Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography

Republican (1912-1949)

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Warlords

Chi, Hsi-sheng. Warlord Politics in China, 1916-1928. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976.
Gillin, Donald G. Warlord: Yen Hsi-Shan in Shansi Province, 1911-1949. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Lary, Diana. Region and Nation : The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics, 1925-1937. London ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
McCord, Edward Allen. The Power of the Gun : The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
McCormack, Gavan. Chang Tso-Lin in Northeast China, 1911-1928 : China, Japan, and the Manchurian Idea. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1977.
Sheridan, James E. Chinese Warlord; the Career of Feng Yü-Hsiang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966.
Sutton, Donald S. Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic : The Yunnan Army, 1905-25. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980.

Economy

Gardella, Robert Paul. Harvesting Mountains : Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Li, Lillian M. China's Silk Trade : Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1981.
Hou, Chi-ming. Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China, 1840-1937. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Huang, Philip C. The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Rawski, Thomas G. and Lillian M. Li. Chinese History in Economic Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Wong, Roy Bin. China Transformed : Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Huang, Philip C. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Cochran, Sherman. Big Business in China : Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Eng, Robert Yeok-Yin. Economic Imperialism in China : Silk Production and Exports, 1861-1932. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, 1986.
Myers, Ramon Hawley. The Chinese Peasant Economy; Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Rawski, Thomas G. Economic Growth in Prewar China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Urban Society

Bergère, Marie-Claire. The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911-1937. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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

Esherick, Joseph, ed. Remaking the Chinese City : Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

Henriot, Christian. Shanghai, 1927-1937 : Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Howe, Christopher, ed. Shanghai, Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Lu, Hanchao. Beyond the Neon Lights : Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Martin, Brian G. The Shanghai Green Gang : Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Stapleton, Kristin Eileen. Civilizing Chengdu : Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.

Strand, David. Rickshaw Beijing : City People and Politics in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Wakeman, Frederic E. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Rural Reform

Hayford, Charles W. To the People : James Yen and Village China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Stross, Randall E. The Stubborn Earth : American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Thomson, J. C. While China Faced West; American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Education

Bailey, Paul. Reform the People : Changing Attitudes Towards Popular Education in Early 20th - Century China. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Chauncey, Helen R. Schoolhouse Politicians : Locality and State During the Chinese Republic. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
Pepper, Suzanne. Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China : The Search for an Ideal Development Model. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Yeh, Wen-hsin. The Alienated Academy : Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1990.

Labor

Chesneaux, Jean. The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1968.
Hershatter, Gail. The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Hershatter, Gail. Dangerous Pleasures : Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers : Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Perry, Elizabeth. J. Shanghai on Strike : The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Nationalism and Intellectualism

Chou, Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Croizier, Ralph C. Traditional Medicine in Modern China; Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Furth, Charlotte, ed. The Limits of Change : Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Grieder, Jerome B. Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance; Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Grieder, Jerome B. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China : A Narrative History. New York: Free Press, 1981.
Lin, Yu-sheng. The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness : Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
Schneider, Lawrence A. Ku Chieh-Kang and China's New History; Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment : Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Nationalism and Protest

Israel, John. Student Nationalism in China, 1927-1937. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966.
Israel, John and Donald W. Klein. Rebels and Bureaucrats : China's December 9ers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China : The View from Shanghai. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Literature and Culture

Anderson, Marston. The Limits of Realism : Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Hsia, Tsi-an. The Gate of Darkness; Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968.
Hung, Chang-tai. Going to the People : Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1985.
Lee, Leo Ou-fan. The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.
Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Voices from the Iron House : A Study of Lu Xun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Link, Eugene Perry. Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies : Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Liu, Lydia H. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity--China, 1900-1937. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Pickowicz, Paul. Marxist Literary Thought in China : The Influence of Ch'Ü Ch'Iu-Pai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Sullivan, Michael. Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Science

