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Suggested Citation:"Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2111.
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APPENDIX M

Selected Reading List and References

ESPECIALLY RECOMMENDED

Bruun, Ole et al., eds. Modern China Research: Danish Experiences. Copenhagen Discussion Papers Special Issue. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies , 1991.

Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Fairbank, John K. China: A New History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press , 1992.

Harding, Harry. A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992.

Joseph, William A., ed. China Briefing, 1992. Boulder: Westview Press, in cooperation with the Asia Society, 1993.

Link, Perry. Evening Chats in Beijing. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING
General

Mahoney, Rosemary. The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China. New York: Fawcett Publishers, 1992.

Rittenberg, Sidney and Amanda Bennett. The Man Who Stayed Behind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Salzman, Mark. Iron and Silk. New York: Random House, 1986.

Shambaugh, David, ed. American Studies of Contemporary China. Armonk, NY and Washington, D.C.: M.E. Sharpe and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2111.
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History

Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai . New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.

Gao Yuan. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Gray, Jack. Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Hinton, W. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. New York: Random House, 1968.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. New York: Grove Press, 1989.

Thurston, Anne F. Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Yue, Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman. To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Society

Chin, Anne-Ping. Children of China: Voices from Recent Years. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Honig, Emily and Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Link, Perry, Richard Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz, eds. Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989.

Politics and Economics

Byron, John and Robert Pack. The Claws of the Dragon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. China Without Mao: The Search for a New Order. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Lardy, Nick. Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Mann, Jim. Beijing Jeep: The Short, Unhappy Romance of American Business in China. New York: Simon and Schuster Trade, Inc. 1990.

Nathan, Andrew J. China's Crisis: Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Pye, Lucian. The Spirit of Chinese Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis, ed. State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

Saich, Tony, ed. The Chinese People's Movement: Perspectives on Spring 1989. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 1990.

Shambaugh, David. Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972-1990. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1991.

Tidrick, G. and C. Jiyuan, eds. China's Industrial Reform. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1987.

Vogel, Ezra. One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

White, Gordon. Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2111.
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Education

Epstein, I. ed. Chinese Education: Problems, Policies, and Projects . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991.

Kallgren, J.K. and Simon, D.F., eds. Educational Exchanges: Essays on the Sino-American Experience. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1987.

Hayhoe, Ruth. Education and Modernization: The Chinese Experience. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1992.

Lampton, David M., with Joyce A. Madancy and Kristen M. Williams for the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. A Relationship Restored: Trends in U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-1984. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1986.

Muehl, Lois, and Siegmar Muehl. Trading Cultures in the Classroom: Two American Teachers in China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Reed, Linda A. Education in the People's Republic of China and U.S.-China Educational Exchanges. Washington, D.C.: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, 1988.

Unger, Jonathan. Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, 1960-1980. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

Science

Baark, Eric. "Fragmented Innovation: China's Science and Technology Policy Reforms in Retrospect." Pp. 531-545 in China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problems of Reforms, Modernization, and Interdependence . Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China. Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1992.

Panel on Global Climate Change Sciences in China. China and Global Change: Opportunities for Collaboration. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1992.

Simon, Denis Fred and Merle Goldman, eds. Science and Technology in Post-Mao China. Harvard Contemporary China Series 5. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies and Harvard University, 1989.

Smil, Vaclav. China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1993.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2111.
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REFERENCES

The following books and articles, noted or cited in China Bound, are listed below for easy reference.

Arlington, L.C. and W. Lewisohn. In Search of Old Beijing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Barlow, T.E. and Lowe, D.M. Teaching China's Lost Generation: Foreign Experts in the People's Republic of China. San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, Inc., 1987.

Bartlett, Beatrice. "Archive Materials in China on United States History." Pp. 504-506 in Lewis Hanke, ed., Guide to the Study of United States History outside the U.S., 1945-1980, vol. 1. White Plains: Kraus International Publications.

_____. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China , 17231820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

_____. "The Number Three Archives of China: The Liaoning Provincial Archives." China Exchange News, Fall-Winter 1991, pp. 2-6. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC.

Bock, Norman. "The Ultimate Power Trip: Setting up and Operating a PC in China." China Exchange News, Fall-Winter 1991, pp. 27-30. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC.

Bredon, Juliet. Peking. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1982. China Phone Book and Business Directory. Hong Kong: The China Phone Book Co., 1993.

Colfax, David and Micki. Home schooling for Excellence. A Warner Communications Company, 1988.

Customs Hints for Returning U.S. Citizens: Know Before You Go. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.

Directory of Chinese Libraries. Beijing: China Academic Publishers, 1982. Friedman, Edward, et al. Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Health Information for International Travel. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office (#017-023-00192-2), 1993.

Henderson, Gail. "Survival Guide to Survey Research in the China." China Exchange News, Spring 1993, pp. 23-25;33. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Scholarly Communication with China.

Hook, Brian, and Denis Twitchett eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, 2nd ed. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Isaacs, Harold R. Images of Asia: American Views of India and China. New York: Capricorn Books, 1962. (Out of print; may be available through your local library.)

Kaplan, Frederick M., J. Sobin, and Arne J. de Keijzer. The China Guidebook. New York: Eurasia Press, 1993. (Updated yearly)

Kapstein, Matthew. "New Sources for Tibetan Buddhist History." China Exchange News, Fall-Winter 1991, pp. 15-19. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC.

Moore, Raymond and Dorothy. Home Style Teaching: A Handbook for Parents and Teachers. Dallas, Sydney, and Singapore: World Publishing, 1984.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix M: Selected Reading List and References." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2111.
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Moss, William. Archives in the People's Republic of China: A Brief Introduction for American Scholars and Archivists. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Archives, 1993.

Nagel's Encyclopedic Guide to China. Geneva: Nagel Publishers, 1986.

Paver, William and Yiping Wan. Post-secondary Institutions of the People's Republic of China: A Comprehensive Guide to Institutions of Higher Education in China. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and NAFSA: Association of International Educators, 1992.

Schnepp, Otto. "Fieldwork in China." China Exchange News, March 1994, pp. 1-3. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC.

Seligman, Scott. "A Shirtsleeves Guide to Corporate Etiquette." The China Business Review, January-February 1983, p. 13. Washington, D.C.: The China Business Forum.

Storey, R., et al. China: A Travel Survival Kit. Berkeley: Lonely Planet, 1994.

Thurston, Anne F. and B. Pasternak. The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field. Boulder: Westview Press, Inc. for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1983.

Werner, David. Where There is No Doctor. Palo Alto: The Hesperian Foundation, 1977.

Wood, Frances. Blue Guide to China. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.

Yale-China Association. The Yale-China Guide to Living, Studying and Working in the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. New Haven: Yale-China Association, Inc., 1993.

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