Journal of Contemporary China

Article	Citations
Chinese Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance during COVID-19	41
Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China	39
Rhetoric and Reality of China’s Global Leadership in the Context of COVID-19: Implications for the US-led World Order and Liberal Globalization	38
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	30
The Political Logic of Protest Repression in China	21
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	18
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	18
China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping	17
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	17
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society	17
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	16
A Strong Leader for A Time of Crisis: Xi Jinping’s Strongman Politics as A Collective Response to Regime Weakness	16
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	16
The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America	15
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	14
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	14
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power	14
The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy	13
China’s Institutional Statecraft under Xi Jinping: Has the AIIB Served China’s Interest?	12
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	12
Rural Reform in Contemporary China: Development, Efficiency, and Fairness	12
Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK	10
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	10
Conditional Justice: Evaluating the Judicial Centralization Reform in China	10
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	10

Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	10
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative	10
Domestic Contestation, International Backlash, and Authoritarian Resilience: How Did the Chinese Party-state Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?	9
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	9
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	9
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	9
The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms	9
China’s Belt and Road Initiative as Nascent World Order Structure and Concept? Between Sino-Centering and Sino-Deflecting	8
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	8
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	8
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti	8
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China	7
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	7
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective	7
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	7
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	7
Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution	6
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	6
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	6
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	6
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	6
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	6
China’s Global Investment and Maritime Flows in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative	6
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	6
Invented Borders: The Tension Between Grassroots Patriotism and State-led Patriotic Campaigns in China	5
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	5
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	5
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	5
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance	5
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China	5
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision	5
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China	5
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	5
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam	5
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	5
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	5
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	4
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization	4
From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization and Elite Opportunity in Post-Reform China	4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	4
From ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Peacebuilder? How Evolving Chinese Discourses and Self-perceptions Impact Its Growing Influence in Conflict Societies	4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	4
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	4
Fragmented Soft Power: Bureaucratic Politics and China’s Foreign Aid in Education to Africa	4
Exchange Rate Exposure and International Competition: Evidence from Chinese Industries	4
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	4
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	4

Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	4
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	4
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	4
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China	4
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China	4
Does Greater Coercive Capacity Increase Overt Repression? Evidence from China	4
Wasted Talents? China’s Higher Education Reforms Experienced through Its Visiting Scholars Abroad	3
Bureaucratic Deliberation and China’s Engagement with International Ideas: A Case Study on China’s Adoption of Carbon Emissions Trading	3
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	3
A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime	3
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	3
Propagating ‘Democracy’ in China? A Two-Way Communication Explanation	3
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect	3
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	3
The Political Limits of China’s Anti-Corruption Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the New Supervision Commission	3
“Beautiful Countryside Construction,” Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China	3
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	3
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	3
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	3
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	3
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	3
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	3
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions	3
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	3
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	3
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict	3
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power	3
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	2
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura: An Index to Rank China’s Leadership Positions	2
Where the Rainbow Rises: The Strategic Adaptations of China’s LGBT NGOs to Restricted Civic Space	2
Introduction: Explaining Cooperation and Rivalry in China-India Relations	2
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	2
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	2
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	2
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	2
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	2
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other	2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	2
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines	2
From Peripheral Actors to Established Players: Environmental NGOs’ Participation Through Public Notice-And-Comment Procedures and Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China	2
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China	2
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice	2
China and Authoritarian Collaboration	2
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	2
Effects of United States Anti-dumping Actions on Sino-U.S. Trade in Steel Products	2
China’s Growing Power Makes Its Youth Hawkish? Evidence from the Chinese Youth’s Attitudes toward the US and Japan	2
Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and Hangzhou	2
Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals’ Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History	2
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach	2
Business is Business: How Does Trade Relationship Fail to Boost Image of China?	2
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	2
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	2
Authority and Autonomy without Independence: The Gradual Institutional Change of the Chinese Central Bank	2
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	2
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	2
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region	1
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	1
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	1
Protest and Power Structure in China	1
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	1
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	1
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization	1
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	1
The Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: Particularities and Impact on Local Governance	1
Sources of Public Support for the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong: Localism or Others?	1
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	1
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	1
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter	1
‘One Step Forward, One Leap Back’: Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries under Changing Party-state Sector Relations	1
The Paradox of Responsiveness and Social Protest in China	1
China-South Korea Disputes in the Yellow Sea: Why a More Conciliatory Chinese Posture	1
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	1
Tweets and Memories: Chinese Censors Come after Me. Forbidden Voices of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sina Weibo, 2012-2018	1
Twitter, Public Diplomacy and Social Power in Soft-balancing China–France Relations	1
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films	1
Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing’s Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang	1
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	1

Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	1
Through the Prism of Migration: History of Migration and Contemporary Chinese Engagement with Thailand	1
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China	1
‘Trace the Money, Seize the Fugitives’: China’s Other Anticorruption Battle	1
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	1
“Islamization” and Crackdown in Ningxia: Another Xinjiang?	1
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	1
The Leadership of Xi Jinping: A Dengist Perspective	1
Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia of China 2010-2015: An Analytical Framework	1
To Ban or Not to Ban: China’s Trade in Endangered Species	1
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	1
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China	1
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China	1
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	1
Riding the Trojan Horse? EU Accession and Chinese Investment in CEE Countries	1
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	1
Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment	1
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue	1
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	1