Mark Selden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Selden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Selden |
| SIGNATURE | SELDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 128 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 120 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia by TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden (review)
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics
We seek to tackle myriad problems of a global production system in which China is the world's largest producer and exporter of consumer electronics products. Dying for an iPhone simultaneously addresses the challenges facing Chinese workers while locating them within the global economy through an assessment of the relationship between Foxconn (the largest electronics manufacturer) and Apple (one of the richest corporations). Eight researchers fro…
A Japanese Initiative for Peace in the Russia-Ukraine War
24 February is a date destined to be long remembered, the day on which Russia launched war on its neighbor Ukraine in the name of a "Special Military Operation." Just over a week later the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by overwhelming majority a special, emergency resolution (ES-11/1) deploring the Russian act as aggression and demanding it desist and withdraw. The invasion and the response by Ukrainian forces under President Zel…
The 8th Wonder of the World: Inside Foxconn's empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
In the context of transnational production, China remains the heart of Foxconn's global electronics empire and its profitability. For seventeen consecutive years between 2002 and 2018, Taiwanese-owned Foxconn ranked number one as China's largest exporter. Today it operates more than thirty industrial parks across coastal and interior China, creating a 24-hour, high-speed production network predicated on vertical integration and flexible coordinat…
Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi in Comparative Perspective
The Dangerous New US Consensus on China and the Future of US-China Relations
The trade war and technological competition with China are symptomatic of a much larger issue: a dangerous gridlock in US-China relations that may become permanent, with dire consequences not just for the two countries' economies but also for the global economy and quite possibly East Asia's and international security. Martin Wolf, Financial Times columnist, is right to conclude: "Across-the-board rivalry with China is becoming an organising prin…
The Greening of China's Energy System Outpaces its Further Blackening: A 2017 update
China's green energy shift is now attracting increasing attention, as its strategic implications become clearer. In a recent article in Foreign Affairs , Amy Myers Jaffe has argued that China is effecting a “pivot” to green and clean energy that puts the country on a superior footing in international competition – particularly competition with the United States, that remains committed to its fossil fuel industries. Jaffe cites a number of statist…
Nanjing 1937: The Film
On December 14, 1937, the day after Japanese soldiers entered Nanjing, a crew led by producer Matsuzaki Keiji, under the guidance of the Military Special Affairs Department, entered the city. Its mission: to document the transition to Japanese rule in the Nationalist capital
Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers
China: The Emergence of the Petroyuan and the Challenge to US Dollar Hegemony
It has long been a goal of the Chinese leadership to see the national currency, the yuan, play a greater role in international finance. The internationalization of the yuan has been pursued through many initiatives and strategies, most recently in relation to the IMF and the inclusion of the yuan in a "basket" of currencies underpinning Special Drawing Rights. Internationalization has doubtless been delayed by relative non-convertibility and Chin…
Introduction to Volume III
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The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present
The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetr…
A Matter of Accountability: The True Story of the Pueblo Affair
Censoring History: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfor…
The Political Economy of Chinese Development
The first edition of "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" reconceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic and social crises that engulfed China - and indeed much of the rest of the socialist world - in the late 1980s, culminating in the 1989 democratic movement and i…
China in Revolution: Yenan Way Revisited
Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution
The Labour Politics of China’s Rural Migrant Workers
This article analyses the Chinese rural migrant workers’ collective struggles within a framework that highlights the deepening of contradictions among labour, capital, and the state. At times of labour crisis, aggrieved workers have taken legal and extra-legal actions to defend their rights and interests in the absence of leadership by trade unions. From 1 January 2015, Guangdong provincial government was compelled to enforce new collective barga…
Apple, Foxconn, and Chinese workers' struggles from a global labor perspective
