Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography


Table of Contents

   The Qing (1644-1911)

     The Manchu Conquest and the Early Qing
     Qing Society
     Qing Government
     Chinese Elites
     Intellectual History
     Economic History
     Rural Society
     Peasant Rebellion
     The Opium War
     Nineteenth-Century Diplomacy
     "China's Response to the West"
     Missionaries
     The Boxers
     Imperialism
     Late Qing Reform
     Qing Urban History
     Ethnicity and Race
     Religion
     The 1911 Revolution

   Republican China (1912-1949)

     General Works
     Warlords
     May 4th Movement
     The 1920s
     The Nanjing Decade
     Economic History
     Urban and Labor History
     Intellectual History
     Literature and Culture
     The War of Resistance
     US-China Relations
     The Civil War

   The Communist Revolution

     The Chinese Communist Movement, 1921-1949
     Marxism in China
     Mao Zedong
     The Early CCP
     The Jiangxi Soviet
     Yan'an Era

  The Peoples' Republic of China (1949-Present)

     General Works
     The Hundred Flowers Campaign
     The Great Leap Forward
     The Cultural Revolution
     Rural Society
     PRC Ideology
     Popular Culture
     Women's History
     Economic History
 

                                           The Qing

The Manchu Conquest and the Early Qing

     Dennerline, Jerry. The Chiating Loyalists: Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventh-Century China . New
     Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
     Michael, Franz. The Origin of Manchu Rule in China: Frontier and Bureaucracy as Interacting Forces in the Chinese
     Empire . New York: Octagon Books, 1965.
     Oxnam, Robert. Ruling From Horseback: Manchu Politics in the Oboi Regency, 1661-1669 . Chicago: University of
     Chicago Press, 1975.
     Spence, Jonathan and John Wills, eds. From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Sevenreenth-Century
     China . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
     Spence, Jonathan. Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
     Wakeman, Frederic. The Great Enterprise , 2 volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
     Wakeman, Frederic. "China and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis." Late Imperial China 7:1 (June 1986).

Qing Society

     Eastmann, Lloyd. Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History,
     1550-1949 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
     Elvin, Mark. The Pattern of the Chinese Past . Stanford: Stanford University Press,1973.
     Freedman, Maurice. The Study of Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.
     Grove, Linda and Christian Daniels, eds. State and Society in China: Japanese Perspectives on Ming-Qing Social and
     Economic History . Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press,1984.
     Ho, Ping-ti. Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
     Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1900 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
     Naquin, Susan and Evelyn Rawski. Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century . New Haven: Yale, 1987.

Qing Government

     Bartlett, Beatrice. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 . Berkeley: University
     of California Press, 1991.
     Ch'u T'ung-tsu. Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
     Guy, Kent. The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era . Cambridge: Harvard
     University Press, 1987.
     Hummel, Arthur W. Emminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period , 2 vols. Washington: G.P.O, 1943-1944.
     Kuhn, Phillip. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
     Metzger, Thomas A. The Internal Organization of the Ch'ing Bureaucracy: Legal, Normative and Communicative
     Aspects . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.
     Spence, Jonathan. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi . New York: Knopf,1974.
     Watt, James R. The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China . New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
     Will, Pierre-Etienne. Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth-Century China . trans. Elborg Forster. Stanford: Stanford
     University Press, 1990.
     Wu, Silas. Communication and Control in Imperial China . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
     Zelin, Madeleine. The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Administration in Eighteenth Centurt Ch'ing China .
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Chinese Elites

     Beattie, Hilary. Land and Lineage in China: A Study of T'ung-ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing
     Dynasties . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
     Chang, Chung-li. The Chinese Gentry: Studies of Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society . Seattle: University
     of Washington Press, 1955.
     Chang, Chung-li. The Income of the Chinese Gentry . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962.
     Esherick, Joseph and Mary Backus Rankin, eds. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance . Berkeley: University
     of California Press, 1990.
     Ho, Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China: Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911 . Columbia: Columbia
     University Press, 1962.
     Meskill, Johanna. A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 . Princeton: Princeton University
     Press, 1979.

