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.