2013. An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-āgama: The Fenbie gongde lun 分別功德論 and the History of the Translation of the Zengyi ahan jing 增一阿含經. Taipei: Fagu Wenhua.
Reviewed by Tse-Fu Kuan, Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, no. 2 (2017): 444-448; Liyu Hua, Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient 103 (2017): 565-569.
Articles
2021. "The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China's Late Antiquity." History of Religions (Special Issue: Anticlericalism Beyond the Christian context: Western Theory in Chinese Religious Practice) 61, no. 1: 30-86.
2017. "Exemption not Granted: The Confrontation between Buddhism and the Chinese State in Late Antiquity and the 'First Great Divergence' between china and Western Eurasia." Medieval Worlds 6: 118-155.
2015. "From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang: The Rhetoric of Imperial Conversion and the Divisive Emergence of Religious Identities in Late Antique Eurasia." In Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010, edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou, Neil McLynn and Daniel Schwartz, 95-122. Farnham: Ashgate.
2012. "Models of Buddhist Kingship in Early Medieval China." In Zhonggu shidai de liyi, zongjiao yu zhidu 中古時代的禮儀、宗教與制度, edited by Yu Xin 余欣, 287-338. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe 上海古籍出版社.
2011. "Il Buddhismo dall'Asia Centrale alla Cina." In A Oriente: Città, uomini e dei sulle Vie della Seta, edited by Francesco D'Arelli and Pierfrancesco Callieri, 74-77. Milano: Mondadori Electa.
2008b. "La dottrina manicheao nel «Compendio» di Dunhuang." In Il Manicheismo, Volume III. Il mito e la dottrina: testi manichei dell'Asia e della Cina, edited by Gherardo Gnoli, 337-346. Milano: Fondazione Valla - Mondadori.
2008a. "Il rotolo maniceo di Pechino." In Il Manicheismo, Volume III. Il mito e la dottrina: testi manichei dell'Asia Centrale e della Cina, edited by Gherardo Gnoli, 293-336, 498-534. Milano: Fondazione Valla - Mondadori.
2007. "The Mystery of the Precious Seal of the Ruler and the Origins of Printing." Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 7, no. 1: 115-130.
Co-authored with T. H. Barrett.
2003c. "Mani in Cina." In Il Manicheismo, Volume I. Mani e il Manicheismo, edited by Gherardo Gnoli, 281-316. Milano: Fondazione Valla - Mondadori.
2003b. "La conversione degli Uiguri al manicheishmo: la versione cinese." In Il Manicheismo, Volume I. Mani e il Manicheismo, edited by Gherardo Genoli, 249-277. Milano: Fondazione Valla - Mondadori.
2003a. "Dharmarakṣa and Kaṇṭhaka: White Horse Monasteries in Early Medieval China." In Buddhist Asia 1: Papers from the First Conference of Buddhist Studies held in Naples, May 2001, edited by Giovanni Verardi and Silvio Vita, 167-216. Kyoto: Italian School of East Studies.
1997. "On the Author and Date of the Zhenzheng lun 甄正論: An Obscure Page in the Struggle between Buddhists and Taoists in Mediaeval China." Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale - Napoli 57, no. 3-4: 305-322.
Reviews
2018. Review of Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers by N. Harry Rothschild. T'oung Pao 104, no. 5-6: 680-687.
2017. Review of The History of Chinese Buddhist Bibliography: Censorship and Transformation of the Tripiṭaka by Tanya Storch. H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews. April, 2017 (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47011).
2016. Review of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China by C. Pierce Salguero. Journal of Chinese Religions 44, no. 2: 201-204.
2003. Review of Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China by Tiziana Lippiello. Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale - Napoli 63: 260-276.