Journal of Contemporary Asia

Article	Citations
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand	36
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons	28
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy	20
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis	20
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia	18
Marx’s Literary Style	18
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India	15
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	14
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace	13
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies	13
China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market	13
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward	13
Toppling the First Ministry: Kerala, the CIA, and the Struggle for Social Justice	13
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia	12
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism	12
Highways to the End of the World. Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia	11
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.	11
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka	10
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity	10
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State	10
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway	9
L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [Southeast Asia 2022: assessment, challenges and perspectives]. L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [South	9
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab	9
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn	9
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023	9

“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	9
Market Society as a Liberal Utopia	8
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction	8
Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives: Progressive and Equitable Futures	7
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools	7
Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests.	7
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia	7
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	7
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard	7
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction	7
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages	7
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	6
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	6
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2025	6
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City	6
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition . Yi-Lin Chiang. Princeton: Pri	6
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey	5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	5
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	5
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World	5
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations	5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)	5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China	5
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?	4
The Malayan Communist Party and the Question of Hegemony: A Response to Lockwood’s The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party From 1930 to 1948	4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia	4
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India	4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India	4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China	4
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years	3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey	3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations	3
Banditry in the Sundarbans: The Political Economy of a Mangrove Frontier	3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat	3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus	3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan	3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange	3
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia	2
Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests	2
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	2
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia	2
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World	2
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life	2
Reinforcing the Path: The Paradox of Failed Reform in India’s Minority Policies (2004–2024)	2
The Impact of Gender Inequality on Iraq’s Environmental Activism	2
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance	2
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”	2
Analysing Vietnam’s Communist Model of Decentralisation after the 2013 Constitution	2

Beyond Post-Democracy: Precarious Labour in South Korea and the Legacies of Authoritarian Developmentalism	2
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies	2
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar	1
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	1
Making Mao’s Steelworks. Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism	1
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B	1
The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism . By	1
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	1
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	1
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism . By Kohei Saito. Cambridge: Cambridge	1
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State	1
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State	1
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads	1
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide	1
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	1
Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad	1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea	1
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–2016	1
Towards the Indonesian Republic: Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution	1
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts	1
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	1
Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar	1
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia	1
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India	1
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.	1
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period	1
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China	1
The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order	1
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India	1
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	1
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago	0
New Political Leadership, Plus Ça Change ? State–Civil Society Relations in Central Asia	0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	0
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines	0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary	0
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	0
The Dark Side of Corporate Social Responsibility: Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	0
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka	0
Praetorian Kingdom. A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand	0
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation	0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia	0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.	0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia	0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–2020	0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness	0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2024	0
Digital Defiance: Analysis of Public Responses to Youth Activism in Thailand, 2020–2023	0
Marxism and Capitalism Forever: A Response to Smith	0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2026	0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?	0
The Perils of Legal Formalism: Litigating Land Conflicts in Indonesia	0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	0
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea	0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation	0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)	0
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State	0
The Perils of Wishful Thinking: A Response to Peterson, Bedner, and Berenschot	0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong	0
The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of Hegemony and Changing Global Orders The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of H	0
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy	0
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines	0
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation	0
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns	0
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong	0
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery	0
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	0
Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	0
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation	0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War	0
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India	0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India	0
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State	0
The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands	0
The Return of Authoritarian Neo-Liberalism in Indonesia?	0
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development	0
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	0
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities	0

Unequal Chains: Global Value Chains and Income Disparity	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry	0
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia	0
Uberisation and Resistance to Online Food Delivery Gig Work in Asia: Lessons from Malaysia	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar	0
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam	0
Negotiating Work: China’s Labour Model in the Pacific	0
Correction for Book Review (https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2446895)	0
Development for Whom? The Politics of Heritage Conservation-cum-Tourism in Indonesia	0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	0
Correction	0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.	0
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	0
Chinese and Japanese Capitalisms: A Comparative Analysis of Co-ordination Problems in Vehicle Electrification Paths	0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship	0
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	0
About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics	0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution	0
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States	0
A Political Economy of the Evolution of Public-Private Partnership Mechanism in the Chinese Water Sector	0
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression	0
Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas	0
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime	0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand	0
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea	0
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	0
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar	0
What has Happened to the Poster Child: is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?	0
Expressive Solidarity in Courtrooms: Defiant Senior Citizens in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong	0
Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar	0
Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power	0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh	0
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture	0
The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management	0
Perilous Wagers. Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-first Century Tokyo	0
Geo-Politics and the Changing Social Imaginaries of Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan	0
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election	0
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	0
Decoding Australia’s “China Threat”: Geo-Politics, Knowledge Formation, and Public Opinion	0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China	0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India	0
Political Coalitions of Labour Control: Comparing Singapore and Cambodia	0
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	0
The Rise and Fall of Student Labour Activism in Authoritarian China	0
Correction	0
Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies	0
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists	0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support	0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	0
Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations	0
Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand . By Arjun Subrahmanyan. Albany: State U	0
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam	0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose	0
Understanding and Combating Modern Slavery in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh	0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	0
Centre-Periphery in Shaping an Intellectual Outlook: Andre Gunder Frank	0
On the Need to Study Weak State Institutions: A Rejoinder	0
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation	0
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World. Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World. By Brett Christophers. London: Verso, 2	0
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy	0
Peace and Murder in Cold War Thailand	0
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens	0
Manipur on Fire: Eyewitness to Ethnic Strife and Survival	0
Indonesia’s Leading Fraction of Capital	0
Political Trust in China	0
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020	0
China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability	0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	0
The Politics of Thailand’s Participation in PISA: Playing a Neo-Liberal Game in Education	0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	0