OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China Journal is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Making of the Modern Chinese State, 1600–1950, by Huaiyin Li. London: Routledge, 2020. xiv+335 pp. A$252.00 (cloth), A$74.00 (paper), A$63.00 (e-book).	47
:Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887–1975	16
:The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class: Labor Activism and Passivity in China	16
:The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China	16
:Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China: A Global Social Science Approach	14
:China’s Maritime Security Strategy: The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power	13
:The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society	13
:The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China	11
:Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector	9
Contributors	8
:Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism	8
:Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture	7
:How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976	7
:The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work, and the Glass Ceiling	6
Contributors	6
:Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966	5
The Limits of Socialist Mercantilism: China’s Corporate Expansion Abroad	4
: Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China	4
: Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, and Nationalism	4
: Upstart: How China Became a Great Power	4
China in the Asian Financial Crisis, by Peter Nolan. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. 352 pp. £96.00 (cloth), £29.59 (e-book).	3
:Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	3
Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness, by Manfred Elfstrom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xviii+218 pp. A$141.95 (cloth), US$80.00 (e-book).	3
:China’s Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative	3
Patient Group Advocacy in China: Local Activism and Translocal Networks	2

:Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-reform Shanghai	2
:Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise	2
:Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953–2018	2
:Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing Public Compliance	2
China and Africa: The New Era, by Daniel Large. Oxford: Polity Press, 2021. 250 pp. US$64.95 (cloth), US$22.95 (paper), US$18.00 (e-book).	1
:Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China	1
:The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials	1
:The Rise of China and International Law: Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously	1
The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949–1983, by Xun Zhou. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. iv+369 pp. C$120.00 (cloth), C$37.95 (paper).	1
:Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China	1
:Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China	1
Women’s Political Leadership and the Party Agenda: The Coverage of Female Politburo Members in the People’s Daily	1
:Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work	1
:Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China	0
: The New Politics of Beijing–Hong Kong Relations: Ideological Conflicts and Factionalism	0
:Congress and China Policy: Past Episodic, Recent Enduring Influence	0
:Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary	0
:Rethinking Chinese Politics	0
:Taming Sino-American Rivalry	0
The Wuhan Lockdown, by Guobin Yang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 328 pp. US$115.00/£90.00 (cloth), US$28.00/£22.00 (paper, e-book).	0
Queer Media in China, by Hongwei Bao. London: Routledge, 2021. xvi+238 pp. £120.00 (cloth), £36.99 (e-book).	0
:Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State	0
Front Matter	0
:Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption	0
:Reclaiming the Wilderness: Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao	0
Contributors	0
:The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia	0
:Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China	0
Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia, edited by Karrie Koesel, Valerie Bunce, and Jessica Weiss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. x+326 pp. £64.00 (	0
:A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination	0
:The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach	0
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China, by Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2020. US$32.50 (paper).	0
:China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia	0
:The Children of China’s Great Migration	0
The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization, by Konstantinos D. Tsimonis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 211 pp. €99.00/£90.00/U	0
:Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China	0
Contributors	0
:China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order	0
:Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China	0
:Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China	0
:Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97	0
:Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China	0
:Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order	0
:From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State	0
:In the Event of Women	0
:The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Relations	0
:Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao	0
Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals, by Sebastian Veg. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. vii+352 pp. US$65.00/£50.00 (cloth).	0
: Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China	0
:The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem	0

:The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951,	0
Different Shades of Nationalism: Unpacking Chinese Online Narratives about the Russia-Ukraine War	0
China-Africa and an Economic Transformation, edited by Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx+342 pp. £69.00 (cloth); also available as an e-book.	0
:The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War	0
:The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America	0
: China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy	0
:The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China	0
:Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China	0
: In Search of Green China	0
:The Sentinal State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China	0
:Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms	0
:China as Number One? The Emerging Values of a Rising Power	0
:Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism	0
Contributors	0
:The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era	0
