Modern Asian Studies

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India14
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’13
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives11
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims8
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s8
Banal revolutionary objects: Counter-memory and the materialization of Khana Ratsadon in Thailand7
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–19797
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Erasure: The largest forcible mass disrobing of monks in modern Thai history5
Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces4
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean4
From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s4
Strategic fluidity: Expansion by Kengtung (Chiang Tung) into Siam-controlled Lan Na, 1869–18924
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The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)3
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan3
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)3
Against the crematorium: Materializing Hindu space in colonial Calcutta, 1920s–1940s3
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–18923
Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–19383
Interrogating Indian nationalism: A subaltern perspective3
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From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India3
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope3
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM2
Chinese migration and the ‘colonial question’: Perspectives of Chinese intellectuals, 1900s–1940s2
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Rethinking markets to rethink economics2
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation2
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–632
The fetish in the market2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world2
Small polities and expanding empires in upland Asia: An introduction2
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–19372
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism2
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–19412
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals2
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Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India2
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years1
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Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM1
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)1
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Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19561
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies , vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428.1
Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)1
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period1
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
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Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia1
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Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–19741
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India1
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19271
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka1
Making Manchuria Japan’s frontier: The bazoku fantasy and imperial masculinity, 1900s–1920s1
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
Letters of labourers: Girmitiya women, petitions, and patriarchy under indenture1
Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
Beliefs, practices, and taboos in Indigenous Pottery of Nagaland1
The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons1
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