Karl August Wittfogel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl August Wittfogel was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. He was originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, but after the Second World War, he was an equally fierce anticommunist.
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Published Works
- Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (1957) (1519)
- The Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956-1961 (1962) (81)
- History of Chinese Society Liao (907-1125) (1946) (76)
- Die Theorie der orientalischen Gesellschaft (1938) (67)
- Chinese Society: An Historical Survey (1957) (43)
- Autorität und Familie (1936) (38)
- The Legend of “Maoism” (concluded) (1960) (30)
- Die orientalische Despotie : eine vergleichende Untersuchung totaler Macht (1962) (29)
- Geopolitics, Geographical Materialism and Marxism* (1985) (29)
- History of Chinese Society, Liao (907-1125). (1950) (26)
- Some Aspects of Pueblo Mythology and Society (1943) (26)
- Some remarks on Mao's handling of concepts and problems of dialectics (1963) (25)
- Russia and the East: A Comparison and Contrast (1963) (20)
- The Ruling Bureaucracy of Oriental Despotism: A Phenomenon That Paralyzed Marx (1953) (17)
- The Foundations and Stages of Chinese Economic History (1935) (17)
- Results and Problems of the Study of Oriental Despotism (1969) (12)
- Meteorological Records from the Divination Inscriptions of Shang (1940) (11)
- The Social Basis of the German Reformation (1934) (11)
- Agrarian Problems and the Moscow-Peking Axis (1962) (9)
- Part 1: The Legend of “Maoism” (1960) (7)
- The Marxist View of Russian Society and Revolution (1960) (7)
- Economic Structure of Chinese Society@@@Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas: Versuch der wissenschaftlichen Analyse einer grossen asiatischen Agrargesellschaft (1933) (6)
- Public Office in The Liao Dynasty and The Chinese Examination System (1947) (6)
- Science and Civilization in China. Joseph Needham (1958) (5)
- The original homeland of the Parthians (1960) (5)
- Russia and Asia: Problems of Contemporary Area Studies and International Relations (1950) (4)
- Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas; Erster Teil; Produktivkräfte, Produktions- und Zirkulationsprozess@@@Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas; Erster Teil; Produktivkrafte, Produktions- und Zirkulationsprozess (1933) (4)
- Industrial capital and Chinese peasants : a study of the livelihood of Chinese tobacco cultivators (1939) (4)
- New light on Chinese society : an investigation of China's socio-economic structure (1938) (4)
- The Marxist View of China (Part 1) (1962) (4)
- The Society of Prehistoric China (1939) (4)
- An Atlas of Current Affairs (1934) (3)
- Das erwachende China : ein Abriß der Geschichte und der gegenwärtigen Probleme Chinas (3)
- Reply to Arnold Toynbee (1958) (3)
- Society and history : essays in honor of Karl August Wittfogel (1978) (3)
- ARCHEOLOGY: The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico. Robert McC. Adams. Foreword by Alfred Harris (1967) (2)
- The Influence of Leninism-Stalinism on China (1951) (2)
- Ideas and the Power Structure (1964) (2)
- The Marxist View of China (Part 2) (1962) (2)
- Enthüllungen zur Geschichte der Diplomatie im 18. Jahrhundert (1981) (2)
- Die Wissenschaft der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft : eine marxistische Untersuchung (2)
- Bericht über eine grössere Untersuchung der sozialökonomischen Struktur Chinas (1938) (1)
- Das Eigentum auf den ältesten Stufen der Menschheit (1938) (1)
- Oriental Society in Transition With Special Reference to Pre-Communist and Communist China (1955) (1)
- Agriculture: a key to the understanding of Chinese society, past and present (1973) (1)
- The Historical Position of Communist China: Doctrine and Reality (1954) (1)
- No. III: A Large-Scale Investigation of China's Socio-Economic Structure (1938) (1)
- China und die osteurasische Kavallerie-Revolution (1978) (1)
- Religion under the Liao dynasty(907-1125) (1948) (0)
- China: A Short Cultural History. By C. P. Fitzgerald. Edited by Professor C. G. Seligman. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1938. Pp. xviii, 615. $7.50.) (1938) (0)
- JAS volume 5 issue 1 Front matter (1945) (0)
- Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas: Erster Teil Produktivkraefte, Productions- und Zirkulationsprozess (1931) (0)
- Der Wolkenkratzer : amerikanischer Sketch (0)
- Laws of Social Evolution and Social Ideals (0)
- Was Will Japan?@@@Weltrevolutions-Krieg@@@Moskaus Hand im Fernen Osten. (1938) (0)
- Race, Language and Culture (1939) (0)
- Others: FITCH, GERALDINE. Formosa Beachhead. Pp. ix, 267. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. $3.50 (1954) (0)
- Otto Franke, Geschichte des Chinesischen. Band II. Der Konfuzianische Staat I. Der Aufstieg Zur Weltmacht. Band III. Anmerkungen, Erganzungen und Berichtigungen Zu Band I und II, Sach-und Namensverzeichnis. (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Soviet Policy in the Far East, 1944-1951 Max Beloff (1954) (0)
- New Books on the Pacific Area (1943) (0)
- The Great Tradition (1934) (0)
- The Birth of China (1938) (0)
- Others (1954) (0)
- JAS volume 4 issue 1 Front matter (1944) (0)
- JAS volume 1 issue 1 Front matter (1941) (0)
- A Physical Map of China@@@Bathyorographical Map of China (1940) (0)
- SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: The Significance of Large‐Scale Waterworks in the Higher Civilizations of Pre‐Conquest America (1946) (0)
- Fräulein Tschang. Ein chinesisches Mädchen von heute (1933) (0)
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