1976

Marco Gabbas, Lorenzo M. Capisani

July 8, 2025

Springer

A historical study investigating why Mao's thought took root in Italy, how it developed, and its emergence in opposition to the Italian Communist Party.

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Reorienting China

The Landscape of Chinese Civilization

Cho-yun Hsu (tr. David Ownby)

November 25, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

An examination of the constant friction and fusion that have shaped Chinese cultural history.

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The Shang Economy

Roderick Campbell

April 30, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A reconstruction of the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence.

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Strangers in the Land

Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

Michael Luo

April 29, 2025

Doubleday

A narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.

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Recasting the Past

The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 110-1900

Pengliang Lu

April 29, 2025

Metropolitan Museum of Art

A reappraisal of the often-overlooked Chinese bronzes made from the 12th through 19th centuries, demonstrating their profound impact on Chinese art and culture.

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Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong

Settlement and History

Patrick H. Hase

April 29, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

A look into the local history of Hong Kong, primarily of the New Territories villages and market towns.

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The Empire’s New Cloth

Cross-Cultural Textiles at the Qing Court

Mei Mei Rado

April 29, 2025

Yale University Press

A study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the early modern world.

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Bombard the Headquarters!

The Cultural Revolution in China

Linda Jaivin

April 29, 2025

Old Street Publishing

The stories of countless individuals during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

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Staging China

Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire

Anthony E. Clark

April 24, 2025

Brill

A monograph study of Jesuit religious theater in China and its connections to the commemoration of the Society's martyrs of the late Qing.

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The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War

Eds. Tze-ki Hon, Ying-kit Chan

April 18, 2025

Amsterdam University Press

A comparative analysis of three key cities during the Cold War.

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Surrendering the Task

British Baptists in China, 1937-1952

Audrey Salters

April 15, 2025

Fortress Press

The story of the final years of missionary activity in China, with particular reference to the Baptist Missionary Society.

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Chiang Kai-shek’s Critical Years, 1935-50

Ed. Emily M. Hill

April 10, 2025

University of British Columbia Press

An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek at the peak of his influence in China.

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A Century of Humiliation 1839-1949

The Exploitation of China

Andrew Hyde

April 8, 2025

Amberley Publishing

An examination of China's "Century of Humiliation" and its long-lasting consequences.

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Inside Chinese Theater

Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond

Nancy Yunhwa Rao

April 8, 2025

University of Illinois Press

A history of the early decades of Chinese opera in America.

Buy

A Brief History of Transportation in China

Ed. Huapu Lu

April 2, 2025

Springer

An exploration of transportation development throughout China's history.

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Society & Culture

Buddhist Masters of Modern China

The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers

Ed. Benjamin Brose

May 27, 2025

Shambhala

A collection of the life stories and translated writings of eight Buddhist masters.

Buy

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Barbara Demick

May 20, 2025

Random House

A work of narrative nonfiction about twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption.

Buy

Writing to the Rhythm of Labor

Cultural Politics of the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1976

Bejamin Kindler

May 20, 2025

Columbia University Press

An examination of how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write.

Buy

Driving the Dragon

The Rise of the Chinese Car Industry

Mark Andrews

May 20, 2025

Veloce

A look at China's automotive industry.

Buy

Icy Fruit

How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across Taiwan

Charlotte Cheng (illus. Vivian Mineker)

May 13, 2025

Rocky Pond Books

A children's picture book biography of a Taiwanese ice pop entrepreneur.

Buy

Apple in China

The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

Patrick McGee

May 13, 2025

Scribner

A look at how Apple helped build China's dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state.

Buy

From Microfinance to Middle Class?

How to Improve Female Entrepreneurship Programs in China and India

Tonia Warnecke

June 10, 2025

Edward Elgar Publishing

An examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India.

Buy

Foreign Fruit

A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh

May 6, 2025

Tin House Books

A personal history combined with the history of the orange, tracing its journey from east-to-west and west-to-east.

Buy

If a Mountain Lion Could Sing

The Lyric Poems of Xin Qiji

Xin Qiji (tr. Red Pine)

May 6, 2025

Copper Canyon Press

The first major English translation of poems written by China's lyric poet, Xin Qiji.

