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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis25
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand25
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy23
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia19
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation16
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons15
Marx’s Literary Style15
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles14
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India14
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi13
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies12
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward11
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 11
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism11
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace11
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia11
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.10
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China9
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka9
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20239
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway9
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State9
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity9
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn8
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 [South8
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab8
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction8
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages7
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism7
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia6
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools6
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 20196
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative6
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction6
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest6
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area5
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism5
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)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: Pri5
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China5
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention5
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20255
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution5
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20145
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China4
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World4
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India4
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus4
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey4
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
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia4
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20224
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought4
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”3
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World3
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
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power3
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years3
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