Feng shui
In 2008, he completed the "Guide to the Feng Shui Compass", the most detailed study of the rings of the Chinese "luopan" in any language. A review of this book in a recent sinological academic journal, the reviewer stated "Stephen Skinner is probably the most important Western scholar taking the science of Feng shui seriously. In the past few decades he has made important contributions to clarifying the rather vague image from which Feng shui suffers in the West". This was followed by the publication of "Feng Shui History: the story of Classical Feng Shui in China and the West from 221 BC to 2012 AD" in 2013.