William Hinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 415304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Hinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinton |
| SIGNATURE | HINTON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4927-0901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Therapists’ Perspectives of the Cotherapy Experience in a Training Setting
A Test of Contextual Theory: The Relationship Among Relational Ethics, Marital Satisfaction, Health Problems, and Depression
On the Role of Mao Zedong
In 1995 a foreign reporter interviewed me about Mao. She sought me out as someone who had met the man in person and openly admired him over the years. She asked, "What about all the people he killed? What about all those famine deaths? And what about all the suffering and destruction of people in the Cultural Revolution?" With these questions she lined herself up with the current media line on Mao, the line of conventional wisdom, which is to pre…
Background Notes to Fanshen
On April 3, 1999, a one-day conference, "Understanding China's Revolution: A Celebration of William Hinton's Lifework" was held at Columbia University to celebrate his eightieth birthday. At the conclusion of the conference, organized by China Study Group and cospotisored by Monthly Review and Columbia's East Asian Institute, Hinton gave an impromptu talk on the background to the writing of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in A Chinese Villag…
The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China
From the early 1920s through 1949 when the Peoples Liberation Army liberated Beijing, the Chinese people, rising in revolution under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, targeted domestic feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism, and foreign imperialism as the three mountains on their backs that had to be thrown off. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the landord-dominated feudal land system was the central issue, and land reform—equal distributi…
Mao, Rural Development, and Two-Line Struggle
This article was written as a foreword to the Chinese edition of Shenfan, which is the title of the second volume of the history of Long Bow Village, Shanxi Province, China. The first volume, Fanshen, told the story of the land reform that transformed the community between 1945 and 1948. Shenfan takes up the story with the organization of mutual aid leading first to lower and then to higher stage cooperation between 1948 and 1971, the year I firs…
Is China Returning to Semi-colonial Status?; Can the Chinese Dragon Match Pearls with the Dragon God of the Sea: A Response to Zongli Tang
William Hinton raised many controversial issues in his speech at Harvard University (Monthly Review, November, 1991). I shall focus on whether Deng's open door policy is leading China back to semi-colonial status. This issue has three major aspects.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Impressions of Manila
From September 8 to 15, 1992, William Hinton joined several Chinese delegates and a Philippine journalist stationed in Beijing at what was designated a "consultation" on China sponsored by the Philippine-China Development Resource Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to friendship, contact, and exchange between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China. The consultation, held in Manila, included a number of trips to various …
The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
The Chinese Revolution: Was it Necessary? Was it Successful? Is it Still Going On
This is a revised and expanded version of a talk delivered at Harvard University on June 5, 1991, at the fiftieth reunion of the class of 1941, as part of the Classmates' Symposia, "Topics in Politics and the Economy." Moderator, Lincoln Bloomfield; panelists, Gerald Alter, William Hinton, and Eliot Richardson (all of the class of 1941).This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.…
What Went Wrong
My wife, a UNICEF program officer, attended a meeting at Jinggang Mountain in November 1990, and I went along. Since I had no work responsibilities, I was free to visit historical sites and join an Australian mountain climbing group on a magnificent all day hike. - W.H.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly R…
Mao's Rural Politics Revisited; A Response to Deane
Recent issues if MR presented material relevant to the past and present situation in Chinese agriculture (William H. Hinton, "Dazhai Revisited," March 1988; Herb and Ruth Gamberg, "More on Dazhai," September 1988). Hugh Deane, a journalist with long experience in China, responded to these analyses last September, broadening the discussion to include a survey if developments that led up to the present situation. This survey in turn has been taken …
Dazhai Revisited
Dazhai is a mountain village in Shanxi Province that Mao Zedong chose as a model of rural development, primarily because it practiced cooperation and self-reliance. This small community of eighty families turned a barren, gully-scarred mountainside into rich, terraced farmland with irrigated yields that rivalled Iowa's. Dazhai peasants planted apple, walnut, and mulberry trees, raised silkworms, honey bees, chickens and fat pigs, built a brick ki…
"More on China's New Family Contract System; More on "From Rights to Power
I have to take issue with you on the question of free choice of farming system in China and the accuracy of your statement (MR, November 1983, p. 1). In your editors' note, you write: "The peasants in each commune were called upon to choose whether to adopt the new system or stay with the former collective operation of the land." Now since I know of literally dozens of cases where the peasants had no such choice, your statement cannot be valid. I…
Shenfan
A Trip to Fengyang County: Investigating China's New Family Contract System
Editors' Note: The post-Mao regime in China has introduced a major change in the area of agriculture. On the theory that the previous commune system was holding back the growth of farm output at the existing stage of social development, the new leaders recommended that peasants adopt what is variously called the "responsibility" or "contract" system. The essence of this innovation was to have each household become responsible for its own plot of …
Hundred Day War. The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
Reflections on China
