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.

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

Articles

"Eastern Sichuan Coalmines in Late Qing" in Joseph Esherick and Yeh Wen-hsin, Madeleine Zelin, eds. Emipire, 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.

   [Photos of Zigong, Sichuan, home
   of  the Furong Salt Yard]