Lucien Bianco

Lucien Bianco (* 1930 ) is a French sinologist and historian who specializes in Chinese social history and rural populations in the 20th century. He is best known for a book on the origins of the communist revolution in China.

Bianco studied at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and Chinese at the École nationale des Langues orientales vivantes . In 1957 he received his Agrégation and taught in Beauvais from 1959 and in Paris from 1961. In 1964/65 he did a research stay at Harvard University (East Asian Research Center). In 1968 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris ( Sorbonne ) ( La Crise de Sian (decémbre 1936) ). He was Directeur d'Etudes at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and taught at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the ENS.

He has also taught at the University of Michigan , Harvard, Princeton University , Taiwan , Stanford University and Hong Kong .

He had been a critic of Maoism and the Cultural Revolution in China since the 1960s .

Fonts

• Editor and co-author Das Moderne Asia , Fischer Weltgeschichte , Volume 16, 1969
• The way to Mao. The origins of the Chinese revolution, Ullstein 1969
  • French original: Les origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949. Paris: Gallimard, 1967, English translation: Origins of the chinese revolution 1915-1949, Stanford University Press 1971
• La Chine au XXe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1990.
• La Chine. Un exposé pour comprendre, un essai pour réfléchir, Paris: Flammarion, 1994.
• Peasants Without the Party: Grass-Roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, New York 2001, ME Sharpe, 2003 (received the Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2003)
• Jacqueries et Révolution dans la Chine du XXe siècle, Paris: La Martinière, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography based on Fischer Weltgeschichte Volume 16