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Attraction of Knowledge Celebrities

How They Motivate Users to Pay for Knowledge

Xiaoyu Chen

May 6, 2025

Routledge

An examination of the phenomenon of knowledge celebrities, an emerging group of social media influencers, with case studies in China.

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Between Families and Institutions

Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China

Zhiying Ma

May 2, 2025

Duke University Press

A look at the ethical tensions, intimate vulnerabilities, and health disparities created by biopolitical paternalism in contemporary China.

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Family and Filiality

An Intercultural Perspective

Xianglong Zhang (tr. Kevin J. Turner)

May 1, 2025

State University of New York Press

A comparative perspective of Chinese and Western philosophies on family.

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Romanian and Chinese Cinemas

Socialist Affect and Cultural Politics from Maoism to the New Waves

Lucian Tion

April 30, 2025

Edinburgh University Press

An argument that socialist-era and postsocialist films made in Romania and China promote a common aesthetics predicated on the miserabilism of Third Cinema.

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Xu Yong

Hutong 101 Photos

Xu Yong (ed. He Hao)

April 29, 2025

Kerber

A photographic tribute to the old alleyways of Beijing.

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Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian

Ichisada Miyazaki (tr. Joshua Fogel)

April 29, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

A translated and edited collection of studies on the Shi ji by Sima Qian that provides analysis as well as historiographical and methodological insghts.

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What Does it Mean to Be or to Become Chinese?

Interdisciplinary Reflections on Chinese Identity

Ed. Daniel A. Bell

November 25, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

A multidisciplinary exploration of Chinese identity, bringing together contributions from philosophers, historians and legal theorists.

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Hong Kong Notable Doctors

Individuals Who Shaped the Medical Services, 1842-2015

Moira M.W. Chan-Yeung, Tai-wai Wong

April 29, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

The story of Western medicine in Hong Kong over more than 150 years, told through the perspectives of individual doctors.

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A Vibrant Voyage from China

Pith Paintings at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

April 29, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

A showcase of the pith paper paintings collected by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

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Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China

Buyi and the Paradox of Difference

Yu Luo

April 29, 2025

University of Washington Press

A portrait of the Buyi people in southwestern China.

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Social Media and Ordinary Life

Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China

Cara Wallis

April 29, 2025

NYU Press

An ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the everyday lives of Chinese domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives and young feminists.

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Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

Alvin K. Wong

April 25, 2025

Duke University Press

An examination of queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture and civil society.

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Art in Hong Kong

Portrait of a City in Flux

Enid Tsui

April 24, 2025

Lund Humphries

An analysis of the history, current status and possible future of Hong Kong as an international art hub.

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Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse

Time, Space, Bodies, and Things

Eds. Justyna Jaguscik, Joanna Krenz, Andrea Riemenschnitter

April 23, 2025

Amsterdam University Press

An edited volume that identifies three themes in contemporary poetry discourses that intersect with texts from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China

Artistry and Technique

Kin Sum Li

April 22, 2025

University of Washington Press

An analysis of how mirrors were designed and produced during the period from 500 to 200 BCE.

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Fiction

Ping

Lisa Lucas, Steven Landsberg

May 20, 2025

Historium Press

A novel blending family drama with political and historical events, alternating between the ping-pong diplomacy of 1971 and the present-day struggles of a family.

Buy

The Crane of Angel Island

Avril LaPointe Calderwood

May 19, 2025

BookBaby

A novel about two teenagers trapped on Angel Island, one in 2019 and one in 1919.

Buy

Call Me Emma

One Chinese Girl Finds Her Way in America

Makee

May 13, 2025

Street Noise Books

A novel about a teenage girl who has just immigrated from China to New York City.

Buy

Transplants

Daniel Tam-Claiborne

May 13, 2025

Regalo Press

A novel following two young women in rural Qixian in pursuit of kinship and self-discovery.

Buy

Picking Tea with Baba

Xu Bin (illus. Yu Yin, tr. Shan Chen)

May 6, 2025

Charlesbridge

A children's picture book about working in a Chinese tea garden, family and Chinese culture.

