OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Toung Pao 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy Over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279) , by Cheung Hiu Yu	3
The Models of Transmission: Early Transmission Narratives of the Taiji tu and the Late Northern Song Intellectual Context	3
Maître de Huainan: Traité des Figures Célestes 淮南子 “天文訓” , by Marc Kalinowski (trans., ed.)	2
Tankuang and His Work in Tibetan Translation: Revisiting IOL Tib J 26 and the Mahādeva Narrative	2
The Rise and Fall of European Maps in Late Qing Diplomacy	2
The Early Qing Compilation of the Ming History in Manchu: The Contexts, Contents, and Significance of the Ming gurun i suduri	1
Informal Storytelling and Social Networks: A Paratextual Reading of the Records of Miraculous Recompense	1
Temples et stèles de Pékin / Beijing neicheng simiao beikezhi, by Xie Lingqiong 謝玲琼, Marianne Bujard 呂敏, and Ju Xi 鞠熙	1
Betting on the Civil Service Examinations. The Lottery in Late Qing China, by En Li	1
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La dynastie des Song: Histoire générale de la Chine (960–1279), by Christian Lamouroux	1
Transmitted Sayings and Their Transmissibility: Patterns and Meanings of Zhuan yue 傳曰 Quotations in Early Chinese Texts	0
The Elusive Mandate of Heaven: Changing Views of Tianming 天命 in the Eastern Zhou Period	0
From Stone Canal to Orchid Terrace: Libraries and Archives in the Two Han Capitals	0
The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts : Studies and Translations 1. The Yi Zhou Shu and Pseudo-Yi Zhou Shu Chapters, by Edward L. Shaughnessy	0
Querying the Essence of a Musical Instrument: Song Dynasty qin ming Writings	0
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome and China , by Hans Beck and Griet Vankeerberghen (eds.) & Rome, China and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires , by R	0
Chen Di’s Investigations of the Ancient Pronunciations of the Mao Odes (Mao Shi guyin kao) and Textual Research in the Late Ming	0
The Fortunes of the fu during Empress Wu’s Reign	0
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Structures of the Earth: Metageographies of Early Medieval China, by D. Jonathan Felt	0
Parting Ways: Daoism, Politics, and the Ming Book in Zhu Quan’s Letter to Yongle	0
“No Such Portents under This Dynasty”: Reinventing Wonders in High Qing Institutional Historiography	0
Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State , by Vincent Goossaert	0
In Memoriam Michael Loewe (1922–2025)	0

Fish Farming in Pre-modern China: A Study and Translation of Two Texts	0
Genealogy and Status : Hereditary Office Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule, by Iiyama Tomoyasu	0
Im Spiegel der All-Einheit, Selbst- und Weltbezug im chinesischen Mittelalter, by Kai Marchal	0
Empty Reality, Luminous Mind: The Metaphysics of “One Reality” and “One Mind” in Shi Sengwei’s “Shizhu jing hanzhu xu”	0
Le thé taïwanais à la veille de son âge d’or : De l’exploitation des théiers sauvages aux premières plantations (début XVIIIe - milieu XIXe siècle)	0
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs. Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine , by Pierre-Étienne Will et Michel Zink (eds.)	0
From the “Five Dynasties” 五代 to the “Ten States” 十國: Interpreting Post-Tang Identities in Northern Song (960–1127) Historiography	0
Changing Identities between Huihui (Muslim) and Han in Yuan-Ming China: Reflections on Adoption, Genealogy, and Ancestral Memory	0
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On General Terms for Texts in Early China	0
Writing Animals into East Asian History	0
Why Poetry for the Middle-Tang “Poet-Monks”?	0
Early Chinese Manuscript Collections: Sayings, Memory, Verse, and Knowledge, by Rens Krijgsman	0
Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama , by Guojun Wang	0
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A Journal of My Misgivings: Liang Yusheng, Sima Qian, and the History of Qin, by Jeffrey Riegel	0
Rewriting History: Late Imperial Literati, Loyalty, and the King of Dong’ou	0
Literate Merchants in Southeast China and Overseas, c. 800–1100	0
The Penumbra of the Great Tang: Poetry from the Margins of the Empire at the Turn of the Eighth Century	0
Revisiting Huairang: The Fragments of the Baolin zhuan Preserved in the Keitoku dentō shōroku and Their Implications for Tang-Song Chan Historiography	0
Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han, by Donald Harper and Marc Kalinowski (eds.)	0
A Critical Biography of Zhu Zhanshan, Prince Xian of Xiang (1406–1478)	0
On the Rhymed Commentaries of Wang Bi 王弼 (226–249)	0
Protecting the Dharma through Calligraphy in Tang China: A Study of the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 集王聖教序 The Preface to the Buddhist Scriptures Engraved on Stone in Wang Xizhi’s Collated Characters , by Pie	0
