Journal of Contemporary Asia

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Asia is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis24
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia23
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation22
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy17
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons16
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand15
Marx’s Literary Style14
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India14
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi13
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles13
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward11
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace11
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism11
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies11
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia11
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 10
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.10
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka9
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity9
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China9
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State9
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway8
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab8
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20238
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn7
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction7
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism7
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 [South7
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools6
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia6
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages6
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area6
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative6
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China5
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 20195
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: Pri5
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration5
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City5
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction5
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20255
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20145
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India5
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest5
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)4
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World4
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought4
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India4
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia4
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands4
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention4
The Malayan Communist Party and the Question of Hegemony: A Response to Lockwood’s The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party From 1930 to 19484
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power3
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations3
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20223
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey3
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve3
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies3
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