2016: ‘Patriarchal investments: expectations of male authority and support in a poor Beijing neighbourhood’ in Stevan Harrell and Goncalo Santos eds., Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the 21st Century, Seattle: University of Washington, pp.182-198
2016: ‘Ambiguities of address: Cultural Revolution posters and their post-Mao appeal’, in Jie Li and Enhua Zhang, eds. Red Legacies in China Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp.87-114
2014: ‘Reconceptualising heritage in China: museums, development and shifting dynamics of power’, (with Michael Rowlands) in Paul Basu and Wayne Modest, eds. Museums, Heritage and International Development, London: Routledge, pp. 272-294
2014: ‘Neglect of a neighbourhood: oral accounts of life in ‘old Beijing’ since the eve of the People's Republic’ Urban History Vol.41, issue 4, November 2014: 686-704
2010: ‘The gender of communication: changing expectations of mothers and daughters in urban China’, in Harriet Evans and Julia Strauss eds. Gender in Flux; Agency and Change in Contemporary China. Special issue of the China Quarterly 204 (December 2010): 980-1000.
2008: The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China Rowman & Littlefield
1999: Picturing Power in the People’s Republic of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (co-edited with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Rowman and Littlefield,)
1997: Women and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949, Polity Press