| China's second revolution: Reform after Mao H Harding Brookings Institution Press, 2010 | 808 | 2010 |
| A fragile relationship: The United States and China since 1972 H Harding Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 | 547 | 2000 |
| Organizing China: the problem of bureaucracy, 1949-1976 H Harding Stanford University Press, 1981 | 470 | 1981 |
| The concept of “Greater China”: Themes, variations and reservations H Harding The China Quarterly 136, 660-686, 1993 | 371 | 1993 |
| China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s H Harding (No Title), 1984 | 148 | 1984 |
| The India-China relationship: what the United States needs to know FR Frankel, H Harding (No Title), 2004 | 120 | 2004 |
| The study of Chinese politics: toward a third generation of scholarship H Harding World Politics 36 (2), 284-307, 1984 | 101 | 1984 |
| From China, with disdain: New trends in the study of China H Harding Asian Survey 22 (10), 934-958, 1982 | 97 | 1982 |
| The Chinese state in crisis H Harding The Cambridge History of China 15 (Part 2), 209-210, 1991 | 90 | 1991 |
| The Chinese state in crisis, 1966-9 H Harding The politics of China: The eras of Mao and Deng, 148-247, 1997 | 88 | 1997 |
| Has U.S. China Policy Failed? H Harding Washington Quarterly 38 (3), 95-122, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
| Sino-American relations, 1945-1955: a joint reassessment of a critical decade H Harding, M Yüan (No Title), 1989 | 83 | 1989 |
| China's co-operative behaviour H Harding Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, 375-400, 1994 | 59 | 1994 |
| China's Changing roles in the Contemporary World H Harding China’s Foreign Relations in the 1980s 187, 1984 | 51 | 1984 |
| Political development in post-Mao China H Harding Modernizing China, 13-37, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Asia policy to the brink H Harding Foreign Policy, 57-74, 1994 | 47 | 1994 |
| The contemporary study of Chinese politics: an introduction H Harding The China Quarterly 139, 699-703, 1994 | 44 | 1994 |
| The evolution of American scholarship on contemporary China H Harding American studies of contemporary China, 14-40, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| The halting advance of pluralism H Harding J. Democracy 9, 11, 1998 | 38 | 1998 |
| The Evolution of the Strategic Triangle: China, India, and the United States H Harding The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know, 321-350, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
