Lucien Bianco

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Lucien Bianco
Born
Lucien André Bianco

(1930-04-19) April 19, 1930 (age 94)
Nationality
Chinese history
Chinese name
Hanyu Pinyin
Bì Yǎnggāo

Lucien André Bianco (born 19 April 1930 in

Chinese peasantry in the twentieth century. He is the author of a reference book on the origins of the Chinese Communist Revolution and has co-edited the book China in the twentieth century. His Peasants without the Party was awarded the Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Book Prize
in 2003.

O. E. Westad of Yale University described Blanco as influential outside of his home country and "the doyen of French historians of China."[2]

Jean-Philippe Béja, in The China Quarterly, described Bianco as a "great historian of the Chinese revolution".[3]

Life

After attending high school Bianco enrolled in the

Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
.

The release of Bianco's 1967 book "Les origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949" proved to be highly influential in Chinese research in France and was translated into numerous languages, including English, German, and Japanese.

In the 1960s and 1970s Bianco was an outspoken critic of the government of China, and in particular

South Vietnamese government.[5]

In 2003, Bianco's book Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in 20th-Century China won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize. In awarding the prize, the Association for Asian Studies praised Bianco's work as "a quarter-century of innovative and careful research about peasant discontent." The committee judged that

arguing that class consciousness and revolutionary activity did not come "naturally" but that they could certainly be nurtured, Bianco provides a thoroughly documented corrective to earlier narratives of peasant revolution. In doing so, he helps students of the Chinese revolution understand not only the role of the peasant, but also the discourse of peasant revolution that is woven throughout social life. Furthermore, through his constant revision of his earlier ideas and his evenhanded consideration of work by other scholars, Bianco exhibits a fine sensitivity to changes in the researcher’s intellectual approach over time, as well as to the biases inherent in historical sources.[6]

Works

  • Les origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949. Paris : Gallimard, 1967.
  • Peasants Without the Party: Grass-Roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China (Asia and the Pacific, Armonk, N.Y.) 2001
  • Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Translated from French by Muriel Bell. 1971. Stanford University Press.
    ISBN 0-8047-0827-4
    .
  • 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, M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
  • Jacqueries et Révolution dans la Chine du XXe siècle, Paris : La Martinière, 2005.
  • La récidive: Révolution ruses, révolution chinoise. Paris: Gallimard 2014.

References

  1. ^ "歷史的覆轍" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  2. S2CID 237869454
    . - Cited: p. 226.
  3. doi:10.1017/S0305741011000415
    . - Cited: p. Quote: "This great historian of the Chinese revolution, [...] tells us candidly in his postscript to the new edition of The Origins of the Chinese Revolution,[...]"
  4. ISBN 9780312622121
    . Retrieved 23 January 2010. lucien bianco.
  5. ^ "Thieu's Prisoners". The New York Review of Books. 20 (8). 17 May 1973.
  6. ^ "AAS CIAC Levenson Book Prize Winners". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 23 January 2010.


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