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My Old Home
Virtual Tibet
Wealth & Power
The China Reader
Other Books
Book Introductions, Contributions to Edited Volumes & Translations
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994
Touchstone Paperbacks, 1995
China in the 1980’s
Pantheon Books, New York, 1988
Paperback: Anchor Doubleday, 1989
To Get Rich Is Glorious
China in the 1980’s
Pantheon Books, New York, 1984
Paperback: New American Library, 1985
Modern Meat
Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm
Random House, New York, 1983
Paperback: Vintage, 1984
Watch Out for the Foreign Guests
China Encounters the West
Pantheon Books, New York, 1980
Paperback: Pantheon, 1981
Brown
Random House, New York, 1978
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The Town That Fought To Save Itself
Pantheon, 1976
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Modern China
The Story of a Revolution
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972
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Starting Over
A College Reader
Co-authored with Frederick Crews
Random House, 1970
The China Reader (3 volumes)
Co-authored with Franz Schurmann
Random House, New York, 1967
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Wang Ching-wei
China’s Third Path, Honors Thesis
Harvard College, 1964
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James Whitlow Delano, “Empire: Impressions from China,” 5 Continents, 2004. (Introduction)
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Nicolas Righetti, “The Last Paradise: North Korea,” Umbrage Books, 2003. (Introduction)
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Jack Birns; “Shanghai on the Eve of Revolution,” University of California Press. 2003, (Preface)
Andrew Nathan, Perry Link, and Orville Schell, “The Tiananmen Papers,” Public Affairs Press, 2001.
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Wayne Miller, “Southside: Chicago in The Forties,” University of California Press, 2000(Preface).
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“Tibet Since 1950,” Aperture Books and Human Rights Watch, 2000. (Essay).
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Melvyn Goldstein and Matthew Kapstein, eds., “Buddhism In Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity,” University of California, 1997. (Preface)
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Owen Lattimore, “High Tartary,” Kodansha America, 1994. (Introduction)
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Merle Goldman, and Paul Cohen, eds. “Fairbank Remembered,” Harvard University Press, 1992. (Chapter)
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“The Guitars of Danny Ferrington,” Harper-Collins, 1992. (Introduction)
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Fang Lizhi, “Breaking Down The Great Wall: Writings On Science, Culture, and Democracy In China,” Translation by James H. Williams, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991. (Introduction)
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Bastian Kelly and Aiello, eds., “The Anguish of Tibet,” Paralax Press, Berkeley, 1991. (Chapter)
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“Children of the Dragon; The Story of Tiananmen Square,” Macmillan, New York, 1990. (Introductions and prefaces by John K. Fairbank, Orville Schell, Andrew Nathan, and Jonathan Spence)
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George Hicks, ed., “The Broken Mirror: China After Tiananmen,” Longman, London, 1990. (Chapter)
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Geremie Barme, and John Minford, “Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience,” Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1989. (Introduction)
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David Turnley and Peter Turnley, “Beijing Spring,” Stuart, Tabori and Chang, New York, 1989. (Introduction)
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Marc Riboud, “Visions of China,” Pantheon Books, New York, 1981. (Introduction)
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Ross Terrill, ed., “The China Difference,” Harper and Row, New York, 1979. (Chapter)
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“Who We Are,” Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1969. (Chapter)