UPCOMING CHINA BOOKS | China Books Review

This page lists all upcoming China books, defined broadly as any English-language book on or from China or the Sinophone world that will be published in the coming months. 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 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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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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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 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

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.

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

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

I Am Not a Tourist

Conversations on Being British Chinese

Daisy J. Hung

May 20, 2025

An exploration of what it means to be British Chinese today, and the social, historical and political factors that have got us here.

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

Ai Weiwei Handbook

Ed. Larry Warsh (Artist: Ai Weiwei)

May 20, 2025

No More Rulers

An illustrated guide to the artist, activist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

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

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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Chinese Dialectology

A Historical and Social Overview

Rujie You

May 21, 2025

Springer

An examination of the Chinese dialectic family; its history, philology, and analysis of dialects from both traditional Chinese, as well as modern sociolinguistic perspectives.

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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.

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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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The Bureaucracy in the Song Period

Transforming Disorder to Good Governance

Deng Xiaonan

May 27, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of bureaucracy during the Song dynasty (960-1279).

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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.

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Mei Lanfang’s American Journey

Reimagining Transpacific Cultural Exchanges

Zhaohui Hong, Cunfa Dong

May 29, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A study of Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang's 1930 visit to the U.S.

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Old Kiln

Jia Pingwa (tr. James Trapp, Olivia Milburn, Christopher Payne)

May 30, 2025

Sinoist

A rural saga spanning the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Buy

Hong Kong Crime Films

Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986

Kristof Van den Troost

November 30, 2023

Edinburgh University Press

A history of Hong Kong action-crime films.

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China’s Spies

Beijing's Espionage Offensive

Nigel West

May 30, 2025

Frontline Books

An argument that China's unseen espionage offensive is one of the most serious developments in recent times.

Buy

Current Affairs

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

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

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

China’s Belt and Road Initiative

And the Triangle Great Game of Contemporary International Politics

Edmund Li Sheng

November 29, 2023

Palgrave Macmillan

A look at the triangular relations between China, the U.S., and the EU from the perspective of 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.

Buy

China’s Spies

Beijing's Espionage Offensive

Nigel West

May 30, 2025

Frontline Books

An argument that China's unseen espionage offensive is one of the most serious developments in recent times.

Buy

The Milk Tea Allianace

Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

June 10, 2025

Columbia Global Reports

A deep dive into the perspectives of dissidents across Asia who share opposition to nationalistic Beijing loyalists.

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Breaking the Engagement

How China Won & Lost America

David Shambaugh

June 12, 2025

Oxford University Press

An explanation of why U.S.-China engagement has declined, and why the two countries have seen a sharp increase in tensions.

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Unfinished Transformation

Domestic Politics and International Relations since the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wonhyuk Lim

June 12, 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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China’s State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam

The Political Theodicy of Development

Yuen-ching Bellette Lee

June 13, 2025

Routledge

A look at the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology as a governing tactic in the reform era.

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Should the World Fear China?

Zhou Bo

June 15, 2025

Hurst

An essay collection unpacking China's view of its role today.

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China-Laos Railway

A Strategic Link within the RCEP Framework

Ed. Xingquan Li

June 15, 2025

Royal Collins Publishing Company

An examination of the groundbreaking China-Laos Railway, a pivotal project of the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Constructing Utopias

China's New Town Movement in the 21st Century

Zhongjie Lin

June 16, 2025

Oxford University Press

An examination of four decades of Chinese urbanization through the lens of urbanism and utopianism.

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s Vision of International Relations

Eva Seiwert

June 17, 2025

Bristol University Press

An investigation of China's use of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to shape global norms.

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Contested Taiwan

Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation

Lev Nachman (ed. James Lin, William Lavely, Madeleine Yue Dong)

June 17, 2025

University of Washington Press

An exploration of Taiwan's political landscape after the 2014 Sunflower Movement, offering a new approach to understanding contested statehood, movement party formation, and what motivates individuals to take political action.

