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Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953–2018 Alfred L. Chan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xviii + 710 pp. £37.99 (hbk). ISBN 9780197615225 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life Willy Lam. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. xii + 222 pp. £34.99 (pbk). ISBN 9781032301402
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- 07 March 2024, pp. 265-267
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Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? Olivia Cheung. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. xvi + 190 pp. €117.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789463720298
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- 13 March 2024, pp. 267-269
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Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China Lynette H. Ong. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 263 pp. £22.99 (pbk). ISBN 9780197628775
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- 08 February 2024, pp. 269-270
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The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China Kimberley Ens Manning. New York: Cornell University Press, 2023. 402 pp. $36.96 (pbk). ISBN 9781501771415
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- 07 March 2024, pp. 271-272
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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression Saskia Witteborn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp. $28.00 (pbk). ISBN 9781503634305
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- 12 January 2024, pp. 273-274
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The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era Emily H. C. Chua. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 186 pp. $24.95 (pbk). ISBN 9780472055951
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- 08 February 2024, pp. 274-276
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The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China Jiwei Qian. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. 205pp. £49.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789811650246
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- 04 December 2023, pp. 276-277
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People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xv + 353 pp. £109.99 (hbk). ISBN 9789811937750
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- 15 February 2024, pp. 277-279
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Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 218 pp. $28.95 (pbk). ISBN 9781978804661
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai Julie E. Starr. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2023. 228 pp. $32.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780295751757
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Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China Wei Zhao. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 350 pp. £120.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781032280158
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- 26 February 2024, pp. 282-284
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The Footballization of China: Strategies for World Cup Glory Sten Söderman. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 180 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781803928258
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- 14 February 2024, pp. 284-285
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao Joseph Torigian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022, 316 pp. $50.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780300254235
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- 22 November 2023, pp. 286-287
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Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 357 pp. $130.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781009261296
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- 09 January 2024, pp. 288-289
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The Central Politics School and Local Governance in Nationalist China: Toward a Statecraft Beyond Science Chen-cheng Wang. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 356 pp. $135.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781666929690
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Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97 Florence Mok. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2023. 296 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781526158192
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Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985 Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. xviii + 320 pp. HK$300.00 (pbk). ISBN 9789888805648
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A Chinese Rebel Beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag and Mark Selden. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 410 pp. $99.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780226826844
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Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution Daryl R. Ireland. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. 302 pp. $69.99 (hbk). ISBN 9781481316248
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The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 Janet Y. Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 412 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN 9780231209038
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