Books—Single-Authored, for Scholarly Audiences

1978         Aristocratic Families of Early lmperial China: A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts’ui Family. Cambridge University Press, viii, 249 pp.

                 Translation: Chinese translation currently in press.

1984         Family and Property in Sung China: Yüan Ts’ai’s Precepts for Social Life. Translated, with annotation and 171 page introduction. Princeton University Press, 367 pp.

1991             Confucianism and Family Rituals in lmperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites. Princeton University Press, 277 pp.

1991         Chu Hsi’s Family Rituals: A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites. Translated, with annotations and 31 page introduction. Princeton University Press, xxxi + 234 pp.

1993         Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. University of California Press. 332 pp. (hard cover and paperback)  (Awarded Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies).

Translations:  Korean translation by Bae Sook-hee.  Seoul:  Sam Ji won Publishing Company.  2000. Chinese translation by Hu Zhihong. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing house, 2004.

2002        Women and the Family in Chinese History. Routledge, 291 pp. In series, Critical Asian Scholarship.

2008         Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. University of Washington Press.

 

Books Edited—Scholarly Conference Volumes

1986         Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940.  Co-editor with James L. Watson. University of California Press, 319 pp.

1991         Marriage and lnequality in Chinese Society. Co-editor with Rubie S. Watson. University of California Press, 385 pp., in paperback and hard cover.

1993                  Religion and Society in T’ang and Sung China. Co-edited with Peter Gregory. University of Hawaii Press. 379 pp.

2001         Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600.  Coedited with Scott Pearce and Audrey Spiro.  Harvard University East Asia Center.  359 pp.

2006         Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. Co-edited with Maggie Bickford. Harvard University Asia Center. 625 pp.

Books—for general public and classroom use

1981         Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook. The Free Press, Macmillan, xxxv, 436 pp. Hard cover and paperback. Editor, compiler, author of about 50 pages of introductions and translator of twelve of the 89 selections.

1993         Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. 2nd Edition, revised and expanded. Free Press. Editor, compiler, and translator of 34 of the 100 selections. Paperback, 524 pp.

1996                  The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge University Press, 352 pp.  Paperback issued in 1999.

Translations:  German 1996; Chinese, simplified characters, 2001; Korean 2001; Polish 2002; Chinese, traditional characters, 2005.

1999, 2003, 2006  A History of World Societies, co-authored with John McKay, Bennet Hill, and John Buckler.  Houghton Mifflin.  Fifth ed., 1171 pp., author of four chapters covering Asia to 1400. Sixth ed., 1188 pages, author of six chapters on Asia to 1911. Seventh ed., author of seven chapters on Asia to 1911. Also available in two or three volume splits divided chronologically.

2006, 2009 East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History. Co-author with Anne Walthall and James Palais. Houghton Mifflin, 652 pp. Also available in two volumes as Premodern East Asia and Modern East Asia.

2006         China: A Cultural, Social, and Political History. Houghton Mifflin. Text is nearly identical to China portions of first edition of East Asia text above.