"Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-LA from the Himalayas to Hollywood," 2000, Holt/Metropolitan Books.

"The China Reader: The Reform Era ," Co-edited with David Shambaugh, Vintage Books, l999.

"Mandate Of Heaven: In China, A New Generation Of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians And Technocra Grasp for Power in China," Simon & Schuster, New York, l994, Touchstone Paperbacks, l995.

"Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform," Pantheon Books, New York, l988(Paperback: Anchor Doubleday l989.)

"To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the l980's," Pantheon Books, New York, l984(Paperback: New American Library l985.)

"Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm," Random House, New York, l983(Paperback: Vintage l984.)

"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests: China Encounters the West," Pantheon Books, New York, l980(Paperback: Pantheon l981.)

"Brown," Random House, New York, l978.

"In the People's Republic: an American's first-hand view of living and working in China ," Random House, New York, l976.(Paperback: Vintage l977.)

"The Town That Fought To Save Itself," Pantheon, 1976.

"Modern China: the Story of a Revolution," Alfred AKnopf, New York, l972.

"China : in the People's Republic"

"Modern China: The Making of a New Society, from 1839 to the Present"