His chief publications include:
- China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Medi?val Relations as Represented in Old Chinese Records (1885)
- Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Medi?val Industry and Trade (1888)
- Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (two volumes, 1885-88)
- Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
- Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
- Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905)
- The Ancient History of China (1908)
- Chau Ju-kua, (1911) with W. W. Rockhill
- The Story of Chang K'ie'n, China's Pioneer in Western Asia (1917)