カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校歴史学教授。著書 The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987), Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 (University of California Press, 1996), The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture (University of California Press, 2004). 共著 Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World (Co-authored with Bonnie Smith, Marc van der Mieroop, and Kris Lane. St. Martin’s Press, 2012). 編著 The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (Co-edited with Paul Jakov Smith. Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), Monetary History in Global Perspective, 1470-1800 (Co-edited with Dennis O. Flynn & Arturo Giraldez. Ashgate Press, 2003) 『宋銭の世界』(伊原弘編、勉誠出版、2009)。