| The Poetics of Sovereignty JW Chen Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2010 | 76* | 2010 |
| Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China JW Chen, D Schaberg | 31* | 2013 |
| Blank spaces and secret histories: Questions of historiographic epistemology in medieval China JW Chen The Journal of Asian Studies 69 (4), 1071-1091, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Social Networks, Court Factions, Ghosts, and Killer Snakes: Reading Anyi Ward JW Chen Tang Studies 2011 (29), 45-61, 2011 | 21* | 2011 |
| The Shishuo xinyu as Data Visualization JW Chen, Z Borovsky, Y Kawano, R Chen Early Medieval China 20, 22-58, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| On the Act and Representation of Reading in Medieval China JW Chen Journal of the American Oriental Society 129 (1), 57-71, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| The writing of imperial poetry in medieval China JW Chen Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 57-98, 2005 | 12 | 2005 |
| Literary Information in China: A History B Rusk, A Detwyler, C Nugent, X Liu, JW Chen Columbia University Press, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Knowing Men and Being Known: Gossip and Social Networks in the Shishuo xinyu JW Chen Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China, 55-70, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Reading the Quan Tang shi: Literary History, Topic Modeling, Divergence Measures P Broadwell, JW Chen, D Shepard Digital Humanities Quarterly 13 (4), 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| On Hearing the Donkey's Bray: Friendship, Ritual, and Social Convention in Medieval China JW Chen Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu JW Chen Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Sovereignty, coinage, and kinship in early China JW Chen positions: east asia cultures critique 21 (3), 637-658, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Fictionality in Early and Medieval China SM Allen, JW Chen New Literary History 51 (1), 231-234, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Sites I (Mapping the Spaces of Chinese Literature) JW Chen The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE–900 CE), 424-437, 2017 | 3* | 2017 |
| Denying imperial bodies: Tang Taizong and the poetics of sovereignty JW Chen Harvard University, 2002 | 3 | 2002 |
| Recent Contributions to Tang Literary Studies: Networks, Gossip, and Literary History JW Chen Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 77 (1), 131-151, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
| On Sui and Tang Cities JW Chen Tang Studies 2011 (29), 2-5, 2011 | 2 | 2011 |
| CHAPTER 12 LINES, COUPLETS, AND STANZAS JW Chen Literary Information in China: A History, 119-124, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Introduction for a History of Literary Information in China JW Chen, A Detwyler, X Liu, CMB Nugent, B Rusk Literary Information in China: A History, xxi-xxxiv, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
