Governance resilience in China: informal control, repressive welfare, and cultural experimentation: The art of political control in China, by Daniel C. Mattingly, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 244 pp., Index, 34.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-108-72536-1; Welfare for autocrats: how social assistance in China cares for its rules, by Jennifer Pan, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, 248 pp., Index, 26.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-008743-2; Zoning China: online video, popular culture, and the state, by Luzhou Li, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2019, 312 pp., Index, 40.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-262-04317-5. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023) - Su, Xuhong