OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Positions-Asia Critique 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals	18
Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town	14
From Immigrants to Refugees: Relocating Strangers in Two Plays about North Korean Defectors	13
Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk	12
The Archive as Infrastructure: Vietnamese Refugee Nonarrival, Visual Capture, and Erasure in Hong Kong Colonial Police Photography and Dinh Q. Lê’s Erasure	10
The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan	10
Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through theBangbotImaginary	9
The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages	9
Pema Tseden's Balloon: Reincarnation of a Semi-transparent Envelope	5
“Archaepelago”: Island Intimacies ( Naeryŏk ) and Weathered Flesh in Jeju Art	5
“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages	5
Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar	5
Instinct, Society, and Li Zehou's Farewell to Revolution	4
Negotiating Bu Kaifang : Chronicles of Opening and Engagement in Miao Country	4
Feminist Visions for Genuine Security and a Culture of Life: A Conversation with Margo Okazawa-Rey	3
Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan	3
Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China	3
Contributors	3
Fragments of Our Youth in the Long 1980s: A Meandering Conversation in the Labyrinth of Time	3
Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand	3
Throwing Stones: Translating Zhang Chengzhi	2
Imagined Islands and the Potential Nation	2
The University of the 1980s: Scattered Thoughts and Reminiscences on Literature	2
Contributors	2
Rewriting the Heart Sutra: Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art	2

Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility	2
Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam	2
The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)	2
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life	2
Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories: Remapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era	1
Editor's Introduction: Aesthetics of the Uncanny	1
Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White	1
Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China	1
Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption	1
China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Chinese Working Class	1
Erratum	1
Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future Workers	1
Mnemonic Politics around the Japanese Colonial Era in Post–Cold War Taiwan: Wei Te-sheng's Colonial Trilogy and Post–New Cinema	1
Editor's Introduction	1
Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature	1
Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums	1
Listening to the Stories Songaksan Tells	1
Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy	1
Wang Guowei's Theorization of the Human World: A Nonmetaphysical Approach to Will	1
Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap	1
Contesting the Residue: Bandits, Collective Hamlets, and Japanese Colonialism in Manchuria	1
Editor's Introduction: Conditions of Seeing	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Urban In-Between	1
Assimilation and Asian American Refusal	1
Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone (Blood and Bones)	1