OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Asian Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	16
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	14
Sorry seems to be the hardest word: the 1972 system, the reparation issue, and the history problem in Sino-Japanese relations	13
We are Each Other’s Democracy: The Emergence of New Political Subjectivities and Solidarities during the Anti-Martial Law Protests in South Korea	12
Navigating Patron-Client Entrepreneurial Networks in Peri-Urban Kolkata, India	12
Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China , b	12
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	11
Camouflaged Extremism: Authoritarian Legacies and the Far Right in South Korea	11
Land Mafias in Indonesia	9
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong	9
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	7
Becoming a Tibetan Internet Celebrity: Lithang Tenzin’s Self-Presentation and Identity Performance on Chinese Social Media Platforms	7
Lying Flat in Taiwan: Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era	7
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	6
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	6
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	6
The Production of “Indisputable” Confession Evidence in China	5
A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954	5
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Evolution and Institutionalization of Violence Entrepreneurism: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the South Korean Case	4
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	4
Finding Love and Dignity at Work: Wang Bing’s “Youth” Trilogy	4
The Universal Meets the Himalayan Particular: Indigeneity, Race, and Decolonization in India	4
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	3
Colonial Prostitution in Burma: Inter-Asian Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality	3

In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	3
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	3
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	3
Flexible and compassionate, or violent and intimidating?: various accounts of law in Vietnam	3
Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftistzainichicommunity	3
Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	3
Canes Build Ministers: Discipline, Memory, and Political Socialization at Thailand’s Premier Boys’ School, 1934–1942	3
Collaboration, Conflict, and Integration: Tracing Pakistani Migrant Networks in China	3
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3
Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	2
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	2
Cadre ethnographer: Chinese land reform novels and the making of socialist history	2
CCAS Statement of Purpose	2
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	2
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	2
Historical formation of Islamist ideology in Indonesia: the role of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (DDII)	2
Podcasting Politics in Singapore: Hegemony, Resistance, and Digital Media	2
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	2
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	2
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	2