Republic Communist Revolution  People's Republic of China

Late Imperial period (1368-1644)

General and Reference works
-Boorman, Howard and Richard Howard. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. Columbia, 1967.
-Hayford, Charles, comp,. China: New Edition Clio Press World Bibliographical Series, 1997
-Hummel, Arthur W. Emminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period , 2 vols. Washington: G.P.O, 1943-1944.
-Schoppa, Keith. The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History. Columbia U.P. 2000.
-Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History A Manual (Revised and Enlarged) Harvard U.P. 2000.
-Cohen, Paul. Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past. Columbia, 1984.

Late Imperial China
-Johnson, David, Andrew Nathan and Evelyn Rawski. Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. California, 1985.
-Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford, 1994.
-Menzies, Nicholas K.  Forest and Land Management in Imperial China. St. Martins, 1994.
-Rawski, Evelyn. Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China. Michigan, 1979.
-___________. "Research Themes in Ming-Qing Socioeconomic History- The State of the Field." Journal of Asian Studies (Feb. 1991) 50.1:84-112.
-Spence, Jonathan. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.
-Bernhardt, Kathryn. Women and Property in China, 960-1949. Stanford, 1999.
-Brokaw, Cynthia J. Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
-Li, Lillian M. Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s. Stanford University Press, 2007.
-Lin, Man-houng. China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808-1856. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.
-Macauley, Melissa. Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 1998.

Qing Society and Economy
-Eastmann, Lloyd. Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. Oxford, 1988.
-Rowe, William. Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889. Stanford, 1984.
-Rowe, William. Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895. Stanford, 1989.
-Mann, Susan. Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1900. Stanford, 1987.
-Mann, Susan. The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. University of California Press, 2007.
-Naquin, Susan and Evelyn Rawski. Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century. Yale, 1987.

Qing Government

-Bartlett, Beatrice. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820. California, 1991.
-Kuhn, Phillip. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Harvard, 1990.
-Reed, Bradly. Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty. Stanford, 2000.
-Spence, Jonathan. Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor.Yale, 1966.
-___________. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi. New York: Knopf, 1974.
-Spence, Jonathan and John Wills, eds. From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Sevenreenth-Century China. Yale, 1979.
-Will, Pierre-Etienne. Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth-Century China. trans. Elborg Forster. Stanford, 1990.
-Wakeman, Frederic. The Great Enterprise, 2 volumes. California, 1985.
-Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu Way: The 8 Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press, 2001.

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. Cambridge, 1979.
-Elliot, Mark. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identiy in Late Imperial China. Stanford, 2001.
-Esherick, Joseph and Mary Backus Rankin, eds. Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. California, 1990.
-Ho, Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China: Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911. University, 1962.
-Meskill, Johanna. A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895. Princeton, 1979.
-Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty. I. B. Tauris, 2006.

Qing Intellectual History
-Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis: Search for Order and Meaning (1890-1911). California, 1987.
-Elman, Benjamin. From Philosophy to Philology Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. California, 1984.
-Levenson, Joseph R. Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy. California , 1968.
-Rowe, William. Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth Century China. Stanford, 2001.
-Schwartz, Benjamin. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West. Harvard, 1964.

Rural Society
-Bernhardt, Kathryn. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1992.
-Huang, Philip. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1990.
-Perdue, Peter. Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
-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 .
Harvard , 1970.
-Michael, Franz. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents. 3 vols. Washington, 1966-1971.
-Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813. Yale, 1976.
-Owenby, David. Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China. Stanford 1996.

China's Response to the West
-Bays, Daniel, ed. Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, 1996.
-Wakeman, Frederic. Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861. California, 1966.
-Fairbank, John K. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1851.
Harvard, 1953.
-Polachek, James. The Inner Opium War. Harvard, 1992.
-Cohen, Paul. Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China. Harvard, 1974.
-Wright, Mary Clabaugh. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-chih Restoration, 1862-1874.
Stanford, 1966.

