Research Guide
Related Information:
- Interactive map of Gamble’s travels.
- Timeline of Gamble’s life.
- Original documentary: Pilgrimage to Miao Feng Shan
- Essay by Jonathan D. Spence.
Published Works and Affiliations originally published in China between Revolutions: Photographs by Sidney D. Gamble 1917-1927. An exhibition organized by the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation for China Studies and China Institute in America in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service / editor and curator, Nancy Jervis. Used with permission.
Published Works by Sidney Gamble:
- Peking: A Social Survey
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1921. - Price, Wages, and The Standard of Living in Peking, 1900-1924
Coauthored with T’ien-pei Meng
Peking (China): Peking Express Press, 1926. - “Peiping Family Budget”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 152
(November 1930): 81-88 - Household Accounts of Two Chinese Families
New York: China Institute in America, 1931. - How Chinese Families Live in Peiping
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1933. - “A Chinese Green Crop Society” in Essays in Social Economics
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1936. - “The Disappearance of Foot-Binding in Ting Hsien”
American Journal of Sociology 49
(September 1943): 181-83 - “Daily Wages of Unskilled Chinese Laborers, 1807-1902”
Far Eastern Quarterly 3
(November 1943): 41-52 - “Hsin Chuang, A Study of Chinese Village Finance”
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 8
(March 1944): 1-33 - “A Chinese Mutual Savings Society”
Far Eastern Quarterly 4
(November 1944): 41-52 - “Four Hundred Chinese Farms”
Far Eastern Quarterly 4
(August 1945): 341-66 - Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community.
New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1954. - North China Villages: Social, Political and Economic Activities Before 1933.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. - Chinese Village Plays
Edited by Sidney D. Gamble
Amersterdam: Philo Press, 1970. - 北京的社会调查
Translation of Peking: A Social Survey by Yubing Chen
Beijing: Zhongguo Shu Dian, 2010. - 二十五年来北京之物价工资及生活程度
Translation of Price, Wages, and The Standard of Living in Peking, 1900-1924 by Tianpei Meng.
Beijing: Guo Li Beijing Da Xue Chu Ban Bu, 1926.
Research on Sidney Gamble & His Photographs:
- Xing, Wenjun. “Social Gospel, Social Economics, and the YMCA: Sidney D. Gamble and Princeton-in-Peking.” Univeristy of Massachusetts Amherst, 1992.
- Shen Hong. 西湖百象:美国传教士甘博民国初年拍摄的杭州老照片
Jinan: Shandong Ren Min Chu Ban She, 2010.
Sidney Gamble’s Affiliations:
Director:
National Council on Religion in Higher Education.
Trustee:
American Institute of Pacific Relations, China Institute in America, Mount Holyoke College, Riverdale Chapter of the United Nations Association, Riverdale Country School, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, World University Service, Yenching University.
Treasurer:
Christman Fund of Federal Council of Churches in China, Church Committee for China Relief, Far Eastern Student Emergency Fund, National Committee on Maternal Health, Riverdale Neighborhood & Library Association, World Student Service Fund.
Fellow:
Royal Geographical Society, American Geographical Society, North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society.
Honorary Degrees:
Doctor of Humane Letters, Susquehanna University, Doctor of Laws, Hanover College, Doctor of Laws, Lake Erie College.