Journal articles

Published/Accepted

• “The Global Network of Liberty: Toward a New Framework for Understanding the History of Political Concepts.” American Political Science Review 119.3 (2025): 1411–25.

• “How Should the Dragon King Memorialize the Jade Emperor? Margins of Political Thought in Late Ming China.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 10.2 (2023): 461–486.

• “Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on Kingship: A Microhistory of Seventeenth-century Globalization and Political Thought.” History of Political Thought XLIV.4 (2023): 676–704.

• “The Early Qing Compilation of the Ming History in Manchu: The Contexts, Contents, and Significance of the Ming gurun i suduri.” T’oung Pao: International Journal of Chinese Studies 109 (2023): 624–667.

• “Visualizing Divergence: Rhetorical Education, Literary Culture, and Historical Imagination in China and Korea (ca. 1314–1644).” Korean Studies 47 (2023): 93–116. 

• “Speaking on behalf of the Korean King: Rhetorical Education and Political Representation in Early Modern China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 82.4 (2023): 549–569.

• “Election in Barbarian Lands: Representing Inner Asian and Euro-American Political Cultures in Early Modern China.” Oriens Extremus: Kultur, Geschichte, Reflexion in Ostasien 59 (2022): 157–185. [final proof]

• “Redefining Reciprocity: Appointment Edict and Political Thought in Medieval China.” Journal of the History of Ideas 83.4 (2022): 533–554. [publisher's version]

• “Rewarding Female Commanders in Medieval China: Official Documents, Rhetorical Strategies, and Gender Order.” Journal of Chinese History 6.1 (2022): 23–42. An earlier version of this article, entitled “On the Pseudo-Recognition of Female Commanders in Medieval China: War, Gender, and Imperial Rhetoric” is publicized via SSRN.

• “On the Importance of Having Atrocious Dreams: Social and Cultural Transformations of Tenth-Century China and Beyond” (in Chinese). Zaoqi zhongguoshi yanjiu 早期中國史研究 (Early and Medieval Chinese History) 12 (2020): 151-202. [publisher's version]

Under review/to be submitted

• “Toward a Minimalist Approach to Democracy: Ideas Excavated from the First Large-scale Referendum in World History.” Under review/publicized via Social Science Research Network (SSRN). [SSRN version]

• “The Classic of Poems Is Mostly Composed by Women: Toward a Genealogy of a Claim in Early Modern China.” Under review.

• “Everyday Thinking in New-Media China: Secretarial Craft and the Reinvention of Goodness.” Under review.

• “The Chinese Decree of Majority Principle of 1126 CE: Idea, Context, and Process.” In circulation.

• “The Dialectic of Virtue Politics.” Under review.

Book Chapters

• “The Dragon King's Memorial: Official Documents, Vernacular Novel, and Prolegomena to a Future History of Chinese Political Thought” (in Chinese). Forthcoming in a two-volume Festschrift for Timothy Brook.

• “Thus Spoke Jin Shizong: The Case of Jurchen Statecraft in the Mongol, Manchu, Russian, and Belgian Empires.” Forthcoming in Between the People and the State: Chinese Statecraft from Early Ming to Xi Jinping.

• [with Michael Nylan] “Majority Rule and Voting in China.” The Cambridge History of Democracy, Volume 1: From Democratic Beginnings to c.1350. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

• [with Michael Nylan] “The Art of War in Historical Context, wen 文 and wu 武.” In Norton Critical Edition of The Art of War, edited by Michael Nylan, 80-117. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

Book reviews

• “Review: The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism – translated to Chinese by Bo Jianlan and Wang Cui.” BC Studies. Online first.

• “Review: Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom, by Tao Jiang.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30.6 (2022): 1146-1149. [publisher's version]

• “Review of Nicolas Tackett, The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy.” Frontiers of History in China 9 (2014): 640–643. An expanded version in Chinese is published in Tang Song lishi pinglun 唐宋歷史評論 (The Tang and Song History Review) 1 (2015): 276–295. [publisher's version]

• Trans. Zhaozao Quxia: Songdai zhongguo yu dongya guoji zhixu de jianli 肇造區夏: 宋代中國與東亞國際秩序的建立. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2020. (The Chinese translation of Nicolas Tackett, The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.)

• Proof reading. Shanghai fanhua 上海繁華: 經濟倫理與近代城市,1843-1949. Beijing: Renmin daxue chubanshe, 2023. (The Chinese translation of Wen-hsin Yeh, Shanghai Splendor A Cultrual History, 1843-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.)

• Essays in Chinese, including

  1.  What is New Ming history?

  2.  Has Hegel Said "China Has No History:" Revisiting Hegel's interpretation of Chinese history 

• Public lectures in Chinese

Alter Ego

• “To Believe or Not to Believe: McDowell's Different Instances on Perceptually-Based Attitude,” MA thesis, University of Chicago.