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Biography
PhD in Sociology, awarded 1978. Academic staff member of the UK's Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas, University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to ANU in 1986. In the early 1970s he had served in Asia as a foreign correspondent covering China. Since coming to ANU, he has spent about seven months investigating poverty alleviation projects in rural China in behalf of Australia's aid agency and the Asia Development Bank.
Career highlights
He has published fifteen books and more than seventy refereed papers. He is one of the two co-editors of The China Journal, one of the world's leading journals on modern China.
For Professor Unger's academic publications, see http://psc.bellschool.anu.edu.au/experts-publications/experts/jonathan-unger/other-publications
Research interests
Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social, political and economic change; urbanisation; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism; Cultural Revolution history.
Qualifications
PhD in Sociology, 1978
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Land, Community and Governance in Rural China
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/07/07 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
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The China Journal (2016)
Unger, J. & Chan, A., 2016, In: The China Journal. 75 & 76, p. 454ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Did Unionization Make a Difference? Work Conditions and Trade Union Activity at Chinese Walmart Stores
Unger, J., Beaumont, D. & Chan, A., 2011, Walmart in China. Anita Chan (ed.). 1st ed. United States of America: Cornell University Press, p. 217-238Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The cultural revolution warfare at Beijing's Universities
Unger, J., 2010, In: The China Journal. 64, 64, p. 199-211Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics
Kipnis, A., Tomba, L. & Unger, J., 2009, 1st ed. London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: the conundrums of underdevelopment
Unger, J., 2009, Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics. Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger (ed.). 1st ed. London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 60-167Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter