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  • “Complete Manchu-Han Feast” (1839), “Investigation of Ganjuur temple market” (1929) Annotated translations for Loretta Kim et al., eds. Overlapping Borderlands: Sources and Translations from Inner Northeast Asia

2024

  • “Business history without business: Intermediation and China’s pre-1949 cattle trade.” International Journal of Asian Studies
  • “Beef in China: A history in eight dishes.” In Modern Chinese Foodways, ed. Jia-Chen Fu, Wendy King, and Jakob Klein (MIT Press)
  • “Ideology and control: Instruments of authoritarianism in Japanese Manchuria.” In Building dictatorships under Axis Rule, ed. António Costa Pinto (Routledge)

2023

  • “Ten centuries of Chinese food writing: What do we do with all these recipes?” Food, Culture & Society 

2022

  • “Counting the carnivores: Who ate meat in Republican-era China?” Social Science History 46:4: 751-775
  • China’s food OFDI between state and market: A tale of two dairies” Asian Studies Review
  • “Soy in China,” Brian Lander and Thomas DuBois, in The Age of Soybeans: An Environmental History of the Soyacene During the Great Acceleration, ed. Claiton Marcio da Silva (White Horse Press)
  • “民国时期牛贩子的商业风俗与贸易网络：利用外包访谈的方法试验” [Cattle trade customs and commercial networks in the Republican period: An experiment in wide-scale interview outsourcing] with Liu Qinli 《民俗研究》 2
  • 西方汉学与中国研究范式的历史阶段” [Historical stages of western Sinological and China-research paradigms] 《汉籍与汉学》

2021                    

  • 从中介视角理解中国牛贸易体系” [Understanding China’s cattle trade systems from the perspective of intermediation]《世界历史评论》3: 269-285.
  • “‘There’s a body in the kitchen!’ A cook’s-eye view of Sichuan cuisine” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 5, 1 
  • “Fast food for thought: Finding global history in a Beijing McDonald’s” World History Connected 18. 1

2020

  • “China’s old brands: Commercial heritage and creative nostalgia” International Journal of Asian Studies
  • Milk From the Butterfly Spring: State and Enterprise in the Yunnan Dairy Industry 从蝴蝶泉来的牛奶：滇西乳品产业的发展与政企互动,” Rural China 中国乡村研究 17, 1
  • “Religious violence in early modern East Asia” in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 3: AD 1500-AD 1800, ed. Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Dodds Pennock. (Cambridge University Press)
  • “Religious violence in China since 1850” in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 4: AD 1800-AD 2000, ed. Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, and Jay Winter. (Cambridge University Press)

2019

  • “Borden and Nestlé in East Asia, 1870-1929: Branding and retail strategy in the condensed milk trade” Business History.
  • Walking a production chain: An interdisciplinary approach to method and meaning” in Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide. DuBois and Kiely, eds. (Routledge)
  • “China eats—Chinese Food Brands at the Hangzhou Innovation Forum” Alicia E and Thomas DuBois, Asia Pacific Journal <https://apjjf.org/2019/11/DuBois.html&gt;
  • Many roads from pasture to plate: A commodity chain approach to China’s beef trade, 1732-1931” Journal of Global History, 1: 22-43.
  • China’s dairy century – making, drinking and dreaming of milk” in Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach, eds., Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical and Ethical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China” in Pierce Salguero, ed. Buddhism & Medicine: An Anthology Vol 2: Modern and Contemporary Voices (Columbia University Press)
  • “Be a civilized citizen!” Corporate Social Responsibility and the new Chinese secular” Centre for Advanced Studies on “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” Working paper 8

2018

  • “In the Center of It All: Thoughts from the Edges of Empire” in From Chinggis to Qing: Empire in Asia: A New Global History, ed. Jack Fairey and Brian P. Farrell (Bloomsbury)
  • Religious freedom in East Asia: Historical norms and the limits of advocacy” Journal of Religious and Political Practice

2017

  • “Big meat: The rise and impact of mega-farming in China’s beef, sheep and dairy industries” Alisha Gao and Thomas DuBois, Asia Pacific Journal <http://apjjf.org/2017/17/DuBois.html&gt;
  • “Идеология и контроль: Инструменты авторитаризма в Японской Маньчжурии” [Ideology and control: Instruments of authoritarianism in Japanese Manchuria] Bereginya 2 (28) special issue on global fascism, ed. Alexander Bogdashkin: 291-302
  • “Welfare provision during the new Republic and the interwar period” in Handbook of Welfare in China, eds. Johanna Hood and Beatriz Carillo Garcia (Edward Elgar): 29-44.

