Books
Mao’s China and Post-Mao China: Revolution, Recovery and Rejuvenation, World Scientific, 2022. (Forthcoming)
History and Nationalist Legitimacy in Contemporary China: A Double-Edged Sword, Palgrave, 2017.
Making China Strong: The Role of Nationalism in Chinese Thinking on Democracy and Human Rights, Palgrave, 2014.
Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng, Palgrave, 2010.
Politics in China Since 1949: Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule, Routledge, 2006.
The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives, Macmillan, 1999.
Journal Articles
‘A New Chinese Modernity? The Discourse of Eco-Civilisation Applied to the Belt and Road Initiative’, Third World Quarterly, 42, 9 (2021), 2115-32
‘Using the Past to Legitimise the Present: The Portrayal of Good Governance in Chinese History Textbooks’, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 47, 1 (2018), 41-69
‘Money for Life: The Legal Debate in China About Criminal Reconciliation in Death Penalty Cases’, Asian Perspective, 39, 2 (2015), 277-299
‘The Rise of “Republican Fever” in the PRC and the Implications for CCP Legitimacy’, China Information, 27, 3 (2013), 3-26
‘Fanning the Flames of Popular Nationalism: The Debate in China over the Burning of the Old Summer Palace’, Asian Perspective, 37, 1 (2013), 53-76
‘Owning Up to the Past: The KMT’s Role in the War Against Japan and the Impact on CCP Legitimacy’, Pacific Review, 26, 3 (2013), 221-242
‘The Evolution of Human Rights Thinking in North Korea’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24, 2 (2008), 272-96
‘Defending the Nation: The Role of Nationalism in Chinese Thinking on Human Rights’, Democratization, 15, 2 (2008), 342-62
‘Harmony or Coercion: EU-China Trade Dispute Involving Intellectual Property Enforcement’, Wisconsin International Law Journal, 25, 3 (2007), 439-90
‘Challenging the State Orthodoxy: Liberal Conceptions of Human Rights in Late Qing and Post-Mao China’, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 17, 2 (2007), 331-52
‘Harmony, Hierarchy and Duty Based Morality: The Confucian Antipathy Towards Rights’, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 2, 2 (2002), 245-67
‘The Evolution of Chinese Thinking on Human Rights in the Post-Mao Era’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 17, 2 (2001), 19-42
‘Human Rights in China: Between Marx and Confucius’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 3, 4 (2000), 101-25
Book Chapters
‘History and Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Towards Competing Nationalisms’, in Cheng-tian Kuo (ed.) Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).
‘Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: The Importance of National Conditions’, in Lion Koenig and Bidisha Chaudhuri (eds.), Politics of the ‘Other’ in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (London: Routledge, 2016), 155-66.
‘Human Rights’, in Chris Ogden (ed.), Handbook of China’s Governance and Domestic Politics (London: Routledge, 2012), 187-98.
