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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Losing language is a loss of nation”: transnational movement to preserve Mon scripts in Thailand	8
Peripherality and nostalgia in Singapore island fiction	6
Multiculturalism through a lens: migrants’ voice in Taiwanese documentaries	6
Debordering: woodcut printmaking practice in inter-Asian context	5
Deracinating ethnic minors: the affect of authoritarian certitude	5
Social impacts of zero-COVID policy on airline workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	5
Gendered subalternity in Khwabnama	4
Scholars as political influencers: celebrity, social media and political movements in Thailand	4
Tomar naam, amar naam, Vietnam Vietnam! Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinema	4
Tenderness amid tensions: reflections on the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School	4
Editorial: archiving Asian cities amidst time in motion	3
Citizenship policies and precarity of stateless Vietnamese from Cambodia migrating to Vietnam	3
From amorous histories to sexual histories: rethinking male love narrative in Ming and Qing dynasties and the discourse on homosexuality in modern China	3
Duplicities: the false promise of Asian Studies	3
“Let us build the world anew” here and now: from Sukarnoism to Bandung School	3
The uses of education: young women negotiating migration, employment, and romance in Gujarat, India	3
Arif Dirlik in South Korea	3
Syeda Farhana, landscaper of perpetual motion	2
The Indonesian theater’s laku aktor : a counter discourse to the neoliberal depoliticization of the subject	2
Complicitous?	2
Post-World War II perspectives on Choi Seung-hee: ideological blind spots in Asia-based and Anglophone scholarship	2
Breaking the mold of servitude: subaltern agency and possibilities of freedom in Elias’ Khwabnama	2
Seeing, seeing death, and us: notes on Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	2
Introduction: localizing Cold War experiences in Hong Kong	2
Statism as a lifestyle: deciphering society in films on North Korea and evolving communication through cinema	2

Ambedkar and the cinema of reconstitution	2
From slash youth to flow workers: exploring the work issues behind the slash youth phenomenon in Mainland China	2
Geographies of the classical: Kathak across India and Hong Kong	1
Fantastical infrastructure imagining: The MegandThe Wandering Earthas global science fiction cinema in the age of China’s rise	1
Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond	1
Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur	1
The intimate affliction of vicarious racialization: Afro-Chinese couples in South China	1
iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement	1
Developing social work education in Vietnam: the student field practicum during the pandemic	1
Cultural diplomacy, artistic network, and the politics of decolonization between Taiwan and the Philippines in the Cold War era	1
Anticolonialism to postcolonialism to decolonialization/decoloniality: history in transition or genealogies in oblivion?	1
Indigenism as a project: language politics and the hegemony of postcolonialism in Taiwan	1
Can Marxism, liberalism, and Chinese neo-traditionalism co-exist/co-become ( gongsheng )? Provisional reflections on Jon Douglas Solomon’s The Taiwan Cons	1
Queer theory impossible	1
Changes in the lives of Muslim women infected with HIV by their husbands in Thailand’s southernmost border provinces	1
Dreams’ navel: a special issue on Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s Khwabnama	1
Be strong, be confident: the rise of China and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games	1
Editorial introduction	1
Embodying beauty, desiring the world: dress and fashion in the 1980s’ China	1
blind spot: media, memory, and resistance	1
Anocha Suwichakornpong, film festivals and the institutionalization of art cinema auteur	1
Crafting futures in a county city in China: leaving and staying among female vocational college students in transition to adulthood	1
Wonders within domestic encounters: three women from Elias’ Khwabnama	1
The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the Southern Left	1
Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s look back in anguish: time traveler in search of left utopia	1
Who archives the city? place-making at Gwanghwamun square: power struggles between political authority and civil power	1
Between the past and the future: the rise of nationalist discourse at the 1983 CCTV Spring Festival Gala	1
Transborder assemblages: Johnnie To’s co-production action films in Mainland China	1
Curatorial abstraction and the re-animation of the cold war: the re-emergence of an exclusive report on Taiwanese media	1
Arif’s gift	1
India digitalized: surveillance, platformization, and digital labour in India	1
Under the Red-and-White Flag: elective Chineseness and socialist realism in Hei Ying's Jakarta	1
A reappraisal of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks: family, gender, individual vs. state, and colonialism	1
The “Y” phenomenon: dystopia, utopia, and heterotopia in Thai boys love media	1
The old Seoul Station as a performative space: undoing the archive in the city	1
Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life	1
Chinese Killer King: trespassing the boundaries of crime fiction and Cantonese literature	1
Abstinence for the sake of modest success: a Chinese anti-masturbation group’s path to individualisation	1
Internet as an ideology: nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese internet workers	1
Futurology in Taiwan and mainland China: geopolitical imagination of futures in the late twentieth century	1
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: a Christian perspective	1
Mourning for Itaewon Halloween tragedy	1
Patching worlds through levitating machinic vision: Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes	1
Treading the border of (il)legality: statelessness, “amphibian life,” and the Rohingya “boat people” of Asia	1
Inter-Asian dance as method, artistic research as method: Nam Hwayeon’s work on Choi Seung-hee	1
The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance	1
Introduction	1
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx: self-clarification through thinking in diaries and letters	1
Hello, Okinawa	1
A Singapore communist subaltern writes back: He Jin’s life stories as historical testimony	1

The reorganization of space and literary representation of Seoul during the liberation period, 1945–1950	1
Tributes to memory	1