Martin King Whyte

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According to Wikipedia, Martin King Whyte is an American sociology professor emeritus at Harvard University who is best known for his research on contemporary Chinese society in both the Mao and reform eras. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 2000. Previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan and George Washington University. Whyte completed his graduate work at Harvard in the 1960s. Professor Whyte's primary research and teaching focuses on comparative sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of development, the sociological study of China, and the study of post-communist transitions.

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Urban life in contemporary China (1984) (650)
Village and Family in Contemporary China. (1979) (368)
The status of women in preindustrial societies (1979) (273)
Love Matches and Arranged Marriages: A Chinese Replication. (1990) (244)
China's revolutions and intergenerational relations (2003) (181)
The Chinese Family and Economic Development: Obstacle or Engine? (1996) (168)
Cross-Cultural Codes Dealing with the Relative Status of Women (1978) (144)
Dating, mating, and marriage (1991) (137)
Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (2010) (134)
One country, two societies : rural-urban inequality in contemporary China (2010) (127)
Filial Obligations in Chinese Families: Paradoxes of Modernization (2004) (117)
Small Groups and Political Rituals in China (1975) (112)
Dependency Theory and Taiwan: Analysis of a Deviant Case (1982) (106)
Continuity and Change in Urban Chinese Family Life (2005) (97)
Challenging Myths About China’s One-Child Policy (2015) (91)
The Social Roots of China's Economic Development (1995) (79)
The Fate of Filial Obligations in Urban China (1997) (74)
Bureaucracy and Modernization in China: The Maoist Critique (1973) (73)
Paradoxes of China's Economic Boom (2009) (73)
The Paradoxes of Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (2010) (68)
The Paradoxes of Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (2010) (68)
POPULAR RESPONSE TO CHINA'S FERTILITY TRANSITION (1987) (61)
Inequality and Stratification in China (1975) (61)
Myth of the Social Volcano (2020) (57)
Is the social volcano still dormant? Trends in Chinese attitudes toward inequality. (2014) (45)
City versus countryside in China's development (1995) (32)
Village and Family Life in Contemporary China (1979) (31)
The Impact of China's Market Reforms on the Health of Chinese Citizens: Examining Two Puzzles (2010) (30)
The Origins of the Economy: A Comparative Study of Distribution in Primitive and Peasant Economies@@@The Status of Women in Pre-Industrial Societies (1980) (28)
Political Culture and Group Conflict in Communist China. (1977) (27)
China’s Post-Socialist Inequality (2012) (26)
Soaring Income Gaps: China in Comparative Perspective (2014) (26)
Changes in Mate Choice in Chengdu (1988) (26)
China’s Dormant and Active Social Volcanoes (2016) (26)
Family life in western societies (1987) (25)
Introduction: Rural Economic Reforms and Chinese Family Patterns (1992) (24)
Chapter Thirteen. The Social Contours of Distributive Injustice Feelings in Contemporary China (2020) (23)
Reading Notes: The Chinese Wage System (1981) (22)
Educational Reform: China in the 1970s and Russia in the 1920s (1974) (21)
Social Structure of World Regions: Mainland China (1977) (19)
How Angry Are Chinese Citizens About Current Inequalities? Evidence From A National Survey (2010) (19)
Cross-Cultural Studies of Women and the Male Bias Problem (1978) (18)
Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers. (1976) (17)
Views of Chinese Citizens on Current Inequalities (2009) (17)
Pianos and politics in China (1989) (16)
The Perils of Assessing Trends in Gender Inequality in China (2000) (15)
A Mirror for Socialism: Soviet Criticism of China. (1985) (15)
Choosing mates—the American way (1992) (14)
Fair versus Unfair: How do Chinese Citizens View Current Inequalities? (2010) (14)
Social Change and the Urban-Rural Divide in China (2010) (12)
China's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations," and "The Persistence of Family Obligations in Baoding (2003) (11)
From arranged marriages to love matches in urban China (1992) (11)
Popular Attitudes toward Distributive Injustice: Beijing and Warsaw Compared (2008) (11)
Destratification and Restratification in China (1978) (10)
The Status of Women in Preindustrial Society (1980) (10)
Revolutionary social change and patrilocal residence in China. (1979) (10)
Deng Xiaoping: The Social Reformer (1993) (10)
Evolutionary Changes in Chinese Culture (1988) (10)
Who Hates Bureaucracy? A Chinese Puzzle (1986) (9)
Corrective Labor Camps in China (1973) (9)
Is China unstable? Assessing the factors (2000) (9)