Qing Intellectual History

     Chang, Hao. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China, 1890-1907 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
     1971.
     Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis: Search for Order and Meaning (1890-1911) . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1987.
     Elman, Benjamin. From Philosophy to Philology Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China .
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
     Elman, Benjamin. Classicism, Politics and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late
     Imperial China . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
     Levenson, Joseph R. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
     Liang, Ch'i-ch'ao. Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.
     Nivison, David. The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (1738-1801) . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
     Schwartz, Benjamin. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Qing Economic History

     Feuerwerker, Albert. The Chinese Economy, ca. 1870-1911 . Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 1969.
     Hou Chi-ming. Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
     Lippit, Victor. "The Development of Underdevelopment in China," in The Development of Underdevelopment in China, ed.
     Philip Huang. White Plains: M.E. Sharpe, 1980.
     Metzger, Thomas. "The State and Commerce in Imperial China," Asian and African Studies 6 (1970).
     Moulder, Frances. Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpretation of East Asian
     Development, ca. 1600 to ca. 1918. New York: Cambrdige University Press, 1977.
     Myers, Ramon. Chinese Economy: Past and Present . Belmont: Wadsworth, 1980.
     Perkins, Dwight. China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
     Willmott, W.E. Economic Organization in Chinese Society . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Rural Society

     Bernhardt, Kathryn. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950 Stanford: Stanford
     University Press, 1992.
     Duara, Prasenjit. Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 . Stanford: Stanford University Press,
     1988.
     Freedman, Maurice. Lineage Organization in South East China. London: Althone Press, 1958.
     Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century . Seattle: University of Washington Press,
     1960.
     Huang, Philip. The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
     Huang, Philip. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988 . Stanford: Stanford
     University Press, 1990.
     Myers, Ramon. The Chinese Peasant Economy: Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1970 .
     Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
     Perkins, Dwight. Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968 . Chicago: Aldine, 1969.
     Perdue, Peter. Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
     1987.
     Rawski, Evelyn. Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China . Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
     1970.
     Spence, Jonathan. Death of Woman Wang. New York: Viking PRess, 1978.

Peasant Rebellion

     Kuhn, Philip. Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China: Militarization and Social Structure, 1796-1864 .
     Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
     Michael, Franz. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents , 3 vols. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
     1966-1971.
     Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 . New Haven: Yale University
     Press, 1976.
     Wagner, Rudolf. Reenacting the Heavenly Vision: The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion . Berkeley: University
     of California Press, 1982.

The Opium War

     Chang, Hsin-pao. Commissioner Lin and the Opium War . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
     Fay, Peter Ward. The Opium War, 1840-1842 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
     Wakeman, Frederic. Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1966.

Nineteenth-Century Diplomacy

     Fairbank, John K. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854 . Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1953.
     Frodsham, J.D. The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-hung, and Chang
     Te-yi . New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
     Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. China's Entrance into the Family of Nations: The Diplomatic Phase, 1858-1880. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Oress, 1968.
     Hunt, Michael. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 . New York: Columbia
     University Press, 1983.
     Polachek, James. The Inner Opium War . Cambridge: The Council of East Asian Studies, 1992.

"China's Response to the West"

     Cohen, Paul. Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China . Cambridge: Harvard
     University Press, 1974.
     Drake, Fred. China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yu and His Geography of 1848 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
     1975.
     Fairbank, John K. and K.C. Liu. The Cambridge History of China , vo. 10. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
     Feuerwerker, Albert. China's Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai and Mandarin Enterprises. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1958.
     Feuerwerker, Albert. "Economic Trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949" in The Cambridge History of China , vo. 13.
     Hao, Yen-p'ing. The Comprador in Nineteenth-century China: Bridge Between East and West . Cambridge: Harvard
     University Press, 1970.
     Wright, Mary Clabaugh. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-chih Restoration, 1862-1874 . Stanford:
     Stanford University Press, 1966.

