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The entanglements of exchange in India 印度的外汇纠葛

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X23000094

Muhammad Ali Jan

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Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India 真正的抽象:现代印度的市场、道德和社会分割

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X23000045

Thomas Blom Hansen

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The fetish in the market 市场上的恋物癖

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X23000082

J. Mathew

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A forgotten famine of ’43? Travancore’s muffled ‘cry of distress’ 43年被遗忘的饥荒?特拉万科低沉的“哀号”

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000706

A. Balasubramanian

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The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian Press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920) 多元语言在分裂的公共领域的衰落：殖民地阿拉哈巴德的印度新闻与文化政治（1890–1920）

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000622

S. Poddar

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Facsimiles of yore: printing technology and the page image in the Japanese Government General of Korea’s reproduction of historical sources 昔日的传真：印刷技术与朝鲜日本政府将军史料复制中的页面图像

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000464

G. R. Reynolds

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Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland, circa 1946–1967 香港新界的心灵与思想:1946-1967年冷战边境地区的农产品和蔬菜市场

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000610

Michael Ng, Florence Mok, John Wong, Wallace Wu

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Ethnic politics, the Cold War and sub-national dynamics: the Indonesian Communist Party, the ethnic Chinese minority and anti-Chinese activities in West Java, 1949–67 民族政治、冷战与次民族动态:1949 - 1967年，印尼共产党、西爪哇的华人少数民族与反华活动

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x22000592

M. Woolgar

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Homeland, magnet, and refuge: Mecca in the travels and imaginaries of Chinese Muslims 故乡、磁石与避难所:中国穆斯林旅行与想象中的麦加

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x23000148

J. Jeong

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‘Trishul vs Cross’: Hindutva, Church, and the politics of secularism in Christian-majority states of North-east India “Trishul vs Cross”:印度东北部基督教占多数的邦的印度教、教会和世俗主义政治

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Modern Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X23000100

S. Datta, Rajnish Saryal, S. Saryal

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