Modern Asian Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Asian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India10
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’9
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s8
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims6
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From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s4
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Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India4
Earth's Amphibious Transformation: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)3
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)3
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–19383
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–18923
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The Ahl-e-Hadith: From British India to Britain3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India3
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Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean3
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan3
Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India3
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–19372
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation2
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India2
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics2
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition2
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19561
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines1
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India1
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India1
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
The ‘theory of the unity of all classes and races against foreign capital’ in Malaya: Socialism, communalism, and uneven development in the thought of James Puthucheary1
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre1
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM1
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–19741
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Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)1
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India1
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–19411
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea1
Thailand's First Revolution? The role of religious mobilization and ‘the people’ in the Ayutthaya rebellion of 16881
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–19801
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18761
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The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19271
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years1
The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia1
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–631
The fetish in the market1
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia1
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Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka1
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The Last Hump: The Lahore Elementary Flying Training School, the Chinese Civil War, and the final days of the British Raj1
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Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation0
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history0
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Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison0
Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history0
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The Sufi method behind the Mughal ‘Peace with All’ religions: A study of Ibn ‘Arabi's ‘taḥqīq’ in Abu al-Fazl's preface to the Razmnāma0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’0
Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)0
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Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia0
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India0
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India0
What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani0
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy0
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh0
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Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence0
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Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)0
Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire0
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam0
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–19050
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime0
Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India0
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon0
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Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s0
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A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction0
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China0
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–670
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India0
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective0
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable0
Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s0
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–20200
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‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources0
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation0
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 19510
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy0
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection0
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka0
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan0
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Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)0
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’0
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong0
Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India0
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Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–19450
‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–19670
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–19540
To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century0
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Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–19200
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s0
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies0
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 18900
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India0
Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India0
Abolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)0
‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–19450
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Enacting Border Governance through Multi-scalar Violence: Exclusion and discrimination of Rohingya people in Rakhine state0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach0
The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia0
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography0
Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection0
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia0
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship0
Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh0
Cosmopolitanisms in China’s Eurasian history: A critical approach0
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Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture0
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Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history0
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun0
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution0
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation0
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‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–19520
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India0
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles0
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)0
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan0
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran0
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Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India0
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India0
What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography0
Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–19120
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul0
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s0
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–19450
Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India – CORRIGENDUM0
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s0
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Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–19710
Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty: The daching riot and the regulation of weights and measures in British Malaya0
Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India0
Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India0
The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM0
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The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–18500
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–19640
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–19690
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China0
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport0
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Parallel lives or interconnected histories? Anagarika Dharmapala and Muhammad Barkatullah's ‘world religioning’ in Japan0
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–19090
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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM0
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Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng0
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat0
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India0
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan0
Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits0
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–18150
India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India0
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma0
Afforestation, Propaganda, and Agency: The case of Hangzhou in Mao's China0
Know Your Rights: The (un)making of the colonial legal subjects in rural North India, circa 1770–18570
The entanglements of exchange in India0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement0
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea0
The ‘sero-rationalization’ of the Imperial Japanese military, 1926‒19450
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India0
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