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1945 results in Asian Studies

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Statism with Chinese Characteristics
  • A History of China's Reforms and Reversals
  • 2nd edition
  • Yasheng Huang
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia
  • Edited by Latika Chaudhary
  • Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 January 2026
  • South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through these transformations in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Part I revisits the colonial period with fresh perspectives and updated scholarship, incorporating recent research on topics such as gender, caste, environment, and entrepreneurship. The contributors highlight the complex and diverse experiences of different groups to offer a more nuanced understanding of the past. Part II focuses on economic and social changes in South Asia over the last seventy-five years, offering a comprehensive view of the region's historical trajectory. Together, the contributions to this volume help to reassess the impact of colonialism through a more informed lens, as well as providing analysis of the challenges and progress made since independence.

Cold War Comrades
  • An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance
  • Gregg A. Brazinsky
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025

The Kuroshio Frontier
  • Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
  • Volume 1
  • Jonas Rüegg
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025

Everyday Occupation
  • American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II
  • Chunmei Du
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025

The China Question
  • Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear
  • Ho-fung Hung
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • For centuries, Western scholars portrayed China either as a land of superior morality, economy, and governance or as a formidable country of pagans posing a global threat to Western values. Idealized images of China were used to shame rulers for incompetence, while China was demonized as an external threat to cover domestic political failures. In the twentieth century, the geopolitics of global capitalism have facilitated more nuanced perspectives, but the diversifying of knowledge about China is far from complete. In this thought-provoking study, Ho-fung Hung finds that both Western elites and China's authoritarian regime today continue to promote many orientalist stereotypes to advance their economic interests and political projects. He shows how big-picture historical, social and economic changes are inextricably linked to fluctuations in the realm of ideas. Only open debate can overcome the extremes of fantasy and fear.

Democracy and Inequality in India
  • Political Economy of a Troubled Giant
  • Atul Kohli, Kanta Murali
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • Contemporary India provides a giant and complex panorama that deserves to be understood. Through in-depth analysis of democracy, economic growth and distribution, caste, labour, gender, and foreign policy, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali provide a framework for understanding recent political and economic developments. They make three key arguments. Firstly, that India's well-established democracy is currently under considerable strain. Secondly, that the roots of this decline can be attributed to the growing inequalities accompanying growth since the 1990s. Growing inequalities led to the decline of the Congress party and the rise of the BJP under Narendra Modi. In turn, the BJP and its Hindu-nationalist affiliates have used state power to undermine democracy and to target Indian Muslims. Finally, they highlight how various social groups reacted to macro-level changes, although the results of their activism have not always been substantial. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand democracy in India today.

Governing Digital China
  • Daniela Stockmann, Ting Luo
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026
  • China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlighting the bottom-up influences of China's largest platform firms and its citizens. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and nationally representative surveys, the authors track governance of social media and commercial social credit ratings during both the Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping eras. Their findings reveal how Chinese tech companies such as Tencent, Sina, Baidu, and Alibaba, have become consultants and insiders to the state, thus forming a state-company partnership. Meanwhile, citizens voluntarily produce data, incentivizing platform firms to cater to their needs and motivating resistance by platforms. Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo unveil the intricate mechanisms linking the state, platform firms, and citizens in the digital governance of authoritarian states.

Vietnam's Coal Frontier
  • Mining, Environment, and Empire
  • Thuy Linh Nguyen
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    30 November 2025
  • In one of the first energy histories of Southeast Asia, Thuy Linh Nguyen explores the environmental, economic and social history of large-scale coal mining in French colonial Vietnam. Focusing on the Quảng Yên coal basin in northern Vietnam, known for its world's largest anthracite coal mines, this deeply researched study demonstrates how mining came to dominate the landscape, restructuring the region's environment and upending local communities. Nguyen pays particular attention to the role of various non-state local actors, often underrepresented in grand narratives of modern Vietnam, including Vietnamese and Chinese migrant mine workers, timber traders, loggers and local ethnic minorities. Breaking away from the metropole-colony paradigm, Nguyen offers a new lens through which to explore the dynamics of colonial rule and the importance of inter-Asian networks, arguing that the colonial energy regime must be understood as a complex, multi-layered interaction between empire, capital, labour, water, sea, land and timber forests.

Convict Politics
  • From Utopia to Serfdom in Early China (221 BCE – 23 CE)
  • Liang Cai
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    01 October 2026
  • In this innovative history, Liang Cai examines newly excavated manuscripts alongside traditional sources to explore convict politics in the early Chinese empires, proposing a new framework for understanding Confucian discussions of law and legal practice. While a substantial number of convict laborers helped operate the local bureaucratic apparatus in early China, the central court reemployed numerous previously convicted men as high officials. Convict politics emerged, she argues, because while the system often criminalized people including the innocent, it was juxtaposed with redemption policies and frequent amnesties in pursuit of a crime-free utopia. This dual system paralyzed the justice system, provoking intense Confucian criticism and resulting in a deep-seated skepticism towards law in the Chinese tradition with a long-lasting political legacy.

Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China

A Hundred Flowers
  • How Literature Shaped Maoism
  • Dayton Lekner
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • In late 1957, Xu Chengmiao, a journalism student in Shanghai, found himself at odds because of a poem about flowers. Why did his classmates, teachers, and eventually the full force of the Chinese state react so intensely to Xu's floral poetry? And what did it have to do with the Hundred Flowers campaign that had spread throughout China since 1956? In this captivating book, Dayton Lekner draws on interviews, archival, and literary sources to tell the story of the Hundred Flowers, from its early blooms to its transformation into the Anti-Rightist campaign. Focusing on the Chinese writer, he shows that literary circulation and practices that had long characterized China not only survived under Maoism, but animated political and social movements. He relocates creative writing not in tension with Maoist era politics, but as a central medium of the revolution.

Inter-Asian Law
  • Edited by Matthew S. Erie, Ching-Fu Lin
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025
  • What happens when Western law is no longer the default referent for legal modernity? This is a deceptively simple question, but its implications are significant for such fields as comparative law, international law, and law and development. Whereas much of comparative law is predicated on the idea that modern law flows West to East and North to South, this volume proposes the paradigm of 'Inter-Asian Law' (IAL), pointing to an emerging field of comparative law that explores the legal interactions between and among Asian jurisdictions. This volume is an experimental and preliminary effort to think through other beginnings and endings for law's movement from one jurisdiction to another, laying the grounds for new interactions between legal systems. In addition to providing an analytical framework to study IAL, the volume consists of fifteen chapters written by scholars from Asia and who study Asia that provide doctrinal and empirical accounts of IAL. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Sober State
  • Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India
  • Darinee Alagirisamy
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026

The Mediation System of China from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
  • Hao Xiong
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026
  • Delivering a much-needed in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of mediation practices in China, this study removes the common misconception that mediation is merely a mechanical application of norms. It provides a comprehensive understanding of China's mediation practices by blending cultural, social, and legal analyses with detailed case descriptions from fieldwork. Readers will gain insights into the interactive dynamics between legal norms and the social environment in grassroots China. This book helps readers understand mediation and Chinese law within their broader cultural, social, and political contexts, offering insights beyond the purely legal dimension. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of Chinese law, dispute resolution, and socio-legal studies. It offers a unique perspective that contextualizes mediation within the socio-political landscape, providing readers with a richer, more nuanced understanding of Chinese legal culture.

Assembling India’s Constitution
  • A New Democratic History
  • Rohit De, Ornit Shani
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the country's people. In a departure from dominant approaches that foreground the framing of the text within the Constituent Assembly, Ornit Shani and Rohit De instead demonstrate how it was shaped by diverse publics across India and beyond. They reveal multiple, parallel constitution-making processes underway across the subcontinent, highlighting how individuals and groups transformed constitutionalism into a medium of struggle and a tool for transformation. De and Shani argue that the deep sense of ownership the public assumed over the constitution became pivotal to the formation, legitimacy and endurance of India's democracy against arduous challenges and many odds. In highlighting the Indian case as a model for thinking through constitution making in plural societies, this is a vital contribution to constitutional and democratic history.

Politicizing Business
  • How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China
  • Ning Leng
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • The Chinese state has never granted businesses full autonomy, even amid efforts to establish market-supporting institutions. Instead, the state and its officials view business as primarily political actors, demanding political services from firms to advance political objectives. Politicizing Business demonstrates that the politicization of firms is rooted in authoritarianism, often harming business interests and undermining China's efforts to attract and retain investment. Explaining the seemingly arbitrary state takeover of sectors and firms, this book uncovers previously overlooked forms of politicization and demonstrates how politicizing business often creates conflicts between the state and firms, particularly private firms, leading to a state-dominated market in many sectors. Combining academic rigor with exceptionally rich data and analysis, including hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and business leaders, original datasets and case studies, Politicizing Business offers fresh insights into China's political economy model and explores what the Party-state demands from companies, how compliance is enforced, when and where firms are politicized, and its impact on China's development.

Empire and Peripheries
  • Tribalism, Resistance and British Colonialism in Balochistan
  • Jahanzeb Baloch
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026

Between Empire and Nation
  • South Asian Humanitarianism in the late Colonial Period
  • Maria Framke
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    01 November 2026

Land, Law and Empire
  • The Origins of British Territorial Power in India
  • John Marriott
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • In this innovative exploration of British rule in India, John Marriott tackles one of the most significant and unanswered questions surrounding the East India Company's success. How and when was an English joint stock company with trading interests in the East Indies transformed into a fully-fledged colonial power with control over large swathes of the Indian subcontinent? The answer, Marriott argues, is to be found much earlier than traditionally acknowledged, in the territorial acquisitions of the seventeenth century secured by small coteries of English factors. Bringing together aspects of cultural, legal and economic theory, he demonstrates the role played by land in the assembly of sovereign power, and how English discourses of land and judicial authority confronted the traditions of indigenous peoples and rival colonial authorities. By 1700, the Company had established the sites of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, providing the practical foothold for further expansion.

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