Books and scholarly catalogues:

• Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, editor and contributor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001.
• Perspectives on Heritage of the Brush, editor and contributor. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1997.
• Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism (exhibition catalogue), editor and primary author. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
• Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting, editor and contributor. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists, 1300-1912 (exhibition catalogue), editor and primary author. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, and New York: Rizzoli, 1988.

Recent articles:

• "Only Fit for the Monks' Quarters," forthcoming in Ars Orientalis in 2009
•  “Picturing Monks as Connoisseurs and Monasteries as Sites of Aesthetic Engagement,” forthcoming in Georges Bloch Jahrbuch, Institute of Art History, Zurich University (festschrift for Dr. Helmut Brinker).
• "A Vaishravana Thangka from the Ming Dynasty," Orientations, (Nov/Dec. 2008): 92-99.
• “Portraits and Personalities in the Temples of Ming Beijing: Responses to Portraits of the Monk Daoyan,” in The History of Painting in East Asia: Essays on Scholarly Method (Taipei: Rock Publishing International, 2008), 224-42.
• “Sino-Tibetan Thangkas of the Chenghua and Zhengde Periods in Western Collections,” in Palace Museum Journal (October 2007), 78-97; Selected from the Third International Conference on Tibetan Archaeology & Arts papers, Beijing, 2006.  Revised version in English forthcoming in Artibus Asiae in 2009.
• “Two Ming Ritual Scrolls as Harbingers of New Directions in the Study of Chinese Painting,” Orientations (Jan/Feb. 2005), 64-73
• “Images of the Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva and the Wanli Empress Dowager,” Chungguksa yongu (The Journal of Chinese Historical Researches) no. 35 (April 30, 2005), 245-278.

Recent papers and lectures

• October 2008 "Viewing Paintings in Buddhist Monasteries: Episodes from the Ming and Qing Dynasties," for "Beyond Boundaries: International Symposium on Chinese and Korean Painting," a conference to be held at the National Museum of Korea, Seoul.
• May 2008,  “Alternate Realities in Pyongyang,” Honolulu Academy of Art
• May 2008  “East Meets West: Qing Court Taste and European Style,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
• April 2007 “A Monk at the Party,” for “Returning to the Shore: A Scholarly Symposium in Honor of James Cahill's 80th Year,” University of California at Berkeley.
• Sept. 2007 “Tangkas for the Ming Court,” Vanderbilt University
• Dec. 2006 “Thangkas for the Ming Court,” Princeton University.
• Dec. 2006 "Only Suitable for the Monks' Quarters," for the “New Directions in Yuan Painting” conference at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
• Feb. 2006  “Early and Mid-Ming Dynasty Painting, Gardens, and Temples” for the Asian Art Society of San Francisco.
• Oct. 2006  "Mid-Ming Sino-Tibetan Thangkas in Western Collections," for the Third International Conference on Tibetan Archaeology & Arts, in Beijing, China.
• Nov 2005 "Art in the Abbot's Quarters: Picturing Monks as Collectors and Connoisseurs," Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.
• May 2005 "Korean Taste, Korean Tradition,"Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
• April 2005 “The Wanli Empress Dowager as Patron and Bodhisattva,” University of Washington.
• March 4, 2005 “The Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva on Silk, Stone, and Paper,” annual meeting of The Association for Asian Studies.
• Oct. 4, 2004  “A Proposed Exhibition of Ming-Qing and Joseon Buddhist Painting,” ICOM (International Committee on Museums) meeting in Seoul, Korea.
• Oct. 9, 2004 “Images of the Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva and the Wanli Empress Dowager,” “Chinese History Through Art,” an international conference at Yeungnam University in Korea.
• Oct. 4, 2004  “A Proposed Exhibition of Ming-Qing and Joseon Buddhist Painting,” ICOM (International Committee on Museums) meeting in Seoul, Korea.