PUBLICATIONS        G. William Skinner

 

Books and monographs

 

Report on the Chinese in Southeast Asia.  Ithaca: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1951.  91 p. (Data papers 1).

 

(General editor)  The Social Sciences and Thailand.  Bangkok: Cornell Research Center, 1956.  185 + 125 p.  (in Thai and English).

 

Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957.  xvii + 459 p.  (Japanese edition: Bangkok: Japanese Chamber of Commerce, 1973, 365 p.).

 

Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958.  xvii +363 p.  (Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies, III).  (Japanese edition: Tokyo: Ajia Keizai Kenkyujo, 1961.  417 p.).  (Reprinted 1979 by Universities Microfilm International).

 

(Editor)  Local, Ethnic, and National Loyalties in Village Indonesia: A Symposium.  New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1959.  68 p.

 

(Editor)  Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 1, Publications in Western Languages, 1644-1972.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973.  1xxviii + 802 p.

 

(Editor, with Winston Hsieh)  Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 2, Publications in Chinese, 1644-1969.  Stanford University Press, 1973.  lxxci + 802 p.

 

(Editor, with Shigeaki Tomita)  Modern Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography, Vol. 3, Publications in Japanese, 1644-1971.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973.  1xix +

531 p.

 

(Editor, with Mark Elvin)  The Chinese City Between Two Worlds.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974.  xiii + 458 p.

 

(Editor, with A. Thomas Kirsch)  Change and Persistence in Thai Society: Essays in Honor of Lauriston Sharp.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975.  386 p.

 

(Editor)  The City in Late Imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977.  xvii + 820 p.

 

(Editor)  The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.  xxiv + 491 p.

 

 

Articles and book chapters

 

Aftermath of Communist liberation in the Chengtu Plain.  Pacific Affairs 24, 1 (Mar. 1951): 61-76.

 

The new sociology of China.  Far Eastern Quarterly 14, 4 (Aug. 1951): 365-71.

 

Peasant organization in rural China.  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 277 (Sept. 1951): 89-100.

 

A study in miniature of Chinese population.  Population Studies 5, 2 (Nov. 1951): 91-103.  (Reprinted in Social Demography, edited by Thomas R. Ford and Gordon F. De Jong.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 642-56.)

 

Cultural values, social structure and population growth.  Population Bulletin of the United Nations 5 (July 1956): 5-12.

 

The unity of the social sciences.  In The Social Sciences and Thailand.  Bangkok: Cornell Research Center, 1956, 3-6.  (In Thai and English).

 

Chinese assimilation and Thai politics.  Journal of Asian Studies 16, 2 (Feb. 1957): 237-50.  (Reprinted in Southeast Asia: The Politics of National Integration, edited by John T. McAlister, Jr.  New York: Random House, 1973, 383-98.)

 

The Chinese of Java.  In Colloquium on Overseas Chinese, edited by Morton H. Fried.  New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1958, 1-10.

 

Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 321 (Jan. 1959): 136-47.

 

The nature of loyalties in rural Indonesia.  In Local, Ethnic and National Loyalties in Village Indonesia: A Symposium.  New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1959, 1-11.  (Reprinted in Social Change: The Colonial Situation, edited by Immanuel M. Wallerstein.  New York: Wiley, 1966, 265-77.)

 

Change and persistence in Chinese culture overseas: A comparison of Thailand and Java.  Journal of the South Seas Society 16 (1960): 86-100.  (Reprinted in Readings in South-east Asian Anthropology, edited by Donald J. Tugby.  Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1967.  Reprinted in Southeast Asia: The Politics of National Integration, edited by John T. McAlister, Jr.  New York: Random House, 1973, 399-415.)

 

Java's Chinese minority: Continuity and change.  Journal of Asian Studies 20, 3 (May 1961):

353-62.

 

The Chinese minority.  In Indonesia, edited by Ruth T. McVey.  New Haven: HRAF Press, 1963,        97-117.  (Indonesian translation: Golongan minoritas Tionghoa.  In Golongan Etnis Tionghoa di

            Indonesia, edited by Mely G. Tan.  Jakarta: Penderbit PT Gramedia, 1979, 1-29.)

 

What the study of China can do for social science.  Journal of Asian Studies 23, 4 (Aug. 1964):

517-22.  [Chinese translation in Ta-hsüeh sheng-huo (Hong Kong) 6 (1966): 8-13.]

 

The Thailand Chinese: Assimilation in a changing society.  Asia 2 (Autumn 1964): 80-92.

