Selected Publications of R. Keith Schoppa
- Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang Province in the Early Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 1982.
- Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life. Yale University Press, 1989.
- Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China. University of California Press, 1995.
- The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Xue Dao [Chinese translation of 1995 book Blood Road]. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Press, 2000.
- Revolution and its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History. Prentice-Hall, 2001.
- Song Full of Tears. Westview Press, 2002.
- Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 (2nd edition, 2011).
- Revolution and its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall, 2005 (3rd edition, 2010).
- Xianghu—Jiuge shijide Zhongguo shishi [Chinese translation of Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life]. Hangzhou, Hangzhou Publishing Company, 2005.
- East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World. Prentice-Hall, 2008.
- In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees during the Sino-Japanese War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- “The Composition and Functions of the Local Elite in Szechwan, 1851–1874,” Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i, ii.10 (November, 1973), 7–23.
- “Local Self-Government in Zhejiang, 1909–1927,” Modern China, ii.4 (October 1976), 503–30.
- Comment on the “State of the Field,” in Republican Studies, Chinese Republican Studies Newsletter, ii.1 (October, 1976), 6–8.
- “Province and Nation: The Chekiang Provincial Autonomy Movement, 1917–1927,” Journal of Asian Studies, xxxvi.4 (August, 1977), 661–74.
- “When Dreamers Grow Old,” Los Angeles Times (July 1, l989), Part II, 8.
- “Power, Legitimacy, and Symbol: Local Elites and the Jute Creek Embankment Case,” in Joseph Esherick and Mary Rankin, eds., Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
- “Shen Dingyi and the Western Hills Group: What’s a Man Like You Doing in a Group Like This?” Republican China (November, 1990), 35–50.
- “Contours of Revolution in a Chinese County, 1900–1950,” Journal of Asian Studies, 51·4 (November 1992), 770–96.
- “The Chinese Experience in Indiana,” an essay commissioned by the Indiana State Historical Society and published in Robert M. Taylor, Jr. and Connie A. McBirney, eds., Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).
- “State, Society, and Land Reclamation on Hangzhou Bay during the Republican Period,” Modern China (April 1997), 246–71.
- “The Capital Comes to the Periphery: Views of the Sino-Japanese War Era in Southern Zhejiang,” in Ernest P. Young et al., eds., Constructing China: The Interaction of Culture and Economics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
- “Living in a New Era: Reform, its Impacts, and Reactions of the Chinese People in the Late 1990s,” in Max Okenfuss and Ann Blaisdell Rothery, eds., The Peoples of China and Russia (Pearson Custom Publishing, 1999).
- “The Chinese Revolution and the Search for Social Cohesion, 1921–1958,” in Merle Goldman and Andrew Gordon, eds., Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
- “Patterns and Dynamics of Elite Collaboration with the Japanese in Occupied Shaoxing County,” in David Barrett and Larry Shyu, eds., The Limits of Accommodation: Resistance and Collaboration in the Sino-Japanese War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
- “Dike Building and Repair in the Three River Microregion, 1686–1926: Patterns in Practical Governance,” in Jane Kate Leonard and Robert Antony, eds., Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
- “Culture and Context in Biographical Studies: The Case of China,” in Lloyd Ambrosius, ed., Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
- “Another World: An Ordinary Chinese County the Madame Never Knew,” in Madame Chiang Kaishek and Her China, ed. by Samuel C. Chu (Eastbridge, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2005).
- “From Empire to People’s Republic,” in Politics in China, An Introduction, ed. by William A. Joseph (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
- “The Political Creativity of Late Imperial China,” in China’s Rise in Historical Perspective, ed. by Brantly Womack (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).