OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chinese Studies in History is 0. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Manifold and splendid: 120 Years of research on the oracle bone inscriptions and Shang history	2
Primordial unfolding: 120 Years of periodization and classification of the oracle bone inscriptions	2
Dunhuang on the Silk Road: A hub of Eurasian cultural exchange—Introduction	2
History of Western historiography: The views from China—Introduction	1
A new landscape in central Asian philology, history, and grotto archaeology	1
Shenyi gantong, Huali youqing: Dunhuang gaoseng zhuanzan wenxian yanjiu 神異感通, 化利有情：敦煌高僧傳讚文獻研究 (Divine Marvels and Spiritual Resonance, Transforming and Benefiting Sentient Beings: A Study on th	1
Folding and stretching of the historical processes—The existence and transformation of she (territorial shrine) and their significance in the studies of Chinese history	1
Joining jades and linking pearls: 120 Years of rejoining fragmented oracle bone inscriptions	1
“Les lieux de mémoire” and Pierre Nora’s writing of French national history	1
The scholarship on oracle bones and oracle bone inscriptions: Retrospect and prospect—Introduction	1
On the origin and presentation of images of traveling Buddhist monks on pilgrimage for sutras with tame tigers in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes	1
Xu Lanjun 徐蘭君. Ertong yu zhanzheng: Guozu, Jiaoyu ji dazhong wenhua 兒童與戰爭: 國族、教育及大眾文化 (Chinese Children and War: Nation, Education and Mass Culture)Xu Lanjun徐蘭君,	0
China’s image in U.S. propaganda during the Pacific War era	0
Modern Chinese law from the perspective of Japanese legal academics: A discussion on criminal justice	0
The evolution of Buddhist views on divination: From Original Buddhism to Esoteric Buddhism	0
“Running counter to what contemporaries valued”—The intellectual shift of Liu Boming of the May Fourth period	0
Shengru xintong: guoyu yundong yu xiandai zhongguo 聲入心通:國語運動與現代中國 (Knowing upon Hearing: National Language Movement and Modern China)	0
On how Herodotus’s “Historia” became “History”	0
Cui Zhihai崔志海, Meiguo yu wanqing Zhongguo (1894–1911) 美國與晚清中國 (1894–1911) (The United States and Late Qing China, 1894–1911)Cui Zhihai崔志海, Meiguo yu wanqi	0
Mani and the Messiah in the Record of the Dharma-Jewel through the Generations—The origins of Manichean and Nestorian elements in Tibetan texts	0
The development of Western historiography as an academic field in China	0
Shijie xiangxiang: Xixue dongjian yu Mingqing hanwen Dili wenxian 世界想像: 西學東漸與明清漢文地理文獻 (Imagination of the World: The Eastward Reflections of Western Learning and Chinese Geographical Documents	0
Li Jinzheng 李金錚, Chongfang geming: Zhonggong “xin gemingshi” de zhuanxiang 重訪革命: 中共“新革命史”的轉向, 1921–1949 (Revisit the Revolution: The Turn to A New Chinese Communist Revo	0
From national capital to provincial capital: Transformation of Hangzhou’s political spaces in the Early Yuan Dynasty	0
The return of the history of ideas—Observations on the evolution of research paradigms in the history of ideas	0

Environmental history in China—Editor’s introduction	0
Spatiality in Chinese history: Palace, landscape, and city—Editor’s introduction	0
Buddhist literature in Chinese history—Editors’ introduction	0
Equal emphasis on “research” and “representation”: A new analysis of Ranke’s debut work	0
Between the old and the new: Reevaluating the Critical Review and its legacy—Editors’ introduction	0
A new discussion of Song-era “urban culture”	0
A new interpretation of histories of fallen states—Yuan Haowen’s stele inscriptions viewed in historiography and emotions history	0
An initial exploration of the history of China's environmental changes and its characteristics	0
Trans-Pacific intellectual and political interactions: The Carnegie Endowment, legal internationalism, and Sino-U.S. relations, 1912–1925	0
Yujian huangdong: 18-19 shiji zhujiangkou de xiaorenwu yu dashijie 遇見黃東：18-19世紀珠江口的小人物和大世界 (Encountering Whang Tong: Little People and the Big World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pea	0
County officials close to the people—Power structures and the operation of grassroots society	0
