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 two weeks. If you think we 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. Carousels are capped at 25 titles. Blurbs are adapted from publisher copy.

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The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Pensions, Labor Informalization, and Labor Mobility in China

Yujeong Yang

December 18, 2025

Oxford University Press

An investigation of locally divergent patterns of pension expansion in China to study how some authoritarian states develop welfare regimes that include workers in flexible and precarious employment positions.

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The Politics of Common Reading

Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894-1954

Joan Judge

December 17, 2025

University of Chicago Press

An examination of the transformation of vernacular knowledge in China from 1894 to 1954.

Buy

The Neighborhood

Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City

Nianshen Song

December 17, 2025

University of Chicago Press

A study of Xita, the half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, that presents a perspective for understanding China's past through the streets and people who lived it.

Buy

The Longest Night

Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora

Eds, Trs. Gregor Benton, Yang Yang

December 16, 2025

Haymarket Books

The story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, including after Mao Zedong's capture of Beijing in 1949.

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Chinese American Mothering

Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority

Andrea Louie

December 16, 2025

NYU Press

A look at the roots of the model minority myth and its legacy through the life of Toy Len Goon.

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China’s Thrilling Saga of Negotiable Instruments

Eds. Weizhe Zhao, Xiaohe Xiao

December 15, 2025

Royal Collins Publishing Company

An exploration of the evolution of financial credit instruments across more than a thousand years of Chinese history.

Buy

Retrench, Defend, Compete

Securing America's Future Against a Rising China

Charles L. Glaser

December 15, 2025

Cornell University Press

A strategy for securing vital U.S. interests in the face of China's rise.

Buy

Laozi’s “Daodejing”

A New Translation with Environmentalist Commentary

Steve Hallett

December 15, 2025

Purdue University Press

A new translation and interpretation of the Daodejing with short sesays focusing on what the teachings offer about social and environmental sustainability.

Buy

Fandom Nationalism

Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia

Erika Ningxin Wang, Qian Huang (eds. Paul Booth, Rukmini Pande)

December 11, 2025

Bloomsbury Academic

A look at the world of "fandom nationalism," where the lines between fan devotion and nationalistic fervor blur within the East Asian media landscape.

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Science, Religions, Spirits in China

A Constructive Chinese Theology of Creation Based Jingjiao's Qi-tological Theology

Jacob Chengwei Feng

December 18, 2025

Brill Academic Pub

An English translation of the complete Tang Jingjiao texts.

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Flourishing Fasts

Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies

Nikolas Broy

December 9, 2025

Harvard University Asia Center

A history of the Zhaijiao, or vegetarian sects, that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan.

Buy

Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War

Wen-Chin Chang

December 9, 2025

Harvard University Asia Center

An ethnography that explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants via the Sino-Burmese borderlands during the Cold War.

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Chinese Patchwork

Ancient Origins, New Expressions

Nancy Berliner, Lois Conner (photographer)

December 9, 2025

MFA Publications Boston

A history of the tradition of Chinese patchwork art in domestic and rural spaces, from its ancient origins to its contemporary manifestations.

Buy

Colored Journey

Chinese Lacquerware and the Silk Road

Pan Tianbo (tr. Tan Yongli)

December 7, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An exploration of cultural issues related to the lacquer civilization of the Silk Road.

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Global China for Africa’s Industrialization?

Carlos Oya

December 4, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A brief look at how China’s role in Africa is shaping uneven but important paths toward industrialization.

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Chinese Christian Witness

Identity, Creativity, Transmission and Poetics

Eds. Xiaoli Yang, Daryl R. Ireland

December 4, 2025

Brill Academic Pub

A perspective on the rise of Chinese Christianity Chinese Christian missionaries.

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The Ryukyu Islands

A New History from the Stone Age to the Present

Gregory Smits

December 3, 2025

University of Chicago Press

A history of the Ryukyu Islands region.

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Year of the Water Horse

A Memoir

Janice Page

December 2, 2025

Pegasus Books

A memoir about relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses the U.S. and China, and multiple generations.

