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125087 results in Asian Studies

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Urban Revolution
  • People's Communes in Beijing
  • Fabio Lanza
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    31 May 2026
  • During the Great Leap Forward (1958–62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In the first English history of urban collectivization, Fabio Lanza explores the most radical attempts to remake cities under Mao. Examining the universalization of production, the collectivization of life, including communal canteens and nurseries, and women's liberation, intended to transform modern urban life along socialist lines, he shows how many residents, and women in particular, struggled to enact a radical change in their everyday lives. He argues that the daily reality of millions of city residents proved the limitations of an effort that tied emancipation to industrial labor and substituted subjugation to the assembly line for subjugation to the stove, confronting some of the crucial contradictions of the socialist revolution.

A History of India's Green Revolution (South Asia Edition)
  • A Reign of Technocracy
  • Prakash Kumar
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Immoral Traffic (South Asia Edition)
  • An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India
  • Vibhuti Ramachandran
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Central Margins
  • Sri Lanka's Violent Frontier
  • Thiruni Kelegama
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

The Episteme of Empire
  • William Wilson Hunter and Colonial Bengal
  • Pritam Mukherjee
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Narrative Affinities
  • Friendship, Literature, and Democracy in Twentieth-Century India
  • Philipp Sperner
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Communism in an Enchanted World
  • Chinese Folk Religion under Mao Zedong
  • S. A. Smith
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    May 2026
    Print publication:
    31 May 2026
  • Drawing together decades of research, Steve Smith explores the survival and adaptation of folk beliefs in Mao's China in the face of seismic social change and growing political repression. Bringing an oftenneglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, he shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life. In myriad ways, through Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, spirit mediums and spirit healing, divination, geomancy, and the reform of traditional marriage and funeral rites, rituals, and beliefs provided resources for adaptation and resistance to the regime. Nevertheless the survival of folk religion must be set against the secularizing forces that the regime unleashed. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong as vibrant, contentious, and resilient – a far cry from stereotypes of a secular, regimented, and monochrome society.

Supernatural Politics
  • Mao Zedong and the Drive to Eliminate Religion in China, 1949–79
  • S. A. Smith
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    May 2026
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    31 May 2026
  • In this landmark contribution to the study of modern China, Steve Smith examines the paradox of 'supernatural politics'. He shows that we cannot understand the meaning of the Communist revolution to the Han Chinese without exploring their belief in gods, ghosts and ancestors. China was a religious society when the Communist Party took power in 1949, and it sought to erode the influence of the minority religions of Buddhism, Daoism, Catholicism and Protestantism. However, it was the folk religion of the great majority that seemed to symbolize China's backwardness. Smith explores the Party's efforts to eliminate belief in supernatural entities and cosmic forces through propaganda campaigns and popularizing science. Yet he also shows how the Party engaged in 'supernatural politics' to expand its support, utilizing imagery, metaphors and values that resonated with folk religion and Confucianism. Folk religion is thus essential to understanding the transformative experience of revolution.
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality

Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality
  • Household Disparities at Jōmon and Yayoi Sites in Southern Kantō, Japan
  • Yoko Nishimura
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  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 April 2026
  • This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jōmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 archaeological sites in southern Kantō, dating from the Late Jōmon to the end of the Yayoi period (ca. 2540 BC–AD 250). Household wealth is estimated through pit dwelling floor area, with Gini coefficients calculated for each site. Results show relatively low inequality in the Late Jōmon, a slight decline in the Middle Yayoi, and a marked rise in the Late Yayoi period. Notably, average floor area decreased in the Late Yayoi period. These patterns raise broader questions about how wealth disparities were shaped by communal norms, settlement organization, the rise of agriculture, and expanding trade networks involving iron tools. This research underscores archaeology's unique ability to illuminate long-term economic transformations.

