Although I have published almost 30 monographs and over 300 scholarly articles and book chaptes, the following is a selection from 2015 to 2026.
Monographs
2023. Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance: Singapore: Springer. This book is the culmination of a ten-year research project, which also includes the two books that follow. Information on the book may be found here, and you may download a synopsis of the book here.
2021. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners. Singapore: Springer. Further information here. A detailed synopsis of each chapter of the book may be downloaded here. and a longer (25,000 word) “Concise Guide” – which also includes the results of more recent research – may be downloaded here. Three book reviews are also available: download here, here, and here.
2021. Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance. Springer Briefs in Philosophy. Singapore: Springer. Information on the book may be found here. A detailed synopsis of each chapter of the book may be downloaded here.
In relation to the Engels’s book, I have also attached a text (here) that was originally an appendix relating to the chapter on the abolition or dying away of the state. The text attached is a detailed analysis of the terminology used by Engels and Marx in the 1840s in relation to the state, finding that they did not advocate such an abolition.
2019 Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition. Studies in Critical Research on Religion. Leiden: Brill. More information here.
2017 Time of Troubles: A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity. Co-authored with Christina Petterson. Minneapolis: Fortress (252 pp.). More information here.
2017 Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power. Beijing: Springer (262 pp.). Publisher’s details here, and further information here.
2015 The rd Economy of Ancient Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox (328 pp.). More information here.
Book Chapters
2024 ‘How “Western Marxism” Was Born and How It Died’. Translation with Christina Petterson of chapter by Domenico Losurdo. In Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, and How It Can Be Reborn, by Domenico Losurdo. New York: Monthly Review Press, pp. 235-263+294-298. Download here.
2023 ‘The Philosophical Economist: The Contribution of Cheng Enfu’. In Innovative Marxist School in China: Comments by International Scholars on Cheng Enfu’s Academic Thoughts. Eds. John Bellamy Foster, Gennady Zyuganov, Tony Andréani, Hiroshi Onishi, Alan Freeman, and Nguyen Minh Hoan. Berlin: Canut International Publishers, pp. 367-90. Download here.
2023 ‘Production and Allocation in Ancient Southwest Asian Economics.’ Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East. Ed. Matthew Coomber. Eugene: Cascade, pp. 44-74. Download here.
2023 ‘Economic Relationships Found in the Worlds of the Bible.’ Economics and Empire in the Ancient Near East. Ed. Matthew Coomber. Eugene: Cascade, pp. 75-107. Download here.
2022 ‘Mandate for Revolution? Reconsidering Chinese Peasant Rebellions in Terms of Changing One’s Destiny’. Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements. Eds. Warren Goldstein and Jean-Pierre Reed. London: Routledge, pp. 40-52. More information here.
2022 ‘China’. The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures. Eds. Peter Marks, Fáa Vieira and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer), pp. 617-28.
2021 ‘Hugo ius: On Freedom of the Seas and Human Nature’. Christianity and International Law: An Introduction. Eds. Pamela Slotte and John Haskell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 139-52. More information here.
2021 ‘Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)’. Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Eds. Alex Callinicothis Kouvelakis, and Lucia Pradella. London: Routledge, pp. 41-48. Download here.
2019 ‘The State and Minority Nationalities (Ethnic Groups) in China’. In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Ed. Steven Ratuva. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer), pp. 93-107. Download here.
2019 ‘Hand of the Master: Of Slaveholders and the Slave Relation’. Co-authored with Christina Petterson. Class Struggle and the New Testament. Ed. Robert Myles. Lanham: Lexington, pp. 139-52. Download here.
2019 ‘The Christian State’. Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Eds. Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis and Imre Szeman. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 107-19. Download here.
2017 《社会主义 矛盾论新探》 (A New Probe Into the Theory of Socialist Contradictions). 《启蒙、历史观与马克思主义辩证法》 (Enlightenment, Historical View and Marxist Dialectics). Guizhou: Guizhou renmin chubanshe, pp. 140-56. Download Chinese version here, and English translation here.