William Hinton, author of Fanshen, which was originally published by Monthly Review Press, returned to China for an extended stay in 1971. One fruit of this re-visit was "Hundred Day War," which was MR's special summer issue in 1972 and has since been published as a book by MR Press. The text below is edited from the transcript of a talk and question-and-answer period at Goddard College in April 1972. The subjects dealt with are among those that …
China! Inside the People's Republic
Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
This is not a definitive history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. It must be considered rather a compilation of some rough notes taken from conversations with a few participants. Others who lived through the same events will surely find important omissions and distortions. The full story can only be told when Tsinghua people themselves get together and recreate it from the thousands of sources that now exist bu…
Fanshen; a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village
The Midnight Raid
The following is a chapter from Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, which MR Press will publish in December. The setting for the incident described here, as for the entire book, is Long Bow Village in South Shansi. The author spent six months in Long Bow in 1948 as an observer attached to a work team whose task was to examine and help complete the land redistribution phase of the Chinese Revolution in this remote hamlet. MR…
Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
This is not a definitive history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. It must be considered rather a compilation of some rough notes taken from conversations with a few participants. Others who lived through the same events will surely find important omissions and distortions. The full story can only be told when Tsinghua people themselves get together and recreate it from the thousands of sources that now exist bu…
A Test of Contextual Theory: The Relationship Among Relational Ethics, Marital Satisfaction, Health Problems, and Depression
Therapists’ Perspectives of the Cotherapy Experience in a Training Setting
Background Notes to Fanshen
On April 3, 1999, a one-day conference, "Understanding China's Revolution: A Celebration of William Hinton's Lifework" was held at Columbia University to celebrate his eightieth birthday. At the conclusion of the conference, organized by China Study Group and cospotisored by Monthly Review and Columbia's East Asian Institute, Hinton gave an impromptu talk on the background to the writing of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in A Chinese Villag…
Mao's Rural Politics Revisited; A Response to Deane
Recent issues if MR presented material relevant to the past and present situation in Chinese agriculture (William H. Hinton, "Dazhai Revisited," March 1988; Herb and Ruth Gamberg, "More on Dazhai," September 1988). Hugh Deane, a journalist with long experience in China, responded to these analyses last September, broadening the discussion to include a survey if developments that led up to the present situation. This survey in turn has been taken …
Is China Returning to Semi-colonial Status?; Can the Chinese Dragon Match Pearls with the Dragon God of the Sea: A Response to Zongli Tang
William Hinton raised many controversial issues in his speech at Harvard University (Monthly Review, November, 1991). I shall focus on whether Deng's open door policy is leading China back to semi-colonial status. This issue has three major aspects.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Chinese Revolution: Was it Necessary? Was it Successful? Is it Still Going On
This is a revised and expanded version of a talk delivered at Harvard University on June 5, 1991, at the fiftieth reunion of the class of 1941, as part of the Classmates' Symposia, "Topics in Politics and the Economy." Moderator, Lincoln Bloomfield; panelists, Gerald Alter, William Hinton, and Eliot Richardson (all of the class of 1941).This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.…
Dazhai Revisited
Dazhai is a mountain village in Shanxi Province that Mao Zedong chose as a model of rural development, primarily because it practiced cooperation and self-reliance. This small community of eighty families turned a barren, gully-scarred mountainside into rich, terraced farmland with irrigated yields that rivalled Iowa's. Dazhai peasants planted apple, walnut, and mulberry trees, raised silkworms, honey bees, chickens and fat pigs, built a brick ki…
"More on China's New Family Contract System; More on "From Rights to Power
I have to take issue with you on the question of free choice of farming system in China and the accuracy of your statement (MR, November 1983, p. 1). In your editors' note, you write: "The peasants in each commune were called upon to choose whether to adopt the new system or stay with the former collective operation of the land." Now since I know of literally dozens of cases where the peasants had no such choice, your statement cannot be valid. I…
A Trip to Fengyang County: Investigating China's New Family Contract System
Editors' Note: The post-Mao regime in China has introduced a major change in the area of agriculture. On the theory that the previous commune system was holding back the growth of farm output at the existing stage of social development, the new leaders recommended that peasants adopt what is variously called the "responsibility" or "contract" system. The essence of this innovation was to have each household become responsible for its own plot of …
Fanshen; a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village
The Midnight Raid
The following is a chapter from Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, which MR Press will publish in December. The setting for the incident described here, as for the entire book, is Long Bow Village in South Shansi. The author spent six months in Long Bow in 1948 as an observer attached to a work team whose task was to examine and help complete the land redistribution phase of the Chinese Revolution in this remote hamlet. MR…
Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
This is not a definitive history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. It must be considered rather a compilation of some rough notes taken from conversations with a few participants. Others who lived through the same events will surely find important omissions and distortions. The full story can only be told when Tsinghua people themselves get together and recreate it from the thousands of sources that now exist bu…
Reflections on China
