Sole-authored Monographs

噤若寒蟬：港英時代對媒體和言論的政治審查(1842-1997) (Joint Publishing HK 香港三聯, 2024) (Second best seller in 2024 of Joint Publishing HK)
Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) (Awarded the Honorable Mention of The International Society for Chinese Law and History Biennial Book Prize 2024) (Book Review in Law and History Review: [link], Book Review in the China Quarterly: [link], Book Review in China Review: [link], Book Review in Asian J of Comp Law: [link])
Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China: Practicing law in Republican Beijing (1910s–1930s). New York, London: Routledge, 2014. (University Research Output Prize 2014-15) (Book Review: [link])
Foreign Direct Investment in China – Theories and Practices. New York, London: Routledge, 2013.

Edited Books

Constitutional Foundings in Northeast Asia (Oxford: Hart, 2021) (co-edited with Kevin Tan)
香港動盪: 法與治的歷史與文化解讀 (Chinese edition of Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong) (Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2020) (co-edited with John D. Wong) [In Chinese]
Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order – Adoption and Adaptation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (co-edited with Zhao Yun) (book review: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/chinese-legal-reform-and-the-global-legal-order/9B2888850C95C7F79726BEEA2CDCF06E)
Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives (New York, London: Routledge, 2017) (co-edited with John D. Wong) (book review: https://www.routledge.com/Civil-Unrest-and-Governance-in-Hong-Kong-Law-and-Order-from-Historical-and-Cultural-Perspectives/Ng-Wong/p/book/9781138689978)

Knowledge-exchange Book

Kids also know the law 《細路都識法》 (2017)

Journal Articles

“Suspicious Minds: Chinese Nationalism, State Security and Education in Cold War Hong Kong, 1949–1970s”, Cold War History, forthcoming 2025 (co-authored with Florence Mok)
“Borrowing without Banks: Deposit-Taking by Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Firms (1920s–1930s)”, Business History Review 97.4 (2024): 809-838 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000892
“Making Human Rights 'Fundamental': Johannes Chan And The Entrenchment Of The Hong Kong Bill Of Rights Ordinance,” Hong Kong Law Journal 53.1 (2023): 167-184 (co-authored with Albert Chen)
“Hearts and Minds in Hong Kong's New Territories: Agriculture and Vegetable Marketing in a Cold War Borderland, circa 1946-1967,” Modern Asian Studies 57.6 (2023): 1931-1958 (co-authored with Florence Mok, John Wong, Wallace Wu)
“Tell Me What Happened: Pragmatics of Affect in Legal Communication,” International Journal of Semiotics and Law 36 (2023): 561–577 (co-authored with Wilson Chow, Kelvin Wong, Andrew Wong, Mie Hiramoto, Christian Go)
“Exploratory multivariate space–time analysis of colonial justice in Hong Kong during 1900–1930,” GeoJournal 86.1 (2021): 255-279 (co-authored with Edwin T. Chow, David W.S. Wong and Carlo Chan)
“Who but the Governor in Executive Council is the Judge?: Historical Use of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance,” Hong Kong Law Journal 50.2 (2020): 425-461 (co-authored with Zhang Shengyue and Max Wong)
“When Silence Speaks: Press Censorship and Rule of Law in British Hong Kong (1850s-1940s),” Law and Literature 29.3 (2017): 425-456 DOI: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dEHGYK63ECgCKGHQaDPf/full
“Non-Professional Access to Justice in Rural China: A History of Atypical Legal Development and Legal Service Provision,” China Review 17.3 (2017): 59-86 (co-authored with Xuanming Pan)
“Geographical Dimension of Colonial Justice: Using GIS in Research on Law and History,” Law and History Review 34.4 (2016): 1027-1045 (co-authored with Edwin T. Chow and David W.S. Wong)
“Rule of Law in Hong Kong History Demythologised: Student Umbrella Movement of 1919,” Hong Kong Law Journal 46.3 (2016): 829-847
“Business of Justice and Justice of Business – The Legal Profession of Republican Beijing,” Journal of Comparative Law 6.2 (2012): 292-321
“GIS in Urban Cultural Studies: Reflections from the Project on Republican Beijing,” Annals of GIS 18.1 (2012): 81-92 (co-authored with Billy KL So, Zhang Peiyao, and Lin Hui)
“Attorney on Trial: When the Lawyers met the Phony Lawyers in Republican Beijing,” International Journal of Asian Studies 8.1 (2011): 25-39

Book Chapters

“Empires Collaborate: Geopolitics of Colonial Policing in Hong Kong (1880s–1970s),” in W. Chen & H. Fu eds., Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
“The Making of the Constitutional Order of the Hong Kong SAR: The Role of Sino-British Diplomacy (1982–90),” in Kevin Tan and Michael Ng, eds., Constitutional Foundings in Northeast Asia (Oxford: Hart, 2021) (co-authored with Albert Chen)
“Justice of Indebtedness,” (“欠”的公道：當19世纪香港華商遇上英式破產法) in Chiu Pengsheng ed., The Law and Societal Change in Ming and Qing China (明清法律與社會變遷) (Beijing: Law Press, 2020)
“Rule of law and Nostalgia of Colonial Days,” (法治 . 戀殖) in Chu Yiu-wai, ed., Hong Kong Keywords: Imagining the New Future (香港關鍵詞：想像新未來)
“Judicial Orientalism – Imaginaries of Chinese Legal Transplantation in Common Law,” in Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order – Adoption and Adaptation, Zhao Yun and Michael H.K. Ng eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
“The Law, China, and the World: An introduction,” in Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order – Adoption and Adaptation, Zhao Yun and Michael H.K. Ng eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (co-authored with Yun Zhao)
“Negotiating the Legitimacy of Governance,” in Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Michael H.K. Ng and John D. Wong eds. (Routledge, 2017)

Book Reviews & Short Pieces

Book review of Florence Mok, Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97 (University of Manchester Press, 2023), The China Quarterly 257 (2024): 291-293
Book Review of Jennifer Neighbors, A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China (Brill, 2018), China Review 19.4 (2019)
Book Review of Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, An Epoch of Social Movements: The Trajectory of Contentious Politics in Hong Kong (Chinese University Press, 2018), China Perspectives 2019 (no. 2)
Book Review of The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China by Nicolas Schillinger (Lexington Books, 2016), China Quarterly 232 (2017)
Book Review of The History and Theory of Legal Practice in China by Philip Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt (Brill, 2014), Monumenta Serica LXIV no. 2 (2016)
Book Review of The Shanghai Lawyers during Modern Social Change by Chen Tong (Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2008), Hong Kong Law Journal 39.3 (2009): 861-865
“From Despising Litigation Masters to Partnering with Lawyers – Observing the Development of Chinese Legal Culture from Shen Bao,” (從蔑視訟師到夥拍律師 — 從「申報」看近代中國法律文化的演變) China Law 6 (2010): 42-45
“Transnational enterprises and sovereignty of developing countries,” Leaders 35 (2010): 21-23

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