Judith S Shapiro

After the Nightmare: Inside China Today

Debates on the Future of Communism

Mao's War Against Nature : Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

After the Nightmare: Inside China Today

Son of the Revolution

Cold Winds, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today

Cold Winds, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today

Judith Shapiro

Judith R. Shapiro (born January 24, 1942) is a former President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia University;...

The Source of the Spring: Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers

One of the leading voices in women's education has assembled a literary look at the mother-daughter relationship by 40 of the top writers of today, including Erica Jong, Edwidge Danticat, Anna Quindlen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Cathleen Schine. All royalties go to the Barnard Scholarship fund for gir...

Women of the Forest (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)

When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and...

Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History)

In clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were als...

China's Environmental Challenges

China’s huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China’s struggle to achieve sustainable de...

International Labor Standards: History, Theory, and Policy Options

This book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards. A result of an initiative by Professor Kaushik Basu in his capacity as member of the Expert Group of Deve...

Son of the Revolution

An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.

Son of the Revolution

An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.

After the Nightmare: Inside China Today

A personal account of what it's like to live in China today.