Missionaries

     Cohen, Paul. China and Christianity: the Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism,
     1860-1870 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
     Fairbank, John K., ed. The Missionary Enterprise in China and America . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
     Hunter, Jane. The Gospel of Gentility: American Missionary Women in Turn-of-the-Century China . New Haven: Yale
     University Press, 1984.
     Spence, Jonathan. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci . New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.

The Boxers

     Cohen, Paul. "Contested Past: The Boxers as History and Myth," Journal of Asian Studies 51.1 (1992).
     Esherick, Joseph. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
     Tan, Chester. The Boxer Catastrophe . New York: Octagon Books, 1967.

Imperialism

     Duus, Peter, Ramon Meyers, and Mark Peattie, eds. The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 . Princeton:
     Princeton University Press, 1989.
     Hu, Sheng. Imperialism and Chinese Politics . Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981.
     Lee, Robert. France and the Exploitation of China, 1885-1901 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
     Moulder, Frances. Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpretation of East Asian
     Development, ca. 1600-1918 . ????, 1977.
     Murphey, Rhoads. The Outsiders: The Western Experience in India and China . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
     Press, 1977.
     Schrecker, John. Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung . Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
     1971.
     Spence, Jonathan. To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 . Boston: Little-Brown, 1969.

Late Qing Reform

     Chu, Samuel. Reformer in Modern China: Chang Chien, 1853-1926 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.
     Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. A Modern China and a New World: K'ang Yu-wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858-1927 . Seattle:
     University of Washington Press, 1975.
     Kwong, Luke S.K. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
     MacKinnon, Stephen. Power and Politics in Late Imperial China . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
     Min, Tu-ki. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China . Cambridge: Council on East
     Asian Studies, 1989.
     Rankin, Mary Backus. Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China: Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911 . Stanford:
     Stanford University Press, 1986.

Qing Urban History

     Bergere, Marie-Claire. "The Chinese Bourgeoisie" in The Cambridge History of China , vol. 11.
     Murphey, Rhoads. The Treaty Ports and China's Modernization: What Went Wrong? Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
     Center for Chinese Studies, 1970.
     Rozman, Gilbert. Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
     Rowe, William. Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 . Stanford: Stanford University Press,
     1984.
     Rowe, William. Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895 . Stanford: Stanford University Press,
     1989.
     Skinner, G. William. The City in Late Imperial China . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977.

Ethnicity and Race

     Crossley, Pamela Kyle. Orphan Warriors: Three Machu Generations and the End of the Qing World . Princeton:
     Princeton University Press, 1990.
     Crossley, Pamela Kyle."Manzhou yuanliu kao and the Formaliztion of the Manchu Heritage" The Journal of Asian Studies,
     vol. 46, No. 4 (1987).
     Elliot, Mark. "Bannerman and Townsman: Ethnic Tension in Nineteenth-Century Jiangnan" Late Imperial China, vol. 11, No.
     1 (1990).

Religion

     Jordan, David. Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Folk Religion of a Taiwanese Village. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1972.
     Overmeyer, Daniel. Folk Buddhist Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
     Wolf, Arthur, ed. Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974.
     Yang, C.K. Religion in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

1911 Revolution

     Esherick, Joseph. Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1976.
     Friedman, Edward. Backward Toward Revolution: The Chinese Revolutionary Party . Berkeley: University Press, 1974.
     Liew, K.S. Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Revolution . Berkeley: University of California
     PRess, 1971.
     Rankin, Mary Backus. Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911 .
     Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
     Rhoads, Edward. China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895-1913 . Cambridge: Harvard University
     Press, 1975.
     Schiffrin, Harold. Sun Yat-sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
     Wright, Mary C. China in Revolution: The First Phase . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
 

