| The political consequences of the rise of the Internet: Political beliefs and practices of Chinese netizens YW Lei Political communication in China, 31-62, 2013 | 289 | 2013 |
| The contentious public sphere: Law, media, and authoritarian rule in China YW Lei Princeton University Press, 2018 | 174 | 2018 |
| Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy YW Lei American Sociological Review 86 (2), 279-309, 2021 | 127 | 2021 |
| Freeing the Press: How Field Environment Explains Critical News Reporting in China YW Lei American Journal of Sociology 122 (1), 1-48, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Contesting legality in authoritarian contexts: food safety, rule of law and China's networked public sphere YW Lei, DX Zhou Law & Society Review 49 (3), 557-593, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Revisiting China’s Social Volcano: Attitudes toward Inequality and Political Trust in China YW Lei Socius 6, 1-21, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Upgrading China through automation: Manufacturers, workers and the techno-developmental state YW Lei Work, Employment and Society 36 (6), 1078-1096, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
| Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy YW Lei The China Quarterly, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Uncovering the Roots of the Nationwide Counterpublic Sphere in China. YW Lei | 7 | 2013 |
| What should we know about public opinion in China YW Lei The China Questions, 43-50, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Guest Editors' Introduction: Inter-Asian Capital Circulations, Cultural Transformations, and Methodological Positions KK Hoang, J Cobb, YW Lei positions: asia critique 25 (4), 633-644, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China YW Lei Princeton University Press, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Embedding Law into Politics in China's Networked Public Sphere YW Lei, DX Zhou The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, 106-128, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| Social Protest Under Hard Authoritarianism YW Lei China Leadership Monitor, 1-10, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
| China's transnational impact: an essay for ASA political sociology section newsletter YW Lei https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3626173, 2020 | 1* | 2020 |
| Automation and Augmentation: AI, Robots, and Work YW Lei, R Kim Annual Review of Sociology, 2024 | | 2024 |
| National Health Insurance, Health Policy, and Infection Control: Insights from Taiwan YW Lei Health Policy, and Infection Control: Insights from Taiwan (April 19, 2020), 2020 | | 2020 |
| Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work. YW Lei American Journal of Sociology 124 (3), 961-962, 2018 | | 2018 |
| Twin Challenges to Legitimacy: The Position of China's Informal Handset Industry Economy in the Globalized Knowledge and Information Economy Y Lei Yale Law School, JSD Dissertation, 2011 | | 2011 |
