Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Global South Asian Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is currently responsible for a research programme funded by the Danish Social Sciences Research Council on the ongoing social-political transformations in post-reform India.Ayo Wahlberg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Ayo has published widely at the cross-sections of science and technology studies and medical anthropology/sociology. His current research project is in the field of reproductive technologies in south central China where he is carrying out an ethnographic study of sperm banking. Ayo holds a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and was recently awarded a Sapere Aude Young Researcher award from the Danish Council of Independent Research.

• 1. Governing Difference in India and China: an introduction 2. Imperial Modernity: history and global inequity in rising Asia 3. Nation’s Two Bodies: rethinking the idea of ‘new’ India and its other 4. China as an ‘Emerging Biotech Power’ 5. Post-colonial Renaissance: ‘Indianness’, contemporary art and the market in the age of neoliberal capital 6. Making Gujarat Vibrant: Hindutva, development and the rise of subnationalism in India 7. Between Egalitarianism and Domination: governing differences in a transitional society 8. Rule through Difference on China’s Urban–Rural Boundary 9. ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: emotional wars and the construction of difference 10. Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China 11. Between Party, Parents and Peers: the quandaries of two young Chinese Party members in Beijing

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Global South Asian Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is currently responsible for a research programme funded by the Danish Social Sciences Research Council on the ongoing social-political transformations in post-reform India.Ayo Wahlberg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Ayo has published widely at the cross-sections of science and technology studies and medical anthropology/sociology. His current research project is in the field of reproductive technologies in south central China where he is carrying out an ethnographic study of sperm banking. Ayo holds a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and was recently awarded a Sapere Aude Young Researcher award from the Danish Council of Independent Research.

• 1. Governing Difference in India and China: an introduction 2. Imperial Modernity: history and global inequity in rising Asia 3. Nation’s Two Bodies: rethinking the idea of ‘new’ India and its other 4. China as an ‘Emerging Biotech Power’ 5. Post-colonial Renaissance: ‘Indianness’, contemporary art and the market in the age of neoliberal capital 6. Making Gujarat Vibrant: Hindutva, development and the rise of subnationalism in India 7. Between Egalitarianism and Domination: governing differences in a transitional society 8. Rule through Difference on China’s Urban–Rural Boundary 9. ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: emotional wars and the construction of difference 10. Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China 11. Between Party, Parents and Peers: the quandaries of two young Chinese Party members in Beijing

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Global South Asian Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is currently responsible for a research programme funded by the Danish Social Sciences Research Council on the ongoing social-political transformations in post-reform India.Ayo Wahlberg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Ayo has published widely at the cross-sections of science and technology studies and medical anthropology/sociology. His current research project is in the field of reproductive technologies in south central China where he is carrying out an ethnographic study of sperm banking. Ayo holds a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and was recently awarded a Sapere Aude Young Researcher award from the Danish Council of Independent Research.

• 1. Governing Difference in India and China: an introduction 2. Imperial Modernity: history and global inequity in rising Asia 3. Nation’s Two Bodies: rethinking the idea of ‘new’ India and its other 4. China as an ‘Emerging Biotech Power’ 5. Post-colonial Renaissance: ‘Indianness’, contemporary art and the market in the age of neoliberal capital 6. Making Gujarat Vibrant: Hindutva, development and the rise of subnationalism in India 7. Between Egalitarianism and Domination: governing differences in a transitional society 8. Rule through Difference on China’s Urban–Rural Boundary 9. ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: emotional wars and the construction of difference 10. Religion, Secularism and National Development in India and China 11. Between Party, Parents and Peers: the quandaries of two young Chinese Party members in Beijing