Jonathan Unger

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Professor Jonathan Unger is a journalist and an expert on China. His major works include The Transformation of Rural China and The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang (as editor). Unger is currently in the midst of conducting research on Chinese state-owned factories. He was editor and co-editor of The China Journal from July 1987 until July 2005.

Contents 1 Research interests 2 Key publications 3 Career highlights 4 External links

[edit] Research interests

Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism.

[edit] Key publications

• The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
• (ed.) Chinese Nationalism. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

(co-author) Chen Village Under Mao and Deng, University of California Press, 1992.

• Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, University of Colombia Press, 1982.

[edit] Career highlights

Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas; University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to Australian National University

[edit] External links

• Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
• The New York Review of Books