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The Two-level Games in China’s Foreign Trade Policies

Zuozhen Liu

June 17, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of how China navigates domestic constraints and international pressures to achieve optimal outcomes in its foreign trade policy.

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Automating Governance in China?

Data-Driven Systems in the Scoring Society

Eds. Haiqing Yu, Rogier Creemers

June 18, 2025

Leiden University Press

A look at the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China.

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Taipei between Beijing and Washington

The Growing Taiwanese Identity and the Three Key Players at Stake

Ed. Kevin G. Cai

June 22, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An edited volume providing a multifaceted picture of Taiwan as a global flashpoint.

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Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes

China, the United States, and the Dynamics of Conflict Contagion and Escalation

Steve Chan

June 23, 2025

Oxford University Press

An analysis of the factors and processes that have historically ignited wars among the great powers, and an application of the resulting insights to U.S.-China competition.

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China’s Traditional Legal Order

Narrating Law across Civilizations

Hiroaki Terada

June 25, 2025

Springer

An exploration of Chinese political and economic dualism.

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Empowering China

Half a Century Since Nixon's Opening to China

Eugenio Bregolat

June 12, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An analysis of China's exponential economic development since 1978, the contributions of different U.S. presidents to the engagement and containment of China, and the triangular relationship between Europe, the U.S. and China.

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Institutional Genes

Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism

Chenggang Xu

June 30, 2025

Cambridge University Press

An exploration of the origins and evolution of China's institutions and communist totalitarianism in general.

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Lessons from the New Cold War

American Confronts the China Challenge

Ed. Hal Brands

July 1, 2025

Johns Hopkins University Press

An edited volume examining China's assertive economic statecraft and its ambitions for a new global order, the shifting nuclear balance and the intelligence war, the complex web of Indo-Pacific alliances, and the ideological struggle over democracy and authoritarianism.

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China’s Gambit

The Calculus of Coercion

Ketian Zhang

December 1, 2023

Cambridge University Press

An examination of when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over perceived threats to its national security.

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History

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

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

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

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

The Bureaucracy in the Song Period

Transforming Disorder to Good Governance

Deng Xiaonan

May 27, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of bureaucracy during the Song dynasty (960-1279).

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

Mei Lanfang’s American Journey

Reimagining Transpacific Cultural Exchanges

Zhaohui Hong, Cunfa Dong

May 29, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

A study of Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang's 1930 visit to the U.S.

Buy

Hong Kong Crime Films

Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986

Kristof Van den Troost

November 30, 2023

Edinburgh University Press

A history of Hong Kong action-crime films.

Buy

Whispers from a Storm

Fragments from a Japanese Esperantist in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Teru Hasegawa (tr. Adam Kuplowsky)

May 31, 2025

University of Hawaii Press

A collection of political writing by the Japanese human rights activist and Esperantist Hasegawa Teru, who traveled to Shanghai in 1937 to join the resistance movement against the Japanese Imperial Army's invasion of China.

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Zen Evangelist

Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism

John R. McRae

May 31, 2025

University of Hawaii Press

A translation, history and analysis of Shenhui's writings.

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The Party’s Interests Come First

The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping

Joseph Torigian

June 3, 2025

Stanford University Press

A biography of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping, and a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China.

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Essays of a Recluse

A Complete Translation of the Qianfulun

Fu Wang

June 3, 2025

Columbia University Press

A series of essays from a self-described recluse in the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) dencouncing the evils of his time.

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The YWCA in China

The Making of a Chinese Christian Women's Institution, 1899-1957

Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb

June 4, 2025

University of British Columbia Press

A history of the YWCA in China and how women interacted with it before and after communism.

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Black Jade Age

New Evidence of 5000-Year History of China

Shuxian Ye (tr. Qin Li, Lucian X. Lu)

June 10, 2025

Springer

An analysis and summary of the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology.