: China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets	0
:Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative	0
:Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	0
:Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	0
Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approaches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation, by Xiaoyang Tang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx+278 pp. £75.00 (cloth); US$80.00 (e-boo	0
: Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule	0
Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up against Waste Incineration, by Maria Bondes. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 324 pp. US$136.00/€109.00 (cloth).	0
:The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory	0
: Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949	0
:Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations, and Contestations	0
:Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China	0
:Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order	0
Defending Hierarchy in the Name of Equality: The Statist Metamorphosis of China’s New Left	0
:Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre	0
:Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire	0
:Love Troubles: Inequality in China and Its Intimate Consequences	0
:Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921–1978: Revolution and Social Change	0
:Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death	0
Beyond Self-Censorship: Hong Kong’s Journalistic Risk Culture under the National Security Law	0
:Social Credit: The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire	0
:Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program	0
:China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: The Contest for Supremacy	0
Securing Authoritarian Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Political Economy of Surveillance in China	0
Educational Migration and Rural Decline in China	0
:A New Era of Risk: Why We Need a New, Sustainable Internationalism to Manage the Rise of China	0
The Chinese Internet: The Online Public Sphere, Power Relations, and Political Communication, by Qingning Wang. London: Routledge, 2021. xii+232 pp. US$160.00 (cloth), US$48.95 (e-book).	0
:Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order	0
:Awakening to China’s Rise: European Foreign and Security Policies toward the People’s Republic of China	0
:China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy	0
Chinese Asianism, 1894–1945, by Craig A. Smith. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. US$55.00/£44.95/€49.50 (cloth).	0
:Sovietology in Post-Mao China: Aspects of Foreign Relations, Politics, and Nationality, 1980–1999,	0
:Factional Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?	0
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation: History Problems and Historical Opportunities, by Barry Buzan and Evelyn Goh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii+339 pp. US$105.00/£79.00 (cloth);	0
The Rapid Ascent of China’s Corporate Giants	0
: The Judicial System of China	0
:China’s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy	0
:Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims	0
:Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China’s Future	0
:Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	0
Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841–1984, edited by Elizabeth Sinn and Christopher Munn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. vi+198 pp. US$50.00 (cloth).	0
Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination, by Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. xi+333 pp. US$80.00 (cloth), US$34.95 (pap	0
China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership, by Benjamin Tze Ern Ho. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. vi+264 pp. €99.90 (cloth)	0
:Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China	0
:Sinology during the Cold War	0
:Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty	0
:Social Enterprise in China: State–Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness	0
:Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China	0
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China	0
China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao, by Xiaoping Fang. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. xiii+312 pp. US$55.00 (cloth).	0
:The Political Thought of Xi Jinping	0
:Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle against Authoritarian Culture in China	0
Local Government Debt in China: The 2023 Bailout and Future Prospects	0
:From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism: Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China	0
Front Matter	0
:China’s Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century	0
China’s Bureaucratic Slack: Material Inducements and Decision-Making Risks among Chinese Local Cadres	0
: The Governance of Economic Development: Investment, Innovation, and Competition in China	0
:Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model	0
:Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China’s Ruler for Life	0
: The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping	0
:Negotiating a Chinese Federation: The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China’s Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919–1923	0
The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air Pollution, by Anna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, and Rune Svarverud. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 170 pp. US$16.00/£13.99	0
Embodying Middle-Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women, by Kailing Xie. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. xvii+305 pp. €79.99 (cloth), €67.40 (e-book).	0
A Perfect Storm: Fiscal Discipline, COVID, and Local Government Debt in China	0
:Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace	0

:Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China: Government Views versus Local Perspectives	0
Precarity Without Protest: The Muted Political Consequences of College-Graduate Employment Hardship in China	0
:Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class	0
:Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe	0
:Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic	0
:Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation	0
China’s Environmental Foreign Relations, by Heidi Wang-Kaeding. New York: Routledge, 2021. x+123 pp. US$160.00/£120.00/A$252.00 (cloth).	0
:Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985	0
China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities across Eurasia, edited by Marijk van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, and Simon Marginson. Oxford: Oxford University Pre	0
Professionalizing China’s Rural Cadres	0
