* _Leaving Shenzhen_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 2021)
* _The Story of Xi (西西的故事)_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 2011)
* _When the Purple Mountain Burns_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 2005)
noveller
* _Eating Bitter:Journeys Across China's Great Famine_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 2019)
* _America is in the Heart_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 2005)
* _Lilla er hjertets farve:historier om tab, tro og håb_ (Hanover Square, 2002)
* _Mothers on the Road:Chinese Adoption Stories_ (Hanover Square, 2001)
* _This Other Earth_ (W. W. Norton &Company, 1998)
Erindringer
* _My China:Through the Eyes of a Chinese Born American_ (Atria Books, 2013)
Faglitteratur
* _Kinas store hungersnød:A History of the Most Devastating Famine of the Twentieth Century_ (Grundbøger, 2016)