Ongoing. The China Journal Issue 55 (January 2006) onwards, co-editor with Andrew Kipnis.
2008a (ed.) with Andrew Kipnis and Jonathan Unger Chinese Politics and Society, 4 Voll. London: Routledge.
2008b 'Of Quality Harmony and Community. Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China' in Positions: East asia cultures critiques.
2008c 'Chinese Society in the Maoist era and the post-Mao transition' in Maurizio Scarpari e Guido Samarani (eds) The Chinese Civilization: from Its Origins to Contemporary Times Vol III. Torino: Einaudi.
2008d 'Gating urban spaces in China. Inclusion, Exclusion and Government' in Ola Uduku and Samer Bagaeen (eds) Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments. Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
2008e with Beibei Tang, 'The Forest City. Homeownership and New Wealth in Shenyang' Chap. 10 in David S.G. Goodman (ed.) The New Rich in China. Future Rulers, Present Lives, London: Routledge .
2007a 'Fortress China. Space and Governance in China's Proprietary Communities' (Baolei zhongguo. yezhu xiaoqu zhong de kongjian yu zhili) in He Zengke, Thomas Heberer and Gunther Schubert (eds), Citizen participation in rural and urban areas and political legitimacy (Chengxiang gongmin canyu he zhengzhi hefaxing), Beijing: Zhongyang bianyi chubanshe, pp. 285-302.
2007b 15 entries in the Dictionary of Communism edited by Robert Service and Silvio Pons, Vol. 1 and 2 Torino, Einaudi. (Chinese Communist Party, Hundred Flower Movement, 1989 Democracy Movement, Labour and Workers, Market Socialism, China-Vietnam War, China-USSR split, Mongolian Communist party, Communist Parties in Southeast Asia, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Jiang Zemin, Lin Biao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai).
2007c 'Housing disputes and collective interests in Beijing' Beijing zhufang jiufen zhong juzhu kongjian he jiti liyi de xingcheng) in Zhao Dingyang (ed.) Niandu xueshu 2007 (zhi yu luan), Beijing, Renmin Daxue chubanshe, pp. 340-354.
2006a 'Transition? Reforms, Continuity and Governmental Techniques in China' Il Politico, Vol 71 (3) pp. 54-70.
2006b 'Dominant Political discourses of China's transition'. Novecento, No. 13, pp. 97-108.
2005a 'Residential Space and Collective Interest Formation in Beijing's Housing Disputes', The China Quarterly, No. 184, December, pp. 934-951.
2005b with Lucien Bianco, Rudolf Wagner and Guido Samarani, 'China's Transition: Ideas for an Assessment. A Roundtable discussion', Passato e Presente, No. 66, pp. 15-38.
2004a 'Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing', The China Journal, No. 51, January, pp. 1-26.
2004b 'Looking Away from the Black Box: Economy and Organisation in the Formation of a Chinese Identity in Italy', in Ulf Hedetoft and Flemming Christiansen (eds) The politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and Asia, Ashgate, pp. 93-108.
2004c, 'In Mao's Hands: The Communist Party's Rise to Power, 1949-1956', Millenovecento, n. 18, April, pp. 14-29.
2004d 'The up and coming middle class', Aspenia International, No. 23-24, pp. 79-85.
2004e 'La fine del lavoro (socialista)' [The end of (socialist) labour], in 'Itinerari d'Impresa', No.4 Spring, pp.211-217.
2001 Lavoro e Societą in Cina, Milano, Franco Angeli Ed. 2001
2000 L. Tomba, 'Nelle pieghe dello stato totalitario: note su un decennio di dibattito su stato e societą in Cina', in Storia e problemi contemporanei, No. 25.
1999 'La Riforma del Mercato del Lavoro nella Cina Contemporanea: nuova legislazione del lavoro e informalizzazione', in Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Lavoro, n.1.
1999 'Paradossi locali: decentramento e controllo amministrativo nella Cina delle Provincie', in Marta Dassu' (ed) L'Asia in Rosso: la Cina e la Crisi Asiatica, Roma, Guerini e Associati.
1996 with Alberto Tassinari 'Zhejiang-Pechino, Zhejiang-Firenze: due esperienze migratorie a confronto', in La critica sociologica, No. 117.
1996 with M. Dassu' 'Il Risveglio della Cina: Sviluppo e Sicurezza alle soglie del 2000', in M. Dassu' (ed.) Pax Pacifica Il futuro della sicurezza Asiatica e le nuove Responsabilita' dell'Europa', Milan, Franco Angeli, 1997.
1996 with M. Dassł: 'La sicurezza cinese dopo la fine del bipolarismo: implicazioni globali e regionali, CeSPI Note e Ricerche n.51, Asia Monitor, Rome.
1995 'Cittą e anticittą nelle Comuni popolari Cinesi' in Passato e Presente, No. 36.
1994 'Operai in un paese di contadini: un caso di conflittualitą operaia nella Cina contemporanea', in Societą e Storia, No.63.
1993 L. Tomba (ed.) 'Se io fossi il Governo! Documenti del Movimento democratico cinese 1989, Franco Angeli, Quaderni della Fondazione Feltrinelli No 43.
1993 'Legalitą, Democrazia, Autocrazia: un dibattito interrotto' in: 'Se io fossi il Governo! Documenti del Movimento democratico cinese 1989'.
1991 with Corrado Minervini 'Le Comuni Urbane in Cina in: 'Dossier di urbanistica e cultura del territorio', Rimini, n. 15, September 1991, pp.94-109.