OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Modern China 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The KMT versus the CCP: Dueling Chinese Nationalisms and the Politics of Colonial Rule During Hong Kong’s 1956 Riots	15
Searching for Shangrila: Existential Authenticity, Buddhist Revival, and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier	11
The Peaks and Ranges of Ecosystem Models	11
Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China	9
Maoist Miniatures: The Proletarian Everyday, Visual Remediation, and the Politics of Revolutionary Form	8
Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity	7
Neither Withdrawal nor Resistance: Adapting to Increased Repression in China	6
Adaptation and Containment: The Maoist State’s Approach to Markets in the 1960s and 1970s	6
Fifty Years of Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science	6
Exiting the Revolution: Alternative Ways of Life in Beijing, 1966–1976	5
Shaming the Untrustworthy and Paths to Relief in China’s Social Credit System	5
New Left without Old Left: The 70’s Biweekly and Youth Activism in 1970s Hong Kong	5
Factory Humanisms: Technical Aesthetics, Sino-Soviet Encounters, and the Fashioning of the Postsocialist Factory in Reform-Era China	4
A New Urban Hierarchy: The Aftermath of the Great Leap Forward in Nanjing, 1961–1963	4
The National Protection War and the Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Warlordism	3
Gender in China: The Case for Considering Infancy and Childhood	3
What Is Minimalist Governance?*	3
Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor	3
Social Relations of Amateur Practice: The Socialist Vision for Culture in Hunan’s Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 1953–1958	2
Rethinking the Cultural Relations between Hong Kong and China: An Analysis of the Chinese Reception of Stephen Chow’s Films	2
The Relevance of the Household to Individual Businesses in Urban and Rural China	2
Carrying the “Nation’s Thousand-Jin Burden”: Yiyun, the Relay Transportation System during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945	2
Militarization as Personal Cultivation: Student Military Training in Guomindang China, 1928–1937	2
China’s “Economic Miracle” and the Universal Modernization Model	2
Ordinary Life Within an Extraordinary Project: Demystifying the Third Front	2

The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism	2
The Recruitment Process for Grassroots Cadres in a Chinese County: The CCP Organization Department and Its Alarm Function	2
“What’s the Point of Having Meetings?”: The Everyday Politics of Communist Youth in Shanghai, 1922–1927	2
Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses	2
Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform	2