China and Imperialism
-Ching, Leo T.S. Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. California, 2001.
-Cohen, Paul. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Columbia, 1997.
-Duus, Peter, Ramon Meyers, and Mark Peattie, eds. The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937.
Princeton, 1989.
-Hunter, Jane. The Gospel of Gentility: American Missionary Women in Turn-of-the-Century China. Yale, 1984.
-Hu, Sheng. Imperialism and Chinese Politics. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981.
-Lee, Robert. France and the Exploitation of China, 1885-1901. Oxford, 1989.

Late Qing Reform

-Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. A Modern China and a New World: K'ang Yu-wei, Reformer and Utopian, 1858-1927.
Washington, 1975.
-Kwong, Luke S.K. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days. Harvard, 1984.
-MacKinnon, Stephen. Power and Politics in Late Imperial China. California, 1980.
-Min, Tu-ki. National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China. Harvard, 1989.
-Rankin, Mary Backus. Elite Activism and Political Transformation in China: Zhejiang Province, 1865-1911. Stanford, 1986.
-Yeh, Catherine Vance. Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 18501910. University of Washington Press, 2006.

1911 Revolution

-Esherick, Joseph. Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei. California, 1976.
-Rankin, Mary Backus. Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911. Harvard, 1971.
Rhoads, Edward J. M. Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. University of Washington Press, 2001.

Warlords
-Gillin, Donald. Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911-1949. Princeton, 1967.
-Lary, Diana. Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911-1937. Cambridge, 1985.
-McCormack, Gavan. Chang Tso-lin in Northeast China. Stanford, 1977.
-McCord, Edward. The Power of the Gun: The Emergance of Modern Chinese Nationalism California, 1993.
-Sheridan, James. Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
 

The May 4th Movement 
-Chow Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Harvard, 1960.
-Grieder, Jerome. Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-1937. Harvard, 1970.
-Schwarcz, Vera. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. California, 1986.
-Wang Zheng. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. California, 1999.
-Lee, Haiyan. Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. Stanford University Press, 2006.
-Lu, Hanchao. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 2004.

Intellectual History

-Dennerline, Jerry. Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions. Yale, 1988.
-Grieder, Jerome. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China: A Narrative History. The Free Press, 1981.
-Hung, Chang-tai. War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945. California, 1994.
-Lee, Leo Ou-fan. Voices from the Iron House: A study of Lu Xun. Indiana, 1987.
-Link, Perry. Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Cities. California, 1981.
-Pusey, James. China and Charles Darwin. Harvard, 1983.
-Lean, Eugenia. Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China. University of California Press, 2007.
-Zhang, Zhen. An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. University Of Chicago Press, 2006.

Economy and Society

-Bell, Lynda.  One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937.
-Cochran, Sherman. Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarrette Industry, 1890-1937. Harvard, 1980.
-Goodman, Bryna. Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and and Identities in Shanghai 1853-1937. California, 1998     .
-Duara, Prasenjit. Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942. Stanford, 1988.
-Gardella, Robert. Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. California 1994.
-Honig, Emily. Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980. Yale, 1992
-Huang, Philip. Civil Justice in China. Stanford, 1996.
-Leong, Sow-theng. Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin and Their Neighbors. Stanford, 1997.
-Rawski, Thomas. Economic Growth in Prewar China. California, 1989.
-Waldron, Arthur, From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point 1924-1925. Cambridge, 1995.
-Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View From Shanghai. California, 1991.
-Yeh Wen-hsin The Alienated Academy:Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937. Harvard, 1990
-Sheehan, Brett. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin. Harvard University Press, 2003.
-Harrison, Henrietta. The Making of the Republican Citizen : Political Ceremonies and Symbols in China 1911-1929. Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
-Gerth, Karl. China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. Harvard University Asia Center, 2004.

Nanjing Decade

-Coble, Parks. The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937. Harvard, 1986.
-Coble, Parks. Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937. Harvard, 1991.
-Eastman, Lloyd. The Abortive Revolution: China Under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937. Harvard, 1974.
-Henriot, Christian. Shanghai 1927-1937: Municipal Power, Locality and Modernization. California 1993
-Kirby, William C. Germany and Republican China. Princeton, 1984.
Schoppa, Kieth Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China. Califonia, 1995
-Bickers, Robert. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. Columbia University Press, 2003.
-Lipkin, Zwia. Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927-1937. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006.

