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Guobin Yang's Publications
By type of publication:
Books / Journal Articles / Book Chapters / Commentaries, Reports, Op-eds / Encyclopedia Entries / Book Reviews
By research area:
China's Cultural Revolution / The Internet and Civil Society / Environmental Activism / Other Social Movements / Wenxin Diaolong

Most recent:

2008. "Media, Power, and Protest: From the Cultural Revolution to the Internet." (with Craig Calhoun). Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 9(2): 9-13.

2008. "Finding Trust Online: 'Tigergate' to the Sichuan Earthquakes." The China Beat, June 26, 2008.

2008. "A Civil Society Emerges from the Earthquake Rubble." YaleGlobal Online Magazine, June 5, 2008.

2007. "'A Portrait of Martyr Jiang Qing': The Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Internet." In Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds). Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press.

2007. (with Craig Calhoun) "Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China." China Information 21(2):211-236.

2007. "How Do Chinese Civic Associations Respond to the Internet: Findings from a Survey." The China Quarterly 189: 122-143.

Books and Edited Volumes
Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds). 2007. Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press.

Guobin Yang and Ming-Bao Yue (eds.). 2005. Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution. Special Issue of The China Review. Vol 5, No. 2, Fall.

Yang Guobin. 2003. Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind. 2 Vols. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. (A publication of Da zhonghua wenku/Library of Chinese Classics in English Translation).
Read Book review by Professor Eugene Eoyang.

Journal Articles

2006. "Hongweibing yidai de rentong zhuanbian" (The Identity Transformation of the Red Guard Generation). Huaxia wenzhai zengkan, No. 545 (wenge bowuguan tongxun, No. 379), December 19, 2006. http://museums.cnd.org/CR/ZK06/cr379.gb.html#1

2006. "Between Control and Contention: China's New Internet Politics." Washington Journal of Modern China Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 30-47.

2006. "Activists beyond Virtual Borders: Internet–Mediated Networks and Informational Politics in China." First Monday, volume 11, number 9 (September 2006).

2005. "Days of Old Are Not Puffs of Smoke: Three Hypotheses on Collective Memories of the Cultural Revolution." The China Review, Vol 5, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 13-41.

2005. (with Ming-Bao Yue) "Introduction: Gilded-Age Memories of the Cultural Revolution." The China Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 1-12.

2005. "Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China." The China Quarterly (March 2005), No. 181, pp. 46-66.

2003. "The co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China." Asian Survey Vol. 43, No. 3, May/June, pp.405-422.

2003. "China's Zhiqing Generation: Nostalgia, Identity and Cultural Resistance in the 1990s." Modern China Vol.29, No.3 (July 2003), pp. 267-296.

2003. "The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere." Media, Culture & Society 25(4): 469-490.

2003. " The Internet and Civil Society in China: A Preliminary Assessment." Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 12, Number 36 (August 2003), pp.453 - 475.

2001. (with Steven Pfaff). "Double-Edged Rituals and the Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Political Commemorations and the Mobilization of Protest in 1989."Theory and Society.30 (2001): 539-589. [Best Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Social Movements and Collective Behavior, 2002]

2000. "Achieving Emotions in Collective Action: Emotional Processes and Movement Mobilization in the 1989 Chinese Student Movement." The Sociological Quarterly 41(4): 593-614. ["Outstanding Recent Contribution Award," Sociology of Emotions Section, the American Sociological Association, 2001]

2000. "The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity."Sociological Forum 15(3): 379-406. ["Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award," the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 1999]

Book Chapters

2007. "'A Portrait of Martyr Jiang Qing': The Chinese Cultural Revolution on the Internet." In Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds). Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press.

2007. “Introduction: Memory, Power, and Culture.” (with Ching Kwan Lee). In Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds). Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Woodrow Wilson Press and Stanford University Press, pp. 1-20.

2007. “Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of the Internet and Chinese Civil Society.” Journalism and Communication Review, No. 3 (Beijing: Beijing University Press). [In Chinese]

2007. “The Identity Transformation of the Red Guard Generation.” In The Cultural Revolution: Historical Truth & Collective Memories, edited by Yongyi Song. Hong Kong: Tianyuan shuwu, pp. 384-398. [In Chinese]

2006. "The Internet and Emerging Civil Society in China." In Political Reform in China: The Rule of Law versus Democratization , edited by Suisheng Zhao. M. E. Sharpe, pp. 196-214.

2006. “The Internet and Civil Society in China: Co-evolutionary Dynamics and Digital Formations,” in China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition, edited by Lowell Dittmer and Guoli Liu. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 303-318.

2005. "Emotional Events and the Transformation of Collective Action: The Chinese Student Movement." Pp. 79-98 in Emotions and Social Movements, edited by Helena Flam and Debra King. London: Routledge.

