This session offers a focused exploration of "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History", a pioneering contribution to the field of world history that reexamines early transoceanic migrations and intercultural encounters. Centering the Pacific as a space of historical connectivity, the book advances a new narrative of Asian movement into the Americas prior to European expansion, situating these trajectories within broader patterns of mobility, exchange, and human settlement. The panel will discuss the historiographical interventions of the work, its implications for periodization and regional frameworks in global history, and the methodological challenges of recovering long-obscured forms of cross-cultural contact. World history scholars are invited to engage in a critical dialogue on how transpacific perspectives can reshape our understanding of the Americas and the early global past.