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China—Economic and Social History

Bibliography
May 27, 2003

A General Works

Blunden, Caroline, and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China. New York: Facts on File, 1983.

Cohen, Paul. Discovering History in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Cohen, Paul A. "'State' Domination of the China Field: Reality or Fantasy a Reply to Robert

Marks." Modern China 11, no. 4 (1985): 510-18.

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Cambridge Illustrated History. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Fairbank, John King. China Watch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Fairbank, John King. China: A New History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Fairbank, John King. Chinabound : A Fifty-Year Memoir. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Fogel, Joshua A., ed. Recent Studies of Modern Chinese History. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1984.

Goldman, Merle, and Andrew Gordon, eds. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Huang, Philip C. C. "The Paradigmatic Crisis in Chinese Studies: Paradoxes in Social and Economic History." Modern China 17, no. 3 (1991): 299-341.

Huang, Philip C. C. "Analyzing the Twentieth-Century Chinese Countryside: Revolutionaries Versus Western Scholarship." Modern China 1, no. 2 (1975): 131-60.

Huang, Ray. China, a Macro History. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1988.

Hucker, Charles O. China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.

Islam, Iyanatul, and Anis Chowdhury. Asia-Pacific Economies: A Survey. London: Routledge, 1997.

Lavely, William, James Lee, and Wang Feng. "Chinese Demography: The State of the Field." Journal of Asian Studies 49, no. 4 (1990): 807-34.

Lippit, Victor D. The Economic Development of China. Armonk, New York:: Sharpe, 1987.

Little, Daniel. Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

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Liu, Ts'ui-jung. Chinese Genealogies as a Source for the Study of Historical Demography: in Studies and Essays in Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Academia Sinica, II, Taipei.

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Perkins, Dwight H., ed. China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective. Stanford:

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Temple, Robert K. G., and Joseph Needham. The Genius of China : 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Teng, Ssu-yŸ, and John King Fairbank. China's Response to the West : A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Twitchett, Denis Crispin, John King Fairbank, and Albert Feuerwerker. The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Twitchett, Denis, and John K. Fairbank, eds. The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Wolf, Arthur P. ed. Studies in Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978.

 

B Late Imperial China

 

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Bernhardt, Kathryn. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 18401950. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992.

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Chao, Kang. "The Growth of a Modern Cotton Textile Industry and the Competition with Handicrafts." In China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective, edited by Dwight H. Perkins, 1975.

Chao, Kang. Man and Land in Chinese History: An Economic Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University, 1986.

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Chesneaux, Jean, Marianne Bastid, and Marie-Claire Bergere. China from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution. New York: Random House, 1976.

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Chesneaux, Jean. Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Chesneaux, Jean. Secret Societies in China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1971.

Cohen, Paul A. Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Cole, James H. The People Versus the Taipings: Bao Lisheng's Righteous Army of Dongan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1981.

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Eastman, Lloyd E. Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Elvin, Mark, and G. William Skinner, eds. The Chinese City between Two Worlds, Studies in Chinese Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1974.

Elvin, Mark. "Skills and Resources in Late Traditional China." In China's Modern Economy, edited by Dwight Perkins, 1975.

Elvin, Mark. "The High-Level Equilibrium Trap: The Causes of the Decline of Invention in the Traditional Chinese Textile Industries." In Economic Organization, edited by W.

E. Wilmott, 1972. Elvin, Mark. "The Technology of Farming in Late-Traditional China." In The Chinese Agricultural Economy, edited by Randolph Barker and Radha Sinha, 1982.

Elvin, Mark. The Pattern of the Chinese Past. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973.

Esherick, Joseph W. "Number Games: A Note on Land Distribution in Prerevolutionary China." Modern China 7, no. 4 (1981): 387-411.

Esherick, Joseph, and Mary Backus Rankin, eds. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, Studies on China ; 11. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Fairbank, John King. The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Faure, David. The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China : Trade Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937. Hong Kong; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Feuerwerker, Albert. State and Society in Eighteenth-Century China : The Ch*Ing Empire in Its Glory, Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies ; No. 27. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan, 1976.

