- Confucianism and Autocracy: Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty
- Ming China, 1368-1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire (Critical Issues in World and International History)
- A Political Life in Ming China: A Grand Secretary and His Times
- Four Seasons: A Ming Emperor and His Grand Secretaries in Sixteenth-Century China
- A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries









