Journal of Contemporary Asia

Article	Citations
Painting Myanmar’s Transition	36
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation	17
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949	16
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime	15
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020	14
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea	13
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons	11
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)	11
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India	10
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention	10
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States	10
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	10
Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China.	10
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines	9
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	9
The Forging of Legitimate Authority in the Ceasefire Mixed-control Karen Areas of Myanmar	8
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India	8
Threats or Opportunities? Chinese “Proto-Elite” Perceptions of their Regional Neighbours	8
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens	7
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier	6
The Turkish Variety of State-Permeated Capitalism and Mutually Dependent State-Business Relations	6
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy	5
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	5
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam	5
Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry	5

Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period	5
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China	5
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.	5
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	5
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry	5
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts	4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	4
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar	4
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India	4
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy	4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia	4
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?	3
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought	3
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia	3
Sick Tiger: Social Conflict, State–Business Relations and Exclusive Growth in Thailand	3
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies	3
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve	3
Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Identity and Belonging in Goa.	3
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam	3
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India	3
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery	3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan	3
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2024	3
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	3
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists	3
Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis	2
Marx’s Literary Style Marx’s Literary Style . By Ludovico Silva. London: Verso, 2023.	2
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life	2
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat	2
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands	2
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea	2
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	2
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey	2
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi . San	2
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia	2
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles	2
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?	2
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus	2
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	2
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–2016	2
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs	2
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation	1
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand	1
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	1
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis	1
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation	1
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations	1
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar	1
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	1

From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	1
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace	1
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain	1
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy	1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea	1
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia	1
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.	1
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth.	1
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	1
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	1
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar	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
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy	1
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India	1
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines	1
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2022	1
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	1
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism	1
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities	1
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution	1
What is Wrong with the Historiography on Colonialism in Malaya? Penang at the Periphery	1
The Cost of Belonging. An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown	1
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong	1
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development	1
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	1
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	1
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway	1
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State	1
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation	1
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State	1
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India	1
China’s Outward Investment under “Hierarchical Steering” and “Grassroots Internationalisation”	1
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong	0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India	0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary	0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War	0
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	0
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development	0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	0
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism	0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	0
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’sPlan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago	0
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition	0
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China	0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry	0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia	0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation	0
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	0
Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction	0
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	0
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	0
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction	0
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	0
Labour Recruitment Systems in Global Production Networks: The Ruralisation of Labour Regimes in South India’s Garment and Textile Industries	0
Using Labour to Characterise Forms of Agriculture: A Thai Family Rubber Farming Case Study	0
Is There an Indian Precariat? Evidence from the Auto Manufacturing Industry	0
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State	0
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.	0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)	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
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period	0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023	0
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State	0
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	0
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies	0
Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines	0
The “Peculiarities” Of Modernisation In Korea: Revisiting The Debate On “Colonial Modernisation” Vs. “Colonial Plunder”	0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?	0
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam	0
Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure.	0
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia	0
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia	0
Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy	0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India	0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2025	0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	0

Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement	0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution	0
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life	0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	0
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China	0
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh’s Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks	0
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity	0
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	0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.	0
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads	0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	0
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance	0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong	0
The Japanese Economy	0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia	0
In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast.	0
Capitalist Accumulation, Contradictions and Crisis in China, 1995–2015	0
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019	0
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar	0
Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand.	0
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance	0
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B	0
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	0
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	0
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay	0
Correction	0
Transnational Labour Regimes and Neo-Liberal Development in Cambodia	0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia	0
Handbook on China and Globalization	0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–2020	0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	0
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools	0
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn	0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election	0
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society	0
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	0
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab	0
Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia	0
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia	0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia	0
The Vernacularisation of Human Rights Discourse in Myanmar: Rejection, Hybridisation and Strategic Avoidance	0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	0
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism	0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh	0
The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy and Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India	0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area	0
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka	0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.	0
Weapon of Resistance or Tool of Control? Chinese Labour Law in a Post-Strike Era	0
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness	0
Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution	0
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar	0
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	0
East–West Reflections on Demonization: North Korea Now, China Next?	0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment	0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand	0
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence From Japan and China	0
From the “Lost Decades” to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan	0