Journal of Contemporary Asia

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Asia 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement36
The Actual Gujarat Model: Authoritarianism, Capitalism, Hindu Nationalism and Populism in the Time of Modi22
The Strategic Logics of State Investment Funds in Asia: Beyond Financialisation18
The Turkish Variety of State-Permeated Capitalism and Mutually Dependent State-Business Relations17
Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines16
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area15
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance14
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar13
Sick Tiger: Social Conflict, State–Business Relations and Exclusive Growth in Thailand11
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies10
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics10
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar10
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar10
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State9
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society9
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy9
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia9
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy8
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China8
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands8
Adaptive Authoritarian Resilience: Cambodian Strongman’s Quest for Legitimacy8
Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction7
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest6
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia6
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance5
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries5
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia5
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy5
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 20195
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China5
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar5
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism5
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain5
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay4
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century4
Capitalist Accumulation, Contradictions and Crisis in China, 1995–20154
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories4
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?4
Royal Succession and the Politics of Religious Purification in Contemporary Thailand4
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries4
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea3
The Vernacularisation of Human Rights Discourse in Myanmar: Rejection, Hybridisation and Strategic Avoidance3
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared3
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution3
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles3
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20143
Classical Theory of Imperialism and Contemporary Capitalism3
Transnational Labour Regimes and Neo-Liberal Development in Cambodia3
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance3
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life3
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?3
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation3
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam3
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power3
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period2
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)2
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia2
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period2
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution2
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative2
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong2
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence2
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka2
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar2
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition2
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism2
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan2
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry2
Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia2
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India1
Labour Recruitment Systems in Global Production Networks: The Ruralisation of Labour Regimes in South India’s Garment and Textile Industries1
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus1
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)1
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought1
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools1
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts1
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab1
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines1
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 19491
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–20201
What is Wrong with the Historiography on Colonialism in Malaya? Penang at the Periphery1
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity1
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism1
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations1
Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy1
Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis1
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh’s Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks1
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan1
Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure.1
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China1
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies1
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation1
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia1
The Forging of Legitimate Authority in the Ceasefire Mixed-control Karen Areas of Myanmar1
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia1
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India1
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic1
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20221
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia1
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea1
Is There an Indian Precariat? Evidence from the Auto Manufacturing Industry1
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve1
Weapon of Resistance or Tool of Control? Chinese Labour Law in a Post-Strike Era1
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka1
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)1
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention1
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar1
Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry1
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy1
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State1
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace0
Labor and Politics in Indonesia0
From the “Lost Decades” to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan0
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–20160
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India . By Alf Gunvald Nilsen. Abingdon: 0
East–West Reflections on Demonization: North Korea Now, China Next?0
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State0
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation0
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 . By0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia0
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.0
The Japanese Economy0
The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy and Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India0
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar0
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia0
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn0
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation0
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand0
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation0
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States0
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20230
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 H0
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy0
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads0
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.0
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 0
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand0
Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills: Empire and Resistance0
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development0
The Cost of Belonging. An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown0
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left0
Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives0
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery0
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons0
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B0
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey0
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, 20
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State0
Drums of War, Drums of Development. The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945–19800
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam0
Painting Myanmar’s Transition0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia0
Handbook on China and Globalization0
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong0
Using Labour to Characterise Forms of Agriculture: A Thai Family Rubber Farming Case Study0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village0
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs0
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: Pri0
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life0
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy0
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands0
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy ImplementationRedeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation. By Lio0
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens0
In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast.0
Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand.0
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 0
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s IndiaGujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India. By Christophe Jaffrelot. London: Hurst & Company, 2024.0
Correction0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–20200
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway0
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia0
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development0
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines0
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea0
Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China.0
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia0
China’s Outward Investment under “Hierarchical Steering” and “Grassroots Internationalisation”0
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea0
The “Peculiarities” Of Modernisation In Korea: Revisiting The Debate On “Colonial Modernisation” Vs. “Colonial Plunder”0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20240
Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment0
Marx’s Literary Style Marx’s Literary Style . By Ludovico Silva. London: Verso, 2023.0
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India0
Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand . By Arjun Subrahmanyan. Albany: State U0
Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution0
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 . San0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program0
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.0
Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20210
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–20190
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 [South0
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia0
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence From Japan and China0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’sPlan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support0
Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Identity and Belonging in Goa.0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China0
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities0
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime0
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry0
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China0
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh0
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Threats or Opportunities? Chinese “Proto-Elite” Perceptions of their Regional Neighbours0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?0
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution0
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam0
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth.0
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary0
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