China Since Mao
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version:
Dissidence (esp. the role of scientists), arts and letters (esp. poetry), commercial and economic explosion, youth culture, popular culture...
- Recommended (grossly inadequate):
- Fang Lizhi, Bringing Down the Great Wall
- Adeeb Khalid, Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present [i.e., from the 1700s to 2020]
- Gary King, Jennifer Pan and Margaret E. Roberts, "How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument" [PDF preprint]
- H. Lyman Miller, Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge [Despite the faux pas of making the title more informative than the subtitle]
- Kalpana Misra, From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Offical Ideology in Deng's China
- Martin King Whyte, "Paradoxes of China's Economic Boom", Annual Review of Sociology 35 (2009): 371--392
- Jianying Zha, China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture
- To read:
- Yuen Yuen Ang, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
- Nimrod Baranovitch, China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978--1997
- Timothy Brook, Quelling the People
- Ian Buruma, Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing
- Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants
- Ci Jiwei, Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism
- Tom Cliff, Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang
- Gloria Davies, Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry
- Bruce J. Dickson, Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector
- James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai
- Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson, "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 729--761
- Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
- Julian Gewirtz, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China [There is an interesting excerpt on Joan Robinson]
- Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic
- Peter Hays Gries, China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy [favorable review in Dissent]
- Doug Guthrie, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China
- Ben Hillman, Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China
- Hooper, Youth in China
- Charlotte Ikels, The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China
- Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
- Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
- Yi-min Lin, Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China
- Perry Link, Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament
- Barry Naughton, The Chinese economy: Transitions and Growth
- Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China
- Minxin Pei, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy
- Margaret E. Roberts, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
- Eddy U, Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism
- Chaohua Wang (ed.), One China, Many Paths [2005 essay collection]
- Wang Hui, China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition
- Andrew Wederman, From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China
- Hongda "Harry" Wu, Laogai: The Chinese Gulag
- Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
- Li Zhang, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population
