戈德曼

1953年畢業於莎拉·勞倫斯學院，並且在拉德克利夫學院取得其碩士學位。1964年取得哈佛大學歷史及遠東語言學博士學位，師從史華慈和費正清。在衛斯理學院擔任一年的講師以後，她自1972年起在波士頓大學擔任教授超過30年，期間曾經擔任《中國季刊》編輯委員會成員、美國駐聯合國人權委員會委員等職位。[5]

2023年11月16日于马萨诸塞州剑桥去世。[6][2]

Monographs

• Literary Dissent in Communist China, Harvard University Press, 1967; Atheneum paperback, 1970
• ——. . Harvard University Press. 1981 [2017-12-27]. （原始内容存档于2019-07-25）. "Notable Book," The New York Times
• ——. . Harvard University Press. 1994 [2017-12-27]. （原始内容存档于2019-07-26）.
• From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, 2007.
• Fairbank, John King; Goldman, Merle. . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2006 [2017-12-27]. ISBN 0674018281. （原始内容存档于2017-03-16）.

Edited volumes

• Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era （页面存档备份，存于）, Harvard University Press, 1977; paperback, 1985
• China's Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship in the People's Republic of China, edited with an introduction, "Uncertain Change," Council on East Asian Publications, Harvard University, 1987
• Co-editor, Science and Technology in Post-Mao China, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1989
• Ideas Across Cultures, Essays on Chinese Thought in Honor of Benjamin Schwartz, coedited and introduction written with Paul Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1990
• Fairbank Remembered, co-edited with Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, 1992
• The Paradox of China's Reforms, co-edited with Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University Press, 1999
• Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2000
• Intellectual History of Modern China （页面存档备份，存于）, co-edited with Leo Ou-fan Lee, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China, co-edited, Harvard University Press, 2002
• ---, and Edward Gu, Chinese Intellectuals between State and Market （页面存档备份，存于） (London; New York: Routledge, 2005 ISBN 1134341784)
• Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China, co-edited with Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University Press, 2007