OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern China is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China	10
Searching for Shangrila: Existential Authenticity, Buddhist Revival, and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier	8
The Peaks and Ranges of Ecosystem Models	8
Maoist Miniatures: The Proletarian Everyday, Visual Remediation, and the Politics of Revolutionary Form	6
The KMT versus the CCP: Dueling Chinese Nationalisms and the Politics of Colonial Rule During Hong Kong’s 1956 Riots	6
Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity	5
Fifty Years of Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science	5
The National Supervision Commission: A “Subaltern History”	5
Neither Withdrawal nor Resistance: Adapting to Increased Repression in China	4
Exiting the Revolution: Alternative Ways of Life in Beijing, 1966–1976	4
New Left without Old Left: The 70’s Biweekly and Youth Activism in 1970s Hong Kong	4
Shaming the Untrustworthy and Paths to Relief in China’s Social Credit System	4
The National Protection War and the Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Warlordism	3
Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor	3
Factory Humanisms: Technical Aesthetics, Sino-Soviet Encounters, and the Fashioning of the Postsocialist Factory in Reform-Era China	3
The Relevance of the Household to Individual Businesses in Urban and Rural China	2
Rethinking the Cultural Relations between Hong Kong and China: An Analysis of the Chinese Reception of Stephen Chow’s Films	2
“What’s the Point of Having Meetings?”: The Everyday Politics of Communist Youth in Shanghai, 1922–1927	2
Social Relations of Amateur Practice: The Socialist Vision for Culture in Hunan’s Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 1953–1958	2
What Is Minimalist Governance?*	2
China’s “Economic Miracle” and the Universal Modernization Model	2
Militarization as Personal Cultivation: Student Military Training in Guomindang China, 1928–1937	2
The Recruitment Process for Grassroots Cadres in a Chinese County: The CCP Organization Department and Its Alarm Function	2
Understanding Bureaucratic Involution through Weber’s Bureaucracy: China’s Central Inspection Teams in Practice	1
The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism	1

China’s Modern Ecological History: Bringing the Politics Back In	1
Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960	1
Benevolent Reeducation and Active Remolding: A Perspective from Liu Yuxuan’s Diary and Correspondence	1
Carrying the “Nation’s Thousand-Jin Burden”: Yiyun, the Relay Transportation System during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945	1
Cultural Interaction under State Expansion in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Changes in Marriage and Reproductive Practices in Yunnan since the Mid-Nineteenth Century	1
Politics from the Liminal Space: The Market and the Populist Articulation of Chinese Nationalism in the 1990s and 2000s	1
Building City Walls: Reordering the Population through Beijing’s Upside-Down Villages	1
The Judicial Document as Informal State Law: Judicial Lawmaking in China’s Courts	1
Constrained Power Expansion: China’s Procuratorial Reforms within and beyond Criminal Justice	1
Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform	1
Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses	1
“In Other News”: China’s International Media Strategy on Xinjiang—CGTN and New China TV on YouTube	1
Speaking with Devils: Sino-European Vernaculars and Translingual Communication before the Treaty Ports	1
The Ongoing Business of Chinese-Language Reform: A View from the Periphery of Hong Kong in the Past Half Century	1