Jonathan Unger

[About Jonathan Unger]

Books authored/edited, monographs

• Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), ix +275 pages.
• Jonathan Unger, The Transformation of Rural China (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), xviii + 265 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Nature of Chinese Politics (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), xvi +333 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.), Chinese Nationalism (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), xviii + 236 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.), 'Using the Past to Serve the Present': Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993), xii + 292 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. See more details about this book, including the first 18 pages of Chapter 1.
• 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.
• 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, 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, Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982; paperback edition, 1983), xii + 308 pages.
• Jonathan Unger (ed.), Chinese Rural Institutions & the Question of Transferability (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980), 164 pages.
• 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.
• Jonathan Grant, Laurence Moss, and Jonathan Unger (eds), Cambodia: The Widening War in Indochina (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971), x + 355 pages.

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

• "Chinese Associations, Civil Society, and State Corporatism: Disputed Terrain", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), pp. 1-13.
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Associations in a Bind: The Emergence of Political Corporatism", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), pp. 48-68.
• "The Strange Marriage between the State and Private Business in Beijing", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), pp. 117-48
• "Rediscovering Chinese Society in the Socialist Era: Using the Past to Serve the Present", Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Vol. 3 (April 2008), pp. 223-43.
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Memories and the Moral Economy of a State-Owned Enterprise", in Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds.), Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. 119-140.
• “The Cultural Revolution at the Grass Roots”, The China Journal, No. 57 (January 2007), pp. 109-137.[PDF file (138kB)]
• "Family Customs and Farmland Reallocations in Contemporary Chinese Villages", in Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 2006), pp. 113-130 [PDF file (90KB)]
• "China's Conservative Middle Class", Far Eastern Economic Review, April 2006, pp. 27-31. [PDF file (25kB)]
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "The Internal Politics of an Urban Chinese Work Community: A Case Study of Employee Influence on Decision-Making at a State-Owned Factory." The China Journal, No. 52 (July 2004), pp. 1-24. [PDF File (193 KB)]
• "Irrigation and Poverty in China", Development Bulletin, No. 61 (May 2003), pp. 43-46.
• "Entrenching Poverty: The Drawbacks of the Chinese Government’s Policies and Programs", Development Bulletin, No. 61 (May 2003), pp. 29-33. [PDF file (91KB)]
• Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "The China Journal and the Changing State of China Studies", Issues & Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (March 2003), pp. 327-331.
• "Poverty, credit and microcredit in rural China", Development Bulletin, 57, February 2002, pp. 23-26. [PDF file (29kb)]
• "Power, Patronage and Protest in Rural China", in Tyrene White (ed.), China Briefing 2000: The Continuing Transformation (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), pp. 71-94.
• "The Poor and the New Rich in the Chinese Countryside", Den Ny Verden (Denmark) [Scandinavia’s leading development studies journal], Vol. 32, No. 2 (August 1999), pp. 128-44.
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township", The China Journal, No. 42 (July 1999), pp. 45-74.[PDF file (155KB)]
• Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "Comparing China and Vietnam" in Anita Chan, Benedict Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger (eds), Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared (Sydney: Allen and Unwin; Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 1-14.
• Hy Van Luong and Jonathan Unger, "Wealth and Poverty in the Transition to Market Economies: The Process of Socio-Economic Differentiation in Rural China and Northern Vietnam", The China Journal, No. 40 (July 1998), pp. 61-93; also in Anita Chan, Benedict Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger (eds), Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared (Sydney: Allen and Unwin; Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 120-52.[PDF file (172KB)]
• "Cultural Revolution Conflict in the Villages", The China Quarterly, No. 153 (March 1998), pp. 82-106. [Research Note PDF 137 KB]
• "Not Quite Han: The Ethnic Minorities of China’s Southwest", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 29, No. 3 (December 1997), pp. 67-78. [PDF file (117KB)]
• "Introduction" to Yang Xiaokai, Captive Spirits: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 6-18.
• "'Bridges': Private Business, the Chinese Government and the Rise of New Associations", The China Quarterly, No. 147 (September 1996), pp. 796-819. [PDF file (3MB)]
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "China, Corporatism, and the East Asian Model", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 33 (January 1995), pp. 29-53; reprinted in Chun Lin (ed.), China: The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Vol. III (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1999). A considerably longer version of this paper appears in 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), pp. 95-129. An up-dated version, in Chinese, appears in Zhanlue yu Guanli, No. 44 (January 2001). [PDF file (2.93MB)]
• "Recent Trends in Modern China Studies in the English-language World", Asian Research Trends, No. 4 (July 1994), pp. 179-186.
