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Mark Selden

Bartle Professor (joint with Sociology)
Ph.D., Yale University
Revolutionary movements, political economy, East Asia, socialist development

Courses Taught

Professor Seldon is a Bartle Professor and has a reduced teaching load.

Books:

• Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Ed. with Richard Tantor and Stephen R. Shalom.
• Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance. Routledge, 2000. Ed. with Elizabeth Perry.
• Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States. M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Ed. with Laura Hein.
• Living With the Bomb. American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age. M. E. Sharpe, 1997. Ed. with Laura Hein.
• China in Revolution. The Yenan Way Revisited. M. E. Sharpe, 1995; Chinese edition, forthcoming 2000.
• Bukharin in Retrospect. The Man and the Revolution. M. E. Sharpe, 1994; German edition, 1992. Ed. with Theodor Bergmann and Gert Schaefer.
• Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism. Doi Moi in Comparative Perspective. Westview, 1993. Ed. with William Turley.
• The Political Economy of Chinese Development. M. E. Sharpe, 1993; Chinese edition, 1992.
• Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale University Press, 1991; Chinese edition forthcoming, 2000. With Edward Friedman and Paul Pickowicz.
• The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. M. E. Sharpe, 1989. Ed. with Kyoko Selden.
• Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism. China and Eastern Europe. Stanford University Press, 1989. Ed. with Victor Nee and David Stark.
• The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism. M. E. Sharpe, 1988; Chinese edition, 1990.
• The Transition to Socialism in China. M. E. Sharpe, 1982. Ed. with Victor Lippit.
• The People's Republic of China. Monthly Review Press, 1979; Chinese edition, 1982.
• Korea North and South. Monthly Review Press, 1978. Ed. with Gavan McCormack; Japanese edition, 1981; Korean edition, 1988.
• Remaking Asia. Essays on the American Uses of Power. Pantheon, 1974; Japanese edition, 1976.
• Open Secret: The Kissenger-Nixon Doctrine in Asia. Harper & Row, 1972; Japanese edition, 1973. Ed. with Virginia Brodine.
• America's Asia: Dissenting Essays on Asian-American Relations. Pantheon, 1971. Ed. with Edward Friedman.
• The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Harvard University Press, 1971; Japanese edition, 1975.

Recent Articles:

• "The Power of the Strong: Rural Resistance and Reform in China and Vietnam," with Chad Raymond and Kate Zhou. China Information XIV, 2, 2001.
• "Imperial Democracy: Conundrums of Japan in American Embrace," Monthly Review, December, 2000.
• "East Timor Faces the Future," with Richard Tantor and Stephen R. Shalom. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 32:1-2, (January-June 2000).
• "Poverty Alleviation, Inequality and Welfare in Rural China," Economic and Political Weekly, November 6, 1999.
• "Cycles and Agrarian Transformations in China and Vietnam," in Anita Chan, Benedict Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger, eds., Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared (Allen and Unwin, 1999), with Benedict Kerkvliet.
• "The Logic of Mass Destruction," in Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds., Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (Stony Creek, CT: Pamphleteer's Press, 1998).
• "Commemorating and Silencing: Fifty Years of Remembering the Bomb in America and Japan," Sekai (World), in Japanese, January 1998, with Laura Hein.
• "After Collectivization: Continuity and Change in Rural China," in Ivan Szelenyi, ed., Transforming Collective Agriculture: Comparative Perspectives (Routledge:1998).
• "China's Rural Welfare Systems: Crisis and Transformation," (in Chinese) in Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, no. 10 (August 1997).
• "The Reform of Social Welfare in China," World Development, vol. 25, no. 10 (October 1997), with Laiyin You.
• "Okinawa Citizens, U.S. Bases and the Dugong," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Oct.-Dec. 1997) with Masamichi Sebastian Inoue and John Purves.
• "China, Japan and Regional Integration in East Asia," in Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Network Power: Japan in Asia, Cornell University Press, 1997.
• "Fifty Years of Remembering the Bomb in America and Japan," Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, August 1997, with Laura Hein.
• "The Construction of Spatial Hierarchies. China's Hukou and Danwei Systems," in Timothy Cheek and Tony Saich, eds., New Perspectives on State Socialism in China, M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
• Editor and author of introduction to special issue on "Asia, Asian Studies, and the National Security State," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 29(1), Jan-Mar 1997.
• "Household, Cooperative and State in the Remaking of China's Countryside," in Frank Pieke, Eduard Vermeer and Woei Lien Chong, eds., Cooperatives and Collectives in China's Rural Transformation, M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
• "Rethinking Cooperative Agriculture," in Wladislaw Hedeler, Mario Kebler and Gert Schafer, eds., Ausblicke auf das vergangene jahrhundert. Die Politik der internationalen arbeiterbewegung von 1900 bis 2000 (Rethinking the Twentieth Century: The Politics of the International Workers' Movement, 1900-2000), VSA Verlag, 1996.
• "Household, Cooperative and State in the Future of China's Countryside," in Jiang Pei, ed., Ershi shiji de zhongguo nongcun shehui (China's Rural Society in the Twentieth Century), in Chinese, Zhongguo dangan chubanshe, 1996.
• Editor and author of introduction to "The Bretton Woods Institutions Reconsidered," a symposium, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 27(4), Oct-Dec 1995.
• "Pathways from Collectivization: Post-Socialist Agrarian Alternatives in Russia and China," in Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? M. E. Sharpe, 1995.
• Editor and Foreward to Wen Rui, "Land Revolution in the Chinese Soviet," Chinese Economic Studies, 3 issues, 1994-1995.
• "Before the Bomb: The 'Good War,' Air Power and the Logic of Mass Destruction," Contention, 5(1), Fall 1995.
• "From the Fire Bombing of Tokyo to Hiroshima," Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) and Shukan Kinyobi (Tokyo, in Japanese), June 1995.
• "Labor Unrest in China, 1831-1990," Review, 18(1), Winter 1995.
• "Yan'an Communism Reconsidered," Modern China, 21(1), January 1995.
• "Foreward" to Jean-Luc Domenach, The Great Leap Forward, Westview, 1995.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

• Binghamton University Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 1996
• Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, 1993, for best book on twentieth-century China: Chinese Village, Socialist State
• SSRC grant for workshop and conference volume on The Rise of East Asia, 1996-98
• SSRC grant for research on China, Japan, East Asia, 1945-2000, 1997
• National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, 1993-95

Professional Activities

• Series Editor, Socialism and Social Movements Series, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 1990-
• Series Editor, Japan in the Modern World Series, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 1995-
• Series Editor, Asia Rising, Routledge Publishers, 1996-
• Series Editor, Transitions: Asia and Asian America, Westview Publishers, 1992-97
• Series Editor, Social Change in Global Perspective, Westview Publishers, 1993-97

For lists of new and forthcoming titles in these series, see http://people.cornell.edu/pages/ms44/seldeneditseries.pdf

• Editor, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1970-72, 1987-present; editoral board member, 1969-
• Editorial Board member, China Information, 1992-
• Editoral Adviser, Positions. East Asia Cultures Critique, 1993-