Recent Publications

• “Federalism and the Balance of Power: China’s Han and Tang Dynasties and the Roman Empire,” Pacific Economic Review, 14 (1), 2009, pp. 1 – 21.
• “The Structure of Authority, Property Rights and Economic Stagnation: The Case of China,” China Economic Quarterly, 4 (2), 2005, pp. 541 – 562.
• “Response to the Challenge of State: A physical impossibility or an unreasonable assumption of cooperation.” China Economic Quarterly, 6 (1), 2006, pp. 349 – 356.

Working Papers/Work in Progress

• “Economic Growth: Song China and England,” 2015, working paper, Department of Economics, Tamkang University.
• “Political Institutions and China’s early Industrial Revolution, 1000 – 1300 A.D.,” 2010, working paper, Department of Economics, Tamkang University.
• “China, Japan and the Rise of the West: Gunpowder, the military and the state,” 2023, working manuscript, Department of Economics, Tamkang  
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Book Reviews

• State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China. Helen Dunstan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 12 (3), (2007), pp. 307 – 308.
• Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China. David Faure. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2007. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 14 (4), (2009), pp. 417 – 418.
• Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. By Peter J. Golas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2015. Journal of Global South Studies, (2016), pp. 95 – 98.
• State Power in China, 900-1325. Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Paul Jakov Smith, Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2016. The Chinese Historical Review, 28 (2), (2021), pp. 191 – 193.
• Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture. By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2021. The Chinese Historical Review, forthcoming.