Le Char de nuages. Érémitisme et randonnées célestes chez Wu Yun, taoïste du VIIIe siècle , by Olivier Boutonnet	0
Entering Anthologies with Names: The First Generation of Courtesan Poets in Ming Dynasty Nanjing	0
Un esprit tutélaire majeur du panthéon Shang : le culte de Yi Yin entre 1250 et 1045 avant notre ère	0
Erratum	0
Le Classique du thé, by Catherine Despeux	0
Determining the Authenticity of Dunhuang Colophons: Practical Procedures Derived from a Study of Three Colophons Employing Similar Templates	0
The Life and Works of the Monk Donggao, a Chinese Chan Master in Japan	0
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Textual Evidence for Sino-Tibetan Buddhism in Xixia	0
Mäng Maaw and the Making of Ming Yunnan: Cooperation, Patronage, and War in Upper Mainland Southeast Asia, 1382–1454	0
Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960-1279 CE, by Charles Hartman	0
Confining Nature to a Diagram: Origins and Evolution of the System of Seventy-Two hou 候	0
Beyond Authenticity: Genre, Rhetoric, and the Iterability of Shangshu Speeches	0
Mutton-Reeking Barbarians and Smelly Ghosts: Olfactory Othering in Medieval China	0
Absent Teacher, Present Reader: Narrative, Dialogue, and Fragment in Yuan Zhongdao’s Zuolin jitan	0
Repetitions Within and Between Chapters in the Xunzi 荀子: Traces of Liu Xiang’s 劉向 Editorial Work	0
Constraint on Expansion: The Western Zhou Military Experience in Comparative Perspective	0
We don’t need no (Confucian) education! A Northern Song Reading of the Liezi	0
Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe , by Stephen H. Whiteman	0
The Ceremony for Check-Marking Criminals for Execution and the Court and Autumn Assizes under the Qing Dynasty	0
Le glaive et la charrue. Soldats et paysans chinois à la conquête de l’Ouest. L’histoire d’un échec , by Éric Trombert	0
Power Relationships among Local Officials, Literati, and Society: An Analysis of Yuan Dynasty Inscriptions from Puyang, Fujian	0
“Soft Subjugation”: Chu’s Relations with the State of Zeng	0
The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor, by Mårten Söderblom Saarela	0
Announcement from the Editors of T’oung Pao	0
The Old Man and the Diamond Sūtra: A Case Study of the Production of Religious Manuscripts in Dunhuang during the Early Tenth Century	0

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Les Man du fleuve Bleu. La fabrique d’un peuple dans la Chine impériale, by Alexis Lycas	0
Daoism in Sichuan: Leshan, Emeishan, and Li Xiyue’s Community in the Nineteenth Century	0
The Dharma King Who Took Care of His Family: Penden Trashi and the Rise of a Clan-Based Tibetan Buddhist Society in the Fifteenth-Century Northern Sino-Tibetan Borderland	0
Pu Songling’s “Shibian” 尸變 and Vampiric Chases in the Chinese Tradition of Strange Narratives	0
The Unfinished Manuscript: A Poetics of Incompletion in the Ming-Qing Transition	0
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Historical Moralism and the Law: Judicial Statements (panyu) in Late Imperial Civil Service Examinations	0
The First Conception of Modernist Chinese Buddhism	0
Bathing through Time and Landscape: Everyday Encounters and Reconstructions at Huaqing Hot Springs (1000–1900)	0
The Tang Dynasty Origins of Song Technocracy	0
Stance and Style in Yuan Jie’s Collection from the Poem Box (Qiezhong ji)	0
Un taoïste n’a pas d’ombre. Mémoires d’un ethnologue en Chine, by Patrice Fava	0
Sinitic Buddhist Liturgy in a Mongolian Guise: A Newly Discovered Mongolian Text Related to the Huayan Repentance Liturgy from Toyuq, Xinjiang	0
The Quanzhou Qianfo xinzhu zhuzushi song (Or.8210/S.1635): Manuscript, Textual History, and Genealogy	0
Performing Heavenly Numbers: Structure and Voice in the Duke of Zhou’s Zither Dance	0
Unauthorized Exchanges: Restrictions on Foreign Trade and Intermarriage in the Tang and Northern Song Empires	0
Where There Is Unity, Order Results: Manufacturers’ Labels and the Creation of Standards in the Late Warring States Period	0
The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China, by J.P. Park	0
The Making of the First English-Chinese Dictionary: Tracing Robert Morrison’s English and Chinese (1822)	0
Unifying Empathy over Predetermined Unity: Jiao Xun 焦循 (1763–1820) on the “Unifying Thread” of Confucius’ Teachings	0
To Build or Not to Build? Frontier Walls, Trenches, and Forts in Mid-Jin Politics, 1161–1208	0
Deux généalogies politiques Shang : systèmes sacrificiels et tensions mémorielles	0
The Making of a Hero and a Villain: Southern Song Literati’s Changing Perceptions of the Memoirs of Li Gang and Wang Boyan	0
The Historical Usage of Spoons and Chopsticks in Chinese Buddhist Monasteries	0
Confucius Repeats Himself: On the Nature and Sources of the Lunyu 論語 (Selected Teachings)	0
Indes néerlandaises et culture chinoise. Deux traductions malaises du Roman des Trois Royaumes (1910–1913) , by Ge Song	0