Thread by @JulianGewirtz, I was talking with a friend yesterday about how, as we're all [...]

I was talking with a friend yesterday about how, as we're all rightly focused on the COVID-19 crisis, a bunch of important books related to China, Asia, & U.S. foreign policy are coming out between now & June.

Highlighting a few here—& add to the list if you have one coming out!

Dexter Roberts @dtiffroberts, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism ( @StMartinsPress): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250089373

Lingling Wei @Lingling_Wei & Bob Davis @bobdavis187, Superpower Showdown ( @HarperBusiness): https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780062953056/superpower-showdown-how-the-battle-between-trump-and-xi-threatens-a-new-cold-war/

Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War by Bob Davis -...

Wall Street Journal reporters Davis and Wei tell the inside story of the US-China trade war, examining how relations between China and the US, between Trump ...

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250089373

Robert Bickers @bickers, China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World ( @BloomsburyBooks): https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/china-bound-9781472949943/

James Carter @jayjamescarter, Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai ( @wwnorton): https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393635942

China Bound

From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies....

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/china-bound-9781472949943/

@MiraRappHooper, Shields of the Republic: The Triumph & Peril of America’s Alliances ( @Harvard_Press)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674982956

@Rory_Medcalf, Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America & the contest for the world's pivotal region ( @ManchesterUP) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526150783/

Manchester University Press - Indo-Pacific Empire

Indo-Pacific Empire - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Indo-Pacific Empire by Rory Medcalf.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674982956

Arunabh Ghosh @guo_xuguang, Making It Count: Statistics & Statecraft in the Early PRC ( @PrincetonUPress)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179476/making-it-count

Andrew Liu @liusanity2002, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China & India ( @yalepress)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300243734/tea-war

Making It Count

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179476/making-it-count

@TomOrlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops ( @OUPAcademic)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/china-9780190877408?cc=us&lang=en&

@davidrdollar, Yiping Huang, & Yang Yao, China 2049: Economic Challenges of a Rising Global Power ( @BrookingsPress) https://www.brookings.edu/book/china-2049/

China 2049

How will China reform its economy as it aspires to become the next economic superpower? It’s clear that China is the world’s next economic superpower. But what isn’t so clear is how China will get …

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/china-9780190877408?cc=us&lang=en&

@MichaelSchuman, Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World ( @public_affairs)
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michael-schuman/superpower-interrupted/9781541788329/

Michael Auslin, Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific ( @HooverInst)
https://www.amazon.com/Asias-New-Geopolitics-Reshaping-Indo-Pacific/dp/0817923241

Superpower Interrupted

This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the d...

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michael-schuman/superpower-interrupted/9781541788329/

Kristina Spohr, Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, & Deng Shaped the World after 1989 ( @yalepress)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233827/post-wall-post-square

Barry Gewen, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger & His World ( @wwnorton)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004059

Kristen E. Looney, Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia ( @CornellPress)
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748851/mobilizing-for-development/#bookTabs=1

Covell F. Meyskens @cfmeyskens, Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China ( @CambridgeUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/maos-third-front/6235F306DE45DB4B358C6F32ABB42FA9

Mao's Third Front by Covell F. Meyskens

Cambridge Core - Military History - Mao's Third Front - by Covell F. Meyskens

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748851/mobilizing-for-development/#bookTabs=1

Richard Haass, The World: A Brief Introduction ( @penguinpress)
https://www.amazon.com/World-Brief-Introduction-Richard-Haass/dp/0399562397

Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy ( @public_affairs)
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/kishore-mahbubani/has-china-won/9781541768123/

The World: A Brief Introduction

An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges...

https://www.amazon.com/World-Brief-Introduction-Richard-Haass/dp/0399562397

Gina Anne Tam @DGTam86, Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 ( @CambridgeUP)
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/dialect-and-nationalism-china-18601960?format=HB

Jonathan Kaufman @jkaufman617, The Last Kings of Shanghai ( @VikingBooks)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0735224412/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Anthony Dapiran @antd, City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong ( @scribepub, h/t @jwassers)
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/city-on-fire

Thomas Rid @RidT, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare ( @fsgbooks) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374287269

Active Measures | Thomas Rid | Macmillan

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary inte...

https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/city-on-fire

Gregory Afinogenov @athenogenes, Spies & Scholars: Chinese Secrets & Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power ( @Harvard_Press)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241855

Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen Siu, Peter Perdue, eds., Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People ( @Harvard_Press) https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987630

Asia Inside Out — Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue | Harvard University Press

In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings....

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241855

Alexander Cooley @CooleyOnEurasia & Dan Hexon @dhnexon, Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order ( @OUPAcademic) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/exit-from-hegemony-9780190916473?cc=us&lang=en&

Exit from Hegemony

We live in a period of great uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end of liberal international order-the very system of...

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/exit-from-hegemony-9780190916473?cc=us&lang=en&

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