Journal of Contemporary China

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary China 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Chinese Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance during COVID-1941
Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China39
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance31
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance23
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society18
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents18
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping18
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects17
The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America17
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia16
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power16
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates16
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order14
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China12
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion10
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative10
Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK10
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era10
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War10
Conditional Justice: Evaluating the Judicial Centralization Reform in China10
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China10
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective9
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy9
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)9
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression9
Domestic Contestation, International Backlash, and Authoritarian Resilience: How Did the Chinese Party-state Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?9
The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms9
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia9
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China8
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-20208
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision8
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti8
Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution8
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration7
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions7
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China7
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China7
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination7
Invented Borders: The Tension Between Grassroots Patriotism and State-led Patriotic Campaigns in China6
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic6
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China6
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy6
China’s Global Investment and Maritime Flows in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative6
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image6
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System6
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?6
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party6
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice5
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
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China5
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations5
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China5
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme5
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance5
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan5
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus5
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality5
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era5
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization4
From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization and Elite Opportunity in Post-Reform China4
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover4
Propagating ‘Democracy’ in China? A Two-Way Communication Explanation4
From ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Peacebuilder? How Evolving Chinese Discourses and Self-perceptions Impact Its Growing Influence in Conflict Societies4
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform4
Fragmented Soft Power: Bureaucratic Politics and China’s Foreign Aid in Education to Africa4
“Beautiful Countryside Construction,” Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China4
Exchange Rate Exposure and International Competition: Evidence from Chinese Industries4
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities4
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan4
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China4
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China4
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage4
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership4
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China3
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order3
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?3
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives3
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes3
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda3
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures3
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa3
China and Authoritarian Collaboration3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy3
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China3
Wasted Talents? China’s Higher Education Reforms Experienced through Its Visiting Scholars Abroad3
Bureaucratic Deliberation and China’s Engagement with International Ideas: A Case Study on China’s Adoption of Carbon Emissions Trading3
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions3
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China3
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics3
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia3
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power3
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China3
The Political Limits of China’s Anti-Corruption Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the New Supervision Commission3
A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime3
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations3
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia2
Becoming a Ganbu: China’s Cadre Training School System2
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign2
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies2
Effects of United States Anti-dumping Actions on Sino-U.S. Trade in Steel Products2
China’s Growing Power Makes Its Youth Hawkish? Evidence from the Chinese Youth’s Attitudes toward the US and Japan2
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other2
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition2
From Peripheral Actors to Established Players: Environmental NGOs’ Participation Through Public Notice-And-Comment Procedures and Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China2
Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals’ Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History2
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach2
Business is Business: How Does Trade Relationship Fail to Boost Image of China?2
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?2
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China2
Party Corporatism in Urban China: Grid Governance and Resurgent Centralism2
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter2
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control2
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura: An Index to Rank China’s Leadership Positions2
Guarding Against the Threat of a Westernising Education: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Saudi Cultural Security Discourses and Practices Towards Overseas Study2
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China2
China-South Korea Disputes in the Yellow Sea: Why a More Conciliatory Chinese Posture2
Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and Hangzhou2
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys2
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations2
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice2
Authority and Autonomy without Independence: The Gradual Institutional Change of the Chinese Central Bank2
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China2
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States2
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests2
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines2
Where the Rainbow Rises: The Strategic Adaptations of China’s LGBT NGOs to Restricted Civic Space2
Introduction: Explaining Cooperation and Rivalry in China-India Relations2
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China2
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization1
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation1
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces1
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences1
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation1
Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment1
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue1
Through the Prism of Migration: History of Migration and Contemporary Chinese Engagement with Thailand1
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link1
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region1
Changing Attitudes toward China in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Xi Jinping Era1
Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia of China 2010-2015: An Analytical Framework1
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?1
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films1
To Ban or Not to Ban: China’s Trade in Endangered Species1
Innovating Repression: Policy Experimentation and the Evolution of Beijing’s Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang1
The Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: Particularities and Impact on Local Governance1
Riding the Trojan Horse? EU Accession and Chinese Investment in CEE Countries1
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect1
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites1
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan1
‘One Step Forward, One Leap Back’: Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries under Changing Party-state Sector Relations1
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China1
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies1
The Leadership of Xi Jinping: A Dengist Perspective1
Protest and Power Structure in China1
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China1
Twitter, Public Diplomacy and Social Power in Soft-balancing China–France Relations1
The Divisive Past and the Conflicted Other: How Chinese Netizens View Russia1
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU1
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign1
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–20211
Sources of Public Support for the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong: Localism or Others?1
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?1
‘Trace the Money, Seize the Fugitives’: China’s Other Anticorruption Battle1
Sino-Vatican Rapprochement: An Assessment of Pope Francis’ Realpolitik and the Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops1
“Islamization” and Crackdown in Ningxia: Another Xinjiang?1
The BRI as an Iterative Project: Influencing the Politics of Conflict-Affected States and Being Shaped by the Risks of Fragile Settings1
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China1
Tweets and Memories: Chinese Censors Come after Me. Forbidden Voices of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sina Weibo, 2012-20181
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?1
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