:Ancestral Genealogies in Modern China: A Study of Lineage Organizations in Hong Kong and Mainland China	0
:Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic	0
: China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?	0
The Tidal Wave of New Unions during the Hong Kong Resistance Movement of 2019–20: Toward Social Movement Trade Unionism	0
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives, edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Hans van der Ven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xxi+282 pp. US$78.39 (cloth), US	0
:Is the Chinese Economy a Miracle or a Bubble?	0
: China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One	0
Editorial	0
:The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020	0
:The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War	0
:A Hierarchical Vision of Order: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy in Asia	0
Vanishing Quotas: Tibetan Political Disenfranchisement in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Han-Centrism	0
Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China, by Changdong Zhang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. xvii+331 pp. US$85.00 (cloth), US$39.95 (paper); also availabl	0
: Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony	0
:New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century	0
: Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong	0
:Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State	0
:Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China	0
:Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age	0
:Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938	0
: Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions	0
:Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong	0
:China’s Urbanisation in the New Round of Technological Revolution, 2020–2050: Impact, Prospect, and Strategy	0
:The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China’s Development Finance	0
:China’s Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations	0
:Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts, Domestic Politics, and Taiwan’s Status in Sino-American Relations	0
:Hong Kong Public and Squatting Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985	0
:Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic	0
:China’s Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative	0
:Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction	0
Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989, by Els van Dongen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii+276 pp. US$139.12 (cloth), US$38.77 (pape	0
: The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China	0
:Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society	0
:Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China	0
:Banking on Growth Models: China’s Troubled Pursuit of Financial Reform and Economic Rebalancing	0
:World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century	0
:Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party	0
The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, by Rush Doshi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pp. US$27.95 (cloth); also available as an e-book.	0
Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy, by Andrea Ghiselli. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. US$100.00 (cloth); also available as an e-book.	0
:Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality	0
China and the World, edited by David Shambaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx+394 pp. £64.00 (cloth); also available as an e-book.	0
:Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China	0
Front Matter	0
:How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions	0
:The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong	0
:European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative	0
The Making of the Landless Landlord Peasant: Government Policy and the Development of Villages-in-the-City in Shanghai and Guangzhou	0
: Nine Dash Line: Deciphering the South China Sea Conundrum	0
:Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China	0
Bureaucratic Avoidance in China’s Local Governments: The Persistence of Formalism and the Limits of Central Control	0
:Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study	0
The Rise of Party Law: Rewiring the Party, Recalibrating the Party-State Relationship	0
: The Xi Jinping Effect	0
:China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower	0
Ethnicity and Inequality in China, edited by Björn A. Gustafsson, Reza Hasmath, and Sai Ding. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. 340 pp. A$252.00 (cloth), A$40.49 (e-book).	0
Catching Up to America: Culture, Institutions, and the Rise of China, by Tian Zhu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi+273 pp. US$84.99 (cloth), US$34.99 (paper).	0
:Reinventing the Chinese City	0
:The Chinese Internet: Political Economy and Digital Discourse	0
:Engaging China: Rebuilding Sino-American Relations	0
:Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War	0
:When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet	0
:Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s–1960s	0
:The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000	0
: Mobilising China’s One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC	0
:Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi	0
:Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar	0
:Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China	0
:Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China	0
Groundwork for Democracy? Community Abeyance and Lived Citizenship in Hong Kong	0
Farmer Cooperatives and the Limits of Agricultural Reform in Rural Hubei	0
:Corporate Women in Contemporary China: “We’ve Always Worked,”	0
Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China	0
风暴历程—文革中的人民解放军 (上下冊) (Through the storm—the PLA in the Cultural Revolution), by 余汝信 (Yu Ruxin). 2 vols. Hong Kong: New Century Press, 2021. ix+1,354 pp. HK$468.00 (cloth).	0
:Home beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China	0
: Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China	0
: The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism	0
: On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World	0
Front Matter	0
:China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions	0
:Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan	0
:The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China; 1998–2018	0
:The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949–2019	0
:The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade	0
The World According to China, by Elizabeth C. Economy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. xi+292 pp. US$29.95 (cloth), US$24.00 (e-book).	0
:The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier	0