OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Modern China 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Mobility in Late Imperial China: Reconsidering the “Ladder of Success” Hypothesis	13
Urbanizing MinorityMinzuin the PRC: Insights from the Literature on Settler Colonialism	12
Praying for Blue Skies: Artistic Representations of Air Pollution in China	5
The “Bilingual Education” Policy in Xinjiang Revisited: New Evidence of Open Resistance and Active Support among the Uyghur Elite	5
Personality Rights in China’s New Civil Code: A Response to Increasing Awareness of Rights in an Era of Evolving Technology	4
Neither Withdrawal nor Resistance: Adapting to Increased Repression in China	4
A Place under the Sun: Chinese Muslim (Hui) Identity and the Constitutional Movement in Republican China	4
Building City Walls: Reordering the Population through Beijing’s Upside-Down Villages	4
Native-Place Networks and Political Mobilization: The Case of Post-Handover Hong Kong	4
Performance-Based Authoritarianism Revisited: GDP Growth and the Political Fortunes of China’s Provincial Leaders	4
Historically Remaining Issues: The Shanghai–Xinjiang Zhiqing Migration Program and the Tangled Legacies of the Mao Era in China, 1980–2017	4
Does Governmental Policy Shape Migration Decisions? The Case of China’s Hukou System	4
Rethinking the Formalism-Substantivism Debate in Social Science: A Perspective from Recent Developments in Economic Methodology	4
Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule	4
China’s “Economic Miracle” and the Universal Modernization Model	4
Resource Endowment, Rural Governance, and the “New Agriculture” in China	3
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China	3
Hearths, Mythologies, and Livelihood Choices: Exploring Cultural Change under Poverty Alleviation with the Nuosu-Yi of Liangshan	3
Alliance Building among Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in China: The Emergence and Evolution of the Zero Waste Alliance	3
A Critique of Marketism: Varieties of Exchanges in China’s Past and Present	2
Behind Veterans’ Protests: Passive and Piecemeal Policy-Making in China	2
Accommodating Foreigners in a Littoral Borderland: The Lower Pearl River Delta during the Opium War	2
The Collectivist Legacy and Agrarian Development in China since 1978	2
The State Owes Us: Social Exclusion and Collective Actions of China’s Bereaved Parents	2
Where You Labor Is Where You Sing: The New Folksong Movement of 1958 and the Fissured Mediascape of Maoist China	2

Anti-Activism and Its Impact on Civil Society in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Anti–Falun Gong Campaign	1
“In Other News”: China’s International Media Strategy on Xinjiang—CGTN and New China TV on YouTube	1
Reconciling Femininities and Female Masculinities: Women’s Premarital Experiences of Breast-Binding in the Maoist Era	1
Shaming the Untrustworthy and Paths to Relief in China’s Social Credit System	1
New Left without Old Left: The 70’s Biweekly and Youth Activism in 1970s Hong Kong	1
A New Integrative Vision: China’s Belt-Road Initiative and Its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank	1
That Which Is Carved in Stone: Nanjing’s Monuments and Chinese Commemoration of the Second World War	1
The National Supervision Commission: A “Subaltern History”	1
Reinterpreting the Chinese Revolution: The Balance between Radical and Moderate Approaches, 1937–1945	1
From Wu Xun to Lu Xun: Film, Stardom, and Subjectivity in Mao’s China (1949–1976)	1
The Dilemmas of Self-Assertion: Chinese Political Constitutionalism in a Globalized World	1
Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses	1
Animal Representation in Alai’s Empty Mountains and the Role of Animals in the Remaking of Tibetan Identity and History in Contemporary Tibet	1
On Frontiers and Fronts: Bandits, Partisans, and Manchuria’s Borders, 1900–1949	1
Carrying the “Nation’s Thousand-Jin Burden”: Yiyun, the Relay Transportation System during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945	1
Theory of Practice and China Research: Legal and Social Science Studies	1
Xi Jinping Confronts the Network Society	1
The Social Science of Practice Approach to the Study of China’s Development: A Methodological Discussion	1
Indenturing Celebrity: Governing China’s Entertainment Industries	1
Understanding Bureaucratic Involution through Weber’s Bureaucracy: China’s Central Inspection Teams in Practice	1
A Mechanism of Coded Communication: Xinwen Lianbo and CCP Politics	1
Searching for Fairness in Revolutionary China: Inheritance Disputes in Maoist Courts and Their Legacy in the PRC Law of Succession	1
Going Beyond the Western Pass: Chinese Folk Models of Danger and Abandonment in Songs of Separation	1
Labor Disputes in China’s Local Government-Led Enterprise Restructuring: A Litigation Case Study,	1
A Reflection on Postwar Neoclassical Economics: The Shift from General Equilibrium Theory to the New Microeconomic Theories	1
Colonial Stereotypes and Martialized Intellectual Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China	1
From Dualistic Opposition to Dyadic Integration: Toward a New Political Economy of Chinese Practice	1
