Publications
Books, Research, and Commentary
China Aims High in Science and Technology
Chapter in Linda Jakobson (ed.), Innovation with Chinese Characteristics. High Tech Research in China
Kiinan vaikeat valinnat. Yhteiskunnallisen murroksen tiellä
China's Tough Choices. On the Path of Societal Transition
Miljoner sanninger, Tio år i Kina
Swedish edition of A Million Truths, A Decade in China
Perinteen taika. Nykyaika Kiinassa, Etelä-Koreassa ja Japanissa
The Spell of Tradition. Contemporary Life in China, South Korea and Japan
Linda Jakobson and Marja Sarvimäki
Documentary book about middle-class family attitudes and values in Beijing, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo.
A Million Truths. Ten Years in China
See Foreign Affairs review by Lucian Pye
Miljoona totuutta. Vuosikymmen Kiinassa
A Million Truths. A Decade in China
Awarded the Finnish Government Non-Fiction Publication Prize (Valtion tiedonjulkistamispalkinto) in March 1998
Mureneva muuri. Vuosi kiinalaisena
The Crumbling Wall. One Year as a Chinese
Documentary book about China. Received honorary mention by Finlandia Non-Fiction Literature Committee 1989
A New China Narrative for Australia
Together with contributors Stephen FitzGerald, Allan Gyngell, Jackson Kwok, Andrew Parker, and Michael Wesley
Is there a problem with…Australia's China narrative?
With Stephen FitzGerald
Is there a problem with…Chinese International Students?
With Bates Gill
What does China want? Xi Jinping and the path to greatness
The New Arctic Governance
Eds. with Neil Melvin
China's Arctic aspirations
With Jingchao Peng
New foreign policy actors in China
With Dean Knox
What do we do when Beijing turns up heat on Taiwan?
The Australian Financial Review 9 February 2021
McCarthyism is now rampant in Australia
John Menadue's Pearls and Irritations 26 October 2020
Australia must reshape links with China
The Australian 1 April 2017
Australia needs to focus more on China in a Donald Trump World
The Australian Financial Review 6 February 2017
Beware the China alarmists out there
The Australian 23 September 2016
Darwin port row shows Australia doesn't understand China
The Australian 19 November 2015
South China Sea: Does Xi have a grand strategy?
The Interpreter 13 January 2015
China's Xi Jinping is no superman
The Australian 31 December 2014
The propaganda war over maritime rights
The Interpreter 11 December 2014
Beijing's Arctic goals are not to be feared
Financial Times 19 May 2013
Australia's Pollyanna Asia Policy
The Wall Street Journal Asia 2 November 2012
Playing ball across the Strait
International Herald Tribune 5 March 2004
The Taiwan That Beijing Doesn't Want to See
Washington Post, Outlook March 12, 2000
China's Crisis is a Loss of Faith
Washington Post August 1, 2000