OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Peripherality and nostalgia in Singapore island fiction	13
“Losing language is a loss of nation”: transnational movement to preserve Mon scripts in Thailand	9
Multiculturalism through a lens: migrants’ voice in Taiwanese documentaries	8
Debordering: woodcut printmaking practice in inter-Asian context	8
Social impacts of zero-COVID policy on airline workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	8
Reading “The Yūko Incident”: the monstrous feminine at the intersection of Cold War anxieties in “Japanizing” Thailand	7
Deracinating ethnic minors: the affect of authoritarian certitude	7
The uses of education: young women negotiating migration, employment, and romance in Gujarat, India	6
Tomar naam, amar naam, Vietnam Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema	6
Gendered subalternity in Khwabnama	6
Hong Kong: dating apps, political activism and the neoliberal subject	6
Tenderness amid tensions: reflections on the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School	6
Scholars as political influencers: celebrity, social media and political movements in Thailand	6
“Let us build the world anew” here and now: from Sukarnoism to Bandung School	5
Editorial: archiving Asian cities amidst time in motion	5
From amorous histories to sexual histories: rethinking male love narrative in Ming and Qing dynasties and the discourse on homosexuality in modern China	5
Syeda Farhana, landscaper of perpetual motion	4
Citizenship policies and precarity of stateless Vietnamese from Cambodia migrating to Vietnam	4
Statism as a lifestyle: deciphering society in films on North Korea and evolving communication through cinema	4
Alienation perhaps: the entanglement of suffering and agency of young employees in Chinese internet companies	4
Post-World War II perspectives on Choi Seung-hee: ideological blind spots in Asia-based and Anglophone scholarship	3
The Indonesian theater’s laku aktor : a counter discourse to the neoliberal depoliticization of the subject	3
Breaking the mold of servitude: subaltern agency and possibilities of freedom in Elias’ Khwabnama	3
The pragmatics of alienation: revisiting humanitarianism in Lebanon	3
From slash youth to flow workers: exploring the work issues behind the slash youth phenomenon in Mainland China	3

Ambedkar and the cinema of reconstitution	3
Seeing, seeing death, and us: notes on Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	3
Introduction: localizing Cold War experiences in Hong Kong	3
Fantastical infrastructure imagining: The MegandThe Wandering Earthas global science fiction cinema in the age of China’s rise	2
Can Marxism, liberalism, and Chinese neo-traditionalism co-exist/co-become ( gongsheng )? Provisional reflections on Jon Douglas Solomon’s The Taiwan Cons	2
The scramble for Xiaobei: epistemic extraction, racialised knowledge, and representation in Africa–China urban encounters	2
Transborder assemblages: Johnnie To’s co-production action films in Mainland China	2
Geographies of the classical: Kathak across India and Hong Kong	2
Correction	2
Hello, Okinawa	2
Digital intimacy: young women in inter-Asia	2
Developing social work education in Vietnam: the student field practicum during the pandemic	2
Who archives the city? place-making at Gwanghwamun square: power struggles between political authority and civil power	2
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: a Christian perspective	2
Under the Red-and-White Flag: elective Chineseness and socialist realism in Hei Ying's Jakarta	2
Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life	2
The old Seoul Station as a performative space: undoing the archive in the city	2
Changes in the lives of Muslim women infected with HIV by their husbands in Thailand’s southernmost border provinces	2
Bangalore: migration, boundary-drawing and the worlds of work	2
The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the Southern Left	2
Patching worlds through levitating machinic vision: Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	2
blind spot: media, memory, and resistance	2
Dragonfly Eyes as cosmic theater: from anthropological fiction to fictionalizing anthropology	2
Editorial introduction	2
Mobile genders: the trans* journeys of Chinese students in Australia	1
Chinese tradition “voyages in” Western modernity: a case study of Gu Hongming	1
Chinese daughters’ day: an image-based exploration of Qiqiao traditions in Xihe County	1
Transnational media production from the margins of “Cultural China”: the case of Singapore’s media producers	1
Futurology in Taiwan and mainland China: geopolitical imagination of futures in the late twentieth century	1
Queer theory impossible	1
Smug justice: alienation on the court lawns during the Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest, Mparntwe/Alice Springs	1
Landscape of borders—some fragmentary thoughts	1
Abstinence for the sake of modest success: a Chinese anti-masturbation group’s path to individualisation	1
Thing-in-between ( zhong-jian-wu 中間物)	1
Curatorial abstraction and the re-animation of the cold war: the re-emergence of an exclusive report on Taiwanese media	1
Anocha Suwichakornpong, film festivals and the institutionalization of art cinema auteur	1
Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s look back in anguish: time traveler in search of left utopia	1
Realigning the islands, contesting infrastructural Okinawa: toward Yamashiro Chikako’s archipelagic fabulation	1
Singapore: boundary-work, digital creativity, and the normative life script	1
Expropriated life, class struggle, and the colonial relation along Okinawa’s fence-line	1
A reappraisal of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks: family, gender, individual vs. state, and colonialism	1
Inter-Asian dance as method, artistic research as method: Nam Hwayeon’s work on Choi Seung-hee	1
iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement	1
Watching the romance together: the affective audiences in A Dream of Splendor	1
Carnivalesque communities: Thai TV dramas and the Chinese censorship	1
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia	1
Ambivalence of entertainment: the Cold War and pro-communist Mandarin cinema	1
Bringing art back to life: the practice of artistic participation in urban China	1
Internet as an ideology: nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese internet workers	1
“We are just after the company”: tactical resistances of (racial minority) gig workers in Hong Kong	1

Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond	1
Mourning for Itaewon Halloween tragedy	1
India digitalized: surveillance, platformization, and digital labour in India	1
Alienated in one’s own land: ecology, border security, and nationalism in chars of Bengal	1
The reorganization of space and literary representation of Seoul during the liberation period, 1945–1950	1
Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature	1
Be strong, be confident: the rise of China and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games	1
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality: history in transition or genealogies in oblivion?	1
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony	1
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur	1
Losing one’s place in the world: rethinking alienation as a diagnostic for our time	1
Vietnam’s poverty reduction policies for ethnic minorities: the Raglai in Bac Ai, Ninh Thuan, Vietnam	1
“The nightingale is a graceful dancer”: Bulbul Chowdhury, dance heritage, and the new nation-state of Pakistan	1
Main challenges of Vietnamese families nowadays and in the coming years	1
The past recollected: One Day We’ll Understand	1
Visualising the borderlands: Kang Yong Suk’s Korean state village photographs	1
Editors’ Note	1
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx: self-clarification through thinking in diaries and letters	1
Sheep herding in Shanghai, 2022	1
Technology and the limits of cultural critique	1
Partially ethnographic and an ethno fiction ? An anthropological revisit of Dragonfly Eyes	1
The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance	1
Crafting futures in a county city in China: leaving and staying among female vocational college students in transition to adulthood	1
Michael Liu’s Magic and Trans to a New Life : yao/trans/queer kinship, documentary mediation, and the NGO gaze	1
Cultural diplomacy, artistic network, and the politics of decolonization between Taiwan and the Philippines in the Cold War era	1
The intimate affliction of vicarious racialization: Afro-Chinese couples in South China	1
Dreams’ navel: a special issue on Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s Khwabnama	1
Wonders within domestic encounters: three women from Elias’ Khwabnama	1
The “Y” phenomenon: dystopia, utopia, and heterotopia in Thai boys love media	1
A reflection on Hong Kong’s yellow economic circle	1
Novelistic heteroglossia in Khwabnama and its aesthetical ventures in reshaping historical narratives	1