| Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China D Davis, S Friedman Stanford University Press, 2014 | 138* | 2014 |
| Intimate politics: Marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China S Friedman Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, 2006 | 126* | 2006 |
| Marital Immigration and Graduated Citizenship: Post-Naturalization Restrictions on Mainland Chinese Spouses in Taiwan SL Friedman Pacific Affairs 83 (1), 73-93, 2010 | 108 | 2010 |
| Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty SL Friedman Univ of California Press, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| The intimacy of state power: Marriage, liberation, and socialist subjects in southeastern China SL Friedman American ethnologist 32 (2), 312-327, 2005 | 88 | 2005 |
| Deinstitutionalizing marriage and sexuality DS Davis, SL Friedman Wives, husbands, and lovers: Marriage and sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan …, 2014 | 85 | 2014 |
| Embodying civility: Civilizing processes and symbolic citizenship in southeastern China SL Friedman JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES-ANN ARBOR- 63 (3), 687-718, 2004 | 80 | 2004 |
| Determining ‘truth’at the border: immigration interviews, Chinese marital migrants, and Taiwan's sovereignty dilemmas SL Friedman Citizenship Studies 14 (2), 167-183, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Watching twin bracelets in China: The role of spectatorship and identification in an ethnographic analysis of film reception SL Friedman Cultural Anthropology 21 (4), 603-632, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Spoken pleasures and dangerous desires: Sexuality, marriage, and the state in rural southeastern China SL Friedman East Asia 18 (4), 13-39, 2000 | 41 | 2000 |
| Adjudicating the Intersection of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages and Competing Legal Domains SL Friedman Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 19 (1), 221-255, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility across Asia SL Friedman, P Mahdavi University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Regulating Cross-Border Intimacy: Authenticity Paradigms and the Specter of Illegality among Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan SL Friedman Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia, 206, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| 6 Women, marriage and the state in contemporary China SL Friedman Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, 148-170, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Men who ‘Marry Out’: unsettling masculinity, kinship, and nation through migration across the Taiwan Strait SL Friedman Gender, Place & Culture 24 (9), 1243-1262, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Marital borders: Gender, population, and sovereignty across the Taiwan Strait SL Friedman Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan …, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Wedding Marriage to the Nation-State in Modern China: Legal Consequences for Divorce, Property, and Women's Rights K Li, SL Friedman, K Celello, H Kholoussy Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Modern …, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Mobilizing Gender in Cross-Strait Marriages: Patrilineal Tensions, Care Work Expectations, and a Dependency Model of Marital Immigration SL Friedman Mobile horizons: dynamics across the Taiwan Strait, Berkeley: Institute of …, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| LGBT movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China TSK Kong, H Kuan, SHL Lau, SL Friedman Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| Stranger Anxiety: Failed Legal Equivalences and the Challenges of Intimate Recognition in Taiwan SL Friedman Public Culture 29 (3 83), 433-455, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
