In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, imposed a stringent lockdown with only four hours notice It paid no attention to the millions of migrants who work on a temporary basis in Indian cities Most lost their livelihoods as a r...

<jats:p>In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But th...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the colonial past-bubonic plague from 1896, influenza in 1918-19-as a source of comparisons, lessons, and dire warnings ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over Some things, however, seem relatively clear So far, the agendas of the world's most powerful actors seem unchanged-or, indeed, accelerated Partly as a result, disease mortality and economic losses have fallen largely on poorer ...

Public health in China has become a global concern as a consequence of the outbreak and worldwide spread of COVID-19 This article examines the historical place of China in international and global health Contrary to prevalent narratives in the history of medicine, China...

This essay provides a critical observation of the South Korean government's distinctive management of COVID-19 with particular reference to the state of emergency It reveals that the success of South Korea's handling of the pandemic is largely attributed by a majority o...

<jats:p>Many historians of China, particularly those based in North America, insist that the Qing dynasty's territorial expansion was imperial and comparable to the imperial expansions of other global empires. Other historians, particularly but not only those based in t...

<jats:p>Building on current research regarding constitutional migration, this article shows how constitutional provisions protecting religious freedom (“subject to public order”) arrived in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, not via colonial British or traditional Islami...