OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary China is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	57
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	41
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	32
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	27
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	26
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	23
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	22
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	21
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	19
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	19
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	18
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	17
NPC Amendments: Understanding Drivers of Bill Revision in the Chinese National Legislature	16
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	14
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	13
Understanding Generational Shifts and Democratic Support in China: Value Change Vs. Life Satisfaction	13
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	13
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	12
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	12
The Logic of Stability Maintenance in China’s NGO Governance: Balancing Weiwen Through Incorporation and Suppression	12
Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era	12
Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking	11
Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot	11
The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies	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

‘I Am Patriotic, but…’: The Political Disclaimer as a Social Media Strategy in China	10
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	10
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	10
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	10
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	9
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	8
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	8
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	8
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	8
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	8
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: A Text-As-Data Approach	7
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	7
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	7
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	7
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	7
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	7
Unlocking China’s Banking Competition: The Role of Clan Culture	7
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	7
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	7
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	7
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	7
Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education	7
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	7
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	7
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	6
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	6
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	6
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993	6
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	6
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	6
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	6
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	6
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	6
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	6
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	6
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	5
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	5
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	5
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	5
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	5
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	5
The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application in Cyberspace	5
Digital Governance, Dataveillance, and Participatory Panopticon: Public Health Surveillance in China from 2020 to 2022	5
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	5
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	5
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	5

The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	4
Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control	4
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: China’s Varied Responses to US Strategic Competition	4
After the Dust Settled: Online Participation and Adaptation in Hong Kong	4
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	4
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	4
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	4
Correction	4
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines	4
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	4
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power	4
How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter	4
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	4
Chinese Coercion, Wedge Strategies, and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance	4
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	4
Administration-Led Carbon Markets and China’s Green Transition: Efficiency, Fairness and Rent-Seeking	3
Politicization as a Policy Instrument: China’s Politicized Policy Narrative of Environmental Protection and Control of Its Social Resonance	3
The Quad, AUKUS and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation	3
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	3
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	3
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	3
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	3
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	3
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	3
Between Centralism and Localism: Dual Mobility Regimes in the Chinese Bureaucracy	3
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	3
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	3
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	3
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	3
Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea	3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	3
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	3
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	3
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	3
Threat Perception, Otherness and Hate Speech in China’s Cyberspace	2
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
Balancing, Threats, and Wedges in International Political Economy: The Origins and Impact of the Sino-Indian Alliance at the WTO	2
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	2
Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020)	2
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	2
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China	2
Brazilian Perception of the China-Led Belt and Road Initiative	2
How Do Chinese Local Governments Persuade the Central Government in International Economic Cooperation Projects? A ‘Local Alliance’ Model	2
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China	2
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	2
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	2
Reputational Governance and Party-State Capitalism: A Tale of Two Chinese-Sponsored Railways in Africa	2
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	2
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal	2
Remaking China’s Global Image with the Belt and Road Initiative: Is the Jury Out?	2
Governance Challenge and Tiered State Assistance: The Fiscal Gap in the Chinese Ethnic Tibetan Autonomous Areas	2
Masculine Repertories: Family and Articulations of Masculinities Among Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men	2
Promoting Authoritarianism? Continuity and Change in China’s Policy Towards Myanmar (1990–2023)	2
Disentangling Diversity of Deliberativeness in Chinese Deliberative Democracy	2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	2
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Public Stigmatization in China of Wuhanese During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19: A Moral Panic Analysis	2
Foundation of the Political Resilience in China: A Perspective of State Capacity	2
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	2
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	2
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	2
Controlling Civil Society from the Bottomup: China’s Strategic Arrangement of the State-CSO-Individual Trialism in Managing State-society Relations	2
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	2
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping	2
Correction	2