"Holy Mothers of Ancient China: A New Approach to the Hsi-wang-mu 西王母 Problem." T'oung PaoSecond Series 74 (1988): 1-46. Abstract
"Ibn 'Arabi's Polished Mirror: Perspective Shift and Meaning Event." Studia Islamica (1988): 121-149.
"Li and yi as Immanent: Chu Hsi's Thought in Practical Perspective." Philosophy East and West 38 (1988): 30-46.
"The Logic of Coprophilia: Mathematics and Beckett's "Molloy"." SubStance 17 (1988): 13-21.
"The Miao and Poison: Interactions on China's Southwest Frontier." Ethnology 27 (1988): 1-25.
""Mirror of Auras": Chen Tuan on Physiognomy." Asian Folklore Studies 47 (1988): 215-256.
"New Light on Ancient Chinese Military Texts: Notes on Their Nature and Evolution, and the Development of Military Specialization in Warring States China." T'oung PaoSecond Series 74 (1988): 211-248. Abstract
"Review: A Review of "Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology"." Philosophy East and West 38 (1988): 68-76.
"Review: May Fourth Intellectuals and Chinese Folk Literature." Asian Folklore Studies 47 (1988): 153-161.
"中国道教史." 四川人民出版社 (1988).
"天・神・人." 國际文化出版公司 (1988).
"道教基础知识." 四川大学出版社 (1988).
"道教文化新探." 四川人民出版社 (1988).
"道教气功养生学." 四川省新华书店经销 (1988).
"道教研究论文集." 中文大学出版社香港 (1988).
"魏晋南北朝时期的道教." 陕西师范大学出版社,西安 (1988).
"1987 Presidential Address: Visual Arts and Religion: Modern and Contemporary Contours." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56 (1988): 199-212.
"Eroticism and Gastrosophy." Daedalus 117 (1988).
"Multiplicity and Pluralism in Anthropological Construction/Synthesis." Anthropological Quarterly 61 (1988): 103-112. Abstract
"Review: Not Quite Coming to Terms." Science Fiction Studies 15 (1988): 234-236.
"Two Epistemological Models for the Interpretation of Mysticism." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 56 (1988): 257-279.
"Religiosity among Indochinese Refugees in Utah." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27 (1988): 272-283. Abstract
"Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: "Postmodernism" and the Social Reproduction of Texts." Current Anthropology 29 (1988): 405-435.
"Teaching Morality in Taiwan Schools: The Message of the Textbooks." The China Quarterly (1988): 267-284.
"Squares and Circles: Mapping the History of Chinese Thought." Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (1988): 47-60.
"The Modernity of Power in the Chinese Socialist Order." Cultural Anthropology 3 (1988): 408-427.
"A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 42 (1988): 32-50.
"Contemporary Moral Cultures and "The Return of the Sacred"." Sociological Analysis 49 (1988): 203-216. Abstract
"Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States: 1987." The Modern Language Journal 72 (1988): 304-317.
"Shang Divination and Metaphysics." Philosophy East and West 38 (1988): 367-397.
"Speaking of Many Things: Food, Kings, and the National Tradition in Ah Cheng's "The Chess King"." Modern China 14 (1988): 388-418.
"Tao and the Myth of Intrinsic Value." Financial Analysts Journal 44 (1988): 8-9.
"The Dialectical Logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue." The American Political Science Review 82 (1988): 805-820. Abstract
"The Synergistic Effects of Reductionist and Holistic Approaches in Animal Ecology." Oikos 53 (1988): 278-281. Abstract
"The Use of a Novel to Discuss Vietnamese Refugee Experiences." The English Journal 77 (1988): 40-44.
"The Tao of Whole Language." Emergency Librarian 17, no. 2 (1989): 9-10,12,14-15. Abstract
"The Little-Lad Deity and the Dragon Princess. Jesus in a New World-Renewal Movement." Monumenta Nipponica 44 (1989): 31-44.
"Review: Two Philosophical Dictionaries: A Review of "Chinese Philosophical Terms" and "Neo-Confucian Terms Explained"." Philosophy East and West 39 (1989): 203-210.
"Roundtable Discussion: If God Is God She Is Not Nice." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 5 (1989).
"Toward a Theory of Intellectual Change: The Social Causes of Philosophies." ScienceTechnology{&} Human Values 14 (1989): 107-140. Abstract
"Buddhist Allegory in the Journey to the West." The Journal of Asian Studies 48 (1989): 512-524. Abstract
"Chinese Hierarchy in Comparative Perspective." The Journal of Asian Studies 48 (1989): 490-511. Abstract
"Religion and Chinese Culture: Toward an Assessment of "Popular Religion"." History of Religions 29 (1989): 35-57.
"Mencius' Prescriptions for Ancient Chinese Environmental Problems." Environmental Review: ER 13 (1989): 15-27.
"A Ming Landscape: Settlement, Land Use, Labor, and Estheticism in T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 49 (1989): 295-364.
