在1984年,當貝斯在台灣當傅爾布萊特學者時,他收到中國歷史學家費正清的來函,鼓勵貝斯作有系統的中國基督教研究,而當時貝斯也真的在進行此項研究。這也令他展開中國基督教歷史研究,後來於1996年出版了《基督教在中國:十八世紀至今》 (Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present)。[5]
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Bays, Daniel H. (2016). China Enters the Twentieth Century: Chang Chih-Tung and the Issues of a New Age, 1895-1909(revised ed.). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472750184.
Bays, Daniel H.; Wacker, Grant, eds. (2010). The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817356408.
Bays, Daniel; Widmer, Ellen (2009). China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804776325.
Bays, Daniel H., ed. (1996). Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804736510.