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Huang, Philip C. C. The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.

Huang, Philip C. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 13501988. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Johnson, David G., Andrew J. Nathan, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, and Judith A. Berling, eds. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, Studies on China ; 4. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Jones, Susan Mann, and Philip A. Kuhn. "Dynastic Decline and the Roots of Rebellion." In The Cambridge History of China, edited by Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, 1978.

Kuhn, Philip A. "Origins of the Taiping Vision: Cross-Cultural Dimensions of a Chinese Rebellion." Comparative Studies in Society and History 19, no. 3 (1977): 350-66.

Kuhn, Philip A. "The Taiping Rebellion." In The Cambridge History of China V. 10, edited by D. Twitchett and J.K. Fairbank, 1978.

Kuhn, Philip A. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864, Harvard East Asian Series, 49. Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Kuhn, Philip A. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Kuhn, Philip. "Ideas Behind the Modern Chinese State." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47, no. 1 (1995).

Lee, James Z., Cameron Campbell, and Guofu Tan. "Price and Population History in Rural Fengtian 1772-1873.", 1988.

Lee, James, and Fu Kedong. "The Eight Banner Registration System.", 1987.

Lee, James. A Century of Mortality in Rural Liaoning, 1774-1873: unpublished, n.d.

Li, Lillian M. China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Lippit, Victor D. "The Development of Underdevelopment in China." Modern China 4, no. 3 (1978): 251-328.

Little, Daniel, and Joseph Esherick. "Testing the Testers: A Reply to Barbara Sands and Ramon Myers' Critique of G. William Skinner's Regional Systems Approach to China." Journal of Asian Studies 48, no. 1 (1989): 90-99.

Liu, Kwang-Ching. "The Ch'ing Restoration." In The Cambridge History of China V. 10, edited by Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, 1978.

Liu, Ts'ui-jung. "The Demography of Two Chinese Clans in Hsiao-Shan, Chekiang, 1650­1850." In Family and Population in East Asian History, edited by Susan Hanley and Arthur Wolf, 1985.

Mann, Susan. "Review of Huang, the Peasant Economy." Journal of Asian Studies XLV, no. 3 (1986).

Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Marks, Robert. Rural Revolution in South China: Peasants and the Making of History in Haifeng County 1570-1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Metzger, Thomas A. "The Organizational Capabilities of the Ch'ing State in the Field of Commerce: The Liang-Huae Salt Monopoly, 1740-1840." In Economic Organization in Chinese Society, edited by W. E. Willmott, 1972.

Miyazaki, Ichisada. China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China. 1st ed. ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1976.

Myers, Ramon H. "Economic Structure and Growth." In The Modernization of China, edited by Gilbert Rozman, 1981.

Myers, Ramon H. "Review of Kang Chao, Man and Land in Chinese History." Economic Development and Cultural Change [preprint typscript] (1987?).

Myers, Ramon H. "Review of Philip C. C. Huang, the Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China." The American Historical Review 90, no. 5 (1985): 1253-54.

Myers, Ramon H. "The Agrarian System." In The Cambridge History of China: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 2, edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker, 1986.

Myers, Ramon H. "The Commercialization of Agriculture in Modern China." In Economic Organization in Chinese Society, edited by W. E. Willmott, 1972.

Myers, Ramon H. "Transformation and Continuity in Chinese Economic and Social History." Journal of Asian Studies 33, no. 2 (1974).

Myers, Ramon H. The Chinese Economy Past and Present. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1980.

Myers, Ramon H. The Chinese Peasant Economy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Naquin, Susan. "The Transmission of White Lotus Sectarianism in Late Imperial China." In Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, edited by David Johnson, Andrew Nathan and Evelyn Rawski, 1985.

Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Naquin, Susan. Shantung Rebellion the Wang Lun Uprising of 1774. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Perdue, Peter C. Exhausting the Earth : State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850, Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 130. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1987.

