• New York State Regents Scholarship (1966-70)
• Hu Shih Memorial Fellowship (1969-70)
• Phi Beta Kappa (1970)
• Ford Foundation Special Career Fellowship (1970-75)
• Heller Fellowship (1975-76)
• Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (1976-77)
• Social Science Research Council Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1976-78)
• Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities Grant (Summer, 1981)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant (Summer, 1981)
• Committee for Scholarly Exchange with the People's Republic of China Research Grant (1983)
• American Council of Learned Societies Mellon Grant (1983)
• Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities Grant (Summer, 1985)
• First winner of the Lilienthal Prize in East Asian Studies (1985) for The Magistrate's Tael
• Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities Grant (Summer, 1986)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1987)
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Senior Scholar Research Grant (1993-94)
• Luce Foundation United States-China Cooperative Research Program Grant (1994-1998) for "Contract and Chinese Economic Culture"
• Weatherhead East Asian Institute Grant, Development of Program in Modern Tibetan Studies (2001-2004)

• Social and economic history of Qing and Republican China
• Chinese legal history
• Comparative Legal History

          Chinese, Japanese, French, Tibetan

BOOKS:

• The Magistrate's Tael, Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984

• Rainbow, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Translation of Mao Dun's novel about a young woman's intellectual transformation in early 20th century China.

• with Jonathan Ocko and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004

• The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China, New York, Columbia University Press, 2005, study of the social and economic development of one of China's most important early modern industrial centers, the Furong well salt yard, from the mid-Qing to 1937.
   

BOOKS IN PROGRESS:

• The Development of Underdevelopment on the Chinese Frontier, a collection of essays on the resettlement of Sichuan province during the early Qing, the structure of the rural economy and marketing system that evolved in Sichuan during the second half of the Qing, and the patterns of investment and industrial organization to which they gave rise in the twentieth century.

• with Jonathan Ocko and Zheng Qin, Contract Law and Civil Procedure in Qing and Republican China: A text-based approach.

• ed. with Joseph Esherick and Yeh Wen-hsin, Empire, Nation and Beyond, Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times, a feschrift in honor of Frederic Wakeman, Jr., forthcoming 2006

ARTICLES:

• "Eastern Sichuan Coalmines in the Late Qing" in Joseph Esherick and Yeh Wenhsin, Madeleine Zelin, eds. Empire, Nation and Beyond: Chinese History in Later Imperial and Modern Times, a festschrift in honor of Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies (forthcoming, 2006)

• “Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Saltyard, ” in Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan Ocko and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

• “A Critique of Rights of Property in Prewar China,” in Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan Ocko and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

• “Economic Freedom in Late Imperial China” in Kirby, William, ed. Realms of Freedom in China, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

• “The Yongzheng Reign” Cambridge History of China, v. 9, Willard Peterson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• “Critique of Scholarship on Chinese Business History in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan,” Chinese Studies in History, v.31, numbers 3-4, Spring-Summer 1998.

• "China in the World Economy," in A Guide to Asia in Western and World History, Carol Gluck and Ainslee Embrey, eds., M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

• "China in the Twentieth Century" in A Guide to Asia in Western and World History, Carol Gluck and Ainslee Embrey, eds., M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

• "Xiandaihua yu 19-20 shiji Zhongguo de jingji jiegou" [Modernization and China's economic structure in the 19th and 20th centuries] in Frederic Wakeman, ed. Zhongguo xiandaihua wenti--yige duofangwei di lishi tansuo [China's Quest for Modernization--A Historical Perspective] Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 1994.

• "Merchant Dispute Mediation in Twentieth Century Zigong, Sichuan" in Civil Law in Qing and Republican China, Philip Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

• "Furong yanye kao" in Peng Zeyi and Wang Renyuan, ed. Zhongguo yanyeshi guoji xueshu taolun hui lunwenji [Essays from the International Symposium on the History of the Chinese Salt Industry], Sichuan renmin chuban she, 1991.

• "The Structure of the Chinese Economy during the Qing Period: Some Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Opium War" in Lieberthan, et al, ed. Perspectives on Modern China, Four Anniversaries, M.E.Sharpe, 1991, reprinted as "Modernization and China's economic structure in the 19th and 20th centuries" in Frederic Wakeman, ed. China's Quest for Modernization--A Historical Perspective, Berkeley: University of California, China Research monographs, 1997.

• "The Rise and Fall of the Furong Well-Salt Elite," in Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

• "Capital Accumulation and Investment Strategies in Early Modern China: The Case of the Furong Salt Yard" Late Imperial China, June 1988.

• "The Rights of Tenants in Mid-Qing Sichuan: A study of land-related lawsuits in the Baxian Archives," Journal of Asian Studies, May 1986.

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS:
 

• “Customary Law and Business Practice in late Qing and early Republican China” prepared for the Workshop on Chinese Business, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 2-3, 1997.
   
• ”Property Rights, Contract Culture and the Pattern Of Chinese Business Investment." Paper prepared for the Center for Chinese Studies Faculty Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 23, 1996.
   
• "Issues in the study of the history of Chinese contracts: a comparative perspective." Paper prepared for the Workshop on Contract in Chinese Economic Culture, I, New York, September 23-35, 1994.
   
• "Modernization and the Structure of the Chinese Economy." Paper prepared for the Conference on "China's Search for Modernization" Fudan University, Shanghai, May 25-28, 1992.
   
• "Chinese Economic Development in Historical Perspective," at the Asia Society's Symposium, ”China: Backward or Forward,” Louisville, Kentucky on June 10, 1991.
   
• "Chinese Business Management in the late Qing and Republic" Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, New Orleans, April 12, 1991.
   
• "Observations Concerning the Furong Salt Industry" Paper Prepared for the International Conference on the Chinese Salt Industry, Zigong, Sichuan October 1990.
   
• "Coping with Capital Dispersion: An Examination of Partnership Contracts from the Furong Salt Yard." Paper presented at the New England China Seminar, Harvard University, February 11, 1987.
   
• "Obstacles to Economic Development: The mining industry in late imperial Sichuan." Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, New York, December 28, 1985.
   
• "Government Activism in Traditional China: A comparison of the Wang An-shih and the Yung-cheng reforms" Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Washington, DC, March 25, 1984
   
• "Obstacles to Reform in the Yung-cheng Period: Low level corruption and the Kiangnan Tax Clearance Case." Presented at the Modern China Seminar, Columbia University, March 13, 1980.
   
• "The Failure of Fiscal Reform and the Breakdown of Local Control in Late Imperial China." Paper presented at the Workshop on North China Rebellions, July 1979.