Philosophy East and West (October, 1974): article on the t'i-yung (substance-function) paradigm in Chu Hsi (1130-1200)

Bulletin of Sung and Yüan Studies (1978): article on the historical scholarship and classical commentaries of Wu Ch'eng (1249-1333)

Journal of Chinese Philosophy (1979): article on the evolution of Chinese thought from the Sung dynasty to the Ming

Journal of the American Oriental Society (1979): annotated translation of the "record of conduct" (hsing-chuang) biography of Wu Ch'eng, written by his disciple Yü Chi (1272-1348)

China Under Mongol Rule (Princeton University Press book, 1981): chapter essay on the preservation of classical learning by Wu Ch'eng during the Yüan period

Yüan Thought: Essays on Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols (Columbia University Press book, 1982): chapter essay on the development of philosophical methodology in Wu Ch'eng

Papers Contributed to the Nanjing University Symposium on the History of the Yuan Dynasty (1986): article on "Wu Ch'eng and the Philosophy of Mind" (in Chinese and English)

Pacific Affairs (1986): review of John B. Henderson's The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology (Columbia University Press, 1984)

Pacific Affairs (1987): review of Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 1985)

Asian Thought and Society (1987): review of Joey Bonner's Wang Kuo-wei: An Intellectual Biography (Harvard University Press, 1986)

Ming Studies (1988): review of Irene Bloom's Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-Chih Chi by Lo Ch'in-shun (Columbia University Press, 1987)

In the Service of the Khan: Yüan Personalities (Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1993): study of the early Yüan statesman Wang Yün (1227-1304) in a biographical collection dealing with the early Mongol period in China

Journal of Chinese Philosophy (1994): article introducing the intellectual career of Wu Ch'eng (1249-1333)

Journal of Asian Studies (1996): review of Alan Wood's Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights (University of Hawaii Press, 1995)

The Philosophy of Wu Ch'eng: A Neo-Confucian of the Yüan Dynasty (Indiana University, 1999): book focusing on the ethics and metaphysics of Wu Ch'eng (1249-1333), the premier thinker and classicist during the period of Mongol rule in China

A Solitary Crane in a Spring Grove: The Confucian Scholar Wu Ch'eng in Mongol China (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000): biographical study of the life and career of Wu Ch'eng

Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration (2002): article on early American China policy, as revealed in the letters of consul John Shillaber, prior to the Opium War

Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy (Routledge, 2003): chapter essay on Confucianism during the Yüan dynasty

Encyclopedia of Confucianism (Routledge-Curzon, 2003): a dozen biographies of thinkers and statesmen of the Yüan and Ming periods

New Observations on Chinese History [Kuo-shih fou-hai k’ai-hsin lu ] (Taipei, 2003): chapter essay on Tseng Tien, a principal disciple of Confucius

Conference Papers

Annual meetings of the American Oriental Society: spring 1971, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; spring, 1975, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

American Council of Learned Societies conference "China Under the Mongols": July 1976, York, Maine

Columbia University Seminar in Neo-Confucian Studies: December, 1976, New York City

Annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies: March, 1977, New York City

American Council of Learned Societies conference on Yüan thought: Seattle, 1978

Nanjing University Symposium on Yüan History: presentation in Chinese; fall, 1986, Nanjing, China

“China's Future and Past: A Conference in Honor of Professor Yü Ying-shih”; May, 2001, Princeton University

Current Research
Synthetic Trends in traditional Chinese thought