Perdue, Peter. "Insiders and Outsiders: The Xiangtan Riot of 1819 and Collective Action in Hunan." Modern China 12, no. 2 (1986): 166-201.

Perdue, Peter. "The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739-1864.".: Paper for conference on Economic Methods for Chinese Historical Research, January, 1988, Oracle, Arizona, 1988.

Perkins, Dwight. Agricultural Development in China. Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1969.

Perry, Elizabeth J. "When Peasants Speak: Sources for the Study of Chinese Rebellions." Modern China 6, no. 1 (1980): 72-85.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1981.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China 1845-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.

Perry, Elizabeth. "Worshippers and Warriors: White Lotus Influence on the Nian Rebellion." Modern China 2, no. 1 (1976): 4-22.

Pomeranz, Kenneth, and Steven Topik. The World That Trade Created : Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-the Present, Sources and Studies in World History. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence : Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Pye, Lucian W. The Spirit of Chinese Politics; a Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development. Cambridge, Mass.,: M.I.T. Press, 1968.

Rankin, Mary Backus. Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China : Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida. Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Rawski, Thomas G. "The Simple Arithmetic of Chinese Income Distribution." Keizai Kenkyu 33 (1982): 12-26.

Riskin, Carl. "Surplus and Stagnation in Modern China." In China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective, edited by Dwight Perkins, 1975.

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Rozman, Gilbert. "China's Traditional Cities: A Review Article." Pacific Affairs 50, no. 4 (1977-78): 65-91.

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Rozman, Gilbert. Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Rozman, Gilbert. Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Sands, Barbara, and Ramon H. Myers. "The Spatial Approach to Chinese History: A Test." Journal of Asian Studies XLV, no. 4 (1986): 721-43.

Schoppa, R. Keith. Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang Province in the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Shepherd, John R. "Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China." Comparative Studies in Society and History 30, no. 3 (1988): 403-31.

Skinner, G. William, and Hugh D. R. Baker, eds. The City in Late Imperial China, Studies in Chinese Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1977.

Skinner, G. William, Mark Henderson, and Yuan Jianhua. "China's Fertility Transition through Regional Space: Using Gis and Census Data for a Spatial Analysis of Historical Demography." Social Science History 24, no. 3 (2000): 613-52.

Skinner, G. William.  "Chinese Peasants and the Closed Community: An Open and Shut Case." Comparative Studies in Society and History 13 (1971): 270-81.

Skinner, G. William. "Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems." In The City in Late Imperial China, edited by G. William Skinner, 1977.

Skinner, G. William. "Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China." Journal of Asian Studies 24, no. 1-3 (1964-65).

Skinner, G. William. "Regional Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century China." In The City in Late Imperial China, edited by G. William Skinner, 1977.

Skinner, G. William. "Review of Gilbert Rozman (1973).", (1975).

Skinner, G. William. "Sichuan's Population in the Nineteenth Century." Late Imperial China 7, no. 2 (1987): 1-79.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Gate of Heavenly Peace : The Chinese and Their Revolution, 18951980. New York: Viking Press, 1981.

Spence, Jonathan. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Stockard, Janice E. Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Telford, Ted A. "Survey of Social Demographic Data in Chinese Genealogies." Late Imperial China 7 (1986): 118-48.

Tong, James. Disorder under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Wagner, Rudolf G. Reenacting the Heavenly Vision: The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, Univ. of Calif., 1982.

Wakeman, Frederic E. The Great Enterprise : The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China : From History to Myth, Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Watson, Ruby. Inequality among Brothers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Wiens, Thomas B. "Review of the Chinese Peasant Economy by Ramon H. Myers." Modern Asian Studies 9, no. 2 (1975): 279-88.

Willmott, W. E., ed. Economic Organization in Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Wittfogel, Karl. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1957.

Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Zelin, Madeleine. "The Rights of Tenants in Mid-Qing Sichuan: A Study of Land-Related Lawsuits in the Baxian Archives." Journal of Asian Studies XLV, no. 3 (1986): 499­526.

 

C Republican Period

 

Arrigo, Linda Gail. "Landownership Concentration in China: The Buck Survey Revisited." Modern China 12, no. 3 (1986): 259-360.

Bianco, Lucien. "Peasant Movements." In The Cambridge History of China Volume 13, edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker, 1986.

Bianco, Lucien. "Peasants and Revolution: The Case of China." Journal of Peasant Studies 2 (1975): 313-35.

Bianco, Lucien. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.

Bianco, Lucien. Peasants without the Party : Grass-Root Movements in Twentieth-Century China. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Brandt, Loren. Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China 1870-1937. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Buck, John Lossing. Land Utilization in China, Statistics. Shanghai: University of Nanking, 1937.

Buck, John Lossing. Land Utilization in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937.

Duara, Prasenjit. "State Involution: A Study of Local Finances in North China, 1911-1935." Comparative Studies in Society and History 29, no. 1 (1987): 132-61.

Duara, Prasenjit. Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Eastman, Lloyd E.  The Abortive Revolution : China under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937, Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 153. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies HarvardUniversity ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1990.

Esherick, Joseph. Reform and Revolution in China : The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei, Michigan Studies on China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Fairbank, John K., and Albert Feuerwerker, eds. The Cambridge History of China, Vol 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Feuerwerker, Albert. Economic Trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1977.

Fogel, Joshua. "Liberals and Collaborators: The Research Department of the South Manchurian Railway Company." Association for Asian Studies (1987).

Fogel, Joshua. [Biography of Ai Ssu-Chi]: Harvard University Press, 1987a.

Gamble, Sidney D. Ting Hsien; a North China Rural Community. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1968.

Hsieh, Winston. "Peasant Insurrection and the Marketing Hierarchy in the Canton Delta, 1911." In The Chinese City between Two Worlds, edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner, 1974.

Little, Daniel. "New Perspectives on the Chinese Rural Economy." Republican China (1992).

Myers, Ramon H. "North China Villages During the Republican Period: Socio-Economic Relationships." Modern China 6, no. 3 (1980): 243-66.

Pasternak, Burton. "The Sociology of Irrigation: Two Taiwanese Villages." In Studies in Chinese Society, edited by Arthur Wolf, 1978.

Pasternak, Burton. Kinship and Community in Two Chinese Villages. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Polachek, James M. "The Moral Economy of the Kiangsi Soviet (1928-34)." Journal of Asian Studies XLII, no. 4 (1983): 805-30.

Rawski, Thomas G. Economic Growth in Prewar China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Tawney, R. H. Land and Labor in China. Boston: Beacon, 1966.

Walker, Kathy Le Mons. "Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth-Century China." Modern China 19, no. 3 (1993): 354--(32).

Wiens, Thomas. Microeconomics of Peasant Economy: China, 1920-1940. New York: Garland, 1982.

Wolf, Arthur P. "Fertility in Prerevolutionary Rural China." In Family and Population in East Asian History, edited by Susan Hanley and Arthur Wolf, 1985.

Wolf, Arthur P. "Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors." In Studies in Chinese Society, edited by Arthur Wolf, 1978.

 

D Revolution

 

Chen, Yung-fa. Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Fogel, Joshua A. The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1995.

Friedman, Edward. Backward toward Revolution: The Chinese Revolutionary Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Galbiati, Fernando. P'eng P'ai and the Lu-Feng Soviet. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.

Huang, Philip C. C., L. S. Bell, and K. L. Walker. Chinese Communists and Rural Society, 1927-1934: Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley: University of Calif., 1978.

Johnson, Chalmers A. Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power; the Emergence of Revolutionary China. Stanford, Calif.,: Stanford University Press, 1962.

Selden, Mark, Victor D. Lippit, and Association for Asian Studies. Meeting. The Transition to Socialism in China. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1982.

