Professor Jonathan Unger (born 1946) is a journalist and an expert on

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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

Research interests

Social stratification in

; rural Chinese social and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

Key publications

*''Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools'',

University of Columbia Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan ...

Press, 1982. *(co-author) ''Chen Village Under Mao and Deng'',

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

Press, 1992. *(ed.) ''Chinese Nationalism''. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 1996. *''The Transformation of Rural China''. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.

Career highlights

Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies,

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

;

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

and

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

before coming to

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

External links

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThe New York Review of Books
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Unger, Jonathan Australian sinologists 1946 births Living people