Chinese Social Trends: Stability or Chaos? (2000) (8)
Organizational Behavior in Chinese Society (1981) (7)
RETHINKING EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY IN THE PRC (2006) (6)
What Is Dependency? Reply to Hammer (1984) (6)
Do Chinese Citizens Want the Government to do More (2010) (6)
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai. By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 428p. $45.00. (1993) (6)
Leadership and Values: The Organization of Large-Scale Taiwanese Enterprises . By Robert H. Silin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. xvii, 226 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15.00 (1977) (5)
Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Xiaobo Lu , Elizabeth J. Perry (1999) (5)
Myth of the Social Volcano: Popular Responses to Rising Inequality in China (2011) (4)
Urban China: A Civil Society in the Making? (2019) (4)
Urban life in the People's Republic (1991) (4)
China’s economic development history and Xi Jinping’s “China dream:” an overview with personal reflections (2020) (4)
Family Role Differentiation and Women's Subsistence Contribution (1976) (3)
Confronting puzzles in understanding Chinese family change: A personal reflection (2020) (3)
Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism, edited by Jeremy Brown and Mathew D. Johnson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. vi+468 pp. $US49.95 (cloth). (2016) (2)
The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village.Yunxiang Yan (1997) (2)
Marriage in America : a communitarian perspective (2000) (2)
The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future.@@@A Study Guide to "The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future." (1987) (2)
Is America Well Served by Its Family System? (1987) (2)
China ’ s “ Credibility Gap ” : Public Opinion and Instability in China (2002) (2)
Daughters of the Canton Delta.Janice E. Stockard (1990) (2)
China Needs Justice, Not Equality (2013) (1)
Social Trends in China: The Triumph of Inequality? (2019) (1)
The Development of Sociology in China: A Delegation Report . By Nan Lin, Victor Nee, William Parish and Elena Yu. [Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, 1992. 107pp.] (1994) (1)
Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community.Ellen Oxfeld (1994) (1)
Appendix 1: Methodology (2015) (1)
The True History of China’s Disastrous One-Child Policy (2015) (1)
Chinese Family and Kinship.Hugh D. R. Baker (1981) (1)
Adaptation of rural family patterns to urban life in Chengdu. (1993) (1)
Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture.Richard H. SolomonCommunications and National Integration in Communist China.Alan P. L. Liu (1974) (1)
Family, Lineage, and Team in South China Today@@@Village and Family in Contemporary China. (1980) (1)
Rural Russia Today (1970) (1)
Human Rights Trends and Coercive Family Planning in the PRC (1998) (1)
V. CADRES AND POLITICAL STUDY RITUALS (1974) (0)
Urbanization in China. R. J. R. Kirkby (1987) (0)
The Why and How of Research on Mate Choice (2018) (0)
Women's Status, Feminist Consciousness, and Studies about African Women (1980) (0)
From Physics to Russian Studies and on into China Research: My Meandering Journey Toward Sociology (2021) (0)
Book Review:The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Philip C. C. Huang (1991) (0)
China's Urban Villagers: Life in a Beijing Commune . By Norman A. Chance. [New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 165pp. $9.50.] (1985) (0)
Inside China . By Peter Worsley. [London: Allen Lane, 1975. 270 pp. £6·00.] (1976) (0)
The country ’ s sharp increase in income inequality is not the result of the rich getting richer while the poor become poorer . ” China ’ s Post-Socialist Inequality (2012) (0)
Chinese Working Class Lives . By Hill Gates. [Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. 256 pp. Hardcover $37.50; paperback $10.95.] (1988) (0)
An Assessment of Chinese Socialist Urbanism@@@Urban Life in Contemporary China. (1985) (0)
Book Review:Rural Protest: Peasant Movements and Social Change. Henry A. Landsberger (1975) (0)
From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society.Fei Xiaotong , Gary G. Hamilton , Wang Zheng (1993) (0)
Ezra F. Vogel, 1930–2020 (2023) (0)
SOCIETY (2019) (0)
Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism . By Richard Curt Kraus. [New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 243 pp. $29.25.] (1982) (0)
Chinese Women Since Mao . By Elisabeth Croll. [London: Zed Books, 1983. 129 pp. Hardcover £14.95; paperback £4.95.] (1985) (0)
The Distribution of Income in China . Edited by Keith Griffin and Zhao Renwei. [New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. 359 pp. $47.50. ISBN 0-312-10022-1.] (1994) (0)
Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule. By Fenggang Yang. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+245. $24.95 (paper). (2012) (0)
