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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong's Freedom Summer42
Who Not What: The Logic of China's Information Control Strategy21
Global China at 20: Why, How and So What?20
The Paradigm Shift in the Disciplining of Village Cadres in China: From Mao to Xi18
Party Building as Institutional Bricolage: Asserting Authority at the Business Frontier18
Deepening Not Departure: Xi Jinping's Governance of China's State-owned Economy16
Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Party Organization in State-owned Enterprises15
Can Grid Governance Fix the Party-state's Broken Windows? A Study of Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China14
The Chinese Communist Party's Nervous System: Affective Governance from Mao to Xi13
Policy Experimentation under Pressure in Contemporary China13
Local Policy Discretion in Social Welfare: Explaining Subnational Variations in China's De Facto Urban Poverty Line12
Depoliticizing China's Grassroots NGOs: State and Civil Society as an Institutional Field of Power12
Decoding Political Trust in China: A Machine Learning Analysis12
Blame Avoidance in China's Cadre Responsibility System11
Social Forces and Street-level Governance in Shanghai: From Compliance to Participation in Recycling Regulations11
Management and “Administerization” in China's Higher Education System: A View from the Trenches11
“It's All for the Child”: The Discontents of Middle-class Chinese Parenting and Migration to Europe10
Rethinking China's Soft Power: “Pragmatic Enticement” of Confucius Institutes in Ethiopia10
Towards Meritocratic Apartheid? Points Systems and Migrant Access to China's Urban Public Schools10
Expanding Higher Education: China's Precarious Balance10
Spatial Governance in Beijing: Informality, Illegality and the Displacement of the “Low-end Population”9
Do Overseas Returnees Excel in the Chinese Labour Market?9
“Patchy Patriarchy” and the Shifting Fortunes of the CCP's Promise of Gender Equality since 19219
Elite Capture and Corruption: The Influence of Elite Collusion on Village Elections and Rural Land Development in China8
The State and Higher Education in Hong Kong8
Homosexual Stories, Family Stories: Neo-Confucian Homonormativity and Storytelling in the Chinese Gay Community8
How Chinese Newlyweds’ Experiences as Singletons or Siblings Affect Their Fertility Desires8
State-enlisted Voluntarism in China: The Role of Public Security Volunteers in Social Stability Maintenance7
Taiwan and the “One-China Principle” in the Age of COVID-19: Assessing the Determinants and Limits of Chinese Influence7
Judicializing Environmental Politics? China's Procurator-led Public Interest Litigation against the Government7
“One China” Contention in China–Taiwan Relations: Law, Politics and Identity7
Japan, Taiwan and the “One China” Framework after 50 Years7
The Evolution of Protest Repertoires in Hong Kong: Violent Tactics in the Anti-Extradition Bill Protests in 20197
On the Informal Rules of the Chinese Communist Party7
Autonomy, Governance and the Chinese University 3.0: A zhong–yong Model from Comparative, Cultural and Contemporary Perspectives6
Opportunistic Bargaining: Negotiating Distribution in China6
Rebuilding Authority: The Party's Relationship with Its Grassroots Organizations6
Plea Leniency and Prosecution Centredness in China's Criminal Process6
The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds in China6
Suing the State: Relative Deprivation and Peasants’ Resistance in Land Expropriation in China6
Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy6
The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China6
For Profit or Patriotism? Balancing the Interests of the Chinese State, Host Country and Firm in the Lao Rubber Sector6
Gendered Pathways to the County-level People's Congress in China6
Of Judge Quota and Judicial Autonomy: An Enduring Professionalization Project in China5
Fraying at the Edges: A Subsystems/Normative Power Analysis of the EU's “One China Policy/Policies”5
From Power Balance to Dominant Faction in Xi Jinping's China5
Educational Success in Transitional China: The Gaokao and Learning Capital in Elite Professional Service Firms5
Recalling Victory, Recounting Greatness: Second World War Remembrance in Xi Jinping's China5
The Camp Fix: Infrastructural Power and the “Re-education Labour Regime” in Turkic Muslim Industrial Parks in North-west China5
Picking Places and People: Centralizing Provincial Governance in China5
Chinese Celebrities’ Political Signalling on Sina Weibo5
The “One China” Framework at 50 (1972–2022): The Myth of “Consensus” and Its Evolving Policy Significance5
Missionaries of the Party: Work-team Participation and Intellectual Incorporation5
The Political Economy of China's Local Debt5
Guarding a New Great Wall: The Politics of Household Registration Reforms and Public Provision in China4
Repress or Redistribute? The Chinese State's Response to Resource Conflicts4
Bureaucratic Shirking in China: Is Sanction-based Accountability a Cure?4
Infrastructural Thinking in China: A Research Agenda4
Non-suffering Work: China's Medical Interventions in South Sudan4
Change, Contradiction and the State: Higher Education in Greater China4
Does Performance Competition Impact China's Leadership Behaviour? Re-examining the Promotion Tournament Hypothesis4
Centralized Law Enforcement in Contemporary China: The Campaign to “Sweep Away Black Societies and Eradicate Evil Forces”4
The Making of Natural Infrastructure in China's Era of Ecological Civilization4
Low-carbon Frontier: Renewable Energy and the New Resource Boom in Western China4
Shifting Strategies: The Politics of Radical Change in Provincial Development Policy in China4
Ambiguity and Clarity in China's Adaptive Policy Communication4
Contracting Welfare Services to Social Organizations in China: Multiple Logics4
From Black to Blue Skies: Civil Society Perceptions of Air Pollution in Shanghai4
Harden the Hardline, Soften the Softline: Unravelling China's Qiaoling-centred Diaspora Governance in Laos4
Participation without Contestation: NGOs’ Autonomy and Advocacy in China4
China's Water Governmentality and the Shaping of Hydrosocial Territories in the Lancang-Mekong Region4
Do Chinese Citizens Conceal Opposition to the CCP in Surveys? Evidence from Two Experiments4
Firms as Revenue Safety Nets: Political Connections and Returns to the Chinese State4
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
Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China3
Off the COVID-19 Epicentre: The Impact of Quarantine Controls on Employment, Education and Health in China's Rural Communities3
Of Constitutions, Campaigns and Commissions: A Century of Democratic Centralism under the CCP3
“We Are Now the Same”: Chinese Wholesalers and the Politics of Trade Hierarchies in Tanzania3
Legitimizing China's Growing Engagement in African Security: Change within Continuity of Official Discourse3
Sun, Sand and Submachine Guns: Tourism in a Militarized Xinjiang, China3
Lowering the Bar? Students