2017 《马克思主义中的一股“暖流”》 (A “Warm Current” in the Midst of Marxism). 《启蒙、历史观与马克思主义辩证法》 (Enlightenment, Historical View and Marxist Dialectics). Guizhou: Guizhou renmin chubanshe, pp. 16-27. Download Chinese version here, and English translation here.
Journal Articles
2025 《推陈出新：论“两个结合”对西方的启示》(Bring Forth the New Through the Old: What the West can Learn from China’s “Two Integrations”)《世界汉学》(World Sinology) 18 (2025): 1-11. Chinese version here. English version here.
2025 与臧峰宇对话《文明发展的历史逻辑与人类文明新形态》(The Historical Logic of the Development of Civilisation and a New Form of Human Civilisation)《国家现代化建设研究》2025年第4期，18-34页。Download here. Bilingual version here.
2025 与臧峰宇对话《中国马克思主义哲学发展的实践逻辑》 (The Practical Logic of the Development of Marxist Philosophy in China) 《科学˙经济˙社会》2025年第1期，26-40页。Download here. Bilingual version here.
2025 ‘“Religion” in a Time of Qualitative Change.” Critical Research on Religion 2025: 1-12. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20503032251314472. Download here.
2024 与臧峰宇对话《中国式现代化的哲学内涵与文化底蕴》(The Philosophical and Cultural Connotations of Chinese-style Modernisation) 《当代中国马克思主义研究》2023年第3期，66-76页. Download here.
2024 ‘A New Socioeconomic Formation? – Philosophical Reflections on China’s ‘New Projectment Economy’. World Marxist Review 1.1: 77-98. https://dx.doi.org/10.62834/rdgm2d20. Download at http://www.worldmarxistreview.org and here. Translated into Portuguese as: “Uma nova formação socioeconômica? Reflexões filosóficas sobre a “nova economia do projetamento” da China.” Revista Principíos 172 (January-April 2025): 9-35. https://doi.org/10.14295/principios.2675-6609.2025.172.002.
2024 《“两个结合”与中国特色社会主义文化发展》 (和臧峰宇对话) (‘“The Two Integrations” and the Development of Socialist Culture with Chinese Characteristics’ (dialogue with Zang Fengyu), 《马克思主义哲学》(Marxist Philosophy) 2024年第4期, 6-16页. Download here.
2024 ‘The Chinese Reception of Western Marxism: From Wary Onlookers to Confident Participants on the World Stage’. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 17:1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-023-00389-7. Download here.
2024 ‘Abstract or Concrete Utopia? Concerning the Ideal Society in Chinese Philosophy and Culture’. Religions 15.55: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010055. Website: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/55. Download here.
2023 《中国社会主义民主：一种重要的民主形式》 (China’s Socialist Democracy: A Very Important Form of Democracy)《人民论坛》(People’s Forum) 2023.06: 49-51. 译 禚明亮 (translated by Zhuo Mingliang). Download here.
2023 ‘A Truncated Marxism: On the Ideological Structure of Western Marxism’. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Online publication February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-023-00366-0. An online version of the article may be found by clicking on the link here.
2023 ‘Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate’. New Political Economy 28.1: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926958. Download here.
2023 《论马克思主义辩证思维和整体思维与中华优秀传统文化的高度契合性》（On the High Compatibility of Marxist Dialectical and Comprehensive Thinking with the Best of China’s Traditional Culture）《世界社会主义研究》(World Socialism Studies) 2023年第7期，84-93+116页. Download Chinese version here, and English version here.
2023 ‘Inner Transcendence and “Beyond”: The Debate in Chinese Philosophy’. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 7.1: 83-102. Download here.
2023 ‘The End of Western Marxism? The Unravelling of an Ideological Structure’. Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Online publication March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-023-00369-x. Download here.
