| In other Los Angeleses: multicentric performance art M Cheng Univ of California Press, 2002 | 103 | 2002 |
| Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-Based Art M Cheng Seagull Books -- Enactments series, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Two Notes on August Wilson: Wrestling Against History M Cheng Theater 19 (3), 70-71, 1988 | 23 | 1988 |
| Renaming Untitled Flesh: Marking the Politics of Marginality M Cheng Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 345-354, 2010 | 16* | 2010 |
| Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres eds. Cheng, Meiling and Cody, Gabrielle Routledge, 2016 | 15* | 2016 |
| Violent Capital: Zhu Yu on File M Cheng TDR/The Drama Review 49 (3), 58-77, 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| Highways, LA: Multiple communities in a heterolocus M Cheng Theatre Journal 53 (3), 429-454, 2001 | 14 | 2001 |
| Ai Weiwei: acting is believing M Cheng TDR: The Drama Review 55 (4), 7-13, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Extreme Performance and Installation from China M Cheng TheatreForum, 88-96, 2006 | 7 | 2006 |
| Dappled China: "Untamed Histories" Surrounding the China Brand M Cheng Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 11 (4), 43-55, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-Based Art M Cheng Perform, Repeat, Record: A Critical Anthology of Live Art in History, 171-186, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| De/visualizing Calligraphic Archaeology: Qiu Zhijie's Total Art M Cheng The Drama Review 53 (2), 17-34, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Sight M Cheng Images: A Reader, 263-265, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Sight M Cheng Feminist Visual Culture, 29-31, 2003 | 5 | 2003 |
| Cyborgs in Mutation: osseus labyrint's Alien Body Art M Cheng TDR/The Drama Review 45 (2), 145-168, 2001 | 5 | 2001 |
| Les Demoiselles d/LA: Sacred Naked Nature Girls'" Untitled Flesh" M Cheng TDR (1988-) 42 (2), 70-97, 1998 | 5 | 1998 |
| Catalyst, Praxis, Habitat Performative objects in Chinese time-based art M Cheng Performance Research 12 (4), 151-166, 2007 | 4 | 2007 |
| Clandestine Interventions M Cheng Public Art Review 16 (1; ISSU 31), 27-29, 2004 | 4 | 2004 |
| Down and Under, Up and Over: Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu M Cheng Performance Paradigm, 1-42, 2008 | 3 | 2008 |
| Elia Arce's performance art: Transculturation, feminism, politicized individualism M Cheng Text and Performance Quarterly 20 (2), 150-181, 2000 | 3 | 2000 |
