OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Asian Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sorry seems to be the hardest word: the 1972 system, the reparation issue, and the history problem in Sino-Japanese relations	17
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	12
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	11
Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China , b	11
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	10
Land Mafias in Indonesia	10
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	10
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong	10
Lying Flat in Taiwan:Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era	9
Becoming a Tibetan Internet Celebrity: Lithang Tenzin’s Self-Presentation and Identity Performance on Chinese Social Media Platforms	6
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	5
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	5
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	5
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	4
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	4
The Production of “Indisputable” Confession Evidence in China	4
Finding Love and Dignity at Work: Wang Bing’s “Youth” Trilogy	4
A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954	4
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	3
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	3
Historical formation of Islamist ideology in Indonesia: the role of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (DDII)	3
In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	3
Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	3
Flexible and compassionate, or violent and intimidating?: various accounts of law in Vietnam	3

Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	3
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3
Colonial Prostitution in Burma: Inter-Asian Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality	3
Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftistzainichicommunity	3
Informal politics and local labor activism in Indonesia	3
#Papuanlivesmatter: black consciousness and political movements in West Papua	2
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	2
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	2
CCAS Statement of Purpose	2
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	2
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	2
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	2
Cadre ethnographer: Chinese land reform novels and the making of socialist history	2
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	2
Podcasting Politics in Singapore: Hegemony, Resistance, and Digital Media	2
The politicization of everyday life: understanding the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests on pro-democracy protesters’ political participation in Hong Kong	1
From Cold War to Cold Brew: Crop Replacement Strategies, Bean Logistics, and Ethnicized Coffee Commerce in Northern Thailand	1
Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist	1
Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh	1
Milk consumption in Modern China: politics of science, dietary health knowledge, and identity building	1
Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship in Brunei	1
Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli Selfhood in Western and Central India	1
Revisiting the CIA’s Deceptions in Asia	1
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore	1
Becoming Paṇḍit: Religious Teachings, Diploma Politics, and Doctoral Education in Post-War Cambodia	1
Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic	1
Forest Reserves as Frontiers of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli Investments of Work, Cultural Use, and Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve	1
Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia	1
Hair Discipline in Singapore: Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender	1
Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific	1
Warrior monk: guns, grenades, and the rise of the Ninth Panchen Lama on Sino–Mongol–Tibetan frontiers, 1924–1937	1
Negotiating Between Belief and Custom: The Encounters of Han Muslim Converts in China	1
Layers of (in)visible resilience: art, women, and homelessness in Japan	1
The Korean War and the environment	1
Continuity and Complexity: A Study of Patronage Politics in State-owned Enterprises in Post-authoritarian Indonesia	0
Mediating Coalitions and the Politics of Civil Rights in the Philippines under Duterte	0
The co-production of disasters: how the nexus of climate change, tourism, and COVID-19 increases socioeconomic vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal	0
Correction	0
The Emergence of Political Indigeneity: The Resistance Movement on Jeju Island against Colonization by Development	0
Private Power and Public Office: The Rise of Business Politicians in Indonesia	0
CCAS Statement of Purpose	0
Decolonizing knowledge of and from Okinawa	0
“We used to have lice … ” interethnic imagery in post-war upland Laos	0
Zhuang Xueben and the Ninth Panchen Lama’s final journey	0
