Mark Selden is a Coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program
at Cornell University, and Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at Binghamton University.
A specialist on the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy and history of China, Japan and the Asia Pacific, his work has addressed themes of war and revolution, inequality, development, regional and world social change, and historical memory. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in the 1960s and for more than thirty years edited
The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (later Critical Asian Studies).
His books include:
His books include:
- China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited
- Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance
- War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century
- Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, China and the United States
- The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age
- China, East Asia and the Global Economy
- The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
- Chinese Village: Socialist State
- Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China
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He is also the editor of book series at Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge, and M.E. Sharpe publishers.
Mark Selden's indexed works are searchable at Google Scholar.
His Asia-Pacific Journal articles are available here.
Inquiries concerning The Asia-Pacific Journal, Mark Selden's book series or matters of common interest may be directed to mark@markselden.info.