2016

  • “Chinese Agriculture and Rural Development Reexamined: Western and Chinese Perspectives.” Huaiyin Li and Thomas DuBois, Introduction to idem., eds. Agricultural production and rural transformation, Volume 1 of “Historical Studies of Contemporary China” (Brill): 1-24
  • “Local Religion and Festivals” in eds. Vincent Goossaert, Jan Kiely and John Lagerwey, Modern Chinese Religion, 1850-present (Brill), 371-400

2015

  • “Before the NGO: Chinese charities in historical perspective,” Asian Studies Review, 541-552

2014

  • “Public health and private charity in Northeast China, 1905-1945,” Frontiers of History in China, (4) 506-533
  • “Chinese folk rituals” in eds. Bryan Turner and Oscar Salemink, Handbook of Asian Religions (Routledge), 209-218
  • “Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: recent Chinese scholarship on the meaning and future of religion.” Chi Zhen and Thomas DuBois, Introduction to Lü Daji and Gong Xuezeng, eds. Religious Studies and Marxist Approaches to Religions in China, trans. Chi Zhen, Volume 4 of “Selected Research on Modern Chinese Religions” series (Brill), 1-20

2011

  • “The salvation of religion? Public charity and the new religions of the early Republic,” Minsu quyi, 172, June, 73-126
  • Introduction to Ma Xisha and Meng Huiying, ed. Folk Religions and Shamanism. Volume 1 of “Selected Research on Modern Chinese Religions” series. Part 1 tr. Chi Zhen and Thomas DuBois (Brill): 1-18

2010

  • 从局外人到局内人：一个历史学家眼中的乡村调查 [From outsider to insider: a historian’s view of rural fieldwork], 《中国社会科学报》2010年
  • “Inauthentic sovereignty: Law and legal institutions in Manchukuo,” Journal of Asian Studies, 69, 3 August, 749-770
  • “Religion and the Chinese State: Three Crises and a Solution,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64 (3): 344-358

2009

  • ——地方文化中的宗教知識 [Spirits, sects and xiangtou – Religious knowledge in local culture],《民俗研究》4期，2009年
  • “The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia – paradigmatic change in regional perspective” (Book introduction) in ed. DuBois, Casting Faiths, 1-19
  • “Japanese media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Shengjing Times, 1907-1944” in ed. DuBois, Casting Faiths, 217-238

2008

  • “Manchukuo’s filial sons: States, sects and the transformation of graveside piety,” East Asian History, Vol. 35,
    • Revised as 杜博思：滿洲國’的孝子:國家,宗教,以及守墓行為的適應性演變《民俗研究》3期, 2010年

2006

  • “Rule of Law in a Brave New Empire: Legal Rhetoric and Practice in Manchukuo,” Law and History Review, Vol. 26: 2: 285-317
  • “Local religion and the cultural imaginary: the development of Japanese ethnography in occupied Manchuria,” American Historical Review, Vol. 111: 1, February, 52-74
    • Revised as 杜博思：思想之帝国：满洲民俗学与亚洲社会科学的长期变迁《民俗研究》2012年

2005

  • “Imperialism, Hegemony and the Construction of Religion in East and Southeast Asia” History & Theory, Vol. 44 (4), December, 113-131

2004

  • “Village Community and the Reconstruction of Religious Life in Rural North China” in Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field ed. John Lagerwey, (Ecole Français d’Extrême-Orient and Chinese University of Hong Kong Press), 837-868