20 Publications
2019
A Century of Change in a Chinese Village: The Crisis of the Countryside By Lin Juren and Xie Yuxi. Edited by Linda Grove. Translated by Linda Grove, Li Dan, and Marcella Sigueria Cassiano. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xliii + 269 pp. $85.00
Bian, Morris L
Journal of Chinese History, vol. 3, (no. 2), pp. 427, 2019-07-00. | Journal Article
2017
Man Bun Kwan. Patriots’ Game: Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917-1953. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. ISBN 9789004336377(hardback); ISBN: 9789004336384 (e-book)
Bian, Morris L
Frontiers of History in China, vol. 12, (no. 3), pp. 518, 20171100. | Journal Article
 
Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective by Nara Dillon (review)
Bian, Morris L
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 77, (no. 2), pp. 549, 2017. | Journal Article
2015
Redefining the Chinese Revolution
Bian, Morris L
Modern China, vol. 41, (no. 3), pp. 350, 20150500. | Journal Article
 
Redefining the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation and Evolution of Guizhou's Regional State Enterprises, 1937–1957
Bian, Morris
Modern China, vol. 41, (no. 3), pp. 350, 20150501. | Journal Article
 
The Lius of Shanghai. BySherman Cochran andAndrew Hsieh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. xvii + 431 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-07259-6
Bian, Morris L
Business History Review, vol. 89, (no. 4), pp. 821, 2015-00-00. | Journal Article
2011
Interpreting Enterprise, State, and Society: A Critical Review of the Literature in Modern Chinese Business History, 1978–2008
Bian, Morris L
Frontiers of History in China, vol. 6, (no. 3), pp. 462, 20110000. | Journal Article
2010
Building a New Nation State: An Examination of Chiang Kai-Shek's Critical Contribution to the Making of Modern China
Bian, Morris L
The Chinese Historical Review, vol. 17, (no. 1), pp. 15, 1/1/2010. | Journal Article
2008
Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. By Sherman Cochrane (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2006) 242 pp. $45.00
Bian, Morris L
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 38, (no. 3), pp. 498, 2008January01. | Journal Article
 
The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change
Zanasi, Margherita and Bian, Morris L
Feb 2008
2007
Business Expansion and Structural Change in Pre-War China: Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920–1937. By Kai Yiu Chan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xv + 283 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, photographs, figures, tables. Cloth, $59.50. ISBN: 9-789-622097-643
Bian, Morris L
Business History Review, vol. 81, (no. 3), pp. 644, 20070901. | Journal Article
 
Chinese Corporate Identity. Peter J. Peverelli
Bian, Morris L
The China Journal, vol. 57, pp. 217, 2007-01-00. | Journal Article
 
How Crisis Shapes Change: New Perspectives on China's Political Economy during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
Bian, Morris L
History Compass, vol. 5, (no. 4), pp. 1091-1110, 2007. | Journal Article
2006
Kaoru Sugihara, ed. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-829271-6, $140.00
Bian, Morris L
Enterprise & Society, vol. 7, (no. 4), pp. 827, 2006-12-00. | Journal Article
2005
Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937, and: A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism (review)
Bian, Morris L
Enterprise & Society, vol. 6, (no. 2), pp. 308, 2005. | Journal Article
 
Building State Structure: Guomindang Institutional Rationalization during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Bian, Morris L
Modern China, vol. 31, (no. 1), pp. 35-71, 2005. | Journal Article
 
Linsun Cheng. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 277 pp. ISBN 0-521-81142-2, $65.00 (cloth). - Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper)
Bian, Morris L
Enterprise & Society, vol. 6, (no. 2), pp. 308, 2005-06-00. | Journal Article
 
Zhaojin Ji. A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. viii + 325 pp. ISBN 0-7656-1002-7, $69.95 (cloth); 0-7656-1003-5, $25.95 (paper)
Bian, Morris L
Enterprise & Society, vol. 6, (no. 2), pp. 308, 2005-06-00. | Journal Article
2002
The Sino-Japanese War and the formation of the state enterprise system in China: A case study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945
Bian, Morris L
Enterprise & Society, vol. 3, (no. 1), pp. 80-123, Mar 2002. | Journal Article
 
The Sino-Japanese War and the Formation of the State Enterprise System in China: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938—1945
Bian, Morris
Enterprise & Society, vol. 3, (no. 1), pp. 123, 20020301. | Journal Article