Selden, Mark. The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Thaxton, Ralph.  China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Thaxton, R. "Tenants in Revolution: The Tenacity of the Traditional Morality." Modern China 1, no. 3 (1975).

Thaxton, Ralph. "Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China.".

Thaxton, Ralph. "The World Turned Downside Up." Modern China 3, no. 2 (1977): 185-228.

Wou, Odoric Y. K. Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.

 

E Post-revolution economic and political development

 

Amnesty International. "People's Republic of China: Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet.". New York: Amnesty International, 1995.

Amnesty International. "People's Republic of China: Torture--a Growing Scourge in China-­Time for Action.". New York: Amnesty International, 2001.

Ashton, B. K., A. Piazza, and R. Zeitz. "Famine in China, 1958-1961." Population and Development Review 10, no. 4 (1984): 613-45.

Banister, Judith. "Population Policy and Trends in China, 1978-83." China Quarterly 100 (1984): 717-41.

Banister, Judith. China's Changing Population. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Brown, Lester R. Who Will Feed China?  Wake-up Call for a Small Planet. New York: Norton, 1995.

Brown, Richard Harvey, ed. Culture, Politics, and Modernization: Experiences of East Asia, Studies in Third World Societies. Williamsburg, Virginia: College of William and Mary, 1992.

Byrne, John, Bo Shen, and Xiuguo Li. "The Challenge of Sustainability: Balancing China's Energy, Economic and Environmental Goals." Energy Policy 24, no. 5 (1996): 455­62.

Chan, Anita. China's Workers under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Chan, James. "The Central Places of Guangdong Province, China." In Urban Development in Modern China, edited by Laurence J. C. Ma and Edward W. Hanten, 1981.

Crissman, Lawrence W. "Marketing on the Changhua Plain, Taiwan." In Economic Organization in Chinese Society, edited by W. E. Willmott, 1972.

Davis, Deborah, and Ezra F. Vogel, eds. Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen : The Impact of Reform, Harvard Contemporary China Series ; 7. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1990.

Delman, Jorgen, Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard, and Flemming Christiansen, eds. Remaking Peasant China: Problems of Rural Development and Institutions at the Start of the 1990s. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarus University Press, 1990.

Dernberger, Robert F. "Agriculture in Communist Development Strategy." In The Chinese Agricultural Economy, edited by R. Barker and R. Sinha, 1982.

Diamond, Norma. "Rural Collectivization and Decollectivization in China--a Review Article." Journal of Asian Studies XLIV, no. 4 (1985): 785-92.

Fei, John C. H. "The 'Standard Market' of Traditional China." In China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective, edited by Dwight Perkins, 1975.

Feng, Jicai. Voices from the Whirlwind : An Oral History of the Cultural Revolution. New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1991.

Goldman, Merle. China's Intellectuals : Advise and Dissent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Gurley, John G. "The Dialectics of Development: U.S.S.R. Versus China." Modern China 4, no. 2 (1978): 123-56.

Harding, Harry. China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1987.

Hinton, William. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.

Hinton, William. Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Random House, 1983.

Hinton, William. The Great Reversal : The Privatization of China, 1978-1989. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990.

Johansson, Sten, and Ola Nygren. "The Missing Girls of China: A New Demographic Analysis." Population and Development Review 17, no. 1 (1991): 35-51.

Joseph, William A., Christine Wong, and David Zweig, eds. New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 8, Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1991.

Kane, Penny. Famine in China, 1959-61: Demographic and Social Implications. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Lardy, Nicholas R. "Dilemmas in the Pattern of Resource Allocation in China, 1978-1985." In Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe, edited by Victor Nee and David Stark, 1989.

Lardy, Nicholas R. Economic Growth and Distribution in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Lardy, Nicholas. "Agricultural Reform in China.".: manuscript, 1985.

Lardy, Nicholas. "Consumption and Living Standards in China, 1978-83." China Quarterly 100 (1984): 849-65.

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