Emperor Huizong. Harvard University Press, 2014, 661 pages. Chinese translation in preparation.
Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. University of Washington Press, 2008, 495 pp.
Women and the Family in Chinese History. Routledge, 2002, 291 pp. In series, Critical Asian Scholarship.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge University Press, 1996, 352 pp. Paperback issued in 1999. Second edition, 2010. Translations: German 1996; Chinese, simplified characters, 2001; Korean 2001; Polish 2002; Chinese, traditional characters, 2005. German 1996; Chinese, simplified characters, 2001; Korean 2001; Polish 2002; Chinese, traditional characters, 2005, Russian, 2009, Greek 2010, Spanish 2011, Thai in preparation.
Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. University of California Press, 1993, 332 pp. (Awarded LevensonPrize of the Association for Asian Studies). Translations: Korean translation by Bae Sook-hee. Seoul: Sam Ji won Publishing Company. 2000. Chinese translation by Hu Zhihong. Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing house, 2004.
Confucianism and Family Rituals in lmperial China: A Social History of Writing About Rites. Princeton University Press, 1991, 277 pp.
Chu Hsi’s Family Rituals: A Twelfth-Century Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rites. Translated, with annotations and 31 page introduction. Princeton University Press, 1991, xxxi + 234 pp.
Family and Property in Sung China: Yüan Ts’ai’s Precepts for Social Life. Translated, with annotation and 171 page introduction. Princeton University Press, 1984, 367 pp.
Aristocratic Families of Early lmperial China: A Case Study of the Po-ling Ts’ui Family. Cambridge University Press, 1978, viii, 249 pp. 2010 paperback reprint. Chinese translation 2012.
Books Edited—Conference Volumes
Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. Co-edited with Maggie Bickford. Harvard University Asia Center, 2006, 625 pp.
Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600. Coedited with Scott Pearce and Audrey Spiro. Harvard University East Asia Center, 2001, 359 pp.
Religion and Society in T’ang and Sung China. Co-edited with Peter Gregory. University of Hawaii Press, 1993, 379 pp.
Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Co-editor with Rubie S. Watson. University of California Press, 1991, 385 pp., in paperback and hard cover.
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940. Co-editor with James L. Watson. University of California Press, 1986, 319 pp.
East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History. Co-author with Anne Walthall and James Palais. Three editions, Houghton Mifflin, then Cengage, 2006, 2009, 2013
A History of World Societies, co-authored with John McKay, et al. Houghton Mifflin. Fifth through tenth editions, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2015 author of four to ten chapters, increasing over time.
Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. First edition, 1981, 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 1993. Free Press. Editor, compiler, and translator of 34 of the 100 selections. Paperback, 524 pp.