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Personal profile
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
Qualifications
PhD in Sociology, 1978
Research interests
Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social, political and economic change; urbanisation; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism; Cultural Revolution history.
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Work and Family Life among Migrant Factory Workers in China and Vietnam
Siu, K. & Unger, J., 26 May 2020, In: Journal of Contemporary Asia. 50, 3, p. 341-360 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chinese migrant factory workers across four decades: shifts in work conditions, urbanization, and family strategies
Unger, J. & Siu, K., 2 Nov 2019, In: Labor History. 60, 6, p. 765-778 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China
Unger, J., 2018, In: The China Journal. 79, p. 138-139Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
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Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981
Unger, J., 2018, In: The China Journal. 79, p. 150-151Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
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The China Journal (2017)
Chan, A. & Unger, J., 2017, In: The China Journal. 77 & 78, p. 269ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Projects
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Converting Farmland for Development: Politics, Community and Conflict in China
Unger, J., Sargeson, S. & Tomba, L.
1/03/12 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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ARC Research Network: Asia-Pacific Futures Network
Morris-Suzuki, T., Akbarzadeh, S., Ang, I. M., Antons, C., Barme, G., Barton, G. J., Broadbent, K., Brown, C., Chakrabaty, D., Donald, S. J., Elson, R. E., Esposito, J., Fahey, S. A., Farquhar, M. A., Fitzgerald, J. J., Fox, J., Gao, M. C., Goldman, L., Goodman, D. S., Hassan, R., Hill, D. T., Jain, P., Jolly, M., MacIntyre, A., Manderson, L. H., Nathan, A. J., Reid, A. J. S., Romano, A. R., Samuel, G. B., Saunders, P. G., Turner, M. M. & Unger, J.
1/06/04 → 31/12/06
Project: Research
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The Social History of Punishment in Modern China
Barme, G., Dutton, M. R. & Unger, J.
1/01/04 → 31/12/07
Project: Research
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