Thomas P. Bernstein
American political scientist
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Thomas P. Bernstein's Degrees
- PhD Political Science Princeton University
- Masters Political Science Princeton University
- Bachelors Political Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Paul Bernstein is an American political scientist and specialist in the Chinese political economy and communist systems. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University. Biography Bernstein earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined the Columbia faculty in 1975. Bernstein has written about the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union and China, state-peasant relations, economic growth during China's reform and opening period, and Sino-Soviet relations. He served as two-time chairman of Columbia's department of political science and retired from teaching in 2007.
Thomas P. Bernstein's Published Works
Published Works
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China (2003) (247)
- Taxation without Representation: Peasants, the Central and the Local States in Reform China (2000) (210)
- Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (1977) (209)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Frontmatter (2003) (196)
- Stalinism, famine, and Chinese peasants (1984) (99)
- Effects of electricity and lightning on man and animals. (1973) (37)
- Mao Zedong and the Famine of 1959–1960: A Study in Wilfulness (2006) (36)
- Leadership and Mass Mobilisation in the Soviet and Chinese Collectivisation Campaigns of 1929–30 and 1955–56 A Comparison (1967) (36)
- China learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present (2011) (30)
- Taxation and coercion in rural China (2008) (24)
- The rustication of urban youth in China : a social experiment (1977) (23)
- Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villiages. (1978) (19)
- China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955–1959 . By Frederick C. Teiwes with Warren Sun. [Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. 376 pp. $27.50. ISBN 0-7656-0202-4.] (1999) (15)
- Unrest in Rural China: A 2003 Assessment (2004) (15)
- Urban Youth in the Countryside: Problems of Adaptation and Remedies (1977) (15)
- Theories of the causes of death from electricity in the late nineteenth century. (1975) (13)
- Is China unstable? Assessing the factors (2000) (9)
- Village Democracy and Its Limits (2006) (8)
- China in 1984: The Year of Hong Kong (1985) (7)
- Leadership and mobilization in the collectivization of agriculture in China and Russia : a comparison (1970) (5)
- Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Resilience and Collapse in China and the Soviet Union (2013) (4)
- The Lost Generation: The Rustication of China's Educated Youth (1968–1980) . MICHEL BONNIN (translated by Krystyna Horko ). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013. xxxix + 515 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-962-996-481-8 (2014) (4)
- Deaths in China Due to Communism: Propaganda versus Reality . By Shalom Stephen Rosskamm. [Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, 1984. Center for Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No. 15. 234pp.] (1985) (4)
- The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History (2013) (2)
- Problems of Village Leadership after Land Reform (1968) (2)
- Russian History after the "Visual Turn" (2010) (2)
- The Soviet Union, China and Korea (1982) (1)
- Political Participation in Rural China. By John P. Burns [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 282 pp. ] (1989) (1)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Preface (2003) (1)
- The Dragon and the Elephant: Agriculture and Rural Reforms in China and India. Edited by Ashock Gulati and Shenggen Fan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. ix + 548 pp. £25.50; $38.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-8787-1 (2009) (1)
- Die Sowjetunion und das kommunistische China, 1945-1950: Der beschwerliche Weg zum Buendniss (The Soviet Union and Communist China, 1945-1950: The Difficult Road to the Alliance.) (1999) (1)
- Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (review) (2010) (1)
- Famine in China 1959–1961: Demographic and Social Implications . By Penny Kane. [London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1988. x + 164 pp. £29ndash;50.] (1990) (1)
- Eating bitterness: New perspectives on China's great leap forward and famine [Book Review] (2012) (1)
- Co-operative and Collective in China's Rural Development: Between State and Private Interests . Edited by Eduard B. Vermeer, Frank N. Pieke and Woei Lien Chong. [Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xv + 301 pp. $67.95. ISBN 0-7656-0093-5.] (1998) (1)
- Economic and Political Reform in China and the Former Soviet Union (2009) (1)
- Grain Procurements during the Great Leap Forward (2016) (0)
- Burden Reduction: Village Democratization and Farmer National Interest Representation (2003) (0)