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The Broken China Dream

How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarianism

Minxin Pei

December 2, 2025

Princeton University Press

An analysis of China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping.

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Chasing Chi

The FBI’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family

James E. Gaylord

December 2, 2025

Prometheus

An account of the true story of the FBI's hunt for Chi Mak and his spy ring.

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Conquering the North

China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict

John Man

December 2, 2025

Pegasus Books

A history of the roots of China and Mongolia's historic rivalry, and why it matters today.

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Escaping the End of Times

Dreams in the Late Ming China

Brigid E. Vance

December 2, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

An exploration of the relationships between dreams, politics, and the Chinese writing system in early modern China.

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The Range of the River

A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia

Iftekhar Iqbal

December 2, 2025

Stanford University Press

A reimagining of the river not merely as a tool, but as a dynamic force shaping a transregional Asia.

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The Complete Beginner’s Guide to China

Inside the Rise of a Global Superpower

Charlie Ginger

December 2, 2025

Sona Books

An overview of China, encompassing history, politics and more.

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Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Christian de Pee

December 1, 2025

Amsterdam University Press

An examination of the central place of urban life in the history of China in the eleventh century.

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Politics

Retrench, Defend, Compete

Securing America's Future Against a Rising China

Charles L. Glaser

December 15, 2025

Cornell University Press

A strategy for securing vital U.S. interests in the face of China's rise.

Buy

Global China for Africa’s Industrialization?

Carlos Oya

December 4, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A brief look at how China’s role in Africa is shaping uneven but important paths toward industrialization.

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The Broken China Dream

How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarianism

Minxin Pei

December 2, 2025

Princeton University Press

An analysis of China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping.

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The Range of the River

A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia

Iftekhar Iqbal

December 2, 2025

Stanford University Press

A reimagining of the river not merely as a tool, but as a dynamic force shaping a transregional Asia.

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The Chinese Communist Youth League

Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization

Konstantinos Tsimonis

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An investigation of the Chinese Communist Youth League, using a combination of interviews, surveys, and ethnography to explore how the League implemented Hu Jintao's mandate at both local and national levels, exposing the contradictory nature of some of its campaigns.

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China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism

International Order and Global Leadership

Benjamin Ho

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An analysis of China's international politics and foreign policy through the lens of Chinese exceptionalism.

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Memories of Tiananmen

Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019

Francis Lee, Joseph Man Chan

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An analysis of how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019.

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Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics

Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy

Angela Poh

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An investigation into the ways in which Chinese decisionmakers approached sanctions, and how its longstanding sanctions rhetoric has had a constraining effect on its behavior.

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Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Ed. Florian Schneider

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of how Belt and Road projects are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.

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Frontier Tibet

Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

Ed. Stéphane Gros

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, and looks at the ways in which the border is internalized today.

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Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics

To the Left or to the Right?

Olivia Cheung

July 28, 2023

Amsterdam University Press

A reconstruction of the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China.

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“Angels of God”?

A History of China's Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

December 1, 2025

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

A discussion of the major Chinese-funded projects in Tanzania's health sector.

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The New Imperialists

How China, Russia and Iran are Trying to Remake the World

Herman Pirchner, Ilan Berman

December 1, 2025

Afpc Press

An analysis of the challenge posed to the U.S. by Russia, China and Iran.

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China’s International Energy Relations

The Impact of Transition from Fossil Fuels to Renewables

Hao Tan

November 30, 2025

Cambridge University Press

An account of China's evolving international energy relations as it transitions from fossil fuels to renewables amidst significant geopolitical shifts.

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China in the Mediterranean

An Arena of Strategic Competition?

Eds. Emilie Tran, Yahia Zoubir

July 19, 2024

Routledge

An examination of China's growing influence in the Mediterranean region.

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The Taiwan Tinderbox

The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War

J. Michael Cole

November 26, 2025

Polity

An exploration of the root causes of conflict between Taiwan and China, and a plea for the defense of Taiwan as a priority for the international community.