To enrich the discussion of global labor, between 2010 and 2016, we studied Apple's value chain, Foxconn's mode of labor control, and Chinese workers' struggles. Through our fieldwork in China we also examined Apple's and Foxconn's responses to the spate of worker suicides, workers' resistance, the activism of scholar and student groups, and transnational justice campaigns. We conclude with reflection on global labor studies in light of the debat…
Introduction: Perspectives on the Bombing of Civilians From World War II to the Present
The articles included in this special issue on the bombing of civilians from World War II to the present represent a selection drawn from a December 2015 Paris workshop held on the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II. The workshop was organized by the Mass Violence & Resistance online journal (CERI-Sciences Po and the Center for History at Sciences Po) in partnership with the Asia-Pacific Journal and is being published simultaneousl…
American Fire Bombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan in History and Memory
Germany and Japan took the lead in the terror bombing of cities during World War II, acts that sparked outrage from President Roosevelt and many others. U.S. bombing, by contrast, hewed to strategic targets, prioritizing military installations and factories until 1944, when it supported Britain in the wholesale bombing of German cities. But the critical moment in US bombing and napalming of cities came with the firebombing and nuclear attacks tha…
Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples
Interns or Workers? China's Student Labor Regime
In the summer of 2010, Taiwanese-based Foxconn Technology Group-the world's largest electronics manufacturer-utilized the labor of 150,000 student interns from vocational schools at its facilities all over China. Foxconn is one of many global firms utilizing student intern labor. Far from being freely chosen, student internships are organized by the local state working with enterprises and schools, frequently in violation of the rights of student…
Bombs Bursting in Air: State and citizen responses to the US firebombing and Atomic bombing of Japan
This paper assesses and compares the impact and historical significance of the firebombing and atomic bombing of Japanese cities in the history of war and the history of disaster. Japan's decision to surrender, pivoting on issues of firebombing and atomic bombing, Soviet entry into the war, and the origins of Soviet-American confrontation, is the most fiercely debated subject in twentieth century American global history. The surrender question, h…
Worker-intellectual unity: Trans-border sociological intervention in Foxconn
What are the implications for global public sociology and labor studies when more than a score of Foxconn workers jump to their death and when a wave of protests, riots and strikes occur in their wake? This article documents the formation of a cross-border sociological intervention project and illustrates how sociological research fueled regional campaigns that gradually developed into a global campaign. This experience confirms the premise that …
The Yenan way in revolutionary China
The politics of global production: A pple, F oxconn and C hina's new working class
Apple's commercial triumph rests in part on the outsourcing of its consumer electronics production to A sia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at C hina's leading exporter—the T aiwanese‐owned F oxconn—the power dynamics of the buyer‐driven supply chain are analysed in the context of the national terrains that mediate or even accentuate global pressures. Power asymmetries assure the dominance of A pple in price setting and the timing of product deli…
Censoring History: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Nationalism and War in the Twentieth Century
Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfor…
The Political Economy of Chinese Development
The first edition of "The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism" reconceptualized the political economy of China by highlighting the changing character of urban-rural and state-society conflicts in the era of Mao Zedong's leadership and in the contemporary post-Mao reforms. The economic and social crises that engulfed China - and indeed much of the rest of the socialist world - in the late 1980s, culminating in the 1989 democratic movement and i…
Apple, Foxconn, and Chinese workers' struggles from a global labor perspective
To enrich the discussion of global labor, between 2010 and 2016, we studied Apple's value chain, Foxconn's mode of labor control, and Chinese workers' struggles. Through our fieldwork in China we also examined Apple's and Foxconn's responses to the spate of worker suicides, workers' resistance, the activism of scholar and student groups, and transnational justice campaigns. We conclude with reflection on global labor studies in light of the debat…
Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power
Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. The contributors trace the renascence of the debate in the burst of cultural and political expression that has flowered in the past decad…
The reform of social welfare in China
This article surveys and offers comparative reflections on the contours and achievements of China's pension system in light of its imminent collapse and the reassessment of development priorities associated with privatization, market transition and fiscal crisis since the late 1970s. It assesses various reform options including proposals for the formation of a three-pillar system, the pooling of funds at the provincial level, and the expansion of…