• "'Rich Man, Poor Man': The Making of New Classes in the Chinese Countryside", in David Goodman and Beverley Hooper (eds), China’s Quiet Revolution: New Interactions between State and Society (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), pp. 43-63. [ANU Only - PDF file]
• "Urban Chinese Families in the Eighties: An Analysis of Chinese Surveys", in Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell (eds), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 25-49. [ANU Only - PDF file]
• "Whither China?: Yang Xiguang, Red Capitalists, and the Social Turmoil of the Cultural Revolution", Modern China, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 1991), pp. 3-37. [PDF file (124KB)]
• "Internal Change in China: Commentary", in Stuart Harris and James Cotton (eds), The End of the Cold War in Northeast Asia (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire; and Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1991), pp. 72-78.
• Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "Voices from the Protest Movement in Chongqing, Sichuan", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 24 (July 1990), pp. 259-279. Also as "Voices from the Protest Movement in Chongqing: Class Accents and Class Tensions", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, and Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991), pp. 106-126. [PDF file (2.45MB)]
• Jonathan Unger and Jean Xiong, "Life in the Chinese Hinterlands Under the Economic Reforms", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 22, No. 2 (April 1990), pp. 4-17. [PDF file (100KB)]
• "State and Peasant in Post-Revolution China", The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (October 1989), pp. 114-136.
• "Between Mao and Manna" (with Pok-chi Lau), Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 1989), pp. 24-32.
• "China’s New Political Structure", in Gary Klintworth (ed.), China’s Crisis: The International Implications, Canberra Paper 57, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, 1989, pp. 4-11.
• "Local Power and Economic Reform: The Chinese Leadership’s Present Dilemma", China Information, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn 1987), pp. 1-15.
• "The Hong Kong Connection: China Research from the Room Next Door", China Information, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Summer 1987), pp. 27-36.
• "The Struggle to Dictate China's Administration: The Conflict of Branches vs Areas vs Reform", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Issue 18 (July 1987), pp. 15-45. [PDF file (3.64MB)]
• "Remuneration, Ideology and Personal Interests in a Chinese Village, 1960-1980", International Journal of Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 1984-85), pp. 3-27; also in William Parish (ed.), Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1985), pp. 117-140. [PDF file (99 KB)]
• "The Decollectivization of the Chinese Countryside: A Survey of Twenty-eight Villages", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter 1985), pp. 585-606. [PDF file (2.3MB)]
• "The Class System in Rural China: A Case Study", in James Watson (ed.), Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 121-141. [PDF file (105KB)]
• "Severing the Links Between School Performance and Careers: The Sobering Experience of Chinese Urban Schools, 1968-1976", Comparative Education (London), Vol. 20, No. 1 (1984), pp. 93-103; also in John Oxenham (ed.), Education versus Qualifications: Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour (London: Allen & Unwin, 1984), pp. 176-191. [PDF file (63KB)]
• "Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Fall, 1982), pp. 452-71.[PDF file (2MB)]
• Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen and Jonathan Unger, "Students and Class Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guard Conflict in Canton", The China Quarterly, No. 83 (Autumn, 1980), pp. 397-446. [PDF file (5.7 MB)]
• "Bending the School Ladder: The Failure of Chinese Educational Reform in the 1960s", Comparative Education Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1980), pp. 221-237.
• "The Chinese Controversy Over Higher Education", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Spring, 1980), pp. 29-47. [PDF file (1.8MB)]
• "China's Troubled Down-to-the-Countryside Campaign", Contemporary China, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1979), pp. 79-92. [PDF file (77 KB)]
• "Collective Incentives in the Chinese Countryside", World Development (Oxford), Vol. VI, No. 5 (May 1978), pp. 583-601.
• "Village Studies in China Past and Present", in Claire Lambert (ed.), Village Studies, Vol. 2 (London: Mansell Publishers, 1978), pp. 281-287.
• "Primary School Teaching Methods in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution", Chinese Education, Vol. X, No. 2 (Summer 1977), pp. 4-34.
• "Incentives in a Chinese Peasant Community", Social Scientist, Vol. V, No. 10 (May 1977), pp. 17-57.
• "The Making and Breaking of the Chinese Secret Societies" (a review article), Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. V, No. 1 (Winter 1975), pp. 89-98.
• "Foreign Minorities in Japan", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. III, No. 3 (Autumn 1973), pp. 306-312.
• "Japan: The Economic Threat", Survival (The International Institute for Strategic Studies), Vol. XIV, No. 1 (January 1972), pp. 38-42.
• "China's Foreign Policy", in China! Inside the People's Republic (New York: Bantam Books, 1972), pp. 293-329.
• "'Learn from Tachai': China's Agricultural Model", Current Scene, Vol. IX, No. 9 (September 1971), pp. 1-11. Republished in German in Digest des Ostens, No. 11 (November 1971).
• "Mao's Indochina Tactics", in Jonathan Grant, Laurence Moss and Jonathan Unger (eds), Cambodia: The Widening War in Indochina (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971), pp. 139-150.

Translations

• Co-editor/co-translator of Wang Xizhe, "Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution", Chinese Law & Government, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (Summer 1985), 106 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.
• "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.