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Chinese Toggles

Culture in Miniature

Eds. Shuxia Chen, Min-Jung Kim

April 29, 2025

University of Washington Press

An introduction to the cultural artifact of the Chinese belt toggle, known as zhuizi.

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Revolution in China and Russia

Reorganizing Empires into Nation States

Luyang Zhou

June 10, 2025

Manchester University Press

An analysis comparing and contrasting China's nationality policy with that of the Soviet Union.

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Heaven Does Not Block All Roads

A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao

Anna Beth Keim

June 15, 2025

Hurst

A biography of Huang Chin-tao, a Taiwanese pro-democracy leader in the 1980s.

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The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia

Trade and Merchant Communities in 17th-Century Insulindia

Marie-Sybille de Vienne

June 19, 2025

National University of Singapore Press

An exploration of the Dutch East-India Company and what its history reveals about the Chinese community in the Dutch East Indies.

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The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act

Catherine Clement

June 24, 2025

Plumleaf Press

An exploration of the human experience of exclusion through the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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The Cities of Song China

Bao Weimin

June 25, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of the urban development of Song dynasty cities.

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Penalties of Empire

Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong

Christopher Munn

June 29, 2025

Hong Kong University Press

A study of the evolution of the death penalty in Hong Kong.

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China Is Not Our Enemy

Jodie Evans, Mikaela Nhondo Erksog

June 30, 2025

OR Books

An accessible history of China that examines its culture, current economic strategy and the outlook of the younger generation.

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Grains of Conflict

The Struggle for Food in China's Total War, 1937-1945

Jennifer Yip

June 30, 2025

Cambridge University Press

An examination of how the Nationalists relied on mass civilian mobilization to feed their armies during the China's war against Japan.

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Extradition and Empire

Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong

Ivan Lee

June 30, 2025

Cambridge University Press

A study of the history of extradition in Hong Kong.

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The Beast in the Clouds

The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

Nathalia Holt

July 1, 2025

Atria/One Signal Publishers

The story of Theodore Roosevelt's sons and their 1929 Himalayan expedition to prove the existence of the panda bear to the western world.

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Society & Culture

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

I Am Not a Tourist

Conversations on Being British Chinese

Daisy J. Hung

May 20, 2025

An exploration of what it means to be British Chinese today, and the social, historical and political factors that have got us here.

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

Ai Weiwei Handbook

Ed. Larry Warsh (Artist: Ai Weiwei)

May 20, 2025

No More Rulers

An illustrated guide to the artist, activist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

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

Chinese Dialectology

A Historical and Social Overview

Rujie You

May 21, 2025

Springer

An examination of the Chinese dialectic family; its history, philology, and analysis of dialects from both traditional Chinese, as well as modern sociolinguistic perspectives.

Buy

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

Moltmann in China

Reception and Dialogue

Naomi Thurston

July 31, 2025

Routledge

A look at the reception of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann's theology within the framework of a budding Chinese academic theology.

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Translating National Identities Between China and the West

Diplomatic Political Discourse 1792-1867

Xinnian Zheng

May 30, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of the discursive construction of national identities in diplomatic political discourse, focusing on translation's pivotal role.

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Mum Fans

Identity, Feminism and Fan Culture in Contemporary China

Ye Li

May 30, 2025

Routledge

An exploration of "mum fans": fans who identify themselves as their idols' mothers and participate in online, data-related fan activities termed "parenting."

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The Making of China’s Working Class

A World to Lose

Marc Blecher

May 30, 2025

Routledge

An analysis of development of the urban working class in China.

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In Search of National Ancestors

Heritage, Identity and Placemaking in China

Shu-Li Wang

May 31, 2025

Cambridge University Press

An examination of how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor as a lens to explore broader themes.

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Reading the Analects Today

Zehou Li (tr. Maija Bell Samei)

June 1, 2025

State University of New York Press

An exploration of the Analects of Confucius by a prominent contemporary Chinese philosopher, Li Zehou.

