Merle Goldman

Merle Dorothy Rosenblatt

(1931-03-12)March 12, 1931
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

November 16, 2023(2023-11-16) (aged 92)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Chinese: 戈德曼
Pinyin: Ge Démàn

Harvard University
Radcliffe College
Sarah Lawrence College

Histories of Chinese intellectuals and democracy

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(m. 1953; died 2017)​

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Boston University
Wellesley College

Benjamin I. Schwartz
John King Fairbank

Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard University Press, 1967; Atheneum paperback, 1970

—— (1981). . Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674119703. "Notable Book," The New York Times

China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent

—— (1994). . Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674830073.

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Decade

, Harvard University Press, 2007.

From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China

Fairbank, John King; Goldman, Merle (2006). . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674018281.

China: A New History

Goldman's publications include more than fifty scholarly articles in addition to articles for the general public in the New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.

Hearst, Nancy; Fewsmith, Joseph (November 24, 2023), , Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, retrieved November 30, 2023

Remembering Merle Goldman: Giant Among Scholars, Lifelong Friend of the Fairbank Center

Boston University Department of History

Link, E. Perry (2000). . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691001979.

The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System

Kane, Anthony J. (1993), "The Humanities In Contemporary China Studies: An Uncomfortable Tradition", in Shambaugh David L. (ed.), , Washington; Armonk, NY: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; M.E. Sharpe, pp. 65–81, ISBN 1563242664

American Studies of Contemporary China

Mirsky, Jonathan (April 24, 1994), , New York Times Sunday Book Review

"Unrequited Love"

"Merle Goldman," in Scanlon, Jennifer; Cosner, Shaaron (1996). . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313296642., pp. 91-92

American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary

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Merle Goldman