All Stories

  1. The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China Rebecca E. Karl Durham: Duke University Press, 2017 xii + 216 pp. $24.95; £20.99 ISBN 978-0-8223-6321-7

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  2. Legitimacy and Disaster

    Article • Modern China, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tim Wright

  3. Economy, 1895–1949

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Wright

  4. Sacrificing Local Interests: Water control policies of the Ming and Qing governments and the local economy of Huaibei, 1495–1949

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  5. The Governance of Energy in China: Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy. Philip Andrews-Speed. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvi + 259 pp. £57.50 ISBN 978-0-230-28224-7

    Article • The China Quarterly, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  6. Industrialisation and Handicraft Cloth: The Jiangsu Peasant Economy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, December 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  7. China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937. By Tomoko Shiroyama. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, maps, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-6...

    Article • The Business History Review, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  8. A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. By Linda Grove. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Cloth: US$60.

    Article • International Journal of Asian Studies, January 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  9. The Manchurian Economy and the 1930s World Depression

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  10. State Capacity in Contemporary China: ‘closing the pits and reducing coal production’

    Article • Journal of Contemporary China, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  11. Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937–1953. By Joshua H. Howard (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2004) 452 pp. $70.00

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary History, April 2007, The MIT Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  12. An Economic Cycle in Imperial China? Revisiting Robert Hartwell on Iron and Coal

    Article • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, January 2007, Brill

    Professor Tim Wright

  13. The Political Economy of Coal Mine Disasters in China: “Your Rice Bowl or Your Life”

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  14. Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks and State-Society Relations in Republican China Brett Sheehan

    Article • The China Journal, January 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  15. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 Linsun Cheng

    Article • The China Journal, January 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  16. Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937–1945. By Parks M. Coble. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 296. $60

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, December 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  17. Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1893–1927. By S. A. Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 366 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, February 2003, Duke University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  18. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937 Sherman Cochran

    Article • The China Journal, July 2001, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  19. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy Kenneth Pomeranz

    Article • The China Journal, January 2001, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  20. The political economy of prices in China's planned and market economies: competition and control in the coal industry

    Article • Asian Studies Review, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  21. Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5. Chemistry and Chemical Technology Part XIII: Mining. By Peter J. Golas. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxvi + 538 pp. £95.00; $150.00. ISBN 0-521-58000-5.]

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  22. Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market Sucheta Mazumdar

    Article • The China Journal, July 2000, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  23. Same Bed, Different Dreams: A History of the Chinese American Bank of Commerce, 1919–1937. By Noel H. Pugach. [Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1997. xi + 384 pp. HK $160.00. ISBN 962-8269-06-2.]

    Article • The China Quarterly, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  24. The Chinese Economy, 1870-1949 Albert Feuerwerker

    Article • The China Journal, January 1998, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  25. South China: State, Culture and Social Change during the 20th Century. L. M. Douw P. Post

    Article • The China Journal, July 1997, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  26. China's Economic Evolution (review)

    Article • China Review International, January 1996, Project Muse

    Professor Tim Wright

  27. To the People: James Yen and Village China. Charles W. Hayford

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, July 1992, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  28. The Abortive Revolution: China Under Nationalist Rule, 1927–1937. By Lloyd E. Eastman. [Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East of Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1990. 398 pp. $18.00.]

    Article • The China Quarterly, December 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  29. Coping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government's Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932–1936

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, October 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  30. Bureaucracy and Famine in Eighteenth Century China. By Pierre-Etienne Will. Translated by Elborg Forster. [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. 364 pp. $39.50.]

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  31. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Philip C. C. Huang

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, July 1991, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  32. Electric Power Production in Pre–1937 China

    Article • The China Quarterly, June 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  33. China's prewar agriculture: a success story

    Article • Asian Studies Review, April 1991, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  34. Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science. By Daniel Little. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. xi, 322 pp. $30.00.

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 1990, Duke University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  35. The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future. Robert F. Dernberger Kenneth J. DeWoskin Steven M. Goldstein Rhoads Murphey Martin K. Whyte A Study Guide to the Chinese: Adapting the Past, Building the Future. Thomas M. Buoye

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1989, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  36. The Chinese working class: new historical approaches

    Article • Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, July 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  37. Sow-Theng Leong (1939–87)

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, May 1988, Duke University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  38. Rickshaws in East Asia: means of transport and symbol of oppression

    Article • Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, April 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  39. `The Spiritual Heritage of Chinese Capitalism': Recent Trends in the Historiography of Chinese Enterprise Management

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1988, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  40. The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800–1985. By King Fairbank John. [New York: Harper and Row, 1986. 396 pp. US$ 20.95.]

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  41. Modern China: The Mirage of Modernity. I. W. Mabbett

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1987, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  42. Imperialism and the Chinese economy: A methodological critique of the debate

    Article • Critical Asian Studies, January 1986, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tim Wright

  43. Ideology and Development: Sun Yat-sen and the Economic History of Taiwan. By A. James Gregor, with Maria Hsia Chang and Andrew B. Zimmerman. [Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies. Research Monograph, No. 23. 1981. 106 pp....

    Article • The China Quarterly, June 1984, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  44. Economic Development in China during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Review Article

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, June 1983, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  45. Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis. Christopher Howe

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1983, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  46. “A Method of Evading Management”—Contract Labor in Chinese Coal Mines before 1937

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 1981, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  47. China's Oil Future: A Case of Modest Expectations. Randall W. Hardy

    Article • The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, January 1981, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  48. Technology, economics, and politics in the modernization of China's coal-mining industry, 1850–1895

    Article • Explorations in Economic History, January 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Tim Wright

  49. Sino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921–1937

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 1980, Duke University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  50. Sino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921–1937

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 1980, Duke University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  51. Capital Formation in Mainland China, 1962–1965. By Kang Chao. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974. Pp. 178. £6.00.

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, February 1977, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tim Wright

  52. Late Imperial Economy, 960-1895

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Wright

  53. Republican China, 1911-1949

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tim Wright