OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asian Studies Review 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Gentle yet Manly: Xiao xian rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China	26
Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis	19
Social Media and Elections in Southeast Asia: The Emergence of Subversive, Underground Campaigning	16
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police	16
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong	10
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self	8
The Emergence of Populist Nationalism and ‘Illiberal’ Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka	8
Unmasking the Middle Class in the Philippines: Aspirations, Lifestyles and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption	8
Contesting China-funded Projects in Cambodia: The Case of Stung Chhay Areng Hydropower	7
The Duty to Transform: Properly Refining the Body and (Re)defining Oneself in Thailand	7
Brand Nohomonationalism: Guofeng (‘National Style’) Framings of Boys’ Love Television Series in China	7
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings: The Case of Timor-Leste	6
Going Solo: An Analysis of China’s ‘Single Economy’ through the Date-renting Industry	6
Demobilising and Reorienting Online Emotions: China’s Emotional Governance during the COVID-19 Outbreak	6
Singapore Comes to Terms with its Malay Past: The Politics of Crafting a National History	5
Body Modification in East Asia: History and Debates	5
The Paradoxes of “Vernacularised” Liberalism in Southeast Asia	5
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea	5
The Art of Monument Politics: The North Korean State,Jucheand International Politics	4
Engaging with Labour Migrants: Emigration Policy in Tajikistan	4
The Myth of Non-interference: Chinese Foreign Policy in Cambodia	4
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media	4
Liberalism in Indonesia: Between Authoritarian Statism and Islamism	4
Homes, Home Lives and Precarious Privilege: Older Western Residents and Differing Lifestyle Mobilities in Ubud, Bali	4
Negotiating and Contesting Confucian Workplace Culture in South Korea	4

Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in the Afghanistan–Pakistan Relationship	3
The New Chinese Individual: Confronting the Divided Self inNe Zha: Birth of the Demon Child	3
Towards a History of Conservative Liberalism in Thailand after the 1932 Siamese Revolution: An Ideological Analysis	3
Rights Consciousness in Malaysia: How an Electoral Reform Movement Fostered a Sense of Political Efficacy amongst Citizens	3
Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands	3
Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Essay	3
The Politics of Toys: What Potential for Inter-Korean Reconciliation?	2
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore	2
China’s Push for Greater Influence in the Popular Culture Arena: The Ip Man Saga	2
Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving	2
Global Concepts, Local Meanings: How Civil Society Interprets and Uses Human Rights in Asia	2
Gendered Moralities and Cinematic Representations of Indonesian Muslims and their Arab Others	2
Packaging, Persuasion and Propaganda: Popular Preaching and Islamic Counter-publics in Indonesia	2
A Research Agenda for the Study of Southeast Asian Liberalisms	2
Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy in India	2
Bordering Ladakh, Again: From Ecological Flows to Cartographic Competition	2
Nikah Express: Malay Polygyny and Marriage-making at the Malaysian–Thai Border	2
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms	2
Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach	2
Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore	2
Staging Images of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea: Colonial Visuality and the Proliferation of Amateur Photography	2
Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics	2
The Emergence of Transcultural Humanistic Buddhism through the Lens of Religious Entrepreneurship	2
Digital Payments on the Agenda: How Supply-side Actors Framed Cash and Digital Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	2
The Discourse of Self-learning: An Analysis of Japan’s EPA Programme for Healthcare Workers from Southeast Asia	2
Cinematic Testimony to the Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans to North Korea in Yang Yonghi’s Autobiographical Films	1
Sharia Cooperatives and Mosque Ecosystems: The Devolution of Halal Entrepreneurship in Indonesia	1
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media: The Politics of Islamic Consumerism in Indonesia	1
Accessories Make the Elephant: Buddhist Thais Worship Ganesha, Indian-style	1
Collective Memory and Everyday Politics in North Korea: A Qualitative Text Analysis of New Year Statements, 1946–2019	1
Constructing ‘Responsive’ Publics: The Politics of Public Engagement under India’s ‘Decade of Innovation’ Framework	1
Korea’s “Pushing Hands”: The Story behind the Global Cultural Expansion of Korean Martial Arts	1
Japanese Authorities, the ‘Comfort Project’, and Tacit Contracts under Militaristic Rule during the Pacific War	1
Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a Language Option? Local Responses to the Increasing Foreign Resident Population from Southeast Asia	1
Visualising Korea: The Politics of the Statue of Peace	1
Negotiating Identities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study of Xinjiangban Students in China	1
An Anatomy of Satirical Cartoons in Contemporary Vietnam: Political Communication and Representations of Systemic Corruption in a One-party State	1
Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea	1
Why Are You Learning Japanese? Vietnamese University Students’ Perspectives on Work and Life between Vietnam and Japan	1
Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’	1
A Transmedia ‘Third’ Space: The Counterculture of Chinese Boys’ Love Audio Dramas	1
How Propaganda Affects Public Opinion in China: Evidence from the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Resistance to Climate Change in China’s English-Language News Media	1
The End of Compromise: Political Meanings of Thailand’s First National Day Celebrations on 24 June 1939	1
Informality, Paradiplomacy, and Cross-Border Cooperation: The Development of Tourism on Bintan Island, Indonesia	1
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in Outward State Translation of Chinese Literature in the PRC (1949–1966)	1
An Arab Indonesian Singing Preacher, an Islamic Mass Concert, and the Historic Capture of a Public Space in Malaysia	1
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali Birth Families and their Children	1
Legitimation and Perversity: A Comparison of the Politics of Minimum Wage Reforms in Japan and South Korea	1
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand	1

Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War	1
The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World	1
Towards a new paradigm for English language teaching: English for specific purposes in Asia and beyond	1
Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia	1
Authoritarianism at School: Indoctrination Education, Political Socialisation, and Citizenship in North Korea	1
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments: A Tale of Two Dairies	1
The BJP Government and the Kashmiri Pandits: Managing the Politics of Displacement in India	1
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects: Insights from Parliamentary Debates on Letpadaung Mines and Myitsone Dam in Myanmar	1
The Weakening of Social Control in North Korea since the Arduous March: The Case of Physical Education	1
Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction	1
Language, Mobility and Employability among Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in Japan	1
Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia	1
Female Labour Force Participation and the Reduction in Son Preference in China	1
The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan	1
Markets and the Development of Social Trust in the Everyday Politics of North Korea: Chinese Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives	1
Securing Taiwan: Separating the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait in Japan’s China Policy	1
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’	1
Liberalism in Cambodia: Broken Lineages	1
Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India	1
Contested Memories, Precarious Apology: The Vietnam War in Contemporary Korean Art	1
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea	1