Journal of Contemporary China

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.)
ArticleCitations
External Coercion, Internal Accommodation: China’s Wedge Strategies Towards the Vietnam-United States Partnership, 2013–202245
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 China31
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party26
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia19
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue18
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China17
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal17
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia16
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 Perspectives15
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other12
How Politics ‘Messed up with’ Institutionalization: A Case Study of the Investigation into the Death of Li Wenliang during the Initial Months of COVID-1912
A Retrospective Analysis of the Major Driving Forces and Triggering Events behind China’s Cooperation in Sino-Kazakh Cross-border River Negotiations12
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power10
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-202010
Fearing Hardships and Fatigue? Refusals to Serve in China’s Military, 2009-201810
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism9
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality9
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China9
Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination During China’s COVID-19 Crisis9
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy9
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy9
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests9
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control9
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan8
When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China8
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform7
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme7
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination7
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China7
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector7
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 War6
Cadre Personnel Management and the Central–Local Relations of China’s Financial Governance: The Rise of ‘Airlifted’ Vice-Provincial Governors in Financial Affairs6
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link6
‘Nesting Dragon, Soldier, Spy’: Shaping the Narrative on China Through Huawei in UK Parliamentary Debates6
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter6
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy6
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership5
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China5
Is There a Chinese “Developmental peace”? Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Conflict States5
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War5
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image5
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War5
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power5
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?5
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect5
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market5
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China5
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping4
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–20214
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan4
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China4
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China4
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 Pandemic4
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand4
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance4
The Illusion of Meritocracy: Evidence from Provincial Official Promotion in Post-Mao China4
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies3
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy3
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces3
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 Pandemic3
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion3
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 WTO3
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China3
Can the BRI Deliver High-Quality Development? A Multi-Actor Analysis of China’s Overseas Economic Zones3
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation3
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates3
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan3
China’s Economic Diplomacy Towards the Gulf Cooperation Council States3
Who Deserves Credit? Banks for the Virtuous in Rural China3
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance3
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice3
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China3
Becoming a Ganbu: China’s Cadre Training School System3
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 Essay3
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-193
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic3
Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age3
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation3
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017-2022: An Introductory Essay3
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