Buck, Peter. American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Dikötter, Frank. The Discourse of Race in Modern China. London: Hurst & Co., 1992.
Dikötter, Frank. Sex, Culture, and Modernity in China : Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
Furth, Charlotte. Ting Wen-Chiang; Science and China's New Culture. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Kwok, D. W. Y. Scientism in Chinese Thought, 1900-1950. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1971.
Reardon-Anderson, James. The Study of Change : Chemistry in China, 1840-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

State and Society

Bailey, Paul. Reform the People : Changing Attitudes Towards Popular Education in Early 20th - Century China. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Bernhardt, Katherine. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance : The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Coble, Parks M. The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1980.
Duara, Prasenjit. Culture, Power, and the State : Rural North China, 1900-1942. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.
Fewsmith, Joseph. Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China : Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890-1930. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
Fitzgerald, John. Awakening China : Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Pepper, Suzanne. Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China : The Search for an Ideal Development Model. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Yeh, Wen-hsin. The Alienated Academy : Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1990.

The Guomindang

Coble, Parks M. Facing Japan : Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1991.
Eastman, Lloyd E. The Abortive Revolution : China under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.
Kirby, William C. Germany and Republican China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Tien, Hung-mao. Government and Politics in Kuomintang China, 1927-1937. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972.
Wilbur, C. Martin. The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

The Chinese Communist Party

Bianco, Lucien. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1971.
Dirlik, Arif. The Origins of Chinese Communism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Galbiati, Fernando. P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Harrison, James P. The Long March to Power; a History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-72. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
Hoston, Germaine A. The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Hsiao, Tso-liang. Power Relations within the Chinese Communist Movement, 1930-1934. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961.
Isaacs, Harold R. The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1951.
Kim, Ilpyong J. The Politics of Chinese Communism: Kiangsi under the Soviets. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Klein, Donald W. and Anne B. Clark. Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
McDonald, Angus W. The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution : Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Meisner, Maurice J. Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Salisbury, Harrison Evans. The Long March : The Untold Story. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Schwartz, Benjamin I. Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China. New York: Modern library, 1944.
Stranahan, Patricia. Underground : The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1937. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998.
Van de Ven, Hans J. From Friend to Comrade : The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Van Slyke, Lyman P. Enemies and Friends; the United Front in Chinese Communist History. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Wilbur, C. Martin. The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Wilbur, C. Martin and Julie Lien-ying How. Missionaries of Revolution : Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Yang, Benjamin. From Revolution to Politics : Chinese Communists on the Long March. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Yeh, Wen-hsin. Provincial Passages : Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

War of Resistance

Boyle, John Hunter. China and Japan at War, 1937-1945; the Politics of Collaboration. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972.
Eastman, Lloyd E. Seeds of Destruction : Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Fu, Poshek. Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration : Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Hsiung, James Chieh and Steven I. Levine, ed. China's Bitter Victory : The War with Japan, 1937-1945. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.
Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture : Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Wakeman, Frederic E. The Shanghai Badlands : Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
White, Theodore Harold and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder out of China. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1946.

Civil War and Communist Revolution

Chen, Yung-fa. Making Revolution : The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Eastman, Lloyd E. Seeds of Destruction : Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1949. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Hartford, Kathleen and Steven M. Goldstein. Single Sparks : China's Rural Revolutions. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
Hinton, William. Fanshen : A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
Johnson, Chalmers A. Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power; the Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962.
Kataoka, Tetsuya. Resistance and Revolution in China : The Communists and the Second United Front. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Keating, Pauline B. Two Revolutions : Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.
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.
Selden, Mark. The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Thaxton, Ralph. Salt of the Earth : The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Van Slyke, Lyman P. Enemies and Friends; the United Front in Chinese Communist History. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Yick, Joseph K.S. Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.

U.S.-China Relations

Borg, Dorothy and Waldo H. Heinrichs, ed. Uncertain Years : Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
Buck, Peter. American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Fairbank, John King. Chinabound : A Fifty-Year Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Feis, Herbert. The China Tangle; the American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.
Esherick, Joseph, ed. Lost Chance in China; the World War II Despatches of John S. Service. New York: Random House, 1974.
Stross, Randall E. The Stubborn Earth : American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Thomson, James Claude. While China Faced West; American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969.

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