Books •
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2000.
John K. Fairbank Prize 2001. Joint winner,
World History Association Best book of 2000. •
The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present. M. E. Sharpe: 1999. •
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937. University of California Press, 1993.
John K. Fairbank Prize 1994.
Edited volumes •
The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization. Farnham England: Ashgate/Variorum, 2009. • with McNeill, J. R., (2015).
The Cambridge World History: Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750 to the present. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • with Barker, G., Benjamin, C., Bentley, J. H., Christian, D., Goucher, C., Kedar, B. Z., Mcneill, J. R., Yoffee, N. (2015).
The Cambridge World History: Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. •
China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. (co-ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.
Articles and chapters in edited volumes • The environment and world history. (co-ed.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. • “Orthopraxy, orthodoxy, and the goddess(es) of Taishan [examination of the Bixia yuanjun cult].”
Modern China 33.1 (2007) 22–46. • “Region and world in economic history: the early modern / modern divide”
Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies 52 (2007) 41–55. • “Standards of living in eighteenth-century China: regional differences, temporal trends, and incomplete evidence” In: Allen, Robert C.; Bengtsson, Tommy; Dribe, Martin, eds.
Living standards in the past: new perspectives on well-being in Asia and Europe. (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): 23–54. • “Women's work and the economics of respectability [boundaries]” In: Goodman, Bryna; Larson, Wendy, eds.
Gender in motion: divisions of labor and cultural change in late imperial and modern China (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005): 239–263. • “Women's work, family, and economic development in Europe and East Asia: long-term trajectories and contemporary comparisons” In: Arrighi, Giovanni; Hamashita, Takeshi; Selden, Mark, eds.
The resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 year perspectives (London; New York: Routledge, 2003): 124–172. • “Facts are stubborn things: a response to Philip Huang”
Journal of Asian Studies 62.1 (February 2003): 167–181. • “Political economy and ecology on the eve of industrialization: Europe, China, and the global conjuncture”
American Historical Review 107.2 (April 2002) 425–446. • “Beyond the East-West binary: resituating development paths in the eighteenth-century world”
Journal of Asian Studies 61.2 (May 2002) 539–590. • “Is there an East Asian development path? Long-term comparisons, constraints, and continuities”
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 44, pt.3 (Aug 2001) 322–362. • “Re-thinking the late imperial Chinese economy: development, disaggregation and decline, circa 1730-1930”
Itinerario 24.3-4 (2000) 29–74. • "Ritual Imitation and Political Identity in North China: The late Imperial Legacy and the Chinese National State Revisited,"
Twentieth Century China 23:1 Fall, 1997. • "Power, Gender and Pluralism in the cult of the Goddess of Taishan," in R. Bin Wong, Theodore Huters, and Pauline Yu, eds.,
Culture and State in Chinese History (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997). • “"Traditional' Chinese business forms revisited: family, firm, and financing in the history of the Yutang Company of Jining, 1779-1956.”
Late Imperial China 18.1 (June 1997): 1–38. • “Local interest story: political power and regional differences in the Shandong capital market, 1900-1937” In: Rawski, Thomas G.; Li, Lillian M., eds.
Chinese history in economic perspective(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) 295–318. • "Water to Iron, Widows to Warlords: the Handam Rain Shrine in Modern Chinese History,"
Late Imperial China 12.1 (June 1991) 62–99. ==Awards and honors==