2022 ‘Socialism, Communism, and Concrete Marxism’. Co-authored with Antonis Balasopoulos. International Critical Thought. More information here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2022.2135124. Download here.
2022 ‘Freiheit und Demokratie aus chinesischer Sicht’.Marxistische Blätter 4 (2022): 54-63. Download here.
2022 ‘The Concrete Conditions of Human Rights: Western and Chinese Approaches’. International Critical Thought 12.2: 237-52. Download here.
2022 ‘From Belgrade to Beijing: Comparing Socialist Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and China’. World Review of Political Economy 12.3: 296-320. Online version here, and download here.
2021. ‘Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debates’. New Political Economy. 28.1: 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1926958. Download here.
2022 ‘Motion, Matter and Dialectics: From Marx’s Doctoral Thesis to Engels’s Dialectics of Nature’. Science and Society 86.3: 389-408. Download here.
2021. ‘Not Some Other -ism’ – On Some Western Marxist Misrepresentations of Chinese Socialism’. Co-authored with Yan Ping. International Critical Thought 11.2: 171-189. Download here.
2021 《马克思主义关于社会主义治理理论的前史——马克思、恩格斯与苏联》 (The Prehistory of the Marxist Theory of Socialist Governance: Marx, Engels, and the Soviet Union) 《当代中国价值观研究》 (Chinese Journal of Contemporary Values) 2021.1: 41-49. Translated by Zhang Chao and Song Liang. Download published Chinese version here, and unformatted English version here.
2021 ‘Domenico Losurdo in Cina: uno sguardo sulla situazione della formazione marxista e del PCC’ (Domenico Losurdo in China: An Insight Into the State of Marxist Education and the CPC). Materialismo Storico. Rivista di filosofia, storia e scienze umane 10.1: 118-43. Online version of the whole issue here, download article here.
2020. ‘Seeking a Xiaokang Society: Deng Xiaoping and the Reinterpretation of the Confucian Tradition in Chinese Marxism’. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 4.1: 181-200. Download here.
2020. 《全面建成小康社会的观念资源与现实探索》 (The Conceptual Resources and Realistic Exploration of Building a Moderately Well-off Society in All Respects). 《当代中国价值观研究》 (Chinese Journal of Contemporary Values) 2020.01: 5-14. Co-authored with Zang Fengyu. Download Chinese version here, and unformatted Chinese-English bilingual version here.
2020 《从伯尔尼到延安：列宁和毛泽东的理论突破》 (From Berne to Yan’an: Lenin and Mao Zedong’s Theoretical Breakthroughs). 《中国延安干部学院学报》 (Journal of China Executive Leadership Academy) 13.3: 35-43 + 85. Download Chinese here. English version published in Crisis and Critique 4.2: 60-84. Download English here.
2019 ‘Those Feet in Ancient Times: From Slave to Land (via Allegory)’. Co-authored with Christina Petterson. Annali del storia dell’ exegesi 36.1: 55-74. Download here.
2019 《人类命运共同体的理论内涵与现实价值》 (The Theoretical Meaning and Real Value of the Community of Common Destiny for Humankind). Co-authored with Zang Fengyu. 《中央社会主义学院学报》 (Journal of the Central Institute of Socialism) 2019.4: 9-17. Download Chinese version here.
2019 ‘Marx’s Ambivalence: State, Proletarian Dictatorship and Commune’. International Critical Thought 9.1: 109-27. Download here.
2018 ‘Civil Society or Bourgeois Society? An Alternative History, from Hegel to Losurdo’. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 2.4: 5-32 Download here.
2018 ‘Blochs “Ungleichzeitigkeit” und die Widersprüche des chinesischen Sozialismus’. Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 325: 54-64. Download here.
2017 ‘Stalin’s Biblical Hermeneutics: From 2 Thessalonians 3 to Acts 4’. Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 4.1: 71-89. Download here.