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The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing

Hui Zhang

November 25, 2025

MIT Press

An account of China's nuclear weapons development from 1955 to 1996 that also provides a framework for understanding China's efforts to modernize its nuclear arsenal and the future of its nuclear program.

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Contemporary Taiwan

More Than a Flashpoint

Eds. Kristina Kironska, Eunika Rejtová Yang

November 25, 2025

Routledge

An introduction to the most important aspects of contemporary Taiwanese society, politics, economy, and international relations.

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Understanding China

Governance, Socio-Economics, Global Influence

Chandran Nair, Jorgen Randers, Jinfeng Zhou, Frederick Charles Dubee

November 24, 2025

Routledge

A perspective on China's transformation from a constrained economy in the late 1970s to a leading global power in 2024.

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The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas

Worrying about the Audience in Postsocialist China

How Wee Ng

November 19, 2025

Routledge

A look at how television censorship in China works not just as top-down control, but also as interactions between state, industry and viewers.

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Under Assault

Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada

Dennis Molinaro

November 18, 2025

Random House Canada

An account of Chinese interference in Canadian political life.

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How the United States Would Fight China

The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory

Franz-Stefan Gady

November 15, 2025

Oxford University Press

A dissection of how the U.S. imagines fighting the People's Republic of China, and why it risks failing.

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Autocracy 2.0

How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny

Jennifer Lind

November 15, 2025

Cornell University Press

An analysis of how China's leaders propelled the country to innovation-superpower status.

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Authoritarian Mediation

Saudi-Iran Strategic Realignment in China's Shadow

Saira Khan

November 14, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An investigation of the diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran mediated by China in 2023.

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The Arc of the Chinese Economy

Eds. Hanming Fang, Marshall W. Meyer

November 13, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A comprehensive exploration of China's rapidly evolving economy.

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History

The Politics of Common Reading

Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894-1954

Joan Judge

December 17, 2025

University of Chicago Press

An examination of the transformation of vernacular knowledge in China from 1894 to 1954.

Buy

The Neighborhood

Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City

Nianshen Song

December 17, 2025

University of Chicago Press

A study of Xita, the half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, that presents a perspective for understanding China's past through the streets and people who lived it.

Buy

The Longest Night

Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora

Eds, Trs. Gregor Benton, Yang Yang

December 16, 2025

Haymarket Books

The story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, including after Mao Zedong's capture of Beijing in 1949.

Buy

China’s Thrilling Saga of Negotiable Instruments

Eds. Weizhe Zhao, Xiaohe Xiao

December 15, 2025

Royal Collins Publishing Company

An exploration of the evolution of financial credit instruments across more than a thousand years of Chinese history.

Buy

Flourishing Fasts

Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies

Nikolas Broy

December 9, 2025

Harvard University Asia Center

A history of the Zhaijiao, or vegetarian sects, that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan.

Buy

Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War

Wen-Chin Chang

December 9, 2025

Harvard University Asia Center

An ethnography that explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants via the Sino-Burmese borderlands during the Cold War.

Buy

Colored Journey

Chinese Lacquerware and the Silk Road

Pan Tianbo (tr. Tan Yongli)

December 7, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An exploration of cultural issues related to the lacquer civilization of the Silk Road.

Buy

The Ryukyu Islands

A New History from the Stone Age to the Present

Gregory Smits

December 3, 2025

University of Chicago Press

A history of the Ryukyu Islands region.

Buy

Chasing Chi

The FBI’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family

James E. Gaylord

December 2, 2025

Prometheus

An account of the true story of the FBI's hunt for Chi Mak and his spy ring.

Buy

Conquering the North

China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict

John Man

December 2, 2025

Pegasus Books

A history of the roots of China and Mongolia's historic rivalry, and why it matters today.

Buy

Escaping the End of Times

Dreams in the Late Ming China

Brigid E. Vance

December 2, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

An exploration of the relationships between dreams, politics, and the Chinese writing system in early modern China.

