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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India11
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’10
Religious entanglements with the politics of infrastructure in the Maldives10
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims5
City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s5
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Constructing a caste in the past: Revisionist histories and competitive authority in South India4
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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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Material modernities: Tracing Janbai’s gendered mobilities across the Indian Ocean3
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
Product, equipment, uniform: Material environment and the consumption of work in New Delhi, India3
The translation of foreign films and cosmopolitan Shanghai (1896–1949)3
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An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan3
Reform in fragments: Sovereignty, colonialism, and the Sikh tradition2
A region in dispute: Racialized anticommunism and Manila’s role in the origins of Konfrontasi, 1961–632
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
Santal indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, and the politics of representation2
Insurgent law: Bengal Regulation III and the Chin-Lushai expeditions (1872–1898)2
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Rethinking markets to rethink economics2
Religion, political parties, and Thailand’s 2019 election: Cosmopolitan royalism and its rivals2
From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan2
Perceptions and purpose of the bomb: Explaining India's nuclear restraint against China2
Negotiating extra-settlement roads: Boundary making, administrative disputes, and power shifts in treaty-port Shanghai, 1860–19372
Japan’s local imperialists: Expansive ideas of hometown and empire within the Asia-Pacific world2
Rewriting the hills: Youth sociality as a mode of navigating unemployment in a context of outmigration in North India2
Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–18922
Broadcasting the ‘(anti)colonial sublime’: Radio SEAC, Congress Radio, and the Second World War in South Asia2
Silk Road orientations in Xinjiang archaeology and shifting implications for Eurasian studies2
Art diplomacy: Drawing China-Indonesia relations in the early Cold War, 1949–19561
Pashtun homelands in an Indo-Afghan hagiographical collection1
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 cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19271
Commemorative contention: The Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the politics of death1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire1
The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia1
Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines1
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Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India1
Forum introduction. The chrysanthemum, the sword, and the dharmacakra: Buddhist entanglements in Japan’s wartime empire (1931–1945)1
Tunnels of power: The cultural politics of the Beijing subway1
The fetish in the market1
Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea1
Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences: Jiang Dunfu’s 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao’s 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years1
Relocated tigers and relocated villagers: Ferality and human–animal entanglement in Indian conservation1
The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan1
Evading and inviting states in ‘No-Man’s-Lands’: Headhunters in Zomia’s blank spaces (1944–1964)1
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Prisoners of Pakistan: Bengali military personnel and civil servants in Pakistan, 1971–19741
Framing the Fifth Schedule: Tribal agency and the making of the Indian Constitution (1937–1950)1
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Buddhist friendship under occupation: Daxing, Kanda Eun, and Fujii Sōsen during the Sino-Japanese War1
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire1
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Everywhere a market: Rethinking embedded exchange in modern India1
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism’: Towards a critical and holistic approach — CORRIGENDUM1
Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism1
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18761
Beyond the masculinity of kingship: The making of a modern queen in early second millennium Sri Lanka1
The secret of September: The 1949 oil agreements between the United States and South Korea1
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Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period1
Afro-Asian resonances: Staging the Congo Crisis in 1960s’ Chinese theatre1
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
Refuelling the Cold War: The China factor in the United States and Japan’s pursuit of economic détente with the USSR, 1972–19801
The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons1
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–1971 – ERRATUM1
Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India1
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Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India1
Cosmopolitan collaboration and wartime collaborationism: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its staff, 1932–19411
Simultaneously ‘national medicine’ and ‘East Asian medicine’: A cross-boundary network of medical exchange in wartime East Asia1
Flagstone empire: Materiality and technical expertise in Japanese road construction in northeast China (1905–1945)1
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Mehmed the Conqueror between Sulh-i Kull and Prisca Theologia0
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Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran0
Saving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun0
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–19450
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–19090
‘Rahman’ before Muhammad: A pre-history of the First Peace (Sulh) in Islam0
