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Islamic- themed novel in the twenty one century got its spirit in the production of Indonesian popular literature. Since the emergence of novel Ayat-ayat Cinta in the year of 2004 which set the story in Eqipt, the Islamic themed is continuing by taking various themes and setting. The author set the story by comodifying Islamic values not only to share its worth, but also to gain a commercial profit. This study is going to analyze Assalamualaikum Beijing novel written by Asma Nadia. Differently from novel Ayat-ayat Cinta that sets its story in Eqipt as one of the central of Islamic historical places, Asma Nadia sets the story in Beijing, China, a country that mostly used to be opposited to Islamic values. China is wellknown as a communism-based country, that is considered and believed extremely contradicted to Islamic ideology. Through Bourdieu-s theory of habitus, this study found that Asma Nadia as a writer is intersecting Islamic and Chinese cultural atrributes in the novel Assalamualaikum Beijing. It seems that, through this novel, the author creates a distinction by promoting the Indonesian-Islamic values in transnational culture. It is concluded that habitus of the author-s family and social background that influence the creation of Assalamualaikum Beijing. Islamic, Chinese as well as Javanese cultures are intersecting each other and operated harmoniously in the novels. This is become the hallmark of the novel that posited Asma Nadia in the midst of the contestation of Indonesia Literature and lead to the commercial profit.