Books

Authored Books

Medical Mistrust

Healers, Heretics, and the Fight over Medicine in Germany, 1800–1914
Stanford University Press · May 2027

How the rise of modern medicine provoked enduring forms of mistrust in Germany.

From Christ to Confucius

German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860–1950
Yale University Press

A history of how encounters with Chinese Christians transformed German missionaries’ understanding of Christianity.

Edited Volumes

Uncanny Beliefs

Superstition in Modern Chinese History
Edited by Emily Baum and Albert Wu
Harvard University Asia Center · 2026

Essays on the meanings of superstition in modern China and its place in the histories of science, religion, and state power.

The Making of a World Order

Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
Edited by Albert Wu and Stephen W. Sawyer
Routledge · 2024

A global reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference and the political order that emerged after the First World War.