White Paper Protests Carry Many Echoes of China’s Past

with Jeff Wasserstrom

Nikkei Asia, Dec 2022

The Fourth Taiwan Straits Crisis Is Here

with Stephan Haggard and James Lee

Global Asia, 2022

Feudal Contradictions between Communist Allies:

Deng Xiaoping, Kim Il-Sung, and the Problem of Succession, 1976–1984 

Journal of Cold War Studies, 2022

China as Equal

Putting China as Rival into Historical Context  

Perspectives on History [American Historical Association], 2020

Why Xi Jinping Is Courting Kim Jong-un

New York Times, 2019

Spying, Subversion and Great Power 

Identity Conflict Between the United States and China

in Japan and Asia’s Contested Order, 2018

A Rising China Needs a New National Story

with Orville Schell

Wall Street Journal, 2013

Irony on Parade: 

Sino-Korean Friendship 1945/2015

Journal of Asian Studies, 2015

Hong Kong’s New Citizens

Democracy and Resistance in a Changing City

Foreign Affairs, 2015

Gu Yanwu’s Mixed Model 

and the Problem of Two Despotisms

Late Imperial China, 2013

The Constitutional Debate in Early Qing China

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2013)

Harmonious in China

The Ancient Sources of Modern Doctrine

Policy Review, 2008