Energy, Labor, and Soviet Aid: China’s Northwest Highway, 1937–1941	0
Reassessing the Mortality Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in China	0
Mass Inoculation and Rural Rhythms: Local Agents, Population Data, and Restructured Social Systems during the Cholera Pandemic in China, 1962–1965	0
The Ongoing Business of Chinese-Language Reform: A View from the Periphery of Hong Kong in the Past Half Century	0
Marketization of Eldercare in Urban China: Processes, Effects, and Implications	0
The Aesthetic Needs of the Masses: Cultural Work in the Aftermath of the Great Leap Forward	0
Between Communist Doctrines and Nationalist Agendas: Writing Reforms in Inner Mongolia, 1954–1980	0
The Rise in Cesarean Births and the Technocratic Medicalization of Childbirth in Late-Reform China	0
“Good Samaritans” and Approaches of Resistance in the Cultural Revolution	0
The Theories of “Differential Optimums” and “Vertical Integration” and Their Implications for China	0
Contested Memories: An Imaginary Museum for a Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyr, Liu Hulan	0
Whither Economics in China? A Comment on Professor Jia Genliang’s “Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform”	0
“Green-Colored Uyghur Poet”: Religion, Nostalgia, and Identity in Contemporary Uyghur Poetry	0
Exiting the Revolution: Alternative Ways of Life in Beijing, 1966–1976	0
Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity	0
Re-Examining Theories on Factionalism in the Maoist Period: The Case of the Lushan Conference of 1959	0
Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960	0
Benevolent Reeducation and Active Remolding: A Perspective from Liu Yuxuan’s Diary and Correspondence	0
Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China	0
Yan Fu, John Seeley, and the Idea of Liberty	0
Militarization as Personal Cultivation: Student Military Training in Guomindang China, 1928–1937	0
A Pluralist Vision of Society in Defiance of State Power: Guild Socialism in China after the First World War	0
“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process	0

Stalemate within Stalemate: The 1923 Changsha Incident	0
Cultural Interaction under State Expansion in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Changes in Marriage and Reproductive Practices in Yunnan since the Mid-Nineteenth Century	0
Adopting Revolution: The Chinese Communist Revolution and the Politics of Global Humanitarianism	0
What Is Minimalist Governance?*	0
Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform	0
The Minorities of Chinese Philosophy: Ideology and Identity in the Academic Discipline of “Ethnic Minority Philosophy”	0
Buddhism Revamped for Socialism: The Monastic Economy on Mount Jiuhua from 1949 to 1966	0
States of Diffusion: Ideology, Text, Voice, and Sound in Cold War Chinas	0
Rethinking the Cultural Relations between Hong Kong and China: An Analysis of the Chinese Reception of Stephen Chow’s Films	0
The “Social Science of Practice”: An Introductory Summary and Analysis	0
A Path to Standardizing Material Evidence Collection in Chinese Criminal Justice	0
“You Cannot Make Friends at Work”? Relatedness in and beyond the Workplace and the Reconfiguration of Kinship and Gender in Urban China	0
Maoist Miniatures: The Proletarian Everyday, Visual Remediation, and the Politics of Revolutionary Form	0
Filial Affection as Political Failing: The Children of Rural Class Enemies under the Maoist Emotional Regime	0
Searching for Shangrila: Existential Authenticity, Buddhist Revival, and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier	0
Transitional Frictions: Intimate Ties, Grassroots Bureaucracy, and Family Reunion in Post-Mao China, 1975–1985	0
Demobilizing Veterans: Campaign-Style Stability Maintenance in China	0
Customary Mortgages and the Moral Economy of Kinship in Chinese Lineage Villages, 1905–1965	0
The National Protection War and the Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Warlordism	0
Reflections on the Ideas, Paradigms, and Methodologies of China Studies: Philip C. C. Huang and Modern China	0
Democracy, Enlightenment, and Revolution: Cantonese Marxists and Chinese Social Democracy, 1920–1922	0
Fuwuyuan on Film: Cinema, Socialist Education, and Service Labor from the Great Leap Forward to Reform and Opening Up	0
Constrained Power Expansion: China’s Procuratorial Reforms within and beyond Criminal Justice	0
The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China: The Case of Xuanjiao Dongtai	0
Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China	0
Revisiting “the Great Divergence”: Clarifying the Two Major Modes of Agriculture in China and the West	0
Justice for Whom? Redressing the “1975 Shadian Incident” in the Post-Mao Era, 1978–2019	0
Diligent Daughters: Women’s Educational Outperformance in Contemporary China	0
The Past, Present, and Future of Commercial Associations in China: Reflections on Theory and the Pathways of Practice	0
The Recruitment Process for Grassroots Cadres in a Chinese County: The CCP Organization Department and Its Alarm Function	0
Orphans of the Empire: Lhasa’s Chinese Community from the Qing Era to the Early Twentieth Century	0
The Judicial Document as Informal State Law: Judicial Lawmaking in China’s Courts	0