China Quarterly

Papers
(The TQCC of China Quarterly 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer31
State-led Financialization in China: The Case of the Government-guided Investment Fund28
“Detaching” Courts from Local Politics? Assessing the Judicial Centralization Reforms in China22
Economic Legitimation in a New Era: Public Attitudes to State Ownership and Market Regulation in China17
The Paradigm Shift in the Disciplining of Village Cadres in China: From Mao to Xi16
The Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Employment: Evidence from a Large-scale Survey of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People in China15
Party Building as Institutional Bricolage: Asserting Authority at the Business Frontier14
Village Leaders, Dual Brokerage and Political Order in Rural China12
Who Not What: The Logic of China's Information Control Strategy12
“The Party Must Strengthen Its Leadership in Finance!”: Digital Technologies and Financial Governance in China's Fintech Development12
Deepening Not Departure: Xi Jinping's Governance of China's State-owned Economy11
Decoding Political Trust in China: A Machine Learning Analysis11
Local Policy Discretion in Social Welfare: Explaining Subnational Variations in China's De Facto Urban Poverty Line10
The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi10
Can Grid Governance Fix the Party-state's Broken Windows? A Study of Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China10
Blame Avoidance in China's Cadre Responsibility System10
Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Party Organization in State-owned Enterprises9
Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: The Influences of Host Government Intervention and Inter-firm Competition9
Depoliticizing China's Grassroots NGOs: State and Civil Society as an Institutional Field of Power9
Expanding Higher Education: China's Precarious Balance9
Global China at 20: Why, How and So What?8
Social Forces and Street-level Governance in Shanghai: From Compliance to Participation in Recycling Regulations8
The State and Higher Education in Hong Kong8
Towards Meritocratic Apartheid? Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools7
How Chinese Newlyweds’ Experiences as Singletons or Siblings Affect Their Fertility Desires7
Homosexual Stories, Family Stories: Neo-Confucian Homonormativity and Storytelling in the Chinese Gay Community7
State-enlisted Voluntarism in China: The Role of Public Security Volunteers in Social Stability Maintenance7
Management and “Administerization” in China's Higher Education System: A View from the Trenches7
The Intermingling of State and Private Companies: Analysing Censorship of the 19th National Communist Party Congress on WeChat7
“One China” Contention in China–Taiwan Relations: Law, Politics and Identity7
Rethinking China's Soft Power: “Pragmatic Enticement” of Confucius Institutes in Ethiopia7
Taiwan and the “One-China Principle” in the Age of COVID-19: Assessing the Determinants and Limits of Chinese Influence7
Policy Experimentation under Pressure in Contemporary China6
Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy6
“It's All for the Child”: The Discontents of Middle-class Chinese Parenting and Migration to Europe6
Do Overseas Returnees Excel in the Chinese Labour Market?6
Spatial Governance in Beijing: Informality, Illegality and the Displacement of the “Low-end Population”6
Autonomy, Governance and the Chinese University 3.0: A zhong–yong Model from Comparative, Cultural and Contemporary Perspectives6
Picking Places and People: Centralizing Provincial Governance in China5
Judicializing Environmental Politics? China's Procurator-led Public Interest Litigation against the Government5
The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China5
Participation without Contestation: NGOs’ Autonomy and Advocacy in China5
Elite Capture and Corruption: The Influence of Elite Collusion on Village Elections and Rural Land Development in China5
Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations5
“Patchy Patriarchy” and the Shifting Fortunes of the CCP's Promise of Gender Equality since 19215
Opportunistic Bargaining: Negotiating Distribution in China5
Gendered Pathways to the County-level People's Congress in China5
Japan, Taiwan and the “One China” Framework after 50 Years5
Fraying at the Edges: A Subsystems/Normative Power Analysis of the EU's “One China Policy/Policies”5
Change, Contradiction and the State: Higher Education in Greater China4
Repress or Redistribute? The Chinese State's Response to Resource Conflicts4
The “One China” Framework at 50 (1972–2022): The Myth of “Consensus” and Its Evolving Policy Significance4
Low-carbon Frontier: Renewable Energy and the New Resource Boom in Western China4
Online Consultation and the Institutionalization of Transparency and Participation in Chinese Policymaking4
Guarding a New Great Wall: The Politics of Household Registration Reforms and Public Provision in China4
Of Judge Quota and Judicial Autonomy: An Enduring Professionalization Project in China4
The Camp Fix: Infrastructural Power and the “Re-education Labour Regime” in Turkic Muslim Industrial Parks in North-west China4
From Power Balance to Dominant Faction in Xi Jinping's China4
Chinese Celebrities’ Political Signalling on Sina Weibo4
