Professor Tim Wright
BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge)
School of East Asian Studies
Emeritus professor of Chinese Studies
- Profile
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Tim Wright was Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of East Asian Studies from 2000 to 2009. He is currently Editor in Chief of the , in which there are more than 135 articles online, with that number continually being added to.
Tim Wright currently lives in Australia, where he is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities, University of Western Australia.
- Research interests
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Tim Wright's research interests focus on the political economy and development of China, both before the 1949 revolution and in the contemporary period.
His major project is on economic fluctuations in Republican China, especially the impact of the 1930s world depression, and he has published articles on labour, on the regional economies of south-west and north-east China and on business-government relations in that context.
He is currently working on issues of natural disasters and currency fluctuations in the economy of north-east China during the pre-war period.
A second current interest is in the political economy of economic reform in the contemporary Chinese coal industry. Most recently he has published several journal articles on the topic as well as a book on The Political Economy of Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood Stained Coal with Routledge.
Other on-going research interests include Chinese business history (with an article on a major pre-war coal mining company) and Chinese historiography (on which he edited and introduced a book of Chinese articles on economic history).
- Publications
List of Major Publications
Books
The Political Economy of Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood Stained Coal, (London: Routledge, 2011) For further information on sources click here.
Coal Mining in China鈥檚 Economy and Society, 1895-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Translated by Professor Ding Changqing of the Nankai Institute of Economics as 1895-1937 Zhongguo jingji he shehui zhong de meikuang ye (Beijing: Dongfang chuban she, 1991)Edited Books
Sow-Theng Leong, Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin and their Neighbors, edited by Tim Wright, with an introduction by G. William Skinner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997)
The Chinese Economy in the Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies (Macmillan, 1992)
Monograph
[with Beverley Hooper], China (Asia-Australia Briefing Papers, Vol 1, No 2, 1991) (Sydney: The Asia-Australia Institute, 1991). (A completely revised second edition of this work was published as Asia Australia Briefing Papers, Vol 2, No 7, 1993)
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淟egitimacy and Disaster: Responses to the 1932 Floods in North Manchuria鈥, Modern China, 43.2 (March 2017): 186-216
鈥Rent Seeking and Surplus Seeking: Coal in China's Planned Economy鈥, pp. 381-409 in Wang Yuru (ed), Jingji fazhan yu shichang bianqian 鈥 Wu Chengming xiansheng bainian danchen jinian wenji (Economic development and market change 鈥 essays in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor Wu Chengming). Tianjin: Nankai daxue chubanshe, 2016
鈥淎 Economia e Politica da China desde 1949鈥, pp. 353-383 in Sun Lam, ed, A Heran莽a de Conf煤cio: Dez ensaios sobre a China (Ribeirao: Edi莽i玫s H煤mus, 2013).
(With Professor Ma Junya of Nanjing University), 鈥淪acrificing local interests: Water control policies of the Ming and Qing governments and the local economy of Huaibei, 1495鈥1949鈥, Modern Asian Studies, 47.4 (July 2013): 1348-1376.
鈥溾, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 14.1 (Winter/Spring 2013): 143鈥152.
鈥溾. In Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies. Ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, revised 2015, 2017
鈥溾. In Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies. Ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, revised 2015, 2017
鈥溾. In Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies. Ed. Tim Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, revised 2015, 2017
(With Professor Ma Junya of Nanjing University), 鈥業ndustrialization and Handicraft Cloth: The Jiangsu Peasant Economy in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries鈥, Modern Asian Studies, 44.6 (October 2010): 1337鈥1372.
鈥楻ents and Rent Seeking in China鈥檚 Coal Industry鈥, pp. 98鈥116 in Tak-wing Ngo and Yongping Wu (eds), Rent Seeking in China, London: Routledge: 2008
鈥楢n Economic Cycle in Imperial China? Revisiting Robert Hartwell on Iron and Coal鈥, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 50 (4) (2007): 398-423
鈥楽tate Capacity in Contemporary China: 鈥淐losing the Pits and Reducing Coal Production鈥濃, Journal of Contemporary China, 16 (51) (2007): 173-194.
鈥楢n Economic Cycle in Imperial China? Revisiting Robert Hartwell on Iron and Coal鈥, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 50.4 (November 2007): 398-423.
鈥楾he Manchurian Economy and the 1930s World Depression鈥, Modern Asian Studies, 41:5, (September 2007): 1073-1112.
[For a spreadsheet of statistical data on Manchurian GDP click here]鈥楾he Performance of China鈥檚 Industrial Enterprises: A Coal Industry Perspective鈥, China Information 20.2 (July 2006): 165-199.
鈥楥hina and the 1930s World Depression鈥, pp. 370-392 in Zhang Donggang et al eds, Shijie jingji tizhi xia de minguo shiqi jingji (The Chinese Economy Within the Global Economic Framework), Beijing: Zhongguo caizheng jingji chubanshe, 2005
鈥楢odaliya he Yingguo de Zhongguoxue bijiao鈥 (Chinese Studies in Australia and the UK: A Comparison) (translated by Professor Liu Ni), Guowai shehui kexue (Social Sciences Abroad) 2004.6 (November 2004): 64-68. This article was also abstracted in the most important journal of abstracts for China鈥檚 elite, Xinhua wenzhai 330 (20 March 2005): 140-142.
鈥楾he Political Economy of Coal Mine Disasters in China: Your Rice Bowl or Your Life鈥, China Quarterly, 179 (September 2004) 27-44.