Buy

Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Christian de Pee

December 1, 2025

Amsterdam University Press

An examination of the central place of urban life in the history of China in the eleventh century.

Buy

Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China

Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle

Sandy Ng

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An investigation of how women and modern design were represented in the advertisements, photographs, and films of Republican-era China.

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British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927

Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects

Alexander Thompson

December 1, 2025

Routledge

A revision of the history of empire and colonialism in China, and the British state's role in this history, focusing on the creation of law and institutions.

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Mediating Empire

An English Family in China, 1817-1927

Andrew Hillier

December 1, 2025

Routledge

A study of Britain's presence in China through the lens of one family.

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East Asian Cartographic Print Culture

The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections

Alexander Akin

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia.

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My Shanghai, 1942-1946

A Novel

Keiko Itoh

December 1, 2025

Routledge

A partly biographical account of Shanghai as war progressed in the 1940s.

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Making the Palace Machine Work

Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire

Eds. Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen, Dorothy Ko

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An in-depth look at the workings of the Imperial Household Department (neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire.

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Freedom of the Press in China

Yi Guo

December 1, 2025

A history of press freedom in China.

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Driven by the Monsoons

Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China

Barry Cunliffe

November 26, 2025

Oxford University Press

An examination of the beginning of maritime trade using archaeological evidence and the tales of travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Zheng He.

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Islamic China

An Asian History

Rian Thum

November 25, 2025

Harvard University Press

A reassessment of the history of Chinese Muslims, who since the fourteenth century have been subject to a constant program of minorization.

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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 Woman’s Messenger

Evangelical Literature and the Missionary Movement in Republican China

Yun Zhou

November 26, 2025

Penn State University Press

An investigation of the role of women and Christianity in Chinese society during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Strangers at the Heavenly Court

The 1517 Portuguese Embassy to China

James Masaki Fujitani

November 18, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China, the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia.

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Zheng Yi Sao

Pirate Empress of Canton

Hilmarj Torgrim

November 15, 2025

Mandolin Books

A portrait of Zheng Yi Sao, the woman who would become known as the Pirate Empress of Canton.

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Society & Culture

The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Pensions, Labor Informalization, and Labor Mobility in China

Yujeong Yang

December 18, 2025

Oxford University Press

Buy

Chinese American Mothering

Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority

Andrea Louie

December 16, 2025

NYU Press

A look at the roots of the model minority myth and its legacy through the life of Toy Len Goon.

Buy

Laozi’s “Daodejing”

A New Translation with Environmentalist Commentary

Steve Hallett

December 15, 2025

Purdue University Press

A new translation and interpretation of the Daodejing with short sesays focusing on what the teachings offer about social and environmental sustainability.

Buy

Fandom Nationalism

Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia

Erika Ningxin Wang, Qian Huang (eds. Paul Booth, Rukmini Pande)

December 11, 2025

Bloomsbury Academic

A look at the world of "fandom nationalism," where the lines between fan devotion and nationalistic fervor blur within the East Asian media landscape.

Buy

Science, Religions, Spirits in China

A Constructive Chinese Theology of Creation Based Jingjiao's Qi-tological Theology

Jacob Chengwei Feng

December 18, 2025

Brill Academic Pub

An English translation of the complete Tang Jingjiao texts.

Buy

Chinese Patchwork

Ancient Origins, New Expressions

Nancy Berliner, Lois Conner (photographer)

December 9, 2025

MFA Publications Boston

A history of the tradition of Chinese patchwork art in domestic and rural spaces, from its ancient origins to its contemporary manifestations.

Buy

Chinese Christian Witness

Identity, Creativity, Transmission and Poetics

Eds. Xiaoli Yang, Daryl R. Ireland

December 4, 2025

Brill Academic Pub

A perspective on the rise of Chinese Christianity Chinese Christian missionaries.

Buy

Year of the Water Horse

A Memoir

Janice Page

December 2, 2025

Pegasus Books

A memoir about relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses the U.S. and China, and multiple generations.

