A history of capitalism in nineteenth-and twentieth-century China and India that explores the
competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world's most popular commercial …

As China has risen as an advanced technological society, a new type of Orientalism—Digital
Orientalism—has likewise emerged. Using historical materialism, this paper details these …

It is widely accepted the lifeblood of urban economy and growth is energy. Urban transport,
infrastructure, industry, and dwellings dominate energy consumption in the built …

In this article, we draw attention to similarities and synergies between eco-fascist and liberal
forms of populationism which encourage reproductive injustices against Indigenous women …

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and
technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science …

This article juxtaposes two conflicting images of China's environment during the socialist
Mao era. One is an influential scholarly account of environmental destruction due to Mao's …

In an attempt to examine Eurasian globalization historically, this paper outlines three phases
of globalization starting from 200 BCE to 1492 CE as Phase 1 and 1500 CE to 1999 CE as …

Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority
community in China threatened by climate change. China is experiencing climate whiplash …

In this article we develop and analyse novel datasets to retrace the persistence and scale of
underground market activity in Maoist China. We show that, contrary to received wisdom …

Massive, rapid capital accumulation is usually associated with capitalist development, but
historically, socialist states were among the most aggressive accumulators. Accumulation in …