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Mending Bodies

Lai Chu Hon (tr. Jacqueline Leung)

April 28, 2025

Two Lines Press

A novel that takes place in a failing city with a government program encouraging couples to "conjoin" to achieve a flourishing economy, ecological revitalization and personal fulfillment.

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Little Pink Book

A Bad Bad Novel

Olivia Kan-Sperling

April 29, 2025

Archway Editions

A coming-of-age story following an artistic girl living alone in Shanghai.

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Powerful Like a Dragon

Christopher Cheng (illus. Jacqueline Tam)

April 15, 2025

Roaring Brook Press

A children's picture book based on the author's true family story during the Imperial Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941.

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Under Fishbone Clouds

A Novel

Sam Meekings

April 15, 2025

Open Road Media

A novel of romance and family saga that journeys through Chinese history, myth and culture.

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City of Fiction

Yu Hua (tr. Todd Foley)

April 8, 2025

Europa Editions

A story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20th-century China.

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Nainai’s Mountain

Livia Blackburne (illus. Joey Chou)

April 8, 2025

Neal Porter Books

An illustrated children's book about a Taiwanese-American girl's trip to Taiwan.

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Pork Fluff

Tiffany Hsieh

April 8, 2025

Sundress Publications

A prose poetry collection that explores the speaker's experience and reflection as an immigrant from Taiwan in Canada.

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Big Enough

Regina Linke

April 1, 2025

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

An illustrated picture book about a little boy who learns he is big enough to do big things.

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The Celestials

Outcasts, Outlaws and Why Ned Kelly Yearned for China

Ian Roberts

July 31, 2025

Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Ltd.

A story weaving Chinese, Irish, and Australian people together through the Opium Wars and the Australian Gold Rush.

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Soft Burial

A Novel

Fang Fang (tr. Michael Berry)

March 18, 2025

Columbia University Press

A literary portrait of historical trauma and the psychological toll of repressed violence, intercut through different generations, regions, and time periods.

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The Running Flame

A Novel

Fang Fang (tr. Michael Berry)

March 18, 2025

Columbia University Press

A short novel exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of social change.

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You Must Take Part in Revolution

A Graphic Novel

Badiucao, Melissa Chan

March 4, 2025

Street Noise Books

A graphic novel set in contemporary Hong Kong, addressing ideas of political and individual freedom.

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The Immortal Woman

A Novel

Su Chang

March 4, 2025

House of Anansi Press

A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider's view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.

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For now I am sitting here growing transparent

Yau Ching (tr. Chenxin Jiang)

February 18, 2025

Zephyr Press

A collection of poetry by the video artist and queer community organizer Yau Ching.

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Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons

New Chinese Writing

Xiao Yue Shan

January 29, 2025

Honford Star

An anthology of Chinese literature that gathers sixteen Chinese writers in their English debut: eight fiction writers, six poets, and two essayists.

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Mother River

Can Xue (tr. Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping)

January 21, 2025

Open Letter Books

A translated collection of 13 stories challenging our perceptions of time, identity, and existence.

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Taipei at Daybreak

Brian Hioe

January 14, 2025

Repeater

A coming-of-age novel set among the social protests of the early 2010s in East Asia.

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Elephant Herd

A Novel

Guixing Zhang (tr. Carlos Rojas)

January 14, 2025

Columbia University Press

A novel following a young Malaysian-Chinese man's journey upriver deep into the Sarawak rainforest of northwest Borneo in search of his uncle, the leader of a Communist guerilla group.

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The Envelopes

Hasu August

January 14, 2025

Earnshaw Books

A novel examining how far love and devotion can go in the struggle between good and evil, set in China in the 2010s.

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Homeseeking

Karissa Chen

January 7, 2025

G.P. Putnam's Sons

A tale of one couple across 60 years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.

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July 1, 5:30pm

Book club: "Soft Burial"

Join us on July 1 in New York (or June 25 in D.C.) to discuss "Soft Burial" by Fang Fang (translated by Michael Berry), a controversial Chinese novel that follows the aftermath of the bloody land reform campaign of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Spots limited, register now to secure your seat.