China

Government and society

General surveys include Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China, 2nd ed. (2004); John K. Fairbank, The United States and China, 4th enlarged ed. (1983); and Marc Blecher, China, Politics, Economics, and Society (1986). Franz Schurmann, Ideology and Organization in Communist China, 2nd enlarged ed. (1968), is a sociological analysis of ideas that led to the Great Leap Forward and also contains insights into many other periods. Ping-ti Ho and Tang Tsou (eds.), China’s Heritage and the Communist Political System in China in Crisis, vol. 1 (1968), interprets Chinese ideology during the early phase of the Cultural Revolution. Kenneth Lieberthal and Michel Oksenberg, Policy Making in China (1988), analyzes fragmented authoritarianism and its implications for various sectors of society. Emily Hannum and Albert Park (eds.), Education and Reform in China (2007), surveys the current state of education in the country.

The role of women and the consequences of the limits placed on their full participation have been the topic of Delia Davin, Woman-Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China (1976); Judith Stacey, Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China (1983); Margery Wolf, Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China (1985); and Pun Ngai, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005).

Among the many periodicals that give current information on social, political, cultural, and economic affairs are The China Journal (biannual), published in Canberra, Australia; The China Quarterly; The Journal of Contemporary China (quarterly); Journal of Chinese Political Science (quarterly); The China Business Review (bimonthly); Modern China (quarterly); and China Information (3 issues annually). In addition, more broadly based publications such as Journal of Asian Studies (quarterly) and Asian Survey (bimonthly) publish a wide variety of China-related articles.