A reexamination of the reasons for the closure of the Dunhuang Library Cave	0
On the history and historiography of the “South China School”	0
Knowing oneself and one’s home country: Reflections on Fang Junbi's experiences from the perspectives of emotions and feminist history	0
“The unstable layer of Confucian culture”—Several thoughts on “modern local history”	0
Zhao Dongmei 趙冬梅, Renjian yanhuo: Yanmai zai lishi li de richang yu rensheng 人間煙火：埋藏在歷史裡的日常與人生 (Mundane Stories: Daily Routine and Life Buried in History)	0
Yang Bin 楊斌, Haibei yu beibi: Xianweirenzhi de quanqiushi 海貝與貝幣: 鮮為人知的全球史 (Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History)Yang Bin 楊斌, Haibei yu beibi:	0
Grassroots Confucianism in late imperial China—Editors’ introduction	0
Structural processes in local societies and cultures: A dialogue between historiography and anthropology in Pearl River Delta studies	0
“Becoming a Sage” in the locale: The case of 17th-century northern scholar Yan Yuan	0
Ouyang Zhesheng 歐陽哲生, Gudai Beijing yu Xifang wenming 古代北京與西方文明 (Ancient Beijing and Western Civilization)	0
The untimely Don Quixotes: “The old school within the new school” during the May Fourth period	0
What can history reveal about the future of Sino-American relations?—Retrospect, reflections, and prospects	0
Muru yu niunai: Jindai Zhongguo muqin juese de chongsu, 1895–1937 母乳與牛奶: 近代中國母親角色的重塑, 1895–1937 (Infant Feeding and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Modern China, 1895–1937).	0
“The emotional community” and the direction of mass movements—The coexistence of oppositional developments in the social trend of 1920s Hunan	0
“At Gethsemane”: The Shandong Decision at the Paris Peace Conference and Wilson’s identity crisis	0
Women in the chase: Sports, empire, and gender in Shanghai, 1860–1945	0
The past, present, and future of environmental history in contemporary China	0
From “walking” to “sitting”: Changes in the practices of European historiography from ancient to medieval times	0
Ye Yiliang 葉奕良, Zhongguo Yilang Wenhua Jiaoliu Shi 中國伊朗文化交流史 (History of cultural exchanges between China and Iran).	0
The Buddhist philosophic origins of the literary xingling theory	0
The creation of the geographical space of Xanadu of the Yuan Dynasty and the establishment of a unified multiethnic state	0
“New Humanist” Confucianism: A study of Mei Guangdi of the Xueheng group	0
The symbolic world of cattle: Issues in the advertising, consumption, and production of beef in Taiwan (1895–1937)	0
Imperial China in transition: Politics and society in the 10th–13th centuries—Editors’ introduction	0
Regional interactions in the Chan Buddhist literature between Sichuan and Zhejiang in the Northern and Southern Song periods—Centering on the phenomena of “Sichuan Monks as Laju” and “Zhejiang	0
Qiren Qidi Qishu: Xuan Zang yu Da Tang Xiyu Ji奇人奇地奇書：玄奘與《大唐西域記》(Incredible Figure, Incredible Land and Incredible Book: Xuanzang and His Great Tang Records on the Western Regions)	0
Beyond the Critical Review: Examining Wu Mi’s “A Response to the New Culture Movement”	0
Troubles both foreign and domestic: A comparative study of the political geography of the Song Dynasty	0
From sacred to secular: A study of the transformation in spatial functions of modern Confucian temples (1906–1937)	0
Zhou Lin 周琳, Shanglü anfou: Qingdai Chongqing de shangyezhidu 商旅安否：清代重慶的商業制度 (Convenient or Restrictive: The Commercial System of Chongqing in the Qing Dynasty)	0
Starting from the first premise of history: Chinese environmental history’s ideological beginning, progress, and goals	0
The South China School: A case in historical anthropology—Editor’s introduction	0
A village story and a country’s history: The case of Zhanglin and the methodology of traditional rural sociology	0
Wealth and power without a strong military? The four postwar periods of modern East Asia	0
The entanglement of constitutional government and revolution in modern China	0
From oriental studies to sinology: Comparative linguistics and Joseph Edkins’s Chinese research in the 19th century	0
