Lucien André Bianco (born 19 April 1930 in Ugine) is a French historian and sinologist specializing in the history of the Chinese peasantry in the twentieth century.
O. E. Westad of Yale University described Blanco as influential outside of his home country and "the doyen of French historians of China.
The release of Bianco's 1967 book "Les origines de la révolution chinoise 1915-1949" proved to be highly influential in Chinese research in France and was translated into numerous languages, including English, German, and Japanese.
[4] Bianco was also a critic of the 1973 Paris Peace Accord that ended the Vietnam War and joined a group of Asian specialists who protested the agreement because of the treatment of political prisoners by the South Vietnamese government.
In awarding the prize, the Association for Asian Studies praised Bianco's work as "a quarter-century of innovative and careful research about peasant discontent."