OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Asian Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action	11
Submerged Hostilities	11
La chair des stèles: Enquête sur les donateurs et les Épigones du Bouddha et des divinités, au Vietnam, des origins à la fin du XVIIe siècle	10
Mongolian Sound Worlds	6
Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale	3
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China	3
Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media	2
The Early Twentieth Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World: Studies in Central Asian Buddhism	2
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh	2
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998	2
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China	2
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific	2
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	2
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy By Christophe Jaffrelot. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 656 pp. ISBN: 9780691206806 (cloth).	1
Fabricating Homeland Security: Israel, India, and the Making of a Global Policing Regime	1
Breaking the Saffron Wave?	1
JAS volume 81 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
In Search of Vietnam's Comfort Women	1
From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop: Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Argentine Garment Industry By Jihye Kim. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2021. xv, 183 pp. ISBN: 9781498584012 (cloth).	1
Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea: 1980–2020 By Yung Chul Park, Joon-Kyung Kim, and Hail Park. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. xix, 315 pp. ISBN: 97806742512	1
Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in South Korea	1
China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier	1
Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919–45	1
Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China	1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780674987906 (cloth).	1

Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong	1
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion	1
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled out of Control	1
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand	1
Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–51 By Sonya Grypma. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2021. xxvi, 387 pp. ISBN: 9780774865722 (paper).	1
Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush	1
Accidental Conﬂict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives	1
Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China By Yuanfei Wang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. viii, 218 pp. ISBN: 9780472132546 (cloth).	1
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion	1
Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c. 1500–1937 By Margherita Zanasi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii, 239 pp. ISBN: 9781108499934 (cloth).	1
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China	1
The “Roof Koreans” Meme	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas	1
Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China By Chenshu Zhou. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 282 pp. ISBN: 9780520343399 (cloth).	1
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Modern Japan By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. 332 pp. ISBN: 9781501756245 (cloth).	1
Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China By Grace C. Huang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. 442 pp. ISBN: 9780674260146 (paper).	1
Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court	1
Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity	1
Buddhist Historiography in China	0
Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility	0
Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368	0
The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm	0
Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China By Joel Andreas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780190052614 (paper).	0
Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949 By Yajun Mo. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. 318 pp. ISBN: 9781501760648 (cloth).	0
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s	0
Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d'un royaume l'autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955)	0
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature	0
Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction	0
Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence	0
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India	0
Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland	0
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire By Sujit Sivasundaram. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xxvii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780226790411 (paper).	0
May It Appease the Court	0
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE	0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India	0
Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games	0
Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77	0
The Rohingya and Arakan	0
“Let the Story Go Round and Round”	0
Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam By Ted Osius. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2022. xxv, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781978825161 (cloth).	0
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security on the Bangladesh-India Border	0
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics	0
Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change	0
Revisualizing Slavery: Visual Sources on Slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago and Indian Ocean	0
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Incomplete or Extraordinary Koreans?	0

Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy	0
Beyond Punjab: Sikhs in East and Northeast India	0
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire	0
Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond	0
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China	0
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period	0
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated Edition By James A. Millward. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780231204545 (cloth).	0
“Swoop and Grab Your Rights”	0
When Muslim Rulers Were Like Hindu Gods	0
Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 By Elizabeth LaCouture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 376 pp. ISBN: 9780231181792 (paper).	0
Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell	0
Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910	0
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus	0
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death	0
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization	0
The Cambridge Economic History of China	0
Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China	0
World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan	0
Asia in a Fragile World	0
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires By Francisca Yuenki Lai. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 140 pp. ISBN: 9789888528332 (cloth).	0
China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future	0
Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010	0
Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021	0
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China By Calvin Hui. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231192491 (paper).	0
JAS volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army, 1939–1945	0
“Gods Feast on Holy Smoke, Not Tear Gas!”	0
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China By Laurence Coderre. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 246 pp. ISBN: 9781478014300 (paper).	0
Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China	0
Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya By Teren Sevea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxviii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9781108477185 (cloth).	0
Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 By Ong Soon Keong. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. 252 pp. ISBN: 9781501756184 (cloth).	0
Criminalizing Job Performance	0
Whose Islam? The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia	0
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond	0
Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China	0
“Littoral Marginality”	0
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	0
The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945–1956	0
Making the Margins Viable	0
Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India	0
The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism	0
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present By Adeeb Khalid. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 556 pp. ISBN: 9780691161396 (cloth).	0
Zhou Enlai: A Life	0
If I Had Your Face By Frances Cha. New York: Ballantine Books, 2021. 268 pp. ISBN: 9780593129487 (paper).	0
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System	0
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin	0
Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context	0
Gendered Denunciation, Sexual Misconduct, and the Regulation of the Maoist Cadres During the Socialist Education Movement	0
Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film	0
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands	0
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism	0
State Formation Through Emulation: The East Asian Model	0
Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare	0
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan	0
Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor: Metaphysics in Narrative By David Hicks. Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2020. 190 pp. ISBN: 9788776942755 (cloth).	0
Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance, and Ritual	0
The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism: Jōdo Shin Thought and Politics, 1890–1962	0
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800–1600	0
Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies, and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean	0
The Miniaturized Futures of New Seoul	0
Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo	0
Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road	0
A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer	0
A History of Uyghur Buddhism	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Critical Engagements and Messy Entanglements	0
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	0
Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China	0
Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World	0
Transforming Inner Mongolia: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier	0
Black Lives Matter in Japan Too	0
The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960	0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City By Darren Byler. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. 269 pp. ISBN: 9781478017646 (paper).	0
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia By Arash Khazani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 244 pp. ISBN: 978050289697 (paper).	0
Asian Political Cartoons	0
Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the “Tale of Genji”	0
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Air Defense in Wartime Japan	0
A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji	0
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea	0
Making Love (and Maps), Not War	0

Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China Edited by Hans Beck and Griet Vankeerberghen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 453 pp. ISBN: 9781108485777 (cloth).	0
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu	0
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia	0
Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam By Merav Shohet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021. 267 pp. ISBN: 9780520379381 (paper).	0
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab	0
In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South	0
The Sino-Indian Border Dispute: From Its Genesis to War and Beyond	0
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India By Elaine M. Fisher. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xii, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520293014 (paper).	0
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China	0
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present By Shivshankar Menon. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780815737230 (paper).	0
Honor and Shame in Early China By Mark Edward Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 242 pp. ISBN: 9781108843690.	0
New Asian Disorders: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century	0
Chinese Religious Practice as Protest	0
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society By Joshua Esler. London: Lexington Books, 2020. xx, 314 pp. ISBN: 978149858466	0
Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia	0
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry	0
Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya	0
Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan	0
Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France	0
Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 By Ying Jia Tan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. 294 pp. ISBN: 9781501758959 (paper).	0
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia	0
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control By Yuriko Furuhata. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. x, 246 pp. ISBN: 9781478017806 (paper).	0
Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic By Miroslav Nožina and Filip Kraus. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. x, 172 pp. ISBN: 9783030436131.	0
The December 12th Student Movement: Uyghur Student Protest in Reform-Era China	0
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations	0
States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century	0
A Tibetan Ceremony of State	0
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism	0
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China	0
The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Movement, 1949–1979	0
The Sensational Proletarian: Leftist Cultures in Colonial Korea	0
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam	0
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921–1945 By David Jenkins. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2021. xliv, 503 pp. ISBN: 9789814881012 (paper).	0
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early China	0
Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing By Mieke Matthyssen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 380 pp. ISBN: 9783030739010 (cloth).	0
The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji	0
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding	0
Literati of the Garrisons	0
Being Dead Otherwise	0
Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan By Stevie Suan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781517911782 (paper).	0
The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973: Managing a Free World By Naoko Koda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. xiii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781498583411 (cloth; also available in pap	0
Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia	0
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Making Audiences: A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media	0
Speaking on Behalf of the Korean King	0
Minor Transliteration	0
Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World Literature, Film, and Media	0
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia By Anand A. Yang. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. vii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780520294561 (cloth).	0
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China	0
Stepping in the Madang: Sustaining Expressive Ecologies of Korean Drumming and Dance	0
A Technomoral Politics: Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India	0
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era	0
Studying Race and Racism in South Korean and Japanese Contexts	0
The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism	0
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History	0
The Snow Leopard and the Goat: Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas By Shafqat Hussain. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780295746579 (paper).	0
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China	0
Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen	0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction	0
Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia	0
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	0
Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946–1961	0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic By Hentyle Yapp. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781478011552 (paper).	0
Anticorruption, Development, and the Indian State	0
The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980	0
China's Cold War Science Diplomacy	0
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge	0
Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life	0
Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and Nation-State Deferred	0
Maoist Pigs	0
Conclusion	0
The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945	0
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy By Gabriele Koch. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. ISBN: 9781503610576 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book)	0
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad By Manu Karuka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 297 pp. ISBN: 9780520296640 (paper).	0
Yuan Tongli nianpu changbian [Yuan Tongli: An extended chronological biography]	0
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland	0
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent By Sudhir Chella Rajan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674241275 (cloth).	0
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past	0
The Square Is Closed	0
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property	0
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty	0
Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868–1912) By Atsuko Ueda. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. x, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780520381711 (paper).	0
Tracing the Bunny	0
Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War	0
To Africa	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia	0
Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements	0
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire By Henrietta Harrison. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. xiv, 341 pp.	0
Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea	0
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands	0
Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold Edited by Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner, and Françoise Robin. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 681 pp. ISBN: 9789004433199 (cloth).	0
Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China	0