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Yellow Singing Sail

A Memoir of an Only Child in China

Yinfan Huang

June 3, 2025

Kids Can Press

An illustrated portrait of childhood during the one-child era in China.

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The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear

Nan Z. Da

June 10, 2025

Princeton University Press

A new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in twentieth-century Chinese history.

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Unbroken

One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom

Rushan Abbas

June 10, 2025

Optimum Publishing International

A memoir of personal loss, global advocacy and moral defiance against the CCP's brutality against Uyghurs.

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Echoes of Wisdom

Chinese and ASEAN Proverbs across Cultures

Ed. Yue Feng

June 15, 2025

Royal Collins Publishing Company

A collection of translated and annotated proverbs from China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines.

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Spaces of Creative Resistance

Social Change Projects in 21st-Century East Asia

Ed. Andrea Gevurtz Arai

June 17, 2025

Rutgers University Press

A collection addressing the last two decades' hollowing out of social connections, socioeconomic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asian societies.

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Chinese Millennials

What is to be done?

Todd Foley, Qingxiang Yang

June 18, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An assessment of the core problems faced by Chinese millennials and how they might be solved.

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West-East Reciprocal Learning in a Canada-China Sister School Network

Stories of Hope

Eds. Yishin Khoo, Michael Connelly, Shijing Xu

June 20, 2025

Palgrave Macmillan

An examination of the cultural contexts of education in China and the West.

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Jeremy Pang’s Hong Kong Kitchen

Classic Recipes for Baos, Noodles, Street Food and More

Jeremy Pang

June 22, 2025

Hamlyn

A collection of over 70 recipes from food author and TV chef JEremy Pang that bring the vibrant food culture of Hong Kong to life.

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Tea is for Everyone

A Chinese Tea Guide

Sin Yan Chan

June 25, 2025

Man Mo Media

A history of Chinese tea.

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Backstage in Hong Kong

A Life with the Philharmonic Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars

John Duffus

June 30, 2025

Blacksmith Books

A memoir from the Hong Kong Philharmonic's fifth general manager.

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Xiushi

The Story of Lacquer

Bei Chang

June 30, 2025

Royal Collins Publishing Company

A dive into the art of xiushi, where objects are transformed through the application of lacquer and intricate decoration.

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Chinese Woodcut

The Art of Liu Chunjie

Liu Chunjie

July 1, 2025

Acc Art Books

A personal account of his life and work by woodcut artist Liu Chunjie.

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Fiction

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

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

Old Kiln

Jia Pingwa (tr. James Trapp, Olivia Milburn, Christopher Payne)

May 30, 2025

Sinoist

A rural saga spanning the beginning of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Buy

The Red Wind Howls

Tsering Döndrup (Tr. Christopher Peacock)

June 17, 2025

Columbia University Press

A novel of Tibetan suffering under Mao era repression.

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When Sleeping Women Wake

Emma Pei Yin

June 17, 2025

Ballantine Books

A novel about three women who are each forced on a journey of survival during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.

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The Master Jeweler

A Novel

Weina Dai Randel

June 24, 2025

A story of a young woman's dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai.

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New Story of the Stone

An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel

Jianren Wu (tr. Elizabeth Weber)

June 24, 2025

Columbia University Press

An English translation of a Chinese science fiction novel of time travel, highlighting some of the major preoccupations of the final decade of China's last dynasty.

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Hunter

Shuang Xuetao (tr. Jeremy Tiang)

June 24, 2025

Granta Magazine Editions

A collection of stories of deceptive, brutal realism playing with myth and history, offering a vision of ordinary life in China with a magic realist turn.

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Wanting

A Novel

Claire Jia

July 1, 2025

Tin House Books

A novel of envy, longing and regret across three lives and two countries that asks how far we'll go for a friendship, a romance, a dream.

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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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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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Woman, 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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Female General and Eldest Princess 1

Qing Jun Mo Xiao

November 4, 2025

Monogatari Novels

A novel about a princess' struggle to survive and seek justice in turbulent times.

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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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