Journal of Contemporary China

Article	Citations
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	45
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	35
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	35
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	26
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	25
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	25
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	24
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	22
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	20
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	18
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	17
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	15
The Sino-American Struggle for Normative Security: The Strategic Framing and Shaping of Alignment of Belief in the Human Rights Council During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	13
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	13
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	12
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	12
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	11
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	11
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	11
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	11
The Dynamics of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China: An Empirical Study of the Official Rank-Punishment Nexus in the Context of Political and Legal Changes	10
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	10
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	10
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	10

Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China	10
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	10
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	10
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	9
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	9
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	7
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	7
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	7
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	7
Bereaved Single-Child Parents as the Focus of Family Planning Officials: State Support, Social Stability, and the Unresolved Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy	6
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	6
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	6
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	6
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	6
How Politics ‘Messed up with’ Institutionalization: A Case Study of the Investigation into the Death of Li Wenliang during the Initial Months of COVID-19	6
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	6
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	6
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	6
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	5
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	5
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	5
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	5
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	5
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	5
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	5
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	5
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	5
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	5
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	4
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	4
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	4
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	4
The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application in Cyberspace	4
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	4
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	4
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	4
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	4
Correction	4
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	4
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	4
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	4
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	4
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	4
Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control	4

How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter	4
Chinese Coercion, Wedge Strategies, and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance	3
Between Centralism and Localism: Dual Mobility Regimes in the Chinese Bureaucracy	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	3
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	3
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	3
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: China’s Varied Responses to US Strategic Competition	3
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines	3
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China	3
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power	3
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	3
Censorship in the Semi-private Domain: A Theory of Cross-domain Variation and Evidence from WeChat	3
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	3
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	3
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	3
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	3
After the Dust Settled: Online Participation and Adaptation in Hong Kong	3
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping	2
Promoting Authoritarianism? Continuity and Change in China’s Policy Towards Myanmar (1990–2023)	2
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	2
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	2
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	2
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice	2
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	2
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	2
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	2
The Quad, AUKUS and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation	2
China’s Growing Power Makes Its Youth Hawkish? Evidence from the Chinese Youth’s Attitudes toward the US and Japan	2
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	2
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	2
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	2
Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea	2
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	2
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China	2
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	2
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	2
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	2
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	2
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	2
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	2
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China	2
Politicization as a Policy Instrument: China’s Politicized Policy Narrative of Environmental Protection and Control of Its Social Resonance	2
Threat Perception, Otherness and Hate Speech in China’s Cyberspace	2
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	2
Brazilian Perception of the China-Led Belt and Road Initiative	2
Administration-Led Carbon Markets and China’s Green Transition: Efficiency, Fairness and Rent-Seeking	2
Correction	2
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	2
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	2
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	2
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	2
Triadic Interaction and Collective Bargaining of Autoworkers in South China	2
Controlling Civil Society from the Bottomup: China’s Strategic Arrangement of the State-CSO-Individual Trialism in Managing State-society Relations	2
Remaking China’s Global Image with the Belt and Road Initiative: Is the Jury Out?	2
Balancing, Threats, and Wedges in International Political Economy: The Origins and Impact of the Sino-Indian Alliance at the WTO	1
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	1
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	1
Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and Hangzhou	1
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	1
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	1
Governance Challenge and Tiered State Assistance: The Fiscal Gap in the Chinese Ethnic Tibetan Autonomous Areas	1
Between Politics and Expert: Institutional Transposition and the Admission of Economic Bureaucrats into Party Elite in China	1
Rising Income and Wealth Inequality in China: Empirical Assessments and Theoretical Reflections	1
‘Bad Banks’ with Chinese Characteristics: an Ongoing Transformation	1
Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia of China 2010-2015: An Analytical Framework	1
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	1
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	1
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Public Stigmatization in China of Wuhanese During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19: A Moral Panic Analysis	1
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	1
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions	1
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	1
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	1
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other	1
Explaining Military Change in China: Reintroducing Civilian Intervention	1
Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020)	1
‘One Step Forward, One Leap Back’: Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries under Changing Party-state Sector Relations	1
How is a BRI Project Proposal Softened and Materialized? An Examination of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway	1
Ethnic Diversity and State Multiculturalism: Critiquing the ‘Color-Blind’ Approach in China’s Minzu Higher Education	1
Foundation of the Political Resilience in China: A Perspective of State Capacity	1
Tweets and Memories: Chinese Censors Come after Me. Forbidden Voices of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sina Weibo, 2012-2018	1

China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	1
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization	1
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	1
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China	1
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	1
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	1
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	1
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal	1
The U.S. - China Trade War: Who is More Injured?	1
Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment	1
Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Can Regular Communication Reverse the Prolonged Crisis in the US-China Relationship?	1
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam	1
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	1
More Red but Still Expert: Party-Army Relations Under Xi Jinping	1