Publications

AMAZON PROFILE

Three Kingdoms:  China’s Epic Drama, (abridged translation with introduction and post face) Pantheon Books, 1976 (out of print, selected for Pantheon’s special scholarly backlist).
Critique of Soviet Economics, (translation of Mao Zedong’s Reading Notes), Monthly Review Press, 1977.
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, (edited and translated), Pantheon Books, 1979, remains in print, in its 14th edition (approx).
Three Kingdoms, (complete annotated translation with textual notes and critical essay), University of California Press jointly with Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1992 (reviewed by The New York Times Book Review, January 17, 1993; reviewed in the Far Eastern Economic Review, June 16, 1994; received award from Translation Center at Columbia University).  Republished in five-volume bilingual edition in China.

Three Kingdoms (complete, second printing, corrected) 2004 (University of California Press).
Three Kingdoms Abridged Edition (University of Calif Press 2004).
Fifteenth anniversary edition with new intro
Laozi, Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way (annotated translation with textual notes and critical introduction) University of California Press, 2001.

Laozi Dao De Jing (paperback, corrected) 2004 (University of California Press).
New edition with added postface

ARTICLES

“Double Judgment in the Spring and Autumn,” in Nothing Concealed, F. Wakeman, Jr., ed. Chinese Materials and Research Aids, Inc., 1970.
“Three Philosophical Definitions,” Journal of American Oriental Society, 1968.4.
“Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching,” JAOS, 1975.1.
“Neo Confucian Tyranny in The Dream of the Red Chamber,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1978.1.
“Zhuge Liang and Filial Piety in Three Kingdoms,” Journal of Chengdu University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 1986.3 (in Chinese).
“Historical Overview of the Nanjing Massacre,” in Nanjing, Joint Publishing, 1995 (in Chinese only).
“Nanjing Massacre,” review article in U.S. China Friendship Journal, Fall 1996.
“Zhuangzi as a ‘Hunger Artist,’” an occasional paper distributed by the Warring States Working Group editorial committee, Fall 1996.
“Contra Ideocracy,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1997.1.
“Why Did Zhuge Liang’s Recitation of the Bronze Bird Rhapsody Provoke Zhou Yu?” Journal of Chengdu University (in Chinese, forthcoming).
“Stanzas from Laozi,” for World Treasury of Poetry, edited by John Major.
“Bad Karma in Asia,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 2000.3 (republished in Harootunian and Miyoshi, eds. Learning Places.
“Designed to Fail, Two Critical Views on U.S. Diplomacy in Asia,” review article in Critical Asian Studies, 2001.1
“Balancing Powers, Balance of the Authority” Journal of Hunan University (Social Sciences) Vol. 25, No. 3, May 2011
“We Threaten The World” in Ross & Ross, eds, Anti-Americanism (NYU press, 2004)
“Semantic Ramifications of the Chinese character chen-vassal” in Rediscovering Confucianism (Trinity 2007)
“Introducing the writing of Noam Chomsky” (in Chinese Nanfang renwu zhoukan January 2007); English version on line at ZMAG.
China and the US Change Places (online at ZMAG)
“The Language of Values in Three Kingdoms,” in Besio and Tung, eds. The Culture of Three Kingdoms (SUNY Press 2007).
Balancing Powers (in Chinese) Journal of Hunan Univ. May 2011

REVIEWS

Review of Major et.al, The Huainanzi in JAOS 2010 vol. 2
Balancing Powers (in Chinese) Journal of Hunan Univ. May 2011
Review of John Makeham’s Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought, in China Review International, vol 6, no. 1 1999
Review of David Lampton’s Same Bed Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations 1989-2000, Journal of American History, March 2002
Mr. Secretary: A Review of Errol Morris’s The Fog of War. Passport, April 2005.
Review of Scorched Earth by Fred Wilcox, Critical Asian Studies, 2012.

Dissertation

Ph.D. Dissertation:  The Metaphysical Context of Confucius’ Analects, Columbia U., 1966.

MeDIA

Reflection on China’s Icons, 2018.
Korea Reporting: Obilgatory omissions, 2018.
The Forbidden Questions About the Korea Crisis, 2017.
Sinophobia, an American Disorder 2019 Rethinking Sinophobia
Why Confucius rubs America the wrong way / Deporting Confucius, 2019