This article maps convergences and divergences in Cold War population planning in Communist China and ‘non-aligned’ India, with particular attention to the Chinese context. Due to their differing p...

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape—rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures tra...

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Dr Umar Khalid is one of many fine, upright men and women, who are languishing in jail under dubious charges hastily filed by the police under orders from their political masters

Scholars often characterise dam building as an instance of high modernism par excellence. Such characterisations typically imagine dams as gargantuan projects that involve government elites drawing on technoscientific expertise to re-engineer the ...

Scholars often characterise dam building as an instance of high modernism par excellence. Such characterisations typically imagine dams as gargantuan projects that involve government elites drawing on technoscientific expertise to re-engineer the ...

"Center and periphery are never simple facts of imperial geography:" CSSH authors Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned from reading their papers togethe...

India must invest in building a generation that can truly know its neighbour, or risk a future of reactive policies

China’s Dongfang Electric has installed a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine, snatching the "world’s most powerful" title from Siemens Gamesa.

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3

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This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...

The US clean electricity transition continued as wind and solar generated more than coal for the first time. Electricity demand growth sped up and solar generation rose more quickly than gas to help m...

Now is the time for the richest University in the world to live by its principles, to draw a line and stand its ground, while it might still make a difference.

Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" is 'history as literature and history as social science, and occasionally, history as natural history as well. It blends and brings together four great traditions of...

it is well-established international relations theory that foreign policy is an extension of domestic politics, but Modi has taken the logic too far to mean that foreign policy is domestic politics by...

Abstract Even though agriculture was not the central thrust of planning in Mao-era China (1949–1976), starting in the 1950s, the party-state progressively nationalized land, reorganized social relatio...

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Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: Questioning Dualism; Spatial Projects; Nation “Building”; and Anticipatory Expertise.

The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983 - Volume 67 Issue 1

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In this article, we unpack what super pollutants are and why they have an outsized impact on the climate and public health.

College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Lecturer in Asian History (c. 1500-2000), focussing on either East Asian History/History of China or History of the Indian Ocean World (R&T ...