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. He is the author of a reference book on the origins of the Chinese Communist Revolution and has co-edited the book China in the twentieth century. His Peasants without the Party was awarded the Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Book Prize in 2003. O. E. Westad of Yale University described Blanco as influential outside of his home country and "the doyen of French historians of China." Jean-Philippe Béja, in The China Quarterly, described Bianco as a "great historian of the Chinese revolution". Source: Wikipedia (en)