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Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing, Stanford
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The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988,
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The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China, Stanford U.P. (1985).
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Chinese Communists and Rural Society, 1927-1934, (co-author), Center
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Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Modern Chinese Liberalism, University of Washington
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Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social Science.
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Zhongguo xiangcun yanjiu (Rural China: An International Journal of
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