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### 2025

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2025. “[The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983](https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041752400029X)”. *Comparative Studies in Society and History* 67 (1): 141-68.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2025. “[The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983](https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041752400029X)”. *Comparative Studies in Society and History* 67 (1): 141-68.



 

 

 

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 From less than three dozen in 1949, the number of small hydropower stations in the People’s Republic of China grew to nearly ninety thousand by 1979. By the early 1980s, these stations were distributed across nearly 1,600 of China’s 2,300 counties. In 770... 

 

 

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Ghosh, Arunabh. 2025. “[Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980sArunabh GhoshIsis 2025 116:1, 146-157](https://doi.org/10.1086/734001)”. *Isis* 116 (1): 146-57.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2025. “[Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980sArunabh GhoshIsis 2025 116:1, 146-157](https://doi.org/10.1086/734001)”. *Isis* 116 (1): 146-57.



 

 

 

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 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 relations in the countryside, and instituted a universal system of... 

 

 

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### 2024

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2024. “[Book Review: Gordon Barrett, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2022).](https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11058010)”. *Journal of Asian Studies* 83 (2): 403-5.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2024. “[Book Review: Gordon Barrett, China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2022).](https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11058010)”. *Journal of Asian Studies* 83 (2): 403-5.



 

 

 

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### 2023

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2023. “[Reflections on Global History](/publications/reflections-global-history)”. *American Historical Review* 128 (1): 278-85.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2023. “[Reflections on Global History](/publications/reflections-global-history)”. *American Historical Review* 128 (1): 278-85.



 

 

 

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### 2022

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[Trans-Himalayan Science in Mid-Twentieth Century China and India: Birbal Sahni, Hsü Jen, and a Pan-Asian Paleobotany International Journal of Asian Studies 19: 239–261. \[Link\]](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000292)”. *International Journal of Asian Studies* 19 (2): 239-61.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[Trans-Himalayan Science in Mid-Twentieth Century China and India: Birbal Sahni, Hsü Jen, and a Pan-Asian Paleobotany International Journal of Asian Studies 19: 239–261. \[Link\]](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000292)”. *International Journal of Asian Studies* 19 (2): 239-61.



 

 

 

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 This paper uses the decade-long collaboration between the Indian paleobotanist Birbal Sahni (1891–1949) and his Chinese doctoral student Hsü Jen (Xu Ren 徐仁, 1910–1992) to offer a connected history of mid-twentieth century scientific activity in China and... 

 

 

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Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[Multiple Makings at China’s First Hydroelectric Power Station at Shilongba, 1908–1912](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2022.2112295)”. *History and Technology* 38 (2-3): 167-85.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[Multiple Makings at China’s First Hydroelectric Power Station at Shilongba, 1908–1912](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2022.2112295)”. *History and Technology* 38 (2-3): 167-85.



 

 

 

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 China’s first hydroelectric station began producing electricity in 1912, a year better known for marking the end of imperial rule and the advent of republican governance. Located a short distance outside of the southwestern city of Kunming, Shilongba... 

 

 

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Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[The Mean-Ness of Statistics](https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/hujitggn/release/1?readingCollection=7e5ac077)”. *Harvard Data Science Review* 4 (4).



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2022. “[The Mean-Ness of Statistics](https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/hujitggn/release/1?readingCollection=7e5ac077)”. *Harvard Data Science Review* 4 (4).



 

 

 

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### 2021

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2021. “[Book Review: Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India](/publications/book-review-andrew-b-liu-tea-war-history-capitalism-china-and-india)”. *China Report* 57 (3): 364-66. doi:10.1177/00094455211023912.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2021. “[Book Review: Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India](/publications/book-review-andrew-b-liu-tea-war-history-capitalism-china-and-india)”. *China Report* 57 (3): 364-66. doi:10.1177/00094455211023912.



 

 

 

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 Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), pp. 360, \$50.00, 25 b/w illus, Hardcover. ISBN: 9780300243734. 

 

 

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Ghosh, Arunabh, Adhira Mangalagiri, and Tansen Sen. 2021. “[China and India in the Age of Decolonization: An Introduction to the Nehru Papers Project, 1947–1964](https://brill.com/view/journals/cahs/3/2/article-p177_177.xml?rskey=Wa9R9E&result=1&ebody=full%20html-copy1)”.  *China and Asia* 3 (2): 177-82.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh, Adhira Mangalagiri, and Tansen Sen. 2021. “[China and India in the Age of Decolonization: An Introduction to the Nehru Papers Project, 1947–1964](https://brill.com/view/journals/cahs/3/2/article-p177_177.xml?rskey=Wa9R9E&result=1&ebody=full%20html-copy1)”.  *China and Asia* 3 (2): 177-82.



 

 

 

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### 2020

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2020. *[Making It Count—Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China](https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13694.html)*. Princeton: Princeton University Press.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2020. *[Making It Count—Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China](https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13694.html)*. Princeton: Princeton University Press.



 

 

 

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 In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world’s largest nations was committed to fundamentally... 

 

 

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Ghosh, Arunabh. 2020. “[An Interview With Professor Arunabh Ghosh, Author of Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China](https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2020/05/23/an-interview-with-professor-arunabh-ghosh/).”



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2020. “[An Interview With Professor Arunabh Ghosh, Author of Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China](https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/2020/05/23/an-interview-with-professor-arunabh-ghosh/).”



 

 

 

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 ICI Co-Director Mark Frazier’s Interview with Professor Arunabh Ghosh, author of [*Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China* (Princeton University Press, 2020).](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179476/making-it-count)

 

 

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### 2019

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2019. “[Commentary: New Directions in the Study of PRC-Era Science](https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article/13/3/443/140140/Commentary-New-Directions-in-the-Study-of-PRC-Era)”. *East Asian Science, Technology and Society* 13 (3): 443-48.



 

 

Ghosh, Arunabh. 2019. “[Commentary: New Directions in the Study of PRC-Era Science](https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article/13/3/443/140140/Commentary-New-Directions-in-the-Study-of-PRC-Era)”. *East Asian Science, Technology and Society* 13 (3): 443-48.



 

 

 

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 This essay offers commentary on the previous three articles regarding PRC-era science by Sarah Mellors, Chuan Xu, and Sigrid Schmalzer. It notes that by moving beyond older concerns that were centered on issues of state control or techno-nationalism... 

 

 

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