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(2026) Response to PRC History Book Review Series No. 85: Pierre Fuller, Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China’s Past (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Reviewed by Minerva Inwald (March).

(2026) Review of Clément Fabre, À l’ombre de la race. Chine, XIXe siècle, CNRS Éditions, 2025, Histoire@Politique (March).

(2022) Review of Deng Yunte, The History of Famine Relief in China, Cambridge University Press, 2021, Journal of Asian Studies (March).

(2020) “Lessons for today from the Song dynasty: Confucian how-to manuals.” Review of Pierre-Etienne Will, Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China, Brill, 2020, Times Literary Supplement, 7 August.

(2020) Podcast: “The long shadow of the Opium Wars I,” Side Effects May Vary, episode 4, Monash University, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

(2017) “Civic action in China draws on an old tradition”, Chinadialogue, 24 August.

(2016) “Music Lessons”. Review of Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Granta, 2016, Times Literary Supplement, 19 October.

(2015) “Sycophants and Cannibals”. Review of Yan Lianke’s The Four Books, translated by Carlos Rojas, London, Vintage, Chatto & Windus, 2016, Times Literary Supplement, 7 August.

(2010) “A Bible for Beijing,” China Heritage Quarterly 23 September.

(2010) “China’s Charitable Past”. Op-ed, International Herald Tribune, 29 September.