China and Global History

Books

• Mr. Selden’s Map of China (2013)
• Vermeer’s Hat (2008)

Other Publications

• Commerce: The Ming in the World (2014)
• Chinese Whispers (2014)
• Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea: China and Portugal, 1514-1523 (2013)
• La Chine, matrice du monde moderne (2012)
• Worldly Desires (2011)
• The Battle of Christ and Lord Guan: A Sino-European Religious Conflict in the Philippines, 1640 (2011)
• The Early Jesuits and the Late Ming Border: The Chinese Search for Accommodation (2005)
• Smoking in Imperial China (2004)

China in Asia

Books

• Opium Regimes (2000)
• Nation Work (2000)
• Culture and Economy (1997)

Other Publications

• Asian Relations: Rulership, Sovereignty, and Legitimacy in Inner and East Asia since Chinggis Khan (forthcoming)
• Japan in the Late Ming: The View from Shanghai (2002)

History of the Ming Dynasty

Books

• The Troubled Empire (2010)
• The Chinese State in Ming Society (2005)
• The Confusions of Pleasure (1998)

Other Publications

• Something New (2013)
• The Artful Life of the Late-Ming Recluse: Li Rihua and his Generation (2012)
• What Happens when Wang Yangming Crosses a Border? (2007)
• Xu Guangqi in his Context: The World of the Shanghai Gentry (2001)
• Scienza e contesto sociale (2001)
• Communications and Commerce (1997)
• Edifying Knowledge: The Building of School Libraries in Ming China (1996)
• Mapping Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century: The Gazetteer Cartography of Ye Chunji (1994)
• Family Continuity and Cultural Hegemony: The Gentry of Ningbo, 1368-1911 (1990)
• Funerary Ritual and the Building of Lineages in Late Imperial China (1989)
• The Spatial Structure of Ming Local Administration (1985)
• Guides for Vexed Travelers: Route Books in the Ming and Qing (1982)
• The Merchant Network in Sixteenth Century China (1981)

History of Buddhism

Books

• Praying for Power (1993)

Other Publications

• The Ownership and Theft of Monastic Land in Ming China (2014)
• The Logic of Monastic Property in a Commercial Economy: Theft and Patronage in the Suzhou Region, 1570-1640 (2012)
• The Politics of Religion: Late-Imperial Origins of the Regulatory State (2009)
• Institution (2005)
• Rujia de zongjiao: Dong Qichang de fojiao yu Xu Guangqi de jidujiao (2004)
• At the Margin of Public Authority: The Ming State and Buddhism (1997)
• Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China (1993)

State and Society in the Qing Dynasty

Publications

• The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors (2014)
• Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire (2009)
• National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China (1989)
• Censorship in Eighteenth-Century China: A View from the Book Trade (1988)
• The Spread of Rice Cultivation and Rice Technology into the Hebei Region in the Ming and Qing (1982)

War, War Crimes, and Collaboration in the 20th Century

Books

• Collaboration (2005)
• Documents on the Rape of Nanking (1999)

Other Publications

• Hesitating before the Judgment of History (2012)
• Lisbon, Xuzhou, Auschwitz: Suffering as History (2011)
• Collaboration in the History of Wartime East Asia (2008)
• Collaboration in the Postwar (2008)
• Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking: The Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History (2007)
• Chinese Collaboration in Nanking (2007)
• Occupation State Building (2007)
• The Great Way Government of Shanghai (2005)
• The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking (2001)
• The Pacification of Jiading (2001)
• The Creation of the Reformed Government in Central China, 1938 (2000)
• Toward Independence: Christianity in China under Japanese Occupation, 1937-1945 (1996)

Law and Punishment

Books

• Death by a Thousand Cuts (2008)

Other Publications

• Capital Punishment and State Sovereignty in China (2012)
• Our Very Own Chinese Postcards from Hell (2013)

State and Society in Modern China

Books

• Civil Society in China (1997)
• Quelling the People (1992)

Other Publications

• Auto-Organization in Chinese Society (1994)
• Differing Agendas: China and the Human Rights Treaties (1993)

China and Historiography

Books

• China and Historical Capitalism (1999)
• The Asiatic Mode of Production in China (1989)

Other Publications

• Europaeology? On the Difficulty of Assembling a Knowledge of Europe in China (2009)
• Time and Global History (2009)
• Violence as Historical Time (2004)
• Picturing Clunas: A Review Essay (1988)
• Medievality and the Chinese Sense of History (1999)
• Native Identity under Alien Rule: Local Gazetteers of the Yuan Dynasty (1997)
• The Sinology of Joseph Needham (1996)
• Weber, Mencius, and the History of Chinese Capitalism (1995)