                                          Republican China

General Works

     Boorman, Howard and Richard Howard.Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. New York: Columbia University
     Press, 1967.
     Fairbank, John K. and Albert Feuerwerker, ed. The Cambridge History of China, volumes 12-13. Cambridge: Cambridge
     University Press, 1983 & 1986.
     Fewsmith, Joseph. Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in
     Shanghai, 1890-1930. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
     Sheridan, James. China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1911-1949. New York: Free Press,
     1975.
     Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View From Shanghai. Berkeley: University
     of California Press, 1991.

Warlords

     Ch'en, Jerome. "Defining Chinese Warlords and Their Factions," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
     No. 31: 563-600 (1968).
     Ch'i Hsi-sheng. Warlord Politics in China, 1916-1928 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976.
     Gillin, Donald. Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911-1949 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
     Lary, Diana. Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics, 1925-1937 . Cambridge: Cambridge
     University Press, 1974.
     Lary, Diana. Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911-1937 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
     McCormack, Gavan. Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977.
     Sheridan, James. Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
     Sutton, Donald. Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905-1925 . Ann Arbor: University
     of Michigan Press, 1980.

The May 4th Movement

     Alitto, Guy. The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1979.
     Chen, Joseph. The May Fourth Movement in Shanghai: The Making of a Social Movement in Modern China. Leiden:
     E.J. Brill, 1971.
     Chow Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China . Cambridge: Harvard University
     Press, 1960.
     Grieder, Jerome. Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937 . Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1970.
     Lin Yu-sheng. The Crisis of Consciousness: Radical Anti-traditionalism in the May Fourth Era . Madison: University of
     Wisconsin Press, 1979.
     Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 .
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

The 1920s

     Isaacs, Harold. Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951.
     McDonald, Angus. The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution; Elites and the Masses in Hunan China, 1911-1927 .
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
     Wilbur, C. Martin. The Nationalist Revolution in China: 1923-1928 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Nanjing Decade

     Coble, Parks. The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937 . Cambridge: Harvard University
     Press, 1986.
     Coble, Parks. Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 . Cambridge: Harvard University
     Press, 1991.
     Eastman, Lloyd. The Abortive Revolution: China Under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937 . Cambridge: Harvard University
     Press, 1974.
     Israel, John. Student Nationalism in China, 1927-1937 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
     Kirby, William C. Germany and Republican China . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
     Tien Hung-mao. Government and Politics in Kuomintang China, 1927-1937 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Economic History

     Cochran, Sherman. Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarrette Industry, 1890-1930 . Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1980.
     Eng, Robert. Economic Imperialism in China: Silk Production and Exports, 1861-1932 . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1986.
     Feuerwerker, Albert. The Chinese Economy, ca. 1912-1949 . Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 1977.
     Li, Lilian. China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
     Rawski, Thomas. Economic Growth in Prewar China . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Urban and Labor History

     Chesneaux, Jean. The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927. Translated by H.M. Wright. Stanford: Stanford University
     Press, 1968.
     Elvin, Mark and G. William Skinner, ed. The Chinese City Between Two Worlds. Stanford: Stanford: Stanford University
     Press, 1974.
     Hershatter, Gail. The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.
     Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. Stanford: Stanford University
     Press, 1986.
     Howe, Christopher, ed. Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis. New York: Cambridge
     University Press, 1981.
     Strand, David. Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Intellectual History

     Bonner, Joey. Wang Kuo-wei: An Intellectual Biography . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
     Dennerline, Jerry. Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
     Furth, Charlotte, ed. The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1976.
     Grieder, Jerome. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China: A Narrative History. New York: The Free Press, 1981.
     Pusey, James. China and Charles Darwin . Cambridge: Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1983.
     Spence, Jonathan. The Gate of Heavenly Peace: Chinese Intellectuals and Their Revolution, 1895-1980. New York:
     Penguin Books, 1982.

