Mark Selden (born 1938) is a coordinator of the

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''The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus'', a senior research associate in the

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Program at

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, and Bartle Professor of History and Sociology at

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. He graduated from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

with a major in American Studies and completed a

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Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in modern Chinese history. He was a founding member of the

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in the 1960s and for more than thirty years served on the board of editors of '' The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars'' (later Critical Asian Studies). He is also the editor of book series at

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, and

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publishers.

Bibliography

A specialist on the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy and history of

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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

and the

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, his work has addressed themes of war and revolution, inequality, development, regional and world social change, and historical memory. Selden's works include: * ''Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance'' co-edited with

Elizabeth J. Perry Elizabeth J. Perry, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (; born 9 September 1948) is an American scholar of Chinese politics and Chinese history, history at Harvard University, where she is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of ...

, 2009 (3rd edition). * ''China, East Asia and the Global Economy'' co-authored with and Linda Grove, 2008. * ''Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China'' co-authored with Edward Friedman and , 2007. * ''War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century'' co-authored with Alvin Y. So, 2003. * ''The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives''] co-edited with

Giovanni Arrighi Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages. Biography ...

and Takeshi Hamashita, 2003. * ''Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, China and the United States'' co-edited with Laura Hein, 2000. * ''The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki'' Co-edited with Kyoko Selden and Robert J. Lifton, 1997. * ''China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited'', 1995 (2nd edition), * ''Chinese Village: Socialist State'' co-authored with Edward Friedman and Paul Pickowicz, 1993. . Winner of the

Joseph Levenson Book Prize Joseph Levenson Book Prize is awarded each year in memory of Joseph R. Levenson by the Association for Asian Studies to two English-language books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. According to ...

for 1993. * ''The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China'', 1971.

Personal life

Mark Selden was married to Japanese-born scholar

Kyoko Iriye Selden Kyoko Iriye Selden (入江, 恭子; 1936–2013) was a Japanese scholar of Japanese language and literature and a translator. Biography Kyoko Iriye was born in Tokyo. Her father was a journalist reporting from Paris and Shanghai, and her mothe ...

(1936-2013) until her death. They had three children. Selden Memorial Translation Prize
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