- Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China
- China And Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)
- Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception
- The Rural Economy of Pre-Liberation China: Trade Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870 to 1937 (East Asian Historical Monographs)
- The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China: An Historical Anthropology of Boat-And-Shed Living