Journal Articles:
"Modern Silk Road: Global Raw Silk Market: 1850-1930" Vol.56, No.2 (June, 1996) pp. 330-355. The Journal of Economic History.
“Why Japan, not China, Was the First to Develop in East Asia, Lessons from Sericulture 1850-1937” January 2004, volume 52, No. 2, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
“Growth, Institutions and Knowledge: A Review and Reflection on the Historiography of 18th-20th Century China” Vol. 44, Issue 3, Nov. 2004, Australian Economic History Review, (Special Issue on the Economic History of Asia)
“Between Cottage and Factory: the Evolution of Chinese and Japanese Silk-Reeling Industries in the Latter Half of 19th Century,” Journal of The Asia Pacific Economy, vol. 10, No. 2, 195-213, May 2005.
“Wages and Living Standards of Japanese Unskilled Laborers in 1720-1913: an International Comparison” (co-authored with Jean-Pascal Bassino) chapter 7 in Research in Economic History, Vol. 23. 2005.
“International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-6 Purchasing Power Parity of Japan, Taiwan and Korea.” (co-authored with Kyoji Fukao and Tangjuin Yuan) Volume 43, Issue 2 April 2006, Explorations in Economic History.
“Law and Commerce in Traditional China, an Institutional Perspective on the ‘Great Divergence’” Keizai-Shirin, vol. 73, No. 4, March 2006.
“Real GDP in pre-War East Asia: a 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity Comparison with the U.S." (co-authored with Kyoji Fukao and Tangjun Yuan) Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 53 Issue 3, September 2007.
“Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region of China in 1911-1937: A Quantitative and Historical Perspective” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68, No. 2 (June 2008) pp. 385-392.
"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.
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 at http://eh.net/book_reviews/and-beyond-divergence-politics-economic-change-china-and-europe.