Harden the Hardline, Soften the Softline: Unravelling China's Qiaoling-centred Diaspora Governance in Laos4
Recalling Victory, Recounting Greatness: Second World War Remembrance in Xi Jinping's China4
The Evolution of Protest Repertoires in Hong Kong: Violent Tactics in the Anti-Extradition Bill Protests in 20194
Shifting Strategies: The Politics of Radical Change in Provincial Development Policy in China4
Missionaries of the Party: Work-team Participation and Intellectual Incorporation3
Infrastructural Thinking in China: A Research Agenda3
Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China3
Balances, Norms and Institutions: Why Elite Politics in the CCP Have Not Institutionalized3
Party All the Time: The CCP in Comparative and Historical Perspective3
Off the COVID-19 Epicentre: The Impact of Quarantine Controls on Employment, Education and Health in China's Rural Communities3
Validating Vignette Designs with Real-world Data: A Study of Legal Mobilization in Response to Land Grievances in Rural China3
Proscribing the “Spiritually Japanese”: Nationalist Indignation, Authoritarian Responsiveness and Regime Legitimation in China Today3
For Profit or Patriotism? Balancing the Interests of the Chinese State, Host Country and Firm in the Lao Rubber Sector3
China's Water Governmentality and the Shaping of Hydrosocial Territories in the Lancang-Mekong Region3
Time Is Power: Rethinking Meritocratic Political Selection in China3
Non-suffering Work: China's Medical Interventions in South Sudan3
Educational Success in Transitional China: The Gaokao and Learning Capital in Elite Professional Service Firms3
Firms as Revenue Safety Nets: Political Connections and Returns to the Chinese State3
Contracting Welfare Services to Social Organizations in China: Multiple Logics3
Of Constitutions, Campaigns and Commissions: A Century of Democratic Centralism under the CCP3
Suing the State: Relative Deprivation and Peasants’ Resistance in Land Expropriation in China3
A Turbulent Silk Road: China's Vulnerable Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa3
Being Together at a Distance, Talking and Avoiding Talk: Making Sense of the Present in Victory Square, Tianjin3
Sun, Sand and Submachine Guns: Tourism in a Militarized Xinjiang, China3
On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party3
Between Emotion, Politics and Law: Narrative Transformation and Authoritarian Deliberation in a Land Dispute-triggered Social Drama in China3
From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai3
Public Support for the Death Penalty in China: Less from the Populace but More from Elites3
Care for the Family and the Environment in China's Coal Country2
Local Integration of Urban–Rural Social-assistance Programmes in China: What Are the Driving Forces?2
From Cold War Geopolitics to the Crisis of Global Capitalism: The History of Chinese Wireless Network Infrastructures (1987–2020)2
Creating Public Opinion, Advancing Knowledge, Engaging in Politics: The Local Public Sphere in Chengdu, 1898–19212
Accommodating China's Floating Population: Local Variations and Determinants of Housing Policies for Rural Migrant Workers2
State-adjacent Professionals: How Chinese Lawyers Participate in Political Life2
Building a “Double First-class University” on China's Qing-Zang Plateau: Opportunities, Strategies and Challenges2
Chinese Philosemitism and Historical Statecraft: Incorporating Jews and Israel into Contemporary Chinese Civilizationism2
Leaping over the Dragon's Gate: The “Air Silk Road” between Henan Province and Luxembourg2
Legal Professionalism and the Ethical Challenge for Legal Education: Insights from a Comparative Study of Future Lawyers in Greater China2
Does Performance Competition Impact China's Leadership Behaviour? Re-examining the Promotion Tournament Hypothesis2
The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds in China2
Liberal or Conservative? The Differentiated Political Values of the Middle Class in Contemporary China2
Crises of Care in China Today2
Environmental Clientelism: How Chinese Private Enterprises Lobby under Environmental Crackdowns2
Legitimizing China's Growing Engagement in African Security: Change within Continuity of Official Discourse2
Lowering the Bar? Students with Disabilities in PRC Higher Education2
Peace in the Shadow of Unrest: yinao and the State Response in China2
“We Are Now the Same”: Chinese Wholesalers and the Politics of Trade Hierarchies in Tanzania2
An Institutional Dilemma in China's Skills-development System: Evidence from Two Apprenticeship Reforms2
Care as Critique of Care: Public Services, Social Security and Ritual Responsiveness2
The Construction of Consent for High-altitude Resettlement in Tibet2
Upward Earnings Mobility in Hong Kong: Policy Implications Based on a Census Data Narrative2
Experimentation-based Policymaking for Urban Regeneration in Shenzhen, China2
From Court Fools to Stage Puppets: Country Bumpkins in the Skits on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, 1983–20222
“One China” and the Cross-Taiwan Strait Commitment Problem2
The Limits of Judicial Reforms: How and Why China Failed to Centralize Its Court System2
Lineage Solidarity and Rhetorical Resonance: Village Strategies to Retain Primary Schools in Rural China2
Whither the Global in Chinese Higher Education? The Production of Space in China's “New Era” Universities2
