Howard Chiang has written three monographs in Sinophone studies, forming a trilogy of queer Asian Pacific history through the lens of knowledge production. "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" analyzes the history of sex change in China from the demise of castration in the late Qing era to the emergence of transsexuality in Cold War Taiwan. "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. "Trans Without Borders: Decolonial Histories and the Epistemology of Taiwan" uses Taiwan’s alienating international status as a standpoint to forge unfamiliar engagements with the ancestry of transness.