Books

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