Buy

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to China

Inside the Rise of a Global Superpower

Charlie Ginger

December 2, 2025

Sona Books

An overview of China, encompassing history, politics and more.

Buy

Eternal Offerings

Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Eds. Robert Bagley, Li Xueqin, Jenny F. So, Zhu Fenghan, Liu Yang

December 1, 2025

Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

An illustrated catalog with essays showcasing the collection of ancient Chinese bronzes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today

A Keyword Approach

Ed. Gil Hizi

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of the nuanced attitudes towards self-development of individuals navigating various requirements and pursuing more complete forms of existence in China.

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Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020

Phillip Marzluf

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of travel writing in Mongolia and Northern China from a diversity of perspectives.

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Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China

Yujie Zhu

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of how heritage interacts with socio-cultural changes and how individuals perform and negotiate their identities through daily practices that include tourism and the performance of ethnicity.

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Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era

Gina Marchetti

December 1, 2025

Routledge

A look at how female directors shape Chinese visual politics in films from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora.

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The Heritage Turn in China

The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage

Eds. Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, Yi-Wen Wang

December 1, 2025

Routledge

A collection of studies focused on heritage discourse and practice in China.

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Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China

Wai-Chung Ho

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An examination of the recent developments in school education and music education in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Contesting Chineseness

Nationality, Class, Gender, and New Chinese Migration

Sylvia Ang

December 1, 2025

Routledge

An investigation into why there are tensions between ethnic Chinese settlers and new Chinese arrivals outside of China.

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Worldly Engagements

Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity among the Tai Lue of Southwest China

Roger Casas

November 30, 2025

University of Hawaii Press

An exploration of the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna, a community of Theravada Buddhists, in China's Yunnan province.

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Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-first Century

Gordana Malešević

November 29, 2025

World Scientific Publishing Company

An anthology exploring the causes and consequences of persistent gender-based inequalities in contemporary China.

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Pathways for Reaching Air Quality Standard and Carbon Peak in Selected Cities in China

Yu Bo, Shida Sun, Liling Wu, Kebin He

November 28, 2025

Springer

A methodology for developing city-scale greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission inventories, and an analysis framework for achieving dual attainments based on air quality objectives.

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Embedded Generations

Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China

Liu Jieyu

November 25, 2025

Princeton University Press

An examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.

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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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The Monkey Chronicles

Xi Xi (ed. John Minford, trs. David Morgan, Jasmine Tong Man)

November 25, 2025

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

An edited translation of Xi Xi's documentation of apes and monkeys from her extensive travels across Asia, and an investigation of the depiction of monkeys in Chinese and Western literature, painting, drama, and film.

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Translation Policies for Foreign Languages in Shanghai, China

Shuxia Zhou

November 21, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of translation policies for foreign languages in Shanghai, and a proposal for effective policies for communication between authorities and foreigners.

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The Redstone Park of China

Mount Danxiashan

Eds. Young Ng, Wolfgang Eder

November 20, 2025

Springer

An exploration of Danxiashan in China.

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Fiction

Common Disaster

Poems

M. Cynthia Cheung

November 15, 2025

Acre Books

A collection of poetry chronicling the experience of anxiety and anguish in the face of COVID-19, ranging in form from ghazals to reframings of classical Chinese oracular texts.

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Clear and Muddy Loss of Love 1

Qing Jun Mo Xiao

November 11, 2025

Monogatari Novels

A translation of a Chinese novel following a war between kingdoms.

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Tibetan Sky

Ning Ken (tr. Thomas Moran)

October 31, 2025

Sinoist Books

A philosophical novel based on the complicated history of Tibet.

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Bad Bad Girl

A Novel

Gish Jen

October 21, 2025

Knopf

A autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

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Looking for Tank Man

A Novel

Ha Jin

October 21, 2025

Other Press

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this novel of protest and suppression.

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The Morgue Keeper

Ruyan Meng

October 15, 2025

7.13 Books

A story about a morgue keeper in 1966, based on true events.

