Books
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China, (Verso, 2021)
China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics, Palgrave, 2013 (paperback 2016)
(Spanish translation China y el Capitalismo Global, El Viejo Topo, 2015)
Gregor Benton and Lin Chun, eds. Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Mao: The Unknown Story, Routledge, 2009
The Transformation of Chinese Socialism, Duke University Press, 2006; 2nd print 2007 (Spanish translation: Spanish translation: La Transformacion del Socialismo Chino, Barcelona: El Viejo Topo, 2008)
The British New Left, Edinburgh University Press, 1993 (Japanese translation: Tokyo: Sairyusha, 1999)
Reflections on China’s Reform Trajectory, Beijing: Social Science Academic Publisher, 2008 (in Chinese)
Edited anthologies, Ashgate 2000:
- China I: Modernizing Chinese Polity
- China II: The Transformation of Chinese Socialism
- China III: Defining a Changing China in Global Politics
Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Mao: The Unknown Story (eds. with Gregor Benton), Routledge, 2009
Women: The Longest Revolution (eds. with Li and Tan), Beijing: Sanlian Publishing House, 1997 (in Chinese)
Book chapters
Gao Mobo and Lin Chun, 'In Lieu of an Introduction', in Yang Songlin, Telling the Truth: China's GLF, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, Palgrave 2021, pp.vii-xxxii
“Asia and the shift in Marx’s conception of revolution and history”, in Matt Vidal et al. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, Oxford University Press, 2019
Articles
"Red Finance: The wartime communitst market experience in China", Phenominal World, 2023
“China’s new globalism”, Socialist Register 2019 (SR vol. 55)
"The lost international in the transformation of Chinese socialism", in Vijay Prashad, ed. Communist Histories, Vol. I, LeftWord Books, 2016, pp.267-315
“The language of class in China”, Socialist Register 2015, London: Merlin pp. 24-53
"Toward a new moral economy: the land question revisited”, in Darwis Khudori, ed. Bandung at 60: New Insights and Emerging Forces, Pustako Pelajar, 2015, pp. 261-86
“Modernity and the violence of global accumulation: the case of ethnic question in China”, in Breno Bringel and Mauricio Domingues, eds. Contestations of Global Modernity, London: Sage, 2015, pp. 51-70
“Rethinking land reform: comparative lessons from China and India”, forthcoming in Mahmood Mamdani, ed. Peasants and Pastoralists in the Marketplace: Perspectives from Africa and Asia, 2015, pp. 95-157
"An argument for 'participatory socialism'", in Cao and Zhong, eds, Culture and Transformation: Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context, Brill, 2014, pp. 333-54
“Marxism and the politics of positioning China in world history”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 13:3, 2012, pp. 438-66
“Socialist China model or capitalism with Chinese characteristics?”, Hong Kong: Sunny Research Advance, 2011-28, April 2011, pp. 1-14
“The Chinese revolution and the modern Chinese identity” and “comments on MacFarquhar and Gong”, in Cao, et al. eds. Culture and Social Transformation in Reform Era China, Brill, 2010, pp. 359-74
“The socialist market economy: step forward or backward for China?” Science & Society, 73:2, April 2009, pp. 228-35
“Challenging privatization: a conceptual and theoretical argument”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 14:1, 2009, pp. 21-48
“Against privatization in China: a historical and empirical argument”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13:1, 2008, pp. 1-27
"China: changing the rules of the game”, Soundings 39:1, 2008: 7-19