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
The power to disempower: The government of caste and the career of Dr Sathiavani Muthu in Tamil Nadu, circa 1960–19797
Banal revolutionary objects: Counter-memory and the materialization of Khana Ratsadon in Thailand7
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Erasure: The largest forcible mass disrobing of monks in modern Thai history5
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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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