Zhang Xianqing 張先清. Diguo qianliu: Qingdai qianqi de Tianzhujiao, diceng zhixu yu shenghuo shijie 帝國潛流: 清代前期的天主教、底層秩序與生活世界 (Undercurrents of the Empire: Catholicism, the Order of the Underclass	0
An intangible symbol: Behind the wartime construction of the Capital Martyrs’ Shrine	0
Police system reform in China after the Sino-Japanese War	0

From traditional flower fair to “degenerate temple” to modern exposition: The local politics and spatial improvement of Qingyang Palace in Chengdu (1906–1937)	0
A tale of multi-species encounterings in mid-Victorian London: Controversies surrounding the Smithfield Livestock Market	0
Zhao Shiyu 赵世瑜, Mengjiang huanxiang: Dongting dongshan de xin jiangnanshi 猛将还乡：洞庭东山的新江南史 (the Return of the Fierce General: Dongting East Mountain and the New Jiangnan History)	0
Lu Xiqi 魯西奇, Xi: Yige Qin li he ta de shijie 喜：一個秦吏和他的世界 (Xi: A Qin Official and His World)	0
Hu Shi and the Critical Review group	0
Gu Mengyu de qinggao: Zhongguo jindaishi de lingyizhong keneng 顧孟餘的清高：中國近代史的另一種可能 (above and apart: Gu Mengyu and His Search for an Alternative Path in Modern Chinese History).	0
Postwar Taiwanese political history studies in Japan: A renewed focus on “external” and “internal” legitimacy	0
Yang Yi and Yu Bin, Yibainian, xuduo ren, xuduo shi: Yang Yi koushu zizhuan 一百年, 許多人, 許多事: 楊苡口述自傳 (One Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things: Yang Yi’s Oral Autobiogra	0
Animal history: Cross-cultural perspectives—Editor’s introduction	0
Infractions of moral precepts by monks and nuns in the Buddhist community of Dunhuang during the late-Tang and Five Dynasties period—The case of alcohol drinking	0
Imagining a common homeland: A study of Northeast landscape writing during the war of resistance against Japan	0
The decline of a tradition: The changing fate of Sale’s Universal History and the transformation of modern European historiography	0
Teaching good and doing good: Late-Qing Sichuan folk preaching and its effects	0
Zhao Yanjie 赵妍杰. Jiating geming: Qingmo minchu dushuren de chongjing 家庭革命: 清末民初讀書人的憧憬 (the Quest for Family Revolution in Late Qing and Early Republican China 1895–1923)	0
Du Hongtao 杜洪濤, Shugu fengyan: Mingdai Liaodong de weisuo tizhi yu junshi shehui 戍鼓烽煙: 明代遼東的衛所體制與軍事社會 (War Drum and Beacon Fire: Garrison System and Military Society in	0
A study of lost early Buddhist bibliographic catalogues	0
Anping temples and ritual traditions	0
The Kangxi Court’s “tribute lion” and Lodovico Buglio’s On Lions	0
Modern Chinese history in Japan—Editors’ introduction	0
The open and closed nature of channels for information: An examination of institutional culture from the perspective of the “Yanlu” of the Song Dynasty	0
Lawrence Wang-Chi Wong 王宏志, Long yu shi de duihua: Fanyi yu Maga’erni fanghua shituan 龍與獅的對話：翻譯與馬戛爾尼訪華使團 (Dialogue Between the Dragon and the Lion: Translation and the Macartney Mission)	0
On the development of Buddhist scripture illustration form and function from Dunhuang Buddhist texts and murals	0
Pan Guangzhe 潘光哲, Chuangzao jindai Zhongguo de “shijie zhishi” 創造近代中國的「世界知識」(The Making of “World Knowledge” in Modern China).Pan Guangzhe 潘光哲, Chuangzao	0
Uncovering the history of the Predynastic Kitan: The historical memory of Dynasties of Northern Descent from a polity perspective	0
A reassessment of source citation issues in The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin	0
The cult of the Cintāmaṇi: The nature and context of the Dunhuang manuscript P. 4518 (10)	0
Enriching Song literati culture: With an emphasis on the four treasures of the study (Wenfang Sibao) of the Southern Tang	0
Cultural translation: Horse racing, greyhound racing, and Jai Alai in modern Shanghai	0
Huang Xingtao 黃興濤, Chongsu Zhonghua: jindai Zhongguo “Zhonghua minzu” guannian yanjiu 重塑中華：近代中國“中華民族”觀念研究 (Reshaping China: A Study of the Concept of the “Chinese Nation” in Modern China)	0
US–China relations: Returning to the past or forging the future?—Editor’s introduction	0
Confucian thought and the practice of family ethics in lower-class society in Northern China during the 17th century	0
Emotions history in China—Editor’s introduction	0
Cultural ecology and changes in 19th–20th century Jiangnan field landscapes	0