‘I am safer in Hong Kong’: Transimperial entanglements in Filipino nationalist explorations0
A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy0
The prison-handicraft complex: Convict labour in colonial India0
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history0
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies0
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‘Winning the Peace’: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, foreign technocrats, and planning the rehabilitation of post-war China, 1943–19450
Introduction to the Forum: Muslim modernity in South Asia0
Overcoming a stigmatic past: National Central University students in Nanjing, China, and the politics of wartime history0
‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now0
Wearing fire and chewing iron: Oaths of peace and the suspension of monotheism in contemporary Alevism0
Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India0
The entanglements of exchange in India0
Logistics behind revolution: Mengla and the Laos-Thailand connection in the Cold War0
In the shadow of the BRI: The figurative infrastructures of Chinese religion along the Maritime Silk Road0
Tiger shikars: The Wodeyars’ construction of a Rajput identity through sport0
The theological foundations of Muslim modernism and traditionalism in South Asia0
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Cosmopolitanisms in China’s Eurasian history: A critical approach0
Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India0
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach0
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan0
Measuring the Tibetan nation: Anthropometry in 1950s Kalimpong0
The grey zones of antiquarian pursuits: The 1938 Barger expedition to the princely state of Swat0
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Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant0
A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’0
Sacred politics of Chinese infrastructure: Christians, Buddha’s tooth, dragons, and conflict at Myitsone, Kachin, Burma0
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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The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography0
Cosmopolitanism and imperial women in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties (304–581)0
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan0
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Between idealism and geopolitics: Yoshii Hōjun and the Sino-Japanese Society for the Study of Esoteric Buddhism in 1930s North China0
Tribal land alienation and Adivasis’ struggle for autonomy: The case of Bhadrachalam Scheduled Area, Telangana, India0
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Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres0
Negotiating power: Disputes over electrification in rural India0
‘East Punjab must not lag behind’: Partition, museums, and identity in independent India0
Representations of disaster victimhood: Framing suffering and loss after the 1934 Bihar-Nepal earthquake0
What keeps the Kitans enigmatic: Roots of the ethnic narrative in Liao historiography0
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma0
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‘It all comes from me’: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadhnawabi, circa1765–18150
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(Re)imagining ‘Tears of Mokp’o’: From a Korean resistance anthem to a baseball fight song0
Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–19670
Sulh-i kull as an oath of peace: Mughal political theology in history, theory, and comparison0
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The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India0
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s0
Atrocity and reciprocity during the Boxer War (1900–1901): Socio-legal perspectives0
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India0
Agents of capital: Matriarchs, law, and agrarian transactions in the Eastern Gangetic plains of eighteenth-century India0
‘Farewell, My Uyghur Language’: Linguistic anxiety and resistance in Uyghur poetry and songs, 1990s–2010s0
Ritual, war, and opium: Infrastructural sedimentations in the ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos0
Caldwell's Dravidians: Knowledge production and the representational strategies of missionary scholars in colonial South India0
‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–19520
Abolitionist parallels: International law and domestic servitude in South China (1900–1940)0
‘Willing’ ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India: A micro-foundational account0
Demographic engineering: Population resettlement in the ethnoterritory of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh0
Act XI of 1857: The life and afterlife of an emergency statute in colonial and post-colonial India0
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
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The Radheshyam Ramayan and the Sanskritization of Khari Boli Hindi- ERRATUM0
Beyond conservation: Royal picnics at Elephanta and the legitimization of empire0
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–19540
A Mongol-Mughal lens on religion and empire in Eurasian history: An introduction0
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War0
China’s and Japan’s winding path to the Refugee Convention: State identity transformations and the evolving international refugee regime0
Justifying the use of excessive force: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese police individual WeChat Subscription Accounts0
Poetry for linguistic description: The Maldives inside and outside the Arabic cosmopolis in 18900
Mapping tianxia and mapping the world: Cosmopolitan ideas in geographic sources of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century China0
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship0
Parallel lives or interconnected histories? Anagarika Dharmapala and Muhammad Barkatullah's ‘world religioning’ in Japan0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–1969 — CORRIGENDUM0
Missing millions: Java’s 1944–45 famine in Indonesia’s historiography0
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Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits0
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women’s activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution0
Cosmopolitan dramaturgies from contemporary China: Li Jing’s Daxiansheng0
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation0
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India and overseas Indians in Ceylon and Burma, 1946–1965: Experiments in post-imperial sovereignty0
Delinking ‘the two rupees’: The devaluation dilemma and economic divergence in the decolonized subcontinent, September 1949–February 19510
Is Bathou Hindu? Consolidated Hinduism and assertions of a traditional religion among the Boros of Assam0
Christian diplomacy in peace and war: Protestant internationalism, (anti-)imperialism, and the future of Asia, 1920–1950s0
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947–1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy0
The lure of land: Peasant politics, frontier colonization and the cunning state in Sri Lanka0
Free sea or territorial waters? The Sino-Japanese Xiongyue fishing dispute, 1906–19120
What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio’s murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan0
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India0
Siblings, comrades, friends: Kin(g)ship, hierarchy, and equality in Thailand’s youth struggle for democracy0
The ‘sero-rationalization’ of the Imperial Japanese military, 1926‒19450
From ‘mystic synthesis’ to ‘Jesuit plot’: The Society of Jesus and the making of religious policy in Indonesia0
Reshaping the figure of the Shudra: Tukaram Padwal’s Jatibhed Viveksar (Reflections on the Institution of Caste)0
Special issue: Multiple worlds of the Adivasi. An introduction0
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance0
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Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories0
Chen Mengzhao's storeroom in Park Street, Calcutta. Wartime India-China smuggling, 1942–19450
Nudity, obscenity, and the rule of colonial difference in Singapore, 1900s–1930s0
Was Aśoka really a secularist avant-la-lettre? Ancient Indian pluralism and toleration in historical perspective0
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar0
The fly-by-night ustad: Problems of music education in North India, 1863–19150
Crafting literary Urdu: Mirza Hatim’s engagement with Vali Dakhani0
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Adivasi images, Adivasi voices. The resonance of the Eickstedt collection0
Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources0
The point of death: Religious conversion and the self in South India – CORRIGENDUM0
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India0
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‘The Jews of Ceylon’: Antisemitism, prejudice, and the Moors of Ceylon0
‘Great Northern Wilderness’-style environmentalism: Nature preservation and the legacies of Mao-era land reclamation in China’s northeast borderland0
Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India0
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)0
Imperial inheritance: The transnational lives of Gurkha families in Asian contexts, 1948–19710
Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm0
The Belt and Road Initiative and spirit mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and sacred space in northeastern Cambodia0
The moment of marriage: Towards a history of temporality in South Asia, circa 1650–18500
Inventing the ‘Maritime Silk Road’0
Cohabiting a textualized world: Elbow room and Adivasi resurgence0
To revive India’s industries: The global and imperial roots of swadeshi in the nineteenth century0
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit0
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India0
Dam(n)ing the hills: Indigeneity, American aid, and Cold War politics in the Kaptai Dam, East Pakistan, 1957–19640
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China0
‘Jostling for right of way’: Hawker discourse, legitimation, and politics in post-independence Malay(si)a, 1957–19690
Glorious pasts of forest dwellers: Memories of land in the ex-zamindari of Borasambar, Central Provinces, 1861–19050
Muslim pasts and presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood0
Introduction to the Forum: Mediating collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the recounting of history0
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s0
‘Enjoying life’: Consumption, changing meanings, and social differentiation in Kerala, India0
In-between two Buddhisms: Ueda Tenzui’s Theravada ordination and activities to recover the remains of the war dead in wartime Burma0
The modernity of tradition: Women and ‘healthy progress’ in late colonial Java and Sumatra0
The uncertain world: The gift of development on the Mekong0
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles0
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Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh0
The Manchurian saviour? Re-examining the ‘Otpor Incident’ in imperial and contemporary Japan0
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement0
Irrigation pumps in late colonial Taiwan: Farmers’ utilization of technology and the transition to rice cultivation0
Cotton, capital, and colonialism in southern Korea, 1910–1945: Semi-governmental organizations in the construction of imperial agriculture0
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
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Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands0
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
Rajaratnam in London: Writing, race, and capital in Singapore’s intellectual history0
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable0
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–19200
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Wireless nation: Infrastructural politics of Tibetan and Mongolian Morse codes in China0
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‘In the interest of your bank and our country’: Two encounters between China and the International Chamber of Commerce0
Japanese imperialism and the Chinese delegation to the Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhists’ Associations (1934)0
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