title: Jonathan Unger
text: Professor Jonathan Unger (born 1946) is a journalist and an expert on China. His major works include The Transformation of Rural China and The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang (as editor). Unger is currently conducting research on Chinese state-owned factories. He was editor and co-editor of The China Journal from July 1987 until July 2005.
  
  Research interests
  Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism.
  
  Key publications
  Education Under Mao: Class and Competition in Canton Schools, University of Columbia Press, 1982.
  (co-author) Chen Village Under Mao and Deng, University of California Press, 1992. 
  (ed.) Chinese Nationalism. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 
  The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
  
  Career highlights
  Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas; University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to Australian National University
  
  External links
  Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University 
  The New York Review of Books
  
  Australian sinologists
  1946 births
  Living people