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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Border Governance: Reframing political transition in Myanmar10
Taiwanese DNA versus Chinese DNA: Genetic science and identity politics across the Taiwan Straits8
Serving All-under-Heaven: Cosmopolitan intellectuals of the Warring States period6
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Know Your Rights: The (un)making of the colonial legal subjects in rural North India, circa 1770–18574
The Unbearable Lightness of Trust: Trade, conviviality, and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China3
Informal diplomacy in Chosŏn Korea and new engagement with the West and Westernized Japan, 1873–18763
‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India3
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–20203
Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–673
Struggles about class and Adivasi-ness in an eastern Indian steel plant3
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Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland,circa1946–19673
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres2
Torn between the nation and the world: D. F. Karaka and Indian journalism in the Second World War2
Find the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire2
Sacred book, profane print: Print-as-commodity and patronage in colonial western India2
From fascism to famine: Complicity, conscience, and the narrative of ‘peasant passivity’ in Bengal, 1941–19452
‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance2
Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India2
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable2
Rethinking the Second World War in South Asia: Between theatres and beyond battles2
A tale of a tyre: National space, infrastructure, and narration in S. H. Vatsyayan’s ‘Parśurām se tūrxam’2
The many swords of Shivaji: Searching for a weapon, finding a nation2
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City of lights, city of pylons: Infrastructures of illumination in colonial Hanoi, 1880s–1920s1
The cheese, the worm, and the law: Grassroots legal cosmopolitanism in the Manchurian borderland, 1906–19271
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia: A changing relationship1
Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing sex and abortion in early modern South Asia1
The Trans-Asian Pathways of ‘Oriental Products’: Navigating the prohibition of narcotics between Turkey, China, and Japan, 1918–19381
Doing ‘coolie’ work in a ‘gentlemanly’ way: Gender and caste on the famine public works in colonial North India1
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Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s–1914)1
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Exercises in peace: Āẕar Kayvānī universalism and comparison in the School of Doctrines1
Chinggisid pluralism and religious competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the question of violence and sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran1
A secular empire? Estates,nom, and religions in the Mongol empire1
Communities of skill in the age of capitalism: Handloom weavers in twentieth-century United Provinces, India1
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The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma1
Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s1
A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–19091
Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims1
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Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s1
Beyond Repression and Resistance: Worker agency and corporatism in occupied Nanjing1
Tang ‘cosmopolitanism': Towards a critical and holistic approach1
Entanglements in the colony: Jewish–Muslim connected histories in colonial India1
Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history1
ASS volume 55 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Everyday rehearsal of death and the dilemmas of dying in super-ageing Japan1
The making of ‘public opinion’: Media and open diplomacy in China’s strategy at Versailles and the May Fourth Movement1
Crafting a nation, fishing for power: The Universal Exposition of 1906 and fisheries governance in Late Qing China1
How the first revolution affected the second: The setback of 1927 for the Chinese Communist Party Revolution in the 1920s1
Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India1
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The paradox of authenticity: The Korean Product Showroom of Mitsukoshi department store in colonial Seoul1
Life of a Dalit magistrate: Ideologies and politics in Dalit life in North India, 1920–19541
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe: Paul Richard in Japan, 1916–19201
The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920)1
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A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’1
Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies1
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