Tuu Karrai Spi: Deconstructing Aman Committees and Life in South Waziristan	0
Theulama, the state, and politics in Malaysia	0
“No city for lovers:” anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city	0
Trauma’s Transformations in a Chinese Village	0
Localizing global concepts: an exploration of Indigeneity in Cambodia	0
Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier	0

A “Forgotten” Massacre: The Battle of Thakhek in Laos, 1946	0
A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor	0
Creating Racial Subjects: Eugenics, Psychiatry, and the Ainu	0
The Rise and Fall of Factory-based Schools in China	0
The Specter of Potential Foreigners: Revisiting the Postcolonial Citizenship Regimes of Myanmar and India	0
Populist Revolt from the Margins: The Ambiguous Case of Uma Bharati	0
Translating Filipino Chinese: The Bureaucratic Racialization of Transnational Migrants in Singapore	0
Xi Is Not Emperor of All He Surveys Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise , by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri, (Cambridge University Press: Cam	0
Dynastic Female Politicians and Family Rule in Thailand: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 General Elections	0
The limits of civil society activism in Indonesia: the case of the weakening of the KPK	0
The Politics of Misalignment: NGO Livelihood Interventions and Exclusionary Land Claims in an Indonesian Oil Palm Enclave	0
Unveiling Class Discourse: Its Articulation and Generation in Chinese Labor Struggles	0
Correction	0
Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: the contradictions of neoliberalism	0
Civil society in the PRC: empirical studies and normative lenses	0
Reconfiguring vulnerability: climate change adaptation in the Cambodian highlands	0
The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China	0
Exhibition review: Portraits of Ryukyu	0
Statement of Purpose	0
Source Governance of Social Disputes in China	0
Negotiating Work-Family Transitions: Reverse Family Migration among Second-Generation Hong Kong Mothers	0
Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry	0
The Paradox of Economic Growth and Gender Equality in South Korea	0
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures	0
Turning Marx on His Head? North KoreanJucheas Developmental Nationalism	0
“Framing” the Opposition: The Limits of Mobilization against Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the Philippines	0
Agent politics of Chinese think tanks and cultural industry governance in China’s “new era”	0
Okinawan memories in Argentina: between a transnational circulation of memories and migrants’ agency, 1945–1965	0
The 1974 Battle of Jolo: testimonial narratives of survivors and intra-Tausug relations	0
Women as a pathway: dilemmas of the Marriage Law in Northeast China in the early 1950s	0
From Bizarre Encounters to Native Strangeness: Indigenous Otherness and Insider-Outsider Interactions in Indonesia	0
Okinawa studies today	0
Bread-and-Butter Politics: Arrested Liberalization and Hegemonic Materialism in Singapore	0
Network discrimination against LGBTQ minorities in Taiwan after same-sex marriage legalization: a Goffmanian micro-sociological approach	0
Three Murders in a Million: The Killings that Launched Pol Pot’s Rise, Silenced his Regime’s Leading Dissident, and Marked its End	0
Reviewing “The Chinese Question” in Southeast Asia	0
Ritualized Relational Work: Secret Banquets and Rural Cadres in China	0
Historical Agrarian Change and its Connections to Contemporary Agricultural Extension in Northwest Cambodia	0
The making of a local deity: the Patriarch of Sanping’s cult in post-Mao China, 1979–2015	0
COVID-19’s impact on Nepalese migrants: families. Vulnerability, coping strategies, and the role of state and non-state actors	0
When Indigenous Religious Traditions and Environmentalism Collide in Southeast Asia	0
CCAS statement of purpose	0
Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh	0
Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation	0
Emotions of perpetrators and victim-survivors: multi-layered violence against Chinese women during the Asia-Pacific War	0
Claim-Making and Citizenship in Indonesia	0
Subject making with Chinese characteristics: gender, sexuality, and Chineseness in neoliberal popular and public imaginaries	0
Neoliberal Feminism and Work-Family Tensions among Professional Women in Beijing	0
On the existence of (global) Maoism	0
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse: Kunga Tsomo, the goddess, and the LAC	0
Myanmar’s Menu of Electoral Manipulation: Self- and External Legitimation after the 2021 Coup	0
Say Yes to Dams? Negotiating Development and Uncertainty in a Large Dam Project in the Philippines	0
Negotiating antifascist solidarity across ethnic difference in Myanmar: Bhamo Tin Aung’sYoma Taikbwe	0
The Making of a Postcolonial Sanctuary: Exile Experiences of Korean Deserters and Draft Evaders During the 1950s	0
Going to Yan’an: The Making of China’s New Ruling Class	0
Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation	0
Re-reading The Indo-Pacific as Aidagara : Watsuji Tetsurō’s Relevance to Japan’s Foreign Relations	0