Andrew B. Liu – Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
ICI Co-Director Mark Frazier interviewed Professor Andrew B. Liu in May 2020 upon the publication of Dr. Liu's new book. Dr. Liu is Assistant Professor [...]
Arunabh Ghosh – Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
ICI Co-Director Mark Frazier interviewed Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the [...]
The Pandemic and the Challenges of the Multipolar Order: A View from the South
In the wake of the pandemic, it is imperative to establish a new multilateral order in which international cooperation can truly flourish.
An Introduction: Pandemic Discourses
The blog aims to foster an expansive dialogue that encompasses voices from the global South, including China, India, and beyond.
Return to Tapi and the Megha Cooperative
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Above: Scenes from a wattle and daub house in Tapi district, Gujarat. I'd like to return now to the story of [...]
SEWA: An Overview
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Over the course of 7 weeks in the Summer of 2019 I took over 20,000 photos in service to SEWA. But [...]
Manjulaben – A Memorial
By Collin McClain, 09/06/2019. On a return trip back to Tapi District (post forthcoming), it came to my attention that one of the women I [...]
Kolkata’s Chinatown: Hidden in Plain Sight
By Isobel Chiang, 08/05/2019. Tiretta Bazar (pronounced colloquially as "Territy Bazar") is Kolkata's original Chinatown. As I've written before, it's a fascinating, confusing place, and [...]
Shantiniketan and Other Modernisms
By Luke McCusker, 08/06/2019. It was raining as Professor Sivakumar walked me to his house in Shantiniketan. We sat on hardwood furniture in a clean, [...]