- The China Reader: The Reform Era . Edited by Orville Schell and David Shambaugh. [New York: Vintage Books, 1999. xx + 553 pp. $16.00. ISBN 0-679-76387-2.] (1999) (0)
- Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine, edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. xii + 321 pp. CA$90.00/US$99.00 (hardcover), CA$34.95/US$37.95 (paperback). (2012) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Bibliography (2003) (0)
- Book review: Rural Tax Reform in China: Policy Processes and Institutional Change (2012) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Containing Burdens: Change and Persistence (2003) (0)
- Rural Communes of China: Organizational Problems.@@@Bibliographic Guide to Kwangtung Communes, 1959-1967. (1969) (0)
- Harold Z. Schiffrin. Sun Yat-sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. Pp. 412. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. $9.50 (1971) (0)
- Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng (2011) (0)
- China Briefing, 1991 . Edited by William A. Joseph. [Boulder: Westview Press, in co-operation with the Asia Society, 1992. 213 pp. £9.95.] (1992) (0)
- The Transformation of Rural China. By Jonathan Unger. [Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. ix+256 pp. $23.95. ISBN 0-7656-0552-X.] (2003) (0)
- China's Reforms Compared to Those of Mikhail Gorbachev (2010) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Conclusions (2003) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Peasants and Taxation in Historical Perspective (2003) (0)
- The dream of nuclear warfare (1991) (0)
- Extracting Funds from the Peasants (2003) (0)
- Organizing Rural China – Rural China Organizing . Edited by Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books. vii + 240 pp. £39.95 ISBN 978-0-7391-7009-0 (2013) (0)
- Understanding Modern China . Edited with an Introduction by Joseph M. Kitagawa. (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969. Pp. 284, $7.95.) (1971) (0)
- The Transformation of Chinese Socialism [Book Review] (2007) (0)
- Soviet and Chinese Communism: Similarities and Differences. Edited by Donald W. Treadgold. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1967. Pages xix, 452. $10.00. (1967) (0)
- Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China by John A. Donaldson. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2011. 240 pp. $45.00. (2013) (0)
- The Chinese. By Jasper Becker. [London: John Murray, 2000. xi+464pp. £25.00. ISBN 0-7195-5439-X.] (2002) (0)
- Domestic Politics (2019) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2013) (0)
- The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960 . By Roderick MacFarquhar [London: Oxford University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. 435 pp. £22·50.] (1983) (0)
- The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (2007) (0)
- China Learns from the Soviet Union : An Interview with (2018) (0)
- The State and Collective Farming in the Soviet Union and China (2019) (0)
- Mao, Chinese Communism, and the USSR (2014) (0)
- Famine politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (2017) (0)
- Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia, edited by Karrie Koesel, Valerie Bunce, and Jessica Weiss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. x+326 pp. £64.00 (cloth), £20.99 (paper); also available as an e-book. (2022) (0)
- Austin Jersild. The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. (2015) (0)
- The Socialist Modernization of China Between Soviet Model and National Specificity 1949–1960s (2017) (0)
- The Evolution of Communism. By Adam Westoby. [New York: Free Press, 1989. 333 pp. $22.95.] (1991) (0)
- Zhou Xun (ed), The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History,. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012, 256 pp. (2013) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Institutional Sources of Informal Tax Burdens (2003) (0)
- China's Rise, Russia's Fall: Politics, Economics and Planning in the Transition from Stalinism (review) (2011) (0)
- Lucien Bianco, Peasants Without the Party. Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 2001, 309 p. (2004) (0)
- Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Pastby Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-107-11719-8 (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-53982-2 (pb) (2018) (0)
- The Transformation of Chinese Socialism. Lin Chun (2007) (0)
- China in Search of its Future: Years of Great Reform, 1982–87 . By John Woodruff. Foreword by Michel Oksenberg. [Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1989. 218 pp.] (1990) (0)
- Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: Burdens and Resistance: Peasant Collective Action (2003) (0)
- Ideology and Rural Reform: The Paradox of Contingent Stability (2019) (0)
- Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and Chinaby Daniel Brook (2006) (0)
- Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Classby Joel Andreas (2010) (0)
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