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
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	31
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	26
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society	18
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	18
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	18
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	17
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	17
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	16
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power	16
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	15
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	12
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	12
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	12
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	10
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	10
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	10
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	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
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	9
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective	9
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	9
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	9

The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms	9
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	8
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti	8
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision	8
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	7
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	7
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	7
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	7
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China	6
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	6
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	6
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	6
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	6
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China	6
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	6
Invented Borders: The Tension Between Grassroots Patriotism and State-led Patriotic Campaigns in China	6
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	6
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	6
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance	5
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam	5
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	5
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	5
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China	5
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	5
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	5
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	5
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China	5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	5
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	5
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	5
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict	4
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect	4
Fragmented Soft Power: Bureaucratic Politics and China’s Foreign Aid in Education to Africa	4
“Beautiful Countryside Construction,” Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China	4
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	4
Propagating ‘Democracy’ in China? A Two-Way Communication Explanation	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	4
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China	4
Exchange Rate Exposure and International Competition: Evidence from Chinese Industries	4
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	4
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	4
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	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
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	4
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	3

Introduction: Explaining Cooperation and Rivalry in China-India Relations	3
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	3
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	3
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	3
A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime	3
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	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
Wasted Talents? China’s Higher Education Reforms Experienced through Its Visiting Scholars Abroad	3
Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age	3
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	3
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	3
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	3
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	3
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions	3
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	3
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power	3
China’s Growing Power Makes Its Youth Hawkish? Evidence from the Chinese Youth’s Attitudes toward the US and Japan	3
The Political Limits of China’s Anti-Corruption Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the New Supervision Commission	3
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	3
Bureaucratic Deliberation and China’s Engagement with International Ideas: A Case Study on China’s Adoption of Carbon Emissions Trading	3
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	3
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	3
China and Authoritarian Collaboration	3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	3
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	3
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	2
Guarding Against the Threat of a Westernising Education: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Saudi Cultural Security Discourses and Practices Towards Overseas Study	2
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura: An Index to Rank China’s Leadership Positions	2
From Peripheral Actors to Established Players: Environmental NGOs’ Participation Through Public Notice-And-Comment Procedures and Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China	2
Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals’ Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History	2
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	2
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach	2
Becoming a Ganbu: China’s Cadre Training School System	2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	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
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	2
“Islamization” and Crackdown in Ningxia: Another Xinjiang?	2
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines	2
Where the Rainbow Rises: The Strategic Adaptations of China’s LGBT NGOs to Restricted Civic Space	2
Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and Hangzhou	2
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China	2
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China	2
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China	2
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice	2
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter	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
The BRI as an Iterative Project: Influencing the Politics of Conflict-Affected States and Being Shaped by the Risks of Fragile Settings	2
China-South Korea Disputes in the Yellow Sea: Why a More Conciliatory Chinese Posture	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
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	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
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	2
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	1
‘Trace the Money, Seize the Fugitives’: China’s Other Anticorruption Battle	1
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue	1
Sources of Public Support for the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong: Localism or Others?	1
The Leadership of Xi Jinping: A Dengist Perspective	1
Protest and Power Structure in China	1
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	1
Twitter, Public Diplomacy and Social Power in Soft-balancing China–France Relations	1
Local Politics in the Age of Automated Decision-Making in China: A Case Study of the Henan Health Code Scandal	1
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	1
Rare Earth and Resource Nationalism: What Happened Before and After China’s Embargo on Japan?	1
The Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: Particularities and Impact on Local Governance	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
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	1
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	1
The Divisive Past and the Conflicted Other: How Chinese Netizens View Russia	1
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region	1
Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia of China 2010-2015: An Analytical Framework	1
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	1
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	1
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films	1

To Ban or Not to Ban: China’s Trade in Endangered Species	1
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	1
Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing’s Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang	1
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	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
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	1
Regional Development in China Under the “Dual-Circulation” Strategy: The Case of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area	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
‘One Step Forward, One Leap Back’: Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries under Changing Party-state Sector Relations	1
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	1
Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era	1
Tweets and Memories: Chinese Censors Come after Me. Forbidden Voices of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sina Weibo, 2012-2018	1
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	1
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Public Stigmatization in China of Wuhanese During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19: A Moral Panic Analysis	1
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization	1
Party Corporatism in Urban China: Grid Governance and Resurgent Centralism	1
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	1
Exemplifying National Unity and Victory in Local State Museums: Chongqing and the New Paradigm of World War II Memory in China	1
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	1
Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment	1