- China and global history
- China in Asia
- History of the Ming dynasty
- History of Buddhism
- State and society in the Qing dynasty
- War, war crimes, and collaboration in the 20th century
- Law and punishment
- State and society in modern China
- China and historiography
China and Global History
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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
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Other Publications
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
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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
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
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Other Publications
State and Society in Modern China
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Other Publications
China and Historiography
Books
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)