班教授精通英文、中文、荷兰文和威尔斯文,通晓法文、德文、意大利文和西班牙文。曾以多种语文撰写有关中国近代史论文,并刊登于西方学术期刊和书章中。他对中国共产党史、革命史、红军史、中国托洛斯基派人物如陈独秀、郑超麟和王西凡等人及欧洲华人有深入研究。主要的英文著作有“Mountain fires : the Red Army's three-year war in South China”(《遍山战火》,Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992)、“Wild lily, Prairie fire : China's road to democracy, Yanan to Tiananmen, 1942-1989”(《 野百合,燎原火》,Edited by Gregor Benton and Alan Hunter,Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995) 、“New Fourth Army : Communist resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938-1941”(《新四军》,New Fourth Army : Communist resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938-1941,Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999)等;并与彭轲博士(Dr. Frank N. Pieke)合编“The Chinese in Europe”(《欧洲华人概况》),New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998),合写了该书其中一章“The Chinese in the Netherlands”(荷兰华人概况)。 |