Temporary Leaders and Stable Institutions: How Local Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs Institutionalize China's Low-Carbon Policy Experiments2
Alternative Publications, Spaces and Publics: Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th- and 21st-century China2
“Innocent Young Girls”: The Search for Female Provincial Leaders in China2
Markets under Mao: Measuring Underground Activity in the Early PRC2
Visual Framing: The Use of COVID-19 in the Mobilization of Hong Kong Protest2
Policy Experimentation as Communication with the Public: Social Policy, Shared Responsibility and Regime Support in China1
The Political Economy of China's Dramatically Improved Coal Safety Record1
The Illusion of Merit in Political Leadership Selection in China1
China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?1
Working without Wages: Network Structure and Migrant Construction Workers’ Protests in China1
Access to Justice in Higher Education: The Student as Consumer in China1
Chinese Perspectives on Global Governance and China Edited by Yu Keping, translated by Frances Chan Leiden: Brill, 2021 261 pp. €135.00; $162.00 ISBN 978-90-04-43942-91
Ambiguity and Clarity in China's Adaptive Policy Communication1
How China's Wildlife Trade Legislation Permits Commercial Trade in Protected Wild Animal Species1
Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to “Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces”1
China in Ethiopia: The Long-Term Perspective Aaron Tesfaye Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2020 195 pp. $31.95 ISBN 978-1-43847835-71
Class Consciousness of Rural Migrant Children in China1
Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform1
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate ISABELLA M. WEBER London and New York: Routledge, 2021 xvi + 342 pp. $39.95 ISBN 978-1-0320-0849-31
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Yi, Manchu and Han People in Rural China, 2002–20181
Bureaucratic Shirking in China: Is Sanction-based Accountability a Cure?1
Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968–1980 Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019 x + 213 pp. £19.99 ISBN 978-1-1081
“Single Sparks” and Legacies: An Eventful Account of the May Fourth Movement1
Care Scales:DibaoAllowances, State and Family in China1
Bringing the Party Back into the Community: Restructuring Grassroots Governance in Shenzhen1
Producing Scientific Motherhood: State-led Neoliberal Modernization and Nannies' Subjectivity in Contemporary China1
The Political Economy of China's Local Debt1
“Dig Deep and Reach Wide”: The Changing Politics of the Chinese Communist Party's Consultative Information System1
Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State Tai Ming Cheung. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 414 pp. $44.95 (hbk). ISBN 97815017643491
Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China HENRY LEE, DANIEL P. SCHRAG, MATTHEW BUNN, MICHAEL R. DAVIDSON, WEI PENG, PU WANG and ZHIMIN MAO Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 179 pp.1
Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities and Reinventions Edited by Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher and André Laliberté Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019 viii + 355 pp. $72.00 ISBN 978-0-8248-771
Loyalist, Dissenter and Cosmopolite: The Sociocultural Origins of a Counter-public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong1
Central–Local Relations in China: A Case Study of Heilongjiang's GMO Ban1
Sex Work and Stigma Management in China and Hong Kong: The Role of State Policy and NGO Advocacy1
Why Parents’ Fertility Plans Changed in China: A Longitudinal Study1
Governmentality and Translation: Re-thinking the Cultural Politics of Lineage Landscapes in Contemporary Rural China1
Institutional Changes, Influences and Historical Junctures in the Communist Youth League of China1
Proletarian Power Misplaced: The Worker Propaganda Teams in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution1
Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation Silvia M. Lindtner Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020 288 pp. £20.00; $24.95 ISBN 978-0-691-20767-41
Equality and Equity in Chinese Higher Education in the Post-massification Era: An Analysis Based on Chinese Scholarly Literature1
Chinese IR Scholarship as a Relational Epistemology in the Study of China's Rise1
Explaining Policy Failure in China1
China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order Dawn C. Murphy Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022 408 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-1-5036-3009-31
Just Not in the Neighbourhood: China's Views on the Application of the Responsibility to Protect in the DPRK1
Plea Leniency and Prosecution Centredness in China's Criminal Process1
Governing Rural Poverty on Urban Streets: Guangzhou's Management of Beggars in the Reform Era1
The Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party Willy Wo-Lap Lam London and New York: Routledge, 2020 xii + 234 pp. £34.99 ISBN 978-0-367-18869-61
Making Local Histories: The Authenticity and Credibility of County Gazetteers in Communist China1
Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe, 1912–19521
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