Urban and Labor History

-Chesneaux, Jean. The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927. Translated by H.M. Wright. Stanford, 1968.
-Hershatter, Gail. The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949. Stanford, 1986.
-Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. Stanford, 1986.
-Perry, Elizabeth J. Shanghai On Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor Stanford, 1993.
-Strand, David. Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s. California, 1989.
-Perry, Elizabeth. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford University Press, 1995.

War of Resistance and Civil War

-Eastman, Lloyd. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937-1945. Stanford, 1984.
-Levine, Steven I. Anvil of victory : the Communist revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948.Columbia, 1987.
-Mitter, Rana. The Manchurain Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China. California, 2000.
-Pepper, Suzanne. Civil War in China : the political struggle, 1945-1949.  California, 1978.
-Brook, Timothy. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Harvard University Press, 2007.

-Klein, Donald W. and Anne B. Clark. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965. Harvard, 1971.

Marxism in China

-Dirlik, Arif. The Origins of Chinese Communism. Oxford, 1989.
-Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. California, 1991.
-Hoston, Germaine. The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan. Princeton, 1994.
-Zarrow, Peter G. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. Columbia, 1990.
-Galbiati, Fernando. P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet. Stanford, 1985.
Yeh Wen-hsin. Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism. Califonia

Yan'an Era

-Apter, David, and Saich, Tony. Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic. Harvard U.P. 1994.
-Benton, Gregor. New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance Along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938-1941.
London: Curzon 1999
-Chen Yung-fa. Making Revolution: The Communist Movement in Eastern and Central China, 1937-1945.
Stanford, 1986.
-Hartford, Kathleen and Steven Goldstein, eds. Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions. M.E. Sharpe, 1989.
-Keating, Pauline. Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945. Stanford, 1997.
-Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945.. Stanford, 1980.
-Selden, Mark. The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Harvard, 1971.
-Levine, Steven I. Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria. Columbia University Press, 1987.  

General Works
 

-Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After New York: Free Press, 1986.
-Schurmann, Franz. Ideology and Organization in Communist China. California, 1966.
-Shue, Vivienne. The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic. Stanford, 1988.
-Walder, Andrew G. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. California, 1986.
-Elizabeth, Perry. Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.

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..
Columbia, 1983.

The Cultural Revolution

-Gao Yuan, Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Stanford, 1987.
-Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Son of the Revolution. New York, 1983.
-White, Lynn T. Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution. Princeton 1989.

Rural Society
-Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger. Chen Village Under Mao and Deng. California, 1992.
-Madsen, Richard. Morality and Power in a Chinese Village. California, 1984.
-Parish, William and Martin K. Whyte. Village and Family in Contemporary China. Chicago, 1978.
-Shue, Vivienne. Peasant China in Transition: The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956.
California, 1980.
-Siu, Helen Agents and Victims in South China. Yale 1989.
-Yang, Dali L. Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine. Stanford, 1996.

Popular Culture

-Kraus, Richard. Pianos and Politics in China: Class, Nationalism and the Controversy over Western Music. Oxford, 1989.
-Zha Jianying. China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture. New Press, 1995.
-Hamm, John Christopher. Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong And The Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel. University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Gender

-Johnson, Kay Ann. Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China. Chicago, 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.

Economic History

-Ikels, Charlotte. The Return of the God of Wealth. Stanford, 1996.
-Solinger, Dorothy. Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980.California, 1984.

Contemporary China

-Baum, Richard Burying Mao. Princeton
-Brownell, Susan. Training the Body for China: Sports and the Moral Order in the People's Republic. Chicago U.P.
-Yan Sun. The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism 1972-1992. Princeton 1996
-Zheng Yi Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China. Westview 1996
-Farrer, James. Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. University Of Chicago Press, 2002.  
-Lee, Ching Kwan. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. University of California Press, 2007.