Literature and Culture

     Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1994.
     Johnson, David, Andrew Nathan and Evelyn Rawski. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China . Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1985.
     Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Voices from the Iron House: A study of Lu Xun . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
     Lee, Leo Ou-fan. The Romantic Generation of Chinese Writers Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.
     Link, Perry. Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities . Berkeley:
     University of California Press, 1981.
     Schneider, Laurence. Ku Chieh-kang and China's New History: Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions .
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
     Sullivan, Michael. Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century . London: Faber and Faber, 1959.

War of Resistance

     Boyle, John Hunter. China and Japan at War, 1937-1945: The Politics of Collaboration . Stanford: Stanford University
     Press, 1972.
     Eastman, Lloyd. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949 . Stanford: Stanford
     University Press, 1984.
     White, Theodore and Analee Jacoby. Thunder out of China . New York: William Sloane Associates, 1946.

US-China Relations

     Borg, Dorothy and Waldo Heinrichs, eds. Uncertain Years: Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950 . New York:
     Columbia University Press, 1980.
     Esherick, Joseph, ed. Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service . New York: Random
     House, 1974.
     Fairbank, John K. Chinabound: A Fifty-year memoir . New York: Harper and Row, 1983.
     Feis, Herbert, The China Tangle . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

Civil War

     Levine, Steven I. Anvil of victory : the Communist revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948. New York: Columbia University
     Press, 1987.
     Pepper, Suzanne. Civil War in China : the political struggle, 1945-1949. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
 
 

                           The Chinese Communist Revolution

The Chinese Communist Movement, 1921-1949

     Bianco, Lucien. Origins of the Chinese Revolution. Trans. Muriel Bell, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.
     Harrison, John. The Long March to Power: A Political History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1972. New
     York: Praeger, 1972.
     Israel, John and Donald W. Klein. Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers. Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1976.
     Klein, Donald W. and Anne B. Clark. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965. Cambridge: Harvard
     University Press, 1971.
     Salisbury, Harrison. The Long March: The Untold Story. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
     Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. New York: Bantam, 1978.

Marxism in China

     Dirlik, Arif. The Origins of Chinese Communism. New York: Oxford, 1989.
     Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
     Hoston, Germaine. The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan . Princeton: Princeton University
     Press, 1994.
     Meisner, Maurice. Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
     Pickowicz, Paul. Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch'u Ch'iu-pai Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1981.
     Schwartz, Benjamin. Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.
     Zarrow, Peter G. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Mao Zedong

     Ch'en, Jerome. Mao and the Chinese Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
     Schram, Stuart. Mao Tse-tung. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966.
     Schram, StuartThe Thought of Mao Tse-tung. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
     Terrill, Ross. Mao: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
     Wakeman, Frederic. History and Will: Philisophic Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1973.

Early CCP

     Brandt, Conrad. Stalin's Failure in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
     Galbiati, Fernando. P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
     Howe, Julia Lien-ying and Wilbur C. Martin. Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China,
     1920-1927. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

The Jiangxi Soviet

     Averill, Stephen C. "Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement." Journal of Asian Studies 46.2
     (May 1987).
     Hsiao Tso-liang. Power Relations Within the Chinese Communist Movement, 1930-1934. 2 volumes. Seattle: University
     of Washington Press, 1961 & 1967.
     Kim, Ilpyong J. The Politics of Chinese Communism: Kiangsi Under the Soviets. Berkeley: University of California Press,
     1973.