APPENDIX 4. Description of the Sample (2015) (0)
CHAPTER IV. How the Status of Women Varies (2015) (0)
Contemporary Marriage Patterns (2018) (0)
Red Earth: Revolution in a Sichuan Village . By Stephen Endicott. [London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1988. 261 pp. £27.95.] (1990) (0)
Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion (2008) (0)
The Second Time Around (2018) (0)
Who Marries Whom (2018) (0)
The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China . By Elisabeth Croll. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 210 pp. £16·00.] (1982) (0)
China's student demonstrations: their social roots (1990) (0)
Micropolitics in Contemporary China: A Technical Unit During and After the Cultural Revolution. By Marc J. Blecher Gordon White. [London: Macmillan, 1980. 135 pp. £12·00.] (originally New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 1979.). (1980) (0)
CHAPTER V. The Status of Women: One Phenomenon or Many? (2015) (0)
APPENDIX 2. Cross-Cultural Sample (2015) (0)
The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China. Børge Bakken (2001) (0)
Dali L. Yang. Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1996. Pp. xx, 351. $49.50 (1998) (0)
Sociology and Society in Contemporary China, 1979-1983. (1985) (0)
Book Reviews : R. David Arkush, Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China, Cambridge: Har vard University Press, 1981. $20.00 (1984) (0)
CHAPTER III. Theories and Predictions (2015) (0)
The hundred flowers come to Chinese political studies (1985) (0)
Family change in China. (1979) (0)
Variations in Dating and Mating (2018) (0)
Ethnology: Rural North Korea under Communism: A Study of Sociocultural Change. Mun Woong Lee. (1979) (0)
Book Reviews : Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke, eds., Women in Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975, x + 315 pages. Character list, index. $ 12.50 (1976) (0)
Urbanism as a Chinese Way of Life (1983) (0)
CHAPTER II. The Cross-Cultural Method (2015) (0)
Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China.Kam Wing Chan (1996) (0)
"The status of women in preindustrial societies", Martin King Whyte, New Jersey 1978 : [recenzja] / Andrzej Karpiński. (1982) (0)
Book reviews (2011) (0)
CHAPTER VII. Conclusions (2015) (0)
Class in China: Stratification in a Classless Society . By Larry M. Wortzel. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. xii, 171 pp. (1988) (0)
The State of Marriage in America (2000) (0)
China’s One Child Policy (2019) (0)
Old Wine in Old Wineskins (1991) (0)
On Studying China at a Distance (2019) (0)
Diabetes in pregnancy: a practical guide for midwives (2019) (0)
POPULAR PERCEPTIONS OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IN CHINA: LOCAL AND REGIONAL VARIATIONS (2006) (0)
VIII. WORKERS AND POLITICAL RITUALS (1974) (0)
The Status of Women in Preindustrial Societies. (1979) (0)
R. David Arkush, Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. $20.00 (1984) (0)
Chinese Village, Socialist State . By Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden, with Kay Ann Johnson. [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 336 pp. $40.00, £25.00.] (1992) (0)
Old Wine in Old Wineskins@@@Dating, Mating, and Marriage. (1991) (0)
APPENDIX 3. Variables Used in this Study (2015) (0)
Walking on Two Legs: Rural Development in South China . By Elizabeth and Graham Johnson. [Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1976. 72 pp. $5.00. Microfiche $1.00.] (1978) (0)
The Modernization of China.Gilbert Rozman (1983) (0)
Dianying, Electric Shadows: An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China. By Leyda Jay. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1972. p. 515. $12.50.) (1975) (0)
Suboptimal Institutions but Superior Growth: The Puzzle of China's Economic Boom (2014) (0)
Authority, Participation and Cultural Change in China . Edited and with an introduction by Stuart R. Schram. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. viii, 350 pp. Index. $17.00 (cloth); $4.95 (paper). (1976) (0)
CHAPTER VI. Why the Status of Women Varies (2015) (0)
Chinese Families and Economic Development: Obstacle or Engine? (2005) (0)
FINUCANE, Ronald C., THE RESCUE OF THE INNOCENTS: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles (1999) (0)
China Through Shaded Glasses (1983) (0)
The Social Sources of the Student Demonstrations (2019) (0)
Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future edited by Thomas Fingar and Jean C. Oi, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, xxi + 446 pp. (2020) (0)
State and Family in Singapore. By Janet W. Salaff. [Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. 301 pp.] (1990) (0)
What Makes for a Successful Marriage (2018) (0)

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