James R Townsend

Biographic Data

ID303241
NAMEJames R Townsend
GIVEN NAMESJames R
FAMILY NAMETownsend
SIGNATURETOWNSEND J R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Up the Social Ladder: How Chinese Merchants Excelled under the New Values of Ming-Qing China

    Open AccessJames R Townsend, James TownsendARTICLEArmstrong Undergraduate Journal…2023

    Ming China was a socially volatile period of Chinese history. Social distinctions were blurred as the merchant class rose to power to challenge old Confucian ideals in a commerce-based society. This paper examines what paved the road for the merchant class to rise, and how the non-elite empowerment shifted China's attitudes towards consumption and commerce

  • Obituary

    Open AccessJames R TownsendARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2004

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  • Political Participation in Communist China

    James R TownsendBOOKPolitical Participation in…1992Cited by: 20

  • The People's Republic of China. A Basic Handbook

    William A Joseph, James R TownsendARTICLEPacific Affairs1980

  • Chinese Populism and the Legacy of Mao Tse-Tung

    James R TownsendARTICLEAsian Survey1977Cited by: 7

    THE CHINESE TRADITION, according to most accounts, placed little emphasis on the common man. It was the emperor, the court, and above all the Confucian elite-those scholar-officials who staffed the imperial bureaucracy and dominated Chinese society-that defined and represented the imperial system. For centuries, Chinese scholars focused their attention on dynastic histories and activities of the cultured elite. Foreign scholars were fascinated by…

  • People's China and International Law: A Documentary Study

    James R Townsend, James Townsend et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1976

  • Buddhism under Mao

    James R Townsend, Holmes WelchARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1975

  • The Consolidation of the South China Frontier

    James R Townsend, George Moseley et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1975

  • Politics in China

    Gordon Bennett, James R TownsendARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1975

  • Politics in China

    William Badour, James R TownsendARTICLEPacific Affairs1975

  • The Revolutionization of Chinese Youth: A Study of Chung-kuo Ch'ing-nien

    Clive Ansley, James R Townsend et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1969

  • Communist China: The New Protracted War

    James R TownsendARTICLEAsian Survey1965

    Research Article| January 01 1965 Communist China: The New Protracted War James R. Townsend James R. Townsend Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1936) 5 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642175 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…