《跨域史学:近代中国与南洋华人研究的新视野》内容分新马华人史学与史观、马来亚华人社会与人物、新加坡华人社会与政治思潮等上、中、下三篇，每篇各有三章。论述新马华人近代史分期和学术研究回顾，华人移民社会领袖在多元社会的地位，华人新移民遭遇、战后劳工运动和华校学生学潮及社会变迁。 《跨域史学:近代中国与南洋华人研究的新视野》兼容传统史学论析和后现代史学论述，讨论的对象是新马地区的华人，时间范围则从十九世纪中叶近代中国移民南来浪潮开始至1965年新加坡独立和建国前夕，研究方法之创新，研究范围之深广，堪称东南亚华人研究论著之首创。

《东南亚的印度化国家》叙述了自公元初年至1511年葡萄牙人占领马六甲止的东南亚历史，考察了东南亚各国受印度文明影响这一突出特征。在世界历史研究中，这是把东南亚地区作为一个整体进行综合性研究的第一部论著，深受国际上东南亚历史学者的推崇。

The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - including Sino-Vietnamese relations, the interactions of the peoples of different regions within the country, and the various forms of government adopted by the Vietnamese throughout their history. A History of the Vietnamese is based on primary source materials, combining a comprehensive narrative with an analysis which endeavours to see the Vietnamese past through the eyes of those who lived it. Taylor questions long-standing stereotypes and cliches about Vietnam, drawing attention to sharp discontinuities in the Vietnamese past. Fluently written and accessible to all readers, this highly original contribution to the study of Southeast Asia is a landmark text for all students and scholars of Vietnam.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them?slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an ?anarchist history,? is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of ?internal colonialism.? This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott?s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.