Articles
Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century (co-authored with Joerg Baten, Stephen Morgan and Qing Wang) Explorations in Economic History, Volume 47, Issue 3, pp. 347-359 (July 2010).
Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, 1738-1925: in Comparison with Europe, Japan and India (co-authored with Robert Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Christine Moll-Murata and Jan Luiten van Zanden)Economic History Review Vol. 64, No. S1 2011, pp.8-38.
From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China's Economic Boom (2013) co-authored with Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski. Journal of Economic Literature 2014, 52(1), 45–123.
State capacity and great divergence, the case of Qing China (1644–1911), Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2014, 54:5-6, 484-499.
Edited Book:
Law and Long-Term Economic Change: an Eurasian Perspective (co-edited with Jan Luiten van Zanden): Stanford University Press 2011.
See the CEPR working paper version No. 8385 (2011) of an earlier version of my chapter 3 in this book titled "Law and Economy in Traditional China, a Legal Origin Perspective on Great Divergence" available online at www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP8385.asp.
Also see the short piece on my chapter "Legal Origin, a Chinese Perspective" at VOX.
Book Chapters
The Great Silk Exchange: How the World was Connected and Developed in Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the 16th Century, edited by D. Flynn, L. Frost and A.J.H. Latham, Routledge Press, 1998. Reprinted as Chapter 1 in Ma, D. (ed.) Volume 12: Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900, series The Pacific World: 'Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900', Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2005.
Book Reviews
Avner Greif Institutions and the path to the modern economy: lessons from medieval trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Journal of Global History, Volume 5, Issue 01, March 2010, pp 178-180.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and R. Bin Wong, Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Reviewed for EH.Net. archived athttp://eh.net/book_reviews/and-beyond-divergence-politics-economic-change-china-and-europe.