鈥楾he Political Economy of Prices in China鈥檚 Planned and Market Economies: Competition and Control in the Coal Industry鈥, Asian Studies Review 24.3 (September 2000): 349-376.
鈥楥ompetition and Complementarity: Township and Village Mines and the State Sector in China鈥檚 Coal Industry鈥, China Information 14.1 (2000): 113-130.
鈥楧istant Thunder: The Regional Economies of Southwest China and the Impact of the Great Depression鈥, Modern Asian Studies 34.3 (July 2000): 697-738.
鈥極vercoming Risk: A Chinese Mining Company During the Nanjing Decade鈥, East Asian History 17/18 (June/December 1999): 131-168.
鈥樷淭he Spiritual Heritage of Chinese Capitalism鈥 - Recent Trends in the Historiography of Chinese Enterprise Management鈥, pp. 205-238 in Jon Unger, ed, 鈥楿sing the Past to Serve the Present鈥: Politics and Historiography in Contemporary China (M E Sharpe and Allen and Unwin, 1993); an earlier version of this paper appeared in Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 19/20 (January and July 1988): 185-214.
鈥業ntroduction: Chinese Economic History in a Period of Change鈥, pp. 1-28 in Tim Wright ed, The Chinese Economy in the Early Twentieth Century: Recent Chinese Studies (Macmillan, 1992)
translated by Professor Wang Yuru of the Nankai Institute of Economics as 鈥80 niandai Zhongguo jindai jingji shixue yanjiu de zhuyao wenti鈥 in Nankai jingji yanjiu 1992.6 (December 1992): 62-69; another version published as 鈥楤iandong shiqi de jindai Zhongguo jingji shixue鈥 in Ding Richu ed, Jindai Zhongguo, di yi ji (Modern China, no. 3) (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue chuban she, 1993), p. 193-223.
鈥楥oping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government鈥檚 Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932-1936鈥, Modern Asian Studies, 25.4 (October 1991): 649-674 (an earlier version of this article was published in John Fitzgerald, ed, The Nationalists and Chinese Society, 1923-1937: A Symposium (Melbourne: History Dept, Melbourne University, 1989).
translated by Mr Ci Hongfei of the Nankai Institute of Economics as 鈥榊ingdui shijie jingji xiaotiao: Guomin zhengfu tong Zhongguo gongshangye de guanxi (1982-1936)鈥 in Ding Richu ed, Jindai Zhongguo, di yi ji (Modern China, no. 6) (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue chuban she, 1996), p. 77-106.
鈥楨lectric Power Production in Pre-1937 China: A Research Note鈥, China Quarterly 126 (June 1991): 356-363.
鈥楽hanghai Imperialists vs Rickshaw Racketeers: The Defeat of the 1934 Rickshaw Reforms鈥, Modern China 17.1 (January 1991): 76-111.
鈥業ndustrial Labour and Labour Relations in China During the 1930s World Depression: A Preliminary Study鈥, pp. 443-482 in Yung-san Lee and Ts鈥檜i-jung Liu eds, China鈥檚 Market Economy in Transition (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1990).
鈥業mperialism and the Chinese Economy: A Methodological Critique of the Debate鈥, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 18.1 (January-March 1986): 36-45.
鈥楴ationalist Policies and the Regulation of Chinese Industry: Competition and Control in Coal Mining鈥, in David Pong and Edmund Fung eds, Ideal and Reality: Social and Political Change in Modern China, 1860-1944 (Lanham: University Press of America, 1985), pp. 127-152.
translated as 鈥楴anjing shiqi de guomindang zhengfu he dui Zhongguo gongye de guanzhi: meikuang ye zhong de jingzheng he tongzhi鈥, pp. 60-84 in Ding Richu ed, Jindai Zhongguo, di yi ji (Modern China, No. 1) (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue yuan chuban she, 1991).
鈥楢 Mining Enterprise in Early Republican Chinese Society: The Chung-hsing Coal Mining Company鈥, in Chung-hua min-kuo ch鈥檜-ch鈥檌 li-shih yen-t鈥檃o-hui lun-wen chi (Proceedings of the Conference on the Early History of the Republic of China, 1912-1927) (Taipei, 1984), pp. 531-563.
鈥樷淎 Method of Evading Management鈥 - Contract Labor in Chinese Coal Mines Before 1937鈥, Comparative Studies in Society and History 23.4 (October 1981): 656-678.
鈥楾he Growth of the Modern Chinese Coal Industry, 1896-1936: An Analysis of Supply and Demand鈥, Modern China 7.3 (July 1981): 317-350.
(Joint article with Professor Shannon Brown, then of the University of Maryland), 鈥楾echnology, Economics and Politics in the Modernisation of China鈥檚 Coal Mining Industry: The First Phase, 1850-1895鈥, Explorations in Economic History 18.1 (January 1981): 60-83.
鈥楨ntrepreneurs, Politicians and the Chinese Coal Industry, 1895-1937鈥, Modern Asian Studies 14.4 (October 1980): 579-602.
鈥樷淕rasping Revolution and Promoting Production鈥: The Cultural Revolution in Chinese Coal Mines鈥, Papers on Far Eastern History 22 (September 1980): 51-92.
鈥楽ino-Japanese Business in China: The Luda Company, 1921-1937鈥, Journal of Asian Studies 39.4 (August 1980): 711-727.