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Spent Bullets

Terao Tetsuya (tr. Kevin Wang)

October 14, 2025

HarperVia

A collection of linked stories set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence.

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The Hong Kong Widow

Kristen Loesch

October 7, 2025

Berkley

A novel set in Hong Kong in 1953, following Mei, a young refugee of the Chinese Communist revolution struggling to put her past behind her.

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What a Time to Be Alive

A Novel

Jade Chang

September 30, 2025

Ecco

A novel following a woman catapulting to internet fame as she tries to reckon with her complicated past, including the fat of her mother, who moved to America fleeing China's one-child policy.

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Demon Song

Kelsea Yu

September 30, 2025

Titan Books

A horror novella inspired by Chinese mythology.

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Sister Snake

A Novel

Amanda Lee Koe

September 23, 2025

Ecco

A novel about two sisters — one in New York, one in Singapore — who are bound by an ancient secret.

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Red Tide

A Novel of the Next Pacific War

M.P. Woodward

September 23, 2025

Naval Institute Press

A novel imagining a future war between the U.S. and China driven by the need for semiconductor chip production in Taiwan.

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Disenchantment

Zhang Kangkang

September 18, 2025

Bouden House

A novel in three parts set in the 1980s in hina.

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Chinese On The Beach

Stories

Vanessa Fabiano

September 18, 2025

Ybernia

A short story collection set in the rapidly transforming cities of Beijing and Shanghai in the 1990s and 2000s.

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The Boy with the Jade

Charles Bush

September 16, 2025

Htf Publishing

A novel set in 18th-century China, following a young aristocrat's quest for identity amid love, loss, and betrayal.

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Bitter Tea and Rock Candy

Yan Gu

September 9, 2025

Henry Holt and Co.

A children's picture book and ode to grandparents and family traditions.

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Mama’s Special Wonton Soup

Wai Mei Wong (illus. Xin Yue Zhu)

September 9, 2025

Lantana Publishing

A children's picture book about a young girl in southern China who goes to the market to buy ingredients for wonton soup.

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Worthy

The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce

Andrea Wang, (illus. Youa Vang)

August 26, 2025

Levine Querido

A picture book about an impoverished father from Canton, China, who sold his young son to an American sea captain, Amos Peck.

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Dissection of the Moon

Winifred Dongyi Wang

August 15, 2025

Accent Sisters

A coming-of-age novel split between Beijing and New York, examining bifurcated identities.

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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

Yiming Ma

August 12, 2025

Mariner Books

A novel set in a future where China is the global superpower and a new technology allows people to relive the life experiences of others.

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Women, Seated

Zhang Yueran (tr. Jeremy Tiang)

August 12, 2025

Riverhead Books

A translated novel about the unravelling lives of a nanny and the family she works for following the downfall of its patriarch, a prominent Chinese politician.

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Lord Guan

Charles N. Li

August 5, 2025

Regan Arts

A story inspired by the real-life hero Lord Guan, a warrior who fought to restore the Han dynasty.

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Paper Money

Winshen Liu

August 5, 2025

Driftwood Press

A collection of poems that explore the grief and complexity of the second-generation Taiwanese immigrant experience in America.

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Portraits in White

Kaori Lai (tr. Sylvia Lin, Howard Goldblatt)

August 5, 2025

Columbia University Press

Three novellas telling the stories of ordinary people navigating the White Terror period of Taiwanese history.

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Sunbirth

A Novel

An Yu

August 5, 2025

Grove Press

A novel following two sisters in an isolated village as the sun begins to diminish above them.

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NYC: Jan 21 5:30-7p DC: Jan 26 6-7:30p

Book Club: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

Join us in January to discuss Chinese writer Hu Anyan’s collection of autobiographical essays (tr. Jack Hargreaves) about floating between odd jobs on the outskirts of China’s megalopolises: stocking warehouses, waiting at hotels, selling bikes, delivering packages and more. Register to save your seat!