William Hinton, author of Fanshen, which was originally published by Monthly Review Press, returned to China for an extended stay in 1971. One fruit of this re-visit was "Hundred Day War," which was MR's special summer issue in 1972 and has since been published as a book by MR Press. The text below is edited from the transcript of a talk and question-and-answer period at Goddard College in April 1972. The subjects dealt with are among those that …
China! Inside the People's Republic
Hundred Day War. The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University
A Trip to Fengyang County: Investigating China's New Family Contract System
Editors' Note: The post-Mao regime in China has introduced a major change in the area of agriculture. On the theory that the previous commune system was holding back the growth of farm output at the existing stage of social development, the new leaders recommended that peasants adopt what is variously called the "responsibility" or "contract" system. The essence of this innovation was to have each household become responsible for its own plot of …
"More on China's New Family Contract System; More on "From Rights to Power
I have to take issue with you on the question of free choice of farming system in China and the accuracy of your statement (MR, November 1983, p. 1). In your editors' note, you write: "The peasants in each commune were called upon to choose whether to adopt the new system or stay with the former collective operation of the land." Now since I know of literally dozens of cases where the peasants had no such choice, your statement cannot be valid. I…
Shenfan
Dazhai Revisited
Dazhai is a mountain village in Shanxi Province that Mao Zedong chose as a model of rural development, primarily because it practiced cooperation and self-reliance. This small community of eighty families turned a barren, gully-scarred mountainside into rich, terraced farmland with irrigated yields that rivalled Iowa's. Dazhai peasants planted apple, walnut, and mulberry trees, raised silkworms, honey bees, chickens and fat pigs, built a brick ki…
Mao's Rural Politics Revisited; A Response to Deane
Recent issues if MR presented material relevant to the past and present situation in Chinese agriculture (William H. Hinton, "Dazhai Revisited," March 1988; Herb and Ruth Gamberg, "More on Dazhai," September 1988). Hugh Deane, a journalist with long experience in China, responded to these analyses last September, broadening the discussion to include a survey if developments that led up to the present situation. This survey in turn has been taken …
The Chinese Revolution: Was it Necessary? Was it Successful? Is it Still Going On
This is a revised and expanded version of a talk delivered at Harvard University on June 5, 1991, at the fiftieth reunion of the class of 1941, as part of the Classmates' Symposia, "Topics in Politics and the Economy." Moderator, Lincoln Bloomfield; panelists, Gerald Alter, William Hinton, and Eliot Richardson (all of the class of 1941).This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.…
What Went Wrong
My wife, a UNICEF program officer, attended a meeting at Jinggang Mountain in November 1990, and I went along. Since I had no work responsibilities, I was free to visit historical sites and join an Australian mountain climbing group on a magnificent all day hike. - W.H.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly R…
The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
Is China Returning to Semi-colonial Status?; Can the Chinese Dragon Match Pearls with the Dragon God of the Sea: A Response to Zongli Tang
William Hinton raised many controversial issues in his speech at Harvard University (Monthly Review, November, 1991). I shall focus on whether Deng's open door policy is leading China back to semi-colonial status. This issue has three major aspects.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Impressions of Manila
From September 8 to 15, 1992, William Hinton joined several Chinese delegates and a Philippine journalist stationed in Beijing at what was designated a "consultation" on China sponsored by the Philippine-China Development Resource Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to friendship, contact, and exchange between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China. The consultation, held in Manila, included a number of trips to various …
Mao, Rural Development, and Two-Line Struggle
This article was written as a foreword to the Chinese edition of Shenfan, which is the title of the second volume of the history of Long Bow Village, Shanxi Province, China. The first volume, Fanshen, told the story of the land reform that transformed the community between 1945 and 1948. Shenfan takes up the story with the organization of mutual aid leading first to lower and then to higher stage cooperation between 1948 and 1971, the year I firs…
The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China
From the early 1920s through 1949 when the Peoples Liberation Army liberated Beijing, the Chinese people, rising in revolution under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, targeted domestic feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism, and foreign imperialism as the three mountains on their backs that had to be thrown off. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the landord-dominated feudal land system was the central issue, and land reform—equal distributi…
Background Notes to Fanshen
On April 3, 1999, a one-day conference, "Understanding China's Revolution: A Celebration of William Hinton's Lifework" was held at Columbia University to celebrate his eightieth birthday. At the conclusion of the conference, organized by China Study Group and cospotisored by Monthly Review and Columbia's East Asian Institute, Hinton gave an impromptu talk on the background to the writing of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in A Chinese Villag…
On the Role of Mao Zedong
In 1995 a foreign reporter interviewed me about Mao. She sought me out as someone who had met the man in person and openly admired him over the years. She asked, "What about all the people he killed? What about all those famine deaths? And what about all the suffering and destruction of people in the Cultural Revolution?" With these questions she lined herself up with the current media line on Mao, the line of conventional wisdom, which is to pre…
A Test of Contextual Theory: The Relationship Among Relational Ethics, Marital Satisfaction, Health Problems, and Depression
Therapists’ Perspectives of the Cotherapy Experience in a Training Setting
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