Articles
“China” and “Cultural Revolution,” in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics, edited by Joel Krieger, Oxford University Press, 2013.
“The Cultural Revolution: Historical Background,” in Teaching Red Scarf Girl. Facing History and Ourselves, 2009.
"Dazhai and Daqing" and "Red and Expert" in Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, edited by Wang Kewen. New York: Garland Press, 1998.
"New Succession Politics in China," in Harvard International Review, Feb-Mar 1988.
"Foreword," in Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution by Gao Yuan, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. (The "Foreword" is an introductory essay on the origins, evolution, and legacy of the Cultural Revolution.)
"A Tragedy of Good Intentions: Post‑Mao Views of the Great Leap Forward," Modern China, October 1986
"China's Modernization of Mao," Current History, September 1986
"China's Relations with Chile Under Allende: A Case Study of Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition," Studies in Comparative Communism, Fall‑Winter 1985
"The Dilemmas of Political Reform in China," Current History, September 1985
"Some Perspectives on the Incorrect Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (with Sigrid Bergenstein), in Canada‑China, Summer 1980
Book Reviews in American Political Science Review, Pacific Affairs, China Quarterly, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, The China Journal, Choice