Journal of Contemporary Asia

Article	Citations
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation	20
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons	17
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy	14
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis	13
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles	13
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy	13
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India	12
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace	12
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	11
Marx’s Literary Style	11
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism	11
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity	10
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway	9
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	8
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia	8
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka	8
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.	8
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism	8
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	8
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn	7
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab	7
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023	7
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	7
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area	6
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools	6

Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019	6
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	5
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	5
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction	5
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	5
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	4
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration	4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China	4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia	4
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2025	4
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence From Japan and China	4
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)	4
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India	4
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City	4
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	4
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention	4
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia	3
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years	3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations	3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange	3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan	3
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”	3
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India	3
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?	3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus	3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey	3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat	3
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India	3
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2022	3
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought	3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve	3
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands	3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	3
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia	2
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies	2
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B	2
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia	2
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society	2
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life	2
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance	2
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World	2
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	2
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia	2
The “Peculiarities” Of Modernisation In Korea: Revisiting The Debate On “Colonial Modernisation” Vs. “Colonial Plunder”	2
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	1
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies	1
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads	1
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia	1

Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State	1
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier	1
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy	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
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China	1
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar	1
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	1
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China	1
Making Mao’s Steelworks. Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism	1
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	1
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period	1
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India	1
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.	1
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts	1
What is Wrong with the Historiography on Colonialism in Malaya? Penang at the Periphery	1
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry	1
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India	1
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	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
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia	1
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide	1
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–2016	1
The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order	1
Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction	1
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949	1
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	1
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State	1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea	1
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	1
Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy	1
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	1
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary	0
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China	0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	0
Painting Myanmar’s Transition	0
Negotiating Work: China’s Labour Model in the Pacific	0
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar	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
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development	0
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime	0
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists	0
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar	0
The Rise and Fall of Student Labour Activism in Authoritarian China	0
Correction for Book Review (https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2446895)	0
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?	0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	0
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong	0
The Cost of Belonging. An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown	0
New Political Leadership, Plus Ça Change ? State–Civil Society Relations in Central Asia	0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose	0
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance	0
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	0
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development	0
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea	0
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	0
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong	0
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs	0
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation	0
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities	0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand	0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness	0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry	0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago	0
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh’s Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks	0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar	0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.	0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh	0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	0
Correction	0
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy	0
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation	0
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong	0
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	0
Uberisation and Resistance to Online Food Delivery Gig Work in Asia: Lessons from Malaysia	0

Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry	0
Handbook on China and Globalization	0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia	0
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines	0
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation	0
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2024	0
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life	0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	0
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens	0
Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis	0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	0
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis	0
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation	0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution	0
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State	0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia	0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship	0
China’s Outward Investment under “Hierarchical Steering” and “Grassroots Internationalisation”	0
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	0
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution	0
About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics	0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?	0
A Political Economy of the Evolution of Public-Private Partnership Mechanism in the Chinese Water Sector	0
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020	0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War	0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left	0
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam	0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia	0
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period	0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support	0
Weapon of Resistance or Tool of Control? Chinese Labour Law in a Post-Strike Era	0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election	0
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India	0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment	0
Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia	0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India	0
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture	0
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition	0
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay	0
Labour Recruitment Systems in Global Production Networks: The Ruralisation of Labour Regimes in South India’s Garment and Textile Industries	0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–2020	0
The Perils of Legal Formalism: Litigating Land Conflicts in Indonesia	0
Indonesia’s Leading Fraction of Capital	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea	0
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	0
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression	0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	0
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam	0
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam	0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.	0
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns	0
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar	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
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
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation	0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	0
Understanding and Combating Modern Slavery in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh	0
The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy and Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India	0
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery	0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)	0
The Perils of Wishful Thinking: A Response to Peterson, Bedner, and Berenschot	0
On the Need to Study Weak State Institutions: A Rejoinder	0
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	0
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand	0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands	0
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka	0
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines	0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India	0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	0
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State	0
From the “Lost Decades” to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan	0
The Japanese Economy	0
Correction	0
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain	0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia	0