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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India13
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims11
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’10
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–19795
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s5
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Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives5
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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
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Strategic forgetting: Britain, China, and the South China Sea, 1894–19383
Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean3
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
Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces3
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India3
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan3
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Placement agencies for care-domestic labour: Everyday mediation, regimes of punishment, civilizing missions, and training in globalized India2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India2
Rethinking markets to rethink economics2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–19372
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
Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control2
Jogendra’s properties in Noakhali: Displacement and the death of hope2
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)2
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
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India2
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world2
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India2
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
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals2
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition2
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia2
The fetish in the market2
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway2
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Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–19801
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka1
Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines1
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18761
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19271
Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–19741
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Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection1
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The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
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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
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea1
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 commons1
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19561
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 Burma1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation1
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 theatre1
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Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia1
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A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire1
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period1
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‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce1
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan1
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
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance0
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake0
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Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India0
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–19450
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
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China0
(Re)imagining ‘Tears of Mokp’o’: From a Korean resistance anthem to a baseball fight song0
Logistics behind revolution: Mengla and the Laos-Thailand connection in the Cold War0
Between idealism and geopolitics: Yoshii Hōjun and the Sino-Japanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism in 1930s North China0
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What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan0
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–19540
‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon0
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China0
Parallel lives or interconnected histories? Anagarika Dharmapala and Muhammad Barkatullah's ‘world religioning’ in Japan0
Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s0
The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–18500
‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–18150
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence0
Wireless nation: Infrastructural politics of Tibetan and Mongolian Morse codes in China0
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Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection0
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–19710
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China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India0
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam0
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat0
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation0
In the shadow of the BRI: The figurative infrastructures of Chinese religion along the Maritime Silk Road0
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy0
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The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts0
Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history0
Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India0
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan0
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles0
The missionary works of a Taiwanese Buddhist monk in mainland China during the Japanese colonial period (1911–1939): The case of Venerable Shanhui of Keelung Yuemei Mountain0
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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Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–19200
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War0
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison0
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India0
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar0
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The ‘sero-rationalization’ of the Imperial Japanese military, 1926‒19450
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
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong0
The fly-by-night ustad: Problems of music education in North India, 1863–19150
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka0
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable0
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Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India0
The entanglements of exchange in India0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–19450
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Cosmopolitanisms in China’s Eurasian history: A critical approach0
Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India0
The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM0
The Manchurian saviour? Re-examining the ‘Otpor Incident’ in imperial and contemporary Japan0
‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–19450
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood0
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm0
Ritual, war, and opium: Infrastructural sedimentations in the ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos0
Berita Filem, Malay fan magazines, and modernity in the early 1960s0
Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport0
Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories0
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India0
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography0
Abolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history0
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani0
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India0
The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul0
‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–19520
‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account0
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–19670
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra0
The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM0
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement0
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’0
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan0
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Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution0
Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire0
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history0
To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century0
Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands0
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Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India0
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s0
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation0
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Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres0
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Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–19120
Japanese imperialism and the Chinese delegation to the Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhists’ Associations (1934)0
Christian diplomacy in peace and war: Protestant internationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and the future of Asia, 1920–1950s0
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‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 19510
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations0
Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng0
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 18900
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The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia0
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit0
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM0
Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India0
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–19050
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Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–19640
Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach0
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia0
Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism0
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction0
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam0
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–20200
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India0
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun0
The uncertain world: The gift of development on the Mekong0
The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography0
Sacred politics of Chinese infrastructure: Christians, Buddha’s tooth, dragons, and conflict at Myitsone, Kachin, Burma0
In-between two Buddhisms: Ueda Tenzui’s Theravada ordination and activities to recover the remains of the war dead in wartime Burma0
Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits0
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy0
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s0
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‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–19690
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)0
Atrocity and reciprocity during the Boxer War (1900–1901): Socio-legal perspectives0
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Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources0
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Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India0
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What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography0
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