Bitter flowers, sweet flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the world community
Worker-intellectual unity: Trans-border sociological intervention in Foxconn
What are the implications for global public sociology and labor studies when more than a score of Foxconn workers jump to their death and when a wave of protests, riots and strikes occur in their wake? This article documents the formation of a cross-border sociological intervention project and illustrates how sociological research fueled regional campaigns that gradually developed into a global campaign. This experience confirms the premise that …
Yan'an Communism Reconsidered
The essential facts are clear. Twice defeated, routed from the revolutionary base areas they had constructed in the course of nearly a decade of guerrilla warfare and land revolution, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Communist Party and its besieged army were essentially confined to a poor and peripheral area of the Northwest, having narrowly escaped extermination in the course of the Long March. Less than a decade later, Japanese…
Agrarian Transformations in China and Vietnam
The Labour Politics of China’s Rural Migrant Workers
This article analyses the Chinese rural migrant workers’ collective struggles within a framework that highlights the deepening of contradictions among labour, capital, and the state. At times of labour crisis, aggrieved workers have taken legal and extra-legal actions to defend their rights and interests in the absence of leadership by trade unions. From 1 January 2015, Guangdong provincial government was compelled to enforce new collective barga…
Original accumulation, equity and late industrialization: The cases of socialist China and capitalist Taiwan
Learning citizenship from the past: Textbook nationalism, global context, and social change
This introduction to the special issue frames the essays that follow in both international and domestic political contexts. Treating textbooks as a key form of nationalist narrative, we analyze textbooks in five nations and controversies surrounding them for insights into ongoing battles over nation and citizenship. We argue, first, that changes in the global context, notably the end of the cold war, put new pressures on national narratives. Inte…
A Matter of Accountability: The True Story of the Pueblo Affair
Social classes, the state and the world system in the transition to socialism
1981). Social classes, the state and the world system in the transition to socialism. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 189-207
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics
We seek to tackle myriad problems of a global production system in which China is the world's largest producer and exporter of consumer electronics products. Dying for an iPhone simultaneously addresses the challenges facing Chinese workers while locating them within the global economy through an assessment of the relationship between Foxconn (the largest electronics manufacturer) and Apple (one of the richest corporations). Eight researchers fro…
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
Public Works and Poverty Alleviation in Rural China
Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of Chinese Development
Interns or Workers? China's Student Labor Regime
In the summer of 2010, Taiwanese-based Foxconn Technology Group-the world's largest electronics manufacturer-utilized the labor of 150,000 student interns from vocational schools at its facilities all over China. Foxconn is one of many global firms utilizing student intern labor. Far from being freely chosen, student internships are organized by the local state working with enterprises and schools, frequently in violation of the rights of student…
South Korea's Embattled Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Since the formation of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to come to terms with the legacy of apartheid and colonialism, Commissions have sprung up in many countries that have sought to come to terms with painful legacies of colonialism, war, and internal strife. Nations with international and domestic traumas as diverse as Chile and Argentina, East Timor, and Sierra Leone have established TRCs
Remembering ‘The Good War: The Atomic Bombing and the Internment of Japanese-Americans in U.S. History Textbooks
Japan, the Japanese people, and Japanese- Americans enter the pages of American history textbooks only in treatments of World War II, which, together with the American Revolution, constitutes the high water mark of American triumphalism. At a time when Japanese textbooks are subject to intense public scrutiny for their treatment of the war and colonialism, it is appropriate to examine their American counterparts. Like the treatments of wartime fo…
Agricultural cooperation and the family farm in China
The emergence of family farms and the dissolution of the people's communes in the early 1980s initiated the transformation of China's rural command economy toward a market-oriented, family-centered economy. The official term “household responsibility system” underlines an important feature that distinguishes Chinese family farms from their counterparts elsewhere. In China, ownership and redistributive power over land remain in the hands of villag…
The logic - and limits - of Chinese socialist development
Accumulation, Diversification and China's Rural Development
A call for professional soul-searching
