Books authored or edited by Department of Transnational Asian Studies faculty include:

The Emperor Jahangir: Power and Kingship in Mughal India
Lisa Balabanlilar

Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire: Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern Central Asia
Lisa Balabanlilar

The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture
Shih-shan Susan Huang

Tuxie zhenxing: Chuantong Zhongguo de daojiao shijue wenhua 图写真形:传统中国的道教视觉文化
Shih-shan Susan Huang (trans. Zhu Yiwen 祝逸雯)
(originally published as Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China, Harvard University Press, 2015)

Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China
Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang (editors)

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China
Shih-shan Susan Huang

Overlapping Cosmologies In Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington (editors)


The Japanese Empire and Latin America
Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Lu (editors)

The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961
Sidney Lu

Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion
Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis, Robert A. Thomson, and Di Di

Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Nanxiu Qian, Grace Fong, and Richard Smith (editors)

Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and Cosmopolitanism in Late Qing China
Grace Fong, Nanxiu Qian, and Harriet Zurndorfer (editors)


Language and Truth in North Korea
Sonia Ryang


Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry
Sonia Ryang

Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan
Sonia Ryang and John Lie (editors)

North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding
Sonia Ryang (editor)

Writing Selves in Diaspora: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the US
Sonia Ryang

Love in Modern Japan
Sonia Ryang

Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique
Sonia Ryang

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin
Sonia Ryang (editor)


Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance
Casey Schoenberger

Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehabuddin

Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities: Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Analyses
Ebru Kongar, Jennifer C. Olmsted, and Elora Shehabuddin (editors)

Women and Islamic Cultures: Disciplinary Paradigms and Approaches, 2003–2013
Suad Joseph, Marilyn L. Booth, Bahar Davary, Hoda El Sadda, Sarah Gualtieri, Vriginia Hooker, Therese Saliba, and Elora Shehabuddin (editors)


Empowering Rural Women: The Impact of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
Elora Shehabuddin

Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court
Mamiko C. Suzuki