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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–197914
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India11
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims10
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’7
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s6
Banal revolutionary objects: Counter-memory and the materialization of Khana Ratsadon in Thailand6
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives6
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From home production to modern mills: Labour allocation, gender, and living strategies of Chinese peasant households, circa 1910s–1930s5
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Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India4
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean3
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Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–19383
Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces3
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, 1887–18923
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An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India3
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia2
The fetish in the market2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world2
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19272
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals2
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope2
Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India2
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM2
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism2
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–19412
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway2
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–19372
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India2
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan2
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Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India2
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control2
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A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–632
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies2
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Christian diplomacy in peace and war: Protestant internationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and the future of Asia, 1920–1950s1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM1
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea1
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable1
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)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
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years1
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan1
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–19741
Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)1
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Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction1
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–671
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma1
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea1
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Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War1
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Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India1
The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19561
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India1
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–19801
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres1
‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)1
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)1
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka1
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia1
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
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18761
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