Abul A‘la Maududi: Al Jihad fil Islam and Other Writings
  • Edited and translated by Humeira Iqtidar
  • Abul A‘la Maududi
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 April 2026
  • Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979) was arguably one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century, and a foundational Islamist thinker. This volume brings together a broad range of his important works for the first time, covering concerns such as anticolonialism, permissibility of violence, capitalism and gender roles, principles for an Islamic economy, innovation in legal frameworks as well as the limits of nationalist politics. Showcasing his writings across different genres, this volume includes influential early works such as his seminal Al Jihad fil Islam, Quranic exegesis and essays as well as later works on Islamic law. An extensive introduction situates Maududi's ideas within global anticolonial conversations as well as Islamic and South Asian debates on urgent contemporary political questions and highlights the conceptual innovations he carried out. Fresh translations allow readers to critically engage with Maududi's writings, capturing nuances and shifts in his ideas with greater clarity.

Illiberal Law and Development
  • Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China
  • Susan H. Whiting
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 April 2026
  • In Illiberal Law and Development, Susan H. Whiting advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data, addressing two puzzles in Chinese political economy: how economic development has occurred despite insecure property rights and weak rule of law; and how the Chinese state has maintained political control amid unrest. Whiting answers these questions by focusing on the role of illiberal law in reassigning property rights and redirecting grievances. The book reveals that, in the context of technological change, a legal system that facilitates reassignment of land rights to higher-value uses plays an important and under-theorized role in promoting economic development. This system simultaneously represses conflict and asserts legitimacy. Comparing China to post-Glorious Revolution England and contemporary India, Whiting presents an exciting new argument that brings the Chinese case more directly into debates in comparative politics about the role of the state in specifying property rights and maintaining authoritarian rule.

An Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
  • Chan Lü, Zev Handel
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    31 March 2026
  • Grounded in descriptive linguistics, this textbook introduces the basics of the major subfields of linguistics, as well as the Chinese writing system, for students with no prior linguistic training. It presents the Chinese language from the perspective of both modern linguistics and its longstanding philological legacy, as well as providing historical and sociolinguistic context. Chapters cover phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexicon, lexical semantics, syntax, sign language and braille. Authentic, real-world examples are drawn from Chinese newspapers, websites, and social media to facilitate meaningful linguistic analysis, while other examples contrast English and Chinese to help students grasp key concepts. Students will also benefit from the robust pedagogical approach, which includes learning objectives, guiding questions, checkpoint summaries, discussion questions, exercises, further readings, and bilingual glossaries. Supplementary resources provide answers to exercises, sample course syllabi, links to resources, and recordings of sounds.

The Coveted Mount
  • The Horse in South Asian History
  • Edited by Pratyay Nath, Ranabir Chakravarti
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    30 June 2026
  • From the Asvamedha sacrifice to the mounted police, modernist paintings to the medieval cavalry, oceanic trade to urban transport – horses have occupied a prominent position in almost every sphere of human history in South Asia. The Coveted Mount brings a holistic analysis of the compelling history of this human-nonhuman relationship from prehistory to the twenty-first century. The essays in this book unravel the role of the horse in gift exchanges, colonial cities, astrological knowledge, military campaigns, modern art, political culture, religious belief, veterinary sciences, and oceanic commerce. They do so by interpreting colonial records, ancient epics, epigraphic records, medieval coins, temple friezes, modern art, stone and terracotta sculptures, imperial chronicles, equestrian treatises, and wall paintings. In the process, the essays reveal South Asia's historical connections with the world. Overall, this richly illustrated book shows how, when, and why the horse became the coveted mount of South Asian societies

Knowledge/Nation

Agents of Inertia
  • The Pursuit of Business Interest and Calcutta's Urban-Economic Decline, 1900-1970
  • Gaurav Garg
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Making the Periphery Legible
  • State-making in Nagaland
  • Vikas Kumar
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

The Cambridge Companion to Rammohun Roy

Design, Production and After-lives
  • Three Godrej Objects and the History of Modern India
  • Lakshmi Subramanian
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

Remaking the State
  • Women, Development and Counterinsurgency in India
  • Lipika Kamra
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    01 July 2027

The Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society

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