2017 《马克思主义“暖流”与中国化马克思主义》 (Marxism’s ‘Warm Stream’ Within Chinese Marxism). 《社会科学季刊》 (Social Sciences Quarterly) 2017.3: 22-31. Chinese version here, and English version here.
2017 ‘After October: Towards a Theory of the Socialist State’. International Critical Thought 7.3: 309-26. Download here.
2016 ‘Marxism, Religion and the Taiping Revolution’. Historical Materialism 24.2: 3-24. Download here.
2016 ‘Concerning the “Warm Stream” within Marxism’. International Critical Thought 6.1: 13-28. Download here.
2016 ‘Chinese Christian Communism in the Early Twentieth Century’ (with Chin Kenpa). Religion, State and Society 44.2: 96-110. Download here.
2016 《庄园制与村社制： 论古代以色列神圣经济》 (Estates and Village Communes: On the Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel) 《圣经文学研究》 (Journal for the Study of Biblical Literature) 13: 1-14. Translated by Hou Linmei. Download Chinese published version here, and unformatted English version here.
2016 《谁之危机？—对古代西南亚历史范型的再思考》 (Crisis for Whom? Reconsidering Historical Models of Ancient Southwest Asia). 《圣经文学研究》 (Journal for the Study of Biblical Literature) 12: 45-61. Translated into Chinese by He Guijian. Download Chinese version here, and unformatted English version here.
2015 《西方马克思主义圣经研究方法》 (Western Marxist Approaches to the Bible). 《圣经文学研究》 (Journal for the Study of Biblical Literature) 10: 122-36. Translated into Chinese by Li Panpan. Download Chinese version here, and unformatted English version here.
2015 《圣经之于马克思主义的永恒魅力》 (The Perpetual Allure of the Bible for Marxism). 《圣经文学研究》 (Journal for the Study of Biblical Literature) 11: 1-27. Translated by Hou Linmei. Download Chinese version here, and English version here.
2015 ‘Between Vulgar and Ruptural Dialectics: Reassessing Lenin on Hegel’. International Critical Thought 5.1: 52-66. Download here.
Interviews, Panels, and Newspaper and Magazine Articles
2025 《书山有路——习近平总书记的书单》第三季（一）关于费尔巴哈的提纲》(A Path Through a Mountain of Books: The Reading Life of General Secretary Xi Jinping)导演：陈子娴(Director: Chen Zixian)，主播：朱大吉(Anchor: Zhu Daji).北京广播电视台(Beijing Radio and Television), 2025年12月25日，21:15. https://item.btime.com/40qimsfhmtb8e3p9vf7goftuea2.
2025 《我想要理解中国的马克思主义》 (I want to Understand Chinese Marxism). 《海峡通讯》(The Straits Dispatch) 2025年3月26日。https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/INRW8Rud3fZdQa9JnbuSMA, https://news.ruc.edu.cn/news/media/105315.html. Download here. English version here.
2025 《与中国同行：一位“年轻老人”的思考》 (Walking with China: Reflections from a “Young Old Person.”)译
/张佳艺 (Translator: Zhang Jiayi). 《国际人才交流》 (International Talent) 2025 (1): 44-49. Download here.
2025. 《“两个结合”的辩证思想对当今世界有何启示？》(What is the Inspiration of the “Two Integrations” for the World Today?) 中国新闻社 China News Service 2025年3月23日. www.chinanews.com.cn/dxw/2025/03-23/10387805.shtml, https://news.ruc.edu.cn/news/media/105187.html. Download here.
2025 《”两个结合”具有彻底的辩证性》 （The “Two Integrations” Are Thoroughly Dialectical）《中国社会科学报》(Chinese Social Sciences Today) 2025.01.10. http://sscp.cssn.cn/xkpd/gj/202501/t20250110_5833062.html. Download here.
2025 《汉学家薄国强：在骑行中感知文化中国》 (Sinologist Roland Boer: Gaining a Sense of Cultural China while Bicycle Riding). 记者：薄雯雯 (Journalist: Bo Wenwen). 中国新闻社 (China News Service), 2025年10月1日. https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zw/10492884.shtml. Download here.