Yan'an Era

     Chen Yung-fa. Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945. Stanford:
     Stanford University Press, 1986.
     Hartford, Kathleen and Steven Goldstein, eds. Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
     Hinton, William. Fanshen. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967.
     Johnson, Chalmers. Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945.
     Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962.
     Kataoka, Tetsuya. Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front. Berkeley:
     University of California Press, 1986.
     Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945.. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.
     Selden, Mark. The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
 
 

                                              People's Republic of China

General Works

     Chang, Parris. Power and Policy in China. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1990.
     MacFarquhar, Roderick and John K. Fairbank, eds. Cambridge History of China, vol. 14. New York: Cambridge University
     Press, 1987.
     Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After New York: Free Press, 1986.
     Schurmann, Franz. Ideology and Organization in Communist China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.
     Shue, Vivienne. The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
     Vogel, Ezra. Canton Under Communism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.
     Walder, Andrew G. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1986.

Hundred Flowers

     MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. New York: Praeger, 1960.
     Nieh Hua-ling, ed. Literature of the Hundred Flowers. 2 volumes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
     Wakeman, Carolyn and Yue Daiyun. To the Storm: Odyssey of a Chinese Revolutionary Woman. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1985.

Great Leap Forward

     Bachman, David. Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap
     Forward. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
     MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, vol. 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960.. New
     York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

The Cultural Revolution

     Dittmer, Lowell. Liu Shao-ch'i and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
     Gao Yuan, Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
     Hunter, Neale. Shanghai Journal Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
     Lee, Hong Yung. The Politics of the Cultural Revolution: A Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
     Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Son of the Revolution. New York, 1983.
     Schram, Stuart, ed. Chairman Mao Talks to the People. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
     Thurston, Anne F. Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution. Cambridge:
     Harvard University Press, 1988.

Rural Society

     Bernstein, Thomas. Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China.
     New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
     Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger.Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao's
     China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
     Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger. Chen Village Under Mao and Deng. Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1992.
     Friedman, Edward, Paul Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press,
     1991.
     Hinton, William. Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Random House, 1983.
     Madsen, Richard. Morality and Power in a Chinese Village.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
     Parish, William and Martin K. Whyte. Village and Family in Contemporary China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
     1978.
     Selden, Mark and Victor Lippit, eds. The Transition to Socialism in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1982.
     Shue, Vivienne. Peasant China in Transition: The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956. Berkely:
     University of California Press, 1980.

PRC ideology

     Lifton, Robert. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. New York: Norton, 1961.
     MacFarquhar, Roderick, Timothy Cheek, and Eugene Wu, eds. The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the
     Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward.
     Meisner, Maurice. Marxism, Maoism and Utopianism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
     Schwartz, Benjamin. Communism and China: Ideology in Flux. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Popular Culture

     Browne, Nick, Paul Pickowicz, Vivan Sobchak and Esther Yau, eds. New Chinese Cinema. Cambridge: Cambridge
     University Press, 1993.
     Crozier, Ralph C., ed. China's Cultural Legacy and Coomunism. New York: Praeger, 1970.
     Kraus, Richard. Pianos and Politics in China: Class, Nationalism and the Controversy over Western Music. New York:
     Oxford Press, 1989.
     Link, Perry, Richard Madsen and Paul Pickowicz, eds. Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's
     Republic of China. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.
     Wagner, Rudolph. The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press,
     1990.

Women's History

     Andors, Phyllis. Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949-1980. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1983.
     Croll, Elizabeth. The Women's Movement in China: A Selection of Readings, 1949-1973. London: Anglo-Chinese
     Educational Institute, 1974.
     Johnson, Kay Ann. Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
     Stacey, Judith. Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983
     Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Revolutionary China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
     Wolf, Margery and Roxanne Witke, eds. Women in Chinese Society. Stanford University Press, 1975.

Economic History

     Howe, Christopher. China's Economy: A Basic Guide. New York: Basic Books, 1978.
     Lardy, Nicholas. Economic Growth and Distribution in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
     Perry, Elizabeth J. and Christine Wong, eds. The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China. Cambridge: Harvard
     University Press, 1985.
     Riskin, Carl. China's Political Economy: The Quest for Development Since 1949. London: Oxford Press, 1987.
     Solinger, Dorothy. Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980. Berkeley:
     University of California Press, 1984.