Xiaoyuan Liu is an Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University and a recent Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
Books in order of publication:
| A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941 1945 | 2002 |
| Frontier Passages: Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945 | 2003 |
| Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 | 2006 |
| Recast All under Heaven: Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century | 2010 |
| To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959 | 2020 |
