believed that peasants might be allowed control of genuine agricultural cooperatives, but soon the leadership showed it was more interested in power. He told Gittings in 1987 "the Chinese people are not stupid" and that there would soon be a "big political upheaval." When that "upheaval" came in the Tiananmen Massacre and crackdown of 1989, only Chen's advanced age spared him. A centenarian, he died in Beijing in 2004, at the age of 107. Selected English language publications Books Landlord and Peasant in China; a Study of the Agrarian Crisis in South China. Preface by Frederick V. Field The Present Agrarian Problem in China (Shanghai: China Institute of Pacific Relations). Notes on Migration of Nan Min to the Northeast (Shanghai: Published under the auspices of the China Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1931). Prospects of Continued Resistance in China ([New York], 1938). with Wong Yin-seng, Industrial Capital and Chinese Peasants a Study of the Livelihood of Chinese Tobacco Cultivators, (1939) Gung Ho! The Story of the Chinese Cooperatives, (1947) At Hathi Trust HERE Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China: A Comparative Study of Agrarian Problems and Social Organization among the Pai Yi People of Yunnan and the Kamba People of Sikang (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1949). Selected works in Chinese 四个时代 的 我 (Sige shidai de wo; My Life During Four Eras) (Beijing:Zhongguo wenshi chupan she [China Culture and History Press], 1988). Further reading References Notes 1897 births 2004 deaths Chinese sociologists Pomona College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Soviet spies Chinese centenarians Men centenarians Victims of the Cultural Revolution Scientists from Wuxi Educators from Wuxi Republic of China essayists Writers from Wuxi