Professor Jonathan Unger (born 1946) is a journalist and an expert on China.
His major works include The Transformation of Rural China and The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang (as editor).
Unger is currently conducting research on Chinese state-owned factories.
Social stratification in China; rural Chinese social and economic change; workers and factory life; Chinese nationalism.
Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas; University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to Australian National University