Book

The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Building State Structure: Guomindang Institutional Rationalization during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945," Modern China 31, no. 1 (January 2005): 35-71.
“The Sino-Japanese War and the Formation of the State Enterprise System in China: A Case Study of the Dadukou Iron and Steel Works, 1938-1945,” Enterprise & Society 3, no. 1 (March 2002): 80-123.  This article won the Newcomen Article Award for the best article published in this journal in 2002.
“Regional Archives in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of the Chongqing Municipal Archives and the Yunnan Provincial Archives,” coauthored with Robert J. Jakeman, Provenance 18/19 (2000/2001): 31-41.
 

Book Reviews

Review of Zhaojin Ji, A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2003) and Linsun Cheng, Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) for Enterprise & Society (June 2005): 305-308.
Review of Elisabeth Köll, From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China (Harvard University Asian Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003) for China Review International 11 (fall 2004): 411-415.
Review of Parks M. Coble, Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2003) for Enterprise & Society 4 (December 2003): 715-716
Review of William C. Kirby, Man-houng Lin, James Chin Shih, and David A. Poetz eds., State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars (Harvard University Asian Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000) for Chinese Business History 12, no. 1 (spring 2002): 8-9
 

Translations

"From Aborigines to Landed Proprietors: Taiwan Aboriginal Landed Rignts, 1690-1850."  Translation of the work of a Chinese scholar.  In Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain edited by Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Jonathan N. Lipman, and Randall Stross (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), 130-42.

 

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