OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary China is 3. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
External Coercion, Internal Accommodation: China’s Wedge Strategies Towards the Vietnam-United States Partnership, 2013–2022	45
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	42
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China	31
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	26
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	19
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue	18
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	17
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal	17
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	16
Counterframing, Blame Avoidance, and China’s Rhetorical Response to ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’	16
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	15
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other	12
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	12
A Retrospective Analysis of the Major Driving Forces and Triggering Events behind China’s Cooperation in Sino-Kazakh Cross-border River Negotiations	12
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power	10
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	10
Fearing Hardships and Fatigue? Refusals to Serve in China’s Military, 2009-2018	10
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	9
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	9
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	9
Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination During China’s COVID-19 Crisis	9
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	9
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	9
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	9
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	9

When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	8
When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China	8
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	7
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	7
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	7
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	7
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	7
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	7
Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020)	6
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	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
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	6
‘Nesting Dragon, Soldier, Spy’: Shaping the Narrative on China Through Huawei in UK Parliamentary Debates	6
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter	6
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	6
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	5
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	5
Is There a Chinese “Developmental peace”? Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Conflict States	5
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	5
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	5
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power	5
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	5
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	5
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	5
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	5
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	4
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	4
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	4
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	4
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	4
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	4
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	4
The Illusion of Meritocracy: Evidence from Provincial Official Promotion in Post-Mao China	4
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	3
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	3
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	3
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	3
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	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
Can the BRI Deliver High-Quality Development? A Multi-Actor Analysis of China’s Overseas Economic Zones	3
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	3
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	3
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	3
China’s Economic Diplomacy Towards the Gulf Cooperation Council States	3
Who Deserves Credit? Banks for the Virtuous in Rural China	3

Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	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
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	3
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	3
Notice of duplicate publication: IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017–2022: An Introduction Essay	3
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	3
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	3
Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age	3
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	3
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017-2022: An Introductory Essay	3