2005. “ Information Technology and Grassroots Democracy: A Case Study of Environmental Activism in China . ” In Charles L. Nieman (ed.), Democracy and Globalization. Kent State University Press. 2003. "Cultural Globalization and Discourses of Environmental Ethics in China." Globalization and East Asian Culture, edited and published by University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 169-176.

Commentaries, Reports, Op-eds

2008. “China’s Environmental Movement in the Making.” In Global Civil Society 2007/8: Communicative Power and Democracy, edited by Martin Albrow, Helmur Anheier, Marlies Glasius, Monroe E. Price, and Mary Kaldor. London: Sage Publications, pp. 98-99.

2006. "Forging Environmentalism, Changing Society," Remarks on a Panel Forum Marking the Publication of Forging Environmentalism, edited by Joanne Bauer. September 13, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

2004. "Is There an Environmental Movement in China? Beware of the 'River of Anger.'" Pp. 4-8 in Active Society in Formation: Environmentalism, Labor, and the Underworld in China. Asia Program Special Report, No. 124, (September 2004). Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center.

2004. "Mingling Politics with Play: The Virtual Chinese Public Sphere." International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter 33 (March 2004).

2004. "Global Environmentalism Hits China," YaleGlobal Online, February 4, 2004.
Reprinted in International Herald Tribune, February 11, 2004.

2004. "Response to 'Fighting for the Environment - and Getting Democracy." Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, <InPrint> newsletter - May/June 2004.

2003. "Weaving a Green Web: the Internet and Environmental Activism in China." China Environment Series, Issue 6. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center, pp. 89-92.

2002. "Information Technology, Virtual Chinese Diaspora, and Transnational Public Sphere." Paper commissioned for the "Virtual Diaspora and Global Problem Solving" Project of the Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, CA.

2002. "Between Democracy and Development: The Impact of New Information Technologies on Civil Soicety in China." [A policy brief for the Social Science Research Council.]

1996 *"On Translating Wenxin diaolong" Du Shu 1: 84-85.

1991 "Liu Xie and Coleridge: Two Versions of Organic Theory." In Wang Zuoliang, ed., Wen Yuan: Studies in Language, Literature and Culture. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, pp. 45-62.

1991 *"A Comparative Study of Three English Versions of the Chapter 'On Imagination' in Wenxin diaolong." Chinese Translators' Journal (zhongguo fanyi) 4: 43-48.

1990. "Australian Poetry in Chinese Consciousness." Notes and Furphies (Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature). 25: 6-10.

Encyclopedia Articles and Entries

2007. "Emotions and Movements," In Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publishers, vol. 3, pp. 1389-1392.

2004. Edward Davis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Blackwell Publishers. Entries on "environmental organizations," "NGOs," "university BBS," and "laosanjie."

2002. Contributing editor to Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Editor-in-Chief: Craig Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press.

1995 "The Translation of English Poetry." In Chan Sin-wai & David Pollard eds., An Encyclopedia of Translation. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, pp. 783-793.

Book Reviews and Review Essays

2007. Review of Rightful Resistance in Rural China, by Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). In Mobilization: An International Journal.

2006.Review of Yangtian changxiao: yige danjian shiyi nian de hongweibing yuzhong yutianlu (Outcry from a Red Guard Imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution), by Lu Li'an and edited by Wang Shaoguang.. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005. In The China Review Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 180-183.

2005. “‘Accounts’ of Information Technologies and an Information Society.” European Journal of Cultural Studies. 8(4):505-512. [Review essay on Digital Democracy by Kenneth Hacker and Jan van Dijk, Critique of Information by Scott Lash, and The Information Society by Christopher May.]

2003. Catherine H. Keyser, Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making (Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 2002). In Political Science Quarterly, 118(4), Winter 2003-2004, pp.719-721.

2002. "Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study." China Review International Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 1-16.

2002. Wenfang Tang and William Parish, Chinese Urban Life Under Reform: The Changing Social Contract. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Contemporary Sociology 31(2):152-154.

2002. Dingxin Zhao, The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001). Contemporary Sociology 31(3): 312-314.

1998. Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun, Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Westview Press, 1997). China Review International 5 (2): 507-512.

1997. Zhengyuan Fu, China's Legalists: The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art of Ruling. (M. E. Sharpe, 1996). China Review International 4 (2): 389-396.

1993. *"Review of the 2nd International Conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences on 'Redesigning the State Profile for Social and Economic Development and Change,' held in Toluca, Mexico from July 27-30, 1993," in Human Resources Management in China, No. 9.

1993. * "Three Themes in Wen Yuan: Studies in Language, Literature and Culture." Guangming Daily, June 11, p.5.

1991. * "On Reading Wang Zuoliang's Translation: Reflections and Experiments." Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No. 3.

1989. * "Review of A Textbook of Translation by Peter Newmark." Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research 2: 64-66.

1989. * "Review of Paper Nautilus," a novel by Nicholas Jose. Foreign Literatures 1: 88-89.

Note: * indicates publications in the Chinese language.