2024 《⼀名澳⼤利亚汉学家的“滚⽯”⽣活》 (An Australian Sinologist’s Life as a “Rolling Stone”). 记者：曾玥 (Interviewed by Zeng Yue). 中国新闻网 (China News Service), 29 October 2024, 22:17:10. https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zw/10310260.shtml. Download the Chinese version of the interview here.
2024 《澳⼤利亚汉学家薄国强：为什么中国的⻢克思主义更吸引我？》(Australian Sinologist Roland Boer: Why Does Chinese Marxism Fascinate Me?) 记者：赵慧颖(Interviewed by Zhao Huiying)，中国新闻发布, 2024年11⽉18⽇ 09:23. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jBg97GGL11_fZpvREZxOyQ. Download the Chinese version here. An unpublished English version may be found here.
2024 ‘Decoding Chinese Philosophy Through Eastern and Western Lenses’. CGTN The Point: Global Thinkers. Hosted by Liu Xin. 6 April 2024. https://www.cgtn.com/tv/replay?id=BbdbAAA, also https://youtu.be/s6Pp_1lT7TE?si=RNiYaEIACw_Cr-R8, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Pp_1lT7TE&list=PLt-M8o1W_GdSNhViAVk4Fq8IItW8PHBVf.
2024 ‘Come Sip Tea: A Debate Across Time and Space’. CGTN The Point: Global Thinkers. Hosted by Liu Xin. 4 April 2024. https://www.cgtn.com/tv/replay?id=BbdACcA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rnjqyVVhJc&list=PLt-M8o1W_GdSNhViAVk4Fq8IItW8PHBVf&index=3.
2024 ‘All Things Chinese: Exploring China Through a Western Scholar’s Eyes’. CGTN “The Point” Exclusive interview with Liu Xin, 25 March 2024. https://www.cgtn.com/tv/replay?id=BbJGBEA. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5rfFG4Wvas.
2024 ‘On Socialist Democracy: The Third International Forum on Democracy in Beijing’. CGTN Radio, 20 March 2024. Interviewed by Xu Yawen. https://radio.cgtn.com/podcast/news/1/Deepening-rift-between-Biden-and-Netanyahu/473200. Podcast video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDYxA_nvwE.
2024 《薄国强：东西方文化如何更好地理解彼此？》 (How Can Eastern and Western Cultures Better Understand One Another?) 东西问：武夷论坛 (W.E. Talk, Wuyi Forum). 记者：曾玥 (Interviewed by Zeng Yue). 中国新闻网 (China News Service), 23 March 2024, 19:58:07. https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/chs/zwsp/10185656.shtml. Download here.
2023 《中国共产党和国家事业发展的指路明灯》 (The Guiding Light for the Communist Party of China and the Cause of National Development). 《中国社会科学报》 2023年9月4日，第3页 (Chinese Social Sciences Today, 4 September 2023, p. 3). 《中国社会科学网》: https://www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/202309/t20230904_5683002.shtml. Download the Chinese version here, and the English version here.
2023 ‘72nd Xizang Liberation Anniversary’. Interviewed by CGTN’s Xu Qinduo on his “Dialogue” Television show. 24 May, 2023. https://www.cgtn.com/tv/replay?id=BEFGcEA.
2021 ‘LegifFührungsposition. Historische Leistungen, Basisdemokratie und Volkskongresse garantieren die Rechtmäßigkeit der Regierung der KP Chinas’. Junge Welt 154: 4-5 (07.07.2021). Download here.
2016 《矛盾论与马克思主义哲学中国化》 (On Contradiction in Chinese Marxist Philosophy. 《马克思主义月刊》 (Marxist Studies Monthly), 26 May, p. 3. http://ex.cssn.cn/sf/bwsf_ml/201605/t20160526_3023982.shtml. Download here.
Roland Theodore Boer 薄国强 