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.

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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:

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