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About Jonathan Unger
Books Authored
Books Edited
Monograph
Translations
Journal Articles

Books Authored

• Jonathan Unger, Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982; paperback edition, 1983), xii + 308 pages.
• Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao’s China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984; paperback edition, 1985), viii + 293 pages; Japanese-language edition, 1989, xii + 356 pages.
• Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village Under Mao and Deng (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), viii + 345 pages. This is a considerably updated and expanded edition of the Chen Village book. It also is published in a Chinese-language edition (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996), x + 302 pages.

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• Jonathan Unger, The Transformation of Rural China (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), xviii + 265 pages.

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Books Edited

• Jonathan Grant, Laurence Moss, and Jonathan Unger (eds), Cambodia: The Widening War in Indochina (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971), x + 355 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), Chinese Rural Institutions & the Question of Transferability (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980), 164 pages.
• Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen, and Jonathan Unger (eds), On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: The Li Yizhe Debates (White Plains, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1985), viii + 311 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, and Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991), xv + 239 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), 'Using the Past to Serve the Present': Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993), xii + 292 pages.
• Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger (eds), China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), viii + 224 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), Chinese Nationalism (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), xviii + 236 pages.
• Anita Chan, Benedict Kerkvliet, and Jonathan Unger (eds), Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared (Sydney: Allen and Unwin; Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), viii + 240 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Nature of Chinese Politics (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), xvi +333 pages.

Monograph

• Jonathan Unger, The Politics of Wages in the Socialist States: An Inquiry into the Origins of Inequalities (Brighton, England: Institute of Development Studies, 1975), 182 pages.

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Translations

• "Post-Cultural Revolution Primary School Education: Selected Texts", Chinese Education, Vol. X, No. 2 (Summer 1977), pp. 35-102.
• Co-editor/co-translator, "The Case of Li I-che", Chinese Law & Government, Vol. X, No. 3 (Fall 1977), 112 pages.
• "De-Collectivization in a Guangdong Village: An Interview", in John Burns and Stanley Rosen (eds.), Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Survey with Analysis (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1985), pp. 274-79.
• Co-editor/co-translator of Wang Xizhe, "Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution", Chinese Law & Government, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (Summer 1985), 106 pages.

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