The National Liberation Front and the transformation of Vietnamese society
Like vultures swarming over a dying carcass, American establishment intellectuals have been swift to dissect the agonizing war in Vietnam. Yet poring through the massive scholarly, journalistic and official works heralding American attempts to crush the Vietnamese resistance, one is struck by the void of information concerning the National Liberation Front. The enemy remains almost as elusive in the literature as in the swamps of Vietnam. After m…
Okinawa in the American Empire
The Ryukyus, surrounded on three sides by major powers of East Asia, are the most strategic outposts of freedom in the Far East. Known as the "Keystone of the Pacific," Okinawa, the most important island, is 800 nautical miles southwest of Tokyo, 325 nautical miles northeast of Taipei, 750 nautical miles northeast of Manila, and 700 nautical miles northeast of Hong Kong.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most rece…
Okinawa and American Colonialism
The Ryukyus, surrounded on three sides by major powers of East Asia, are the most strategic outpost of freedom in the Far East. Known as the “Keystone of the Pacific,” Okinawa, the most important island is 800 nautical miles southwest of Tokyo, 325 nautical miles northeast of Taipei, 750 nautical miles northeast of Manila and 700 nautical miles northeast of Hong Kong
Imperialism and Asia: A brief introduction to the literature
(1973). Imperialism and Asia: A brief introduction to the literature. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 46-48
America's Asia: Dissenting Essays on Asian-American Relations
American global enterprise and Asia
The globe-trotting executive has replaced the B-52 and the Green Beret as the primary symbol of American overseas expansion and the literature on the global corporation proliferates in stride with its global sweep. Yet despite the growing storm of controversy, the significance of global enterprise for contemporary United States capitalism, and particularly the role of Asia in the emerging international economic division of labor, remains shrouded…
Global Enterprise: The American Record in Asia
Japanese Capitalism
Karl Marx, Mao Ze-dong, and the Dialectics of Socialist Development
Workers' Control and Workers' "Participation"; Consciousness and Relations of Production
Because of the rising militancy of the working class and its increased dissatisfaction with dull, stultifying jobs, the capitalist class is experimenting with attempts to "humanize" the workplace while maintaining the same hierarchy and property relations. This attempt at workers' "participation," not to be confused with workers' control, is designed to provide a more congenial work atmosphere, the illusion of more input from the workers, and the…
China's Uninterrupted Revolution
Thirty years after liberation, the Chinese people are searching for new ways to defeat their old adversaries: the twin legacies of poverty and feudalism. Most of the original leadership generation—including Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai), Zhu De (Chu Teh), and, yes, Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-chi) and Lin Biao (Lin Piao)—are no longer at the helm. A new phase of socialist modernization is at hand requiring a strategic combination o…
Malcolm Caldwell, 1931–1978
Malcolm Caldwell was assassinated in Phnom Penh on December 23, 1978, where he was a member of the first team of Western journalists to visit Kampuchea since its liberation in 1975. His death was tragically linked to the contradictions of socialist revolution in Southeast Asia; he was caught in the contradictory cross-fire of the very changes for which he had struggled so long. The subsequent Vietnamese overthrow of the Pol Pot regime underlines …
The People's Republic of China. A Documentary History of Revolutionary Change
Social classes, the state and the world system in the transition to socialism
1981). Social classes, the state and the world system in the transition to socialism. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 189-207
Accumulation, Diversification and China's Rural Development
The Transition to Socialism in China
The transition to socialism in China / Mark Selden and Victor Lippit -- Cooperation and conflict : cooperative and collective formation in China's countryside / Mark Selden -- Village in transition / William Hinton -- Socialist development in China / Victor Lippit -- Maoism, Titoism, Stalinism some origins and consequences of the Maoist theory of the socialist transiti / Edward Friedman -- Some ironies of the Maoist legacy in industry / Andrew Wa…
The logic - and limits - of Chinese socialist development
Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Return to a Chinese Village
Original accumulation, equity and late industrialization: The cases of socialist China and capitalist Taiwan
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of Chinese Development
Agnes Smedley, American Radical
Agnes Smedley died in 1950 as she had lived, a controversial and embattled figure whose life and career were intimately bound up with anti-colonial and liberation movements and the emancipation of women. Her life raises critical issues of internationalism, of the liberation of oppressed peoples and classes, of the equality of women and men, and of the possibilities and limits of the historical contributions of independent western radicals to Thir…
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