"Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937" (1995), which details the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Nationalist rule of Chiang Kai-shek, and "Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service" (2004), about Chiang's head of intelligence in the 1930s and '40s.
His most respected work was "The Great Enterprise," which displayed technical prowess, particularly in his translations of classical poetry, and a novelist's sensibility.
from Los Angeles Times: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., 68; Historian Was Expert on China
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