OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern Asian Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India	13
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims	11
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’	10
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s	5
ASS volume 57 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	5
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives	5
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–1979	5
ASS volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
ASS volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India	4
ASS volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s	4
Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces	3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India	3
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan	3
ASS volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–1938	3
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean	3
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)	3
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892	3
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope	2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia	2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)	2
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation	2
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–63	2

Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India	2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world	2
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India	2
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan	2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies	2
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China	2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals	2
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition	2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia	2
The fetish in the market	2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway	2
ASS volume 58 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India	2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India	2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics	2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–1937	2
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM	2
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism	2
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–1941	2
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control	2
Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)	1
The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons	1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–1956	1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)	1
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma	1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation	1
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)	1
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre	1
Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War	1
ASS volume 56 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia	1
ASS volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire	1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire	1
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period	1
ASS volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce	1
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction	1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan	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 Puthucheary	1
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)	1
ASS volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka	1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–1980	1
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India	1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines	1
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India	1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–1876	1
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–1927	1
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–1974	1

ASS volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection	1
ASS volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea	1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)	1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM	1
ASS volume 57 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years	1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death	1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea	1