 

Marketing and social structure in rural China, Parts I, II, and III.  Journal of Asian Studies 24, 1 (Nov. 1964): 3-44; 24, 2 (Feb. 1965): 195-228; 24, 3 (May 1965): 363-99.  (Part I reprinted in Peasant Society: A Reader, edited by Jack M. Potter et al.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1967, 63-93; and in Man, Space and Environment: Concepts in Contemporary Human Geography, edited by Paul Ward English and Robert C. Mayfield.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1972, 561-601.  Parts I, II, and III separately reprinted in Bobbs Merrill reprint series.  Reissued 1974, 1977, 1981, 1988, 1994, and 2000 as a pamphlet by the Association for Asian Studies.  Japanese edition: Kyoto: Horitse Bunka Sha, 1979.  222 p.)

 

Communication (on marketing systems in Communist China).  Journal of Asian Studies 25, 2

            (Feb. 1966): 319-24.

 

Overseas Chinese leadership: Paradigm for a paradox.  In Leadership and Authority, edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene.  Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1968, 191-207.

 

(with Edwin A. Winckler)  Compliance succession in rural Communist China: A cyclical theory.  In A Sociological Reader on Complex Organization, 2^nd ed., edited by Amitai Etzioni.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969, 410-38.

 

Chinese peasants and the closed community: An open and shut case.  Comparative Studies in Society and History 13, 3 (July, 1971): 270-81.

 

(with Arthur P. Wolf)  Maurice Freedman (1920-75) [obituary].  China Quarterly 63

(Sept. 1975): i-iii

 

Maurice Freedman, 1920-1975, and Bibliography of Maurice Freedman.  American Anthropologist 78, 4 (Dec. 1976): 871-85.

 

Mobility strategies in late imperial China: A regional-systems analysis.  In Regional Analysis,

Vol. 1.  Economic Systems, edited by Carol A. Smith.  New York: Academic Press, 1976, 327-64.

 

Articles and book chapters (cont.)

 

Urban development in imperial China [Part One introduction].  In The City in Late Imperial China,

edited by G. William Skinner.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 3-31.

 

Urban and rural in Chinese society [Part Two introduction].  In The City in Late Imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 253-73.

 

Urban social structure in Ch'ing China [Part Three introduction].  In The City in Late Imperial

            China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 521-53.

 

Regional urbanization in nineteenth-century China.  In The City in Late Imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977, 211-49.

 

Cities and the hierarchy of local systems.  In The City in Late Imperial China.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 275-364.  (Reprinted in Studies in Chinese Society, edited by Arthur P. Wolf.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978, 1-77.)

 

Vegetable supply and marketing in Chinese cities.  China Quarterly 76 (Dec. 1978): 733-93.

 

Introduction.  In The Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979, xi-xxiv.

 

Vegetable supply and marketing in Chinese cities.  In Vegetable Farming Systems in China, edited by Donald L. Plucknett and Halsey L. Beemer, Jr.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1981, 215-80.

 

Chinese history and the social sciences.  In Chinese Social and Economic History from the Song to 1900, edited by Albert Feuerwerker.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1982, 11-16.

 

Asian studies and the disciplines.  Asian Studies Newsletter 19, 4 (Apr. 1984).

 

Rural marketing in China: Revival and reappraisal.  In Markets and Marketing: Proceedings of the 1984 Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, edited by Stuart Plattner.  Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1985, 7-47.

 

Presidential address: The structure of Chinese history.  Journal of Asian Studies 44, 2 (Feb. 1985): 271-92.

 

Rural marketing in China: Repression and revival.  China Quarterly 102 (Sept. 1985): 393-413.

 

Articles and book chapters (cont.)

 

Sichuan's population in the nineteenth century: Lessons from disaggregated data.  Late Imperial China 8, 1 (June 1987): 1-79.

 

Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families: A matter of life or death.  In Sex and Gender Hierarchies, edited by Barbara D. Miller.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 236-70.

 

Differential development in Lingnan.  In The Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era, edited by Thomas P. Lyons and Victor Nee.  Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 1994, 17-54.

 

Creolized Chinese societies in Southeast Asia.  In Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese, edited by Anthony Reid.  Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996, 50-93.

 

Family systems and demographic processes.  In Anthropological Demography: Toward a New Synthesis, edited by David I. Kertzer and Thomas E. Fricke.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 53-114.

 

Introduction (and maps).  In Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, and     their Neighbors, by Sow-Theng Leong.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, 1-18.

 

Chinese cities, then and now: The difference a century makes.  In Cosmopolitan Capitalists:    Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century. Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1999, 56-79.

 

(with Mark Henderson and Yuan Jianhua) China’s fertility transition through regional space: Using

GIS and census data for a spatial analysis of historical demography.  Social Science History 24, 3

(Fall 2000): 613-643.