Lucien Bianco

Lucien Bianco
Born
Lucien André Bianco

(1930-04-19) April 19, 1930 (age 94)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure,
École nationale des Langues orientales,
University of Paris
Scientific career
FieldsChinese history
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese畢仰高[1]
Simplified Chinese毕仰高
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBì Yǎnggāo

Lucien André Bianco (born 19 April 1930 in Ugine) is a French historian and sinologist specializing in the history of the 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]

  1. ^ "歷史的覆轍" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  2. ^ Westad, O. E. (July 2021). "Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, by Lucien Bianco. Translated by Krystyna Horko. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2018. x+448 pp. US$65.00 (cloth)". The China Journal. 86: 226–228. doi:10.1086/714407. S2CID 237869454. - Cited: p. 226.
  3. ^ Béja, Jean-Philippe (June 2011). "La révolution fourvoyée: Parcours dans la Chine du XXe siècle. Lucien Bianco. Aix en Provence: Editions de l'Aube, 2010. 231 pp. €22.00. ISBN 978-2-8159-0054-6 - Les origines de la révolution chinoise, 1915–1949. Lucien Bianco. Paris: Gallimard, 2007 (revised edition). 528 pp. €10.50. ISBN 978-2-07-030642-8". The China Quarterly. 206: 432–434. 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,[...]"