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The Lyrical and the Epic: Studies of Modern Chinese Literature. Jaroslav Prusek, edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. ISBN 0253102839
Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN 0253362636
Land without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Present. Translated and edited by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0520052566
Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780674805518
An Intellectual History of Modern China, Edited by Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-fan Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521801206
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City between Worlds: My Hong Kong. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780674027015
Musings: Reading Hong Kong, China and the World. Hong Kong: Muse Books/East Slope Publishing, 2011. ISBN 9789881500502