| Practicing kinship: Lineage and descent in late imperial China M Szonyi Stanford University Press, 2002 | 287 | 2002 |
| Cold War island: Quemoy on the front line M Szonyi Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 200 | 2008 |
| The art of being governed: Everyday politics in late imperial China M Szonyi Princeton University Press, 2018 | 138 | 2018 |
| Family lineage organization and social change in Ming and Qing Fujian Z Zheng University of Hawaii press, 2001 | 121 | 2001 |
| The illusion of standardizing the gods: the cult of the Five Emperors in late imperial China M Szonyi The Journal of Asian Studies 56 (1), 113-135, 1997 | 116 | 1997 |
| The Cold War in Asia: the battle for hearts and minds Z Yangwen, H Liu, M Szonyi Brill, 2010 | 89 | 2010 |
| Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions 1 M Szonyi Religious Rights, 165-180, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| China's leaders: the new generation L Cheng, M Szonyi International Journal 56 (3), 550, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
| The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power J Rudolph, M Szonyi | 47 | 2018 |
| Making Claims about Standardization and Orthopraxy in Late Imperial China: Rituals and Cults in the Fuzhou Region in Light of Watson’s Theories M Szonyi Modern China 33 (1), 47-71, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| The Cult of Hu Tianbao and the Eighteenth-Century Discourse of Homosexuality. M Szonyi Late Imperial China 19 (1), 1-25, 1998 | 43 | 1998 |
| Mothers, sons and lovers: Fidelity and frugality in the overseas Chinese divided family before 1949 M Szonyi Journal of Chinese Overseas 1 (1), 43-64, 2005 | 20 | 2005 |
| Introduction New Approaches To The Study Of The Cold War In Asia M Szonyi, H Liu The Cold War in Asia, 1-11, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| The virgin and the chinese state: The cult of wang yulan and the politics of local identity of jinmen (quemoy) M Szonyi Journal of Ritual Studies, 87-98, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Local Cult, Lijia, and Lineage: Religious and Social Organization in the Fuzhou Region in the Ming and Qing M Szonyi Journal of Chinese Religions 28 (1), 93-125, 2000 | 17 | 2000 |
| Ming fever: the present's past as the People's Republic turns sixty M Szonyi China Heritage Quarterly 21, 312-327, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Lineages and the making of contemporary China M Szonyi Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850-2015 (2 vols.), 433-487, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| A companion to Chinese history M Szonyi John Wiley & Sons, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| China’s changing family structure: Dimensions and implications N Eberstadt AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations MA Carrai, J Rudolph, M Szonyi Harvard University Press, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
