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Professor '''Jonathan Unger''' (born 1946) 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 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 [[China]]; rural Chinese social and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese [[nationalism]].
==Key publications== *''Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools'', [[Columbia University Press]], 1982. *(co-author) ''Chen Village Under Mao and Deng'', [[University of California]] 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]]; [[University of Washington]] and [[Leiden University]] before coming to [[Australian National University]]
==External links== *[http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/ungej_ccc.php Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930184240/http://rspas.anu.edu.au//people/personal/ungej_ccc.php |date=30 September 2009 }} *[http://www.nybooks.com/authors/6099 The New York Review of Books]
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