Journal of Contemporary China

Article	Citations
External Coercion, Internal Accommodation: China’s Wedge Strategies Towards the Vietnam-United States Partnership, 2013–2022	41
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	39
Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020)	31
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China	26
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	19
Guarding Against the Threat of a Westernising Education: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Saudi Cultural Security Discourses and Practices Towards Overseas Study	18
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	17
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue	17
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal	16
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	16
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	15
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	12
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	12
Counterframing, Blame Avoidance, and China’s Rhetorical Response to ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’	12
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other	10
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	10
Fearing Hardships and Fatigue? Refusals to Serve in China’s Military, 2009-2018	10
A Retrospective Analysis of the Major Driving Forces and Triggering Events behind China’s Cooperation in Sino-Kazakh Cross-border River Negotiations	10
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	10
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	9
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power	9
Effects of United States Anti-dumping Actions on Sino-U.S. Trade in Steel Products	9
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative	9
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	9
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	8

Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	8
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter	7
Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination During China’s COVID-19 Crisis	7
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	7
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	7
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	7
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	7
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	6
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	6
‘Nesting Dragon, Soldier, Spy’: Shaping the Narrative on China Through Huawei in UK Parliamentary Debates	6
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	6
Cadre Personnel Management and the Central–Local Relations of China’s Financial Governance: The Rise of ‘Airlifted’ Vice-Provincial Governors in Financial Affairs	6
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	6
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	6
When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China	6
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	6
China’s Economic Diplomacy Towards the Gulf Cooperation Council States	5
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	5
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	5
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	5
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	5
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	5
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	5
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	5
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	5
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	5
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	4
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	4
The Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: Particularities and Impact on Local Governance	4
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	4
The Illusion of Meritocracy: Evidence from Provincial Official Promotion in Post-Mao China	4
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	4
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	4
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power	4
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	4
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	4
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	4
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	3
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	3
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	3
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	3
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	3
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice	3
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	3
Becoming a Ganbu: China’s Cadre Training School System	3
Who Deserves Credit? Banks for the Virtuous in Rural China	3
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect	3

‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	3
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	3
Weibo Criticism of Fang Fang’s Wuhan Lockdown Diary as an ‘Enemy Within’: Rhetorical Tactics and Discourse Practices of Voluntary Propaganda in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Foundation of the Political Resilience in China: A Perspective of State Capacity	3
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	3
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	3
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	3
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	3
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	3
Is There a Chinese “Developmental peace”? Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Conflict States	3
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	3
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	3
Balancing, Threats, and Wedges in International Political Economy: The Origins and Impact of the Sino-Indian Alliance at the WTO	3
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China	3
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	3
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	3
“First Democracy, Then Centralism”: The New Shape of Village Elections Under the “One-Shoulder Pole” Policy	2
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	2
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017-2022: An Introductory Essay	2
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017–2022: An Introduction Essay	2
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	2
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	2
Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age	2
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	2
A Friend in Need May Not Be a Friend Indeed: Anti-Coronavirus Aid and China’s Soft Power in Europe	2
China and Authoritarian Collaboration	2
Rare Earth and Resource Nationalism: What Happened Before and After China’s Embargo on Japan?	2
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	2
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	2
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	2
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	2
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	2
Assessing Japan’s Taiwan Policy: Systemic Clarity, Political Survival and Bureaucratic Prudence	2
Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing’s Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang	2
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	2
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	2
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	2
Does Concurrent Political Leadership Appointment Affect Local Fiscal Allocation in China?	2
Can the BRI Deliver High-Quality Development? A Multi-Actor Analysis of China’s Overseas Economic Zones	2
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Public Stigmatization in China of Wuhanese During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19: A Moral Panic Analysis	2
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	2
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	2
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	2
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	2
Party Corporatism in Urban China: Grid Governance and Resurgent Centralism	2
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	2
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	1
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	1
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	1
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	1
The Rally Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the White Paper Movement in China	1
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	1
China’s Discourse of Maritime Power: A Thematic Analysis	1
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films	1
In the Pursuit of the Constructed Truth: Courtroom Questioning as a Persuasive Genre of Talk	1
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	1
The Quad, AUKUS and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation	1
‘Power of One’: Situating the ‘Iris Chang Phenomenon’ in the National/Transnational Remembering of the Nanjing Massacre	1
Twitter, Public Diplomacy and Social Power in Soft-balancing China–France Relations	1
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	1
Explaining Military Change in China: Reintroducing Civilian Intervention	1
Fan Engagement with Chinese Celebrities’ Political Signaling on Weibo	1
Between Politics and Expert: Institutional Transposition and the Admission of Economic Bureaucrats into Party Elite in China	1
A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime	1
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	1
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	1
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach	1
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	1
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	1
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions	1
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	1
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization	1
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	1
Administration-Led Carbon Markets and China’s Green Transition: Efficiency, Fairness and Rent-Seeking	1
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	1
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	1
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	1

Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	1
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	1
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	1
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	1
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	1
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China	1
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	1
Population Mobility and Passive Alienation: A Survey Analysis of Chinese Urban Residents’ Cultural Life Perceptions	1
To Ban or Not to Ban: China’s Trade in Endangered Species	1