2011. Co-authored with Vincent Goossaert, The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 464 pp. Externally reviewed. Author order is alphabetical by publisher's policy.
Edited books
2012. Edited with Xun Liu, Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press. 376 pp. Externally reviewed. Sole author of 1 chapter and co-author of 1 chapter.
2011. Edited with Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri, Chinese Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press. 296 pp. Externally reviewed. Sole author of 2 chapters and co-author of 2 chapters.
Journal Publications
2013. "From 'Congregations' to 'Small Group Community Building': Localizing the Bahá'í Faith in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.” Chinese Sociological Review 45:2, 78-98.
2012. "Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists.” Published online in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Print edition forthcoming.
2011. "Gift and Market in the Chinese Religious Economy”. Religion 41(4): 1-26.
2011. "Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?”Journal of Chinese Theatre, Ritual and Folklore / Minsu Quyi 172, pp. 21-72.
Chinese edition: "Minguo jiushi tuanti yu Zhongguo jiudu zongjiao: lishi xianxiang haishi shehuixue leibie?” in Jin Ze and Chen Jinguo eds., Zongjiao renleixue 3. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2012, pp. 3-28.
2011. "Zhiyuanzhe zuzhi 'canyu xingdong yanjiu' yu nengli jianshe – yu Sichuan 5/12 dizhen hou daxuesheng zhiyuanzhe tuandui hezuo de chubu sikao” [Capacity building in Participatory Action Research of volunteer organizations – Preliminary reflections on a collaboration with student volunteer teams involved in post-quake community building in Sichuan]. (co-authored with Shu Mengmeng) Guangdong qingnian ganbu xueyuan xuebao [Journal of Guangdong Youth Leaders College] vol. 25 no. 85.
Books Chapters
2013. "Globalizing Daoism at Huashan: Quanzhen Monks, Danwei Politics and International Dream Trippers.” In Vincent Goossaert and Xun Liu eds., Quanzhen Daoists in Chinese Society and Culture, Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, pp. 113-140.Externally reviewed.
2013. [Co-authored with Wai-tou Yu] "The Jiao Rituals in Huanghua Township of Yingde City, Guangdong Province.” In Lü Pengzhi & John Lagerwey ed., Difang Daojiao yishi shidi diaocha bijiao yanjiu xueshu yantaohui lunwenji (The Comparative Ethnography of Local Daoist Ritual). Taipei, Shin Wen Feng, pp. 469-502.
2012. "Introduction: the Daoist Encounter with Modernity” (co-authored with Xun Liu, in David A. Palmer and Xun Liu, eds. Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-22. Reprinted as "The Daoist Encounter with Modernity: Some issues in the History and Sociology of Daoism in the Modern Era,” in Yang Fenggang and Joseph Tamney eds., Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond, Leiden: Brill. Externally reviewed.
2012. "Dao and Nation. Li Yujie: May Fourth Activist, Daoist Cultivator and Redemptive Society Patriarch in Mainland China and Taiwan,” in David A. Palmer and Xun Liu eds., Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 173-195. Externally reviewed. URL: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4#page-191
2011. "The Body: Healing, Nation, and Transcendence,” in David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri eds., Chinese Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 87-106. Externally reviewed.
2011. "Religion in Chinese Social and Political History,” in David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri eds., Chinese Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 155-171. Externally reviewed.
2011. "Gender and Sexuality,” (co-author [20%] with Julia Huang and Elena Valussi), in David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri eds., Chinese Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 107-123. Externally reviewed.
2011. "Religious Philanthropy and Chinese Civil Society”, (co-authored with André Laliberté and Keping Wu), in David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri eds., Chinese Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-154. Externally reviewed.
2011. "Religious Innovation in Post-Mao China : the Case of Zhonggong”. In Adam Chau ed., Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. London: Routledge, pp. 182-202.