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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China	12
Searching for Shangrila: Existential Authenticity, Buddhist Revival, and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier	9
The Peaks and Ranges of Ecosystem Models	8
The KMT versus the CCP: Dueling Chinese Nationalisms and the Politics of Colonial Rule During Hong Kong’s 1956 Riots	8
Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity	6
Maoist Miniatures: The Proletarian Everyday, Visual Remediation, and the Politics of Revolutionary Form	6
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
Militarization as Personal Cultivation: Student Military Training in Guomindang China, 1928–1937	2
Social Relations of Amateur Practice: The Socialist Vision for Culture in Hunan’s Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 1953–1958	2
The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism	2
What Is Minimalist Governance?*	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
The Relevance of the Household to Individual Businesses in Urban and Rural China	2
China’s “Economic Miracle” and the Universal Modernization Model	2
Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform	2

Rethinking the Cultural Relations between Hong Kong and China: An Analysis of the Chinese Reception of Stephen Chow’s Films