Lucien Bianco

Lucien Bianco ( born 1930 ) is a French sinologist and historian, who is particularly concerned with Chinese social history and rural population in the 20th century. He is known for a book on the origins of the Communist revolution in China.

Bianco studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS ) and Chinese at the École Nationale des Langues orientales vivantes. In 1957 he received his Agrégation and taught from 1959 in Beauvais and from 1961 in Paris. 1964/65 he was a visiting researcher at Harvard University (East Asian Research Center). He was at the University of Paris ( Sorbonne ) PhD (La Crise de Sian ( Decembre 1936) ) 1968. He was Directeur d' Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and taught at the Institut d' Études Politiques de Paris and ENS.

He also taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Princeton University, in Taiwan, at Stanford University and in Hong Kong.

He been around since the 1960s, was a critic of Maoism and the Cultural Revolution in China.

Writings

• Editor and co-author of The Modern Asia, Fischer World History, Volume 16, 1969
• The way to Mao. The origins of the Chinese revolution, Ullsteinhaus 1969 Original French: Les origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949. Paris: Gallimard, 1967, English translation: Origins of the chinese revolution 1915-1949, Stanford University Press 1971