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

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

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

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

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


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)


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)



Empowering Rural Women: The Impact of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
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)