Journal of Contemporary Asia

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary Asia is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Painting Myanmar’s Transition36
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation17
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis16
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 194915
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime14
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea13
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons11
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)11
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left10
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention10
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States10
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India10
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 Philippines9
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, 29
The Forging of Legitimate Authority in the Ceasefire Mixed-control Karen Areas of Myanmar8
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India8
Threats or Opportunities? Chinese “Proto-Elite” Perceptions of their Regional Neighbours8
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens7
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier6
The Turkish Variety of State-Permeated Capitalism and Mutually Dependent State-Business Relations6
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period5
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.5
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry5
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics5
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China5
Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry5
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam5
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
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy5
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka4
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar4
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy4
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India4
Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Identity and Belonging in Goa.3
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 Thought3
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 . San3
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia3
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve3
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat3
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs3
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–20203
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations3
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power2
Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis2
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia2
Marx’s Literary Style2
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Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus2
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?2
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam2
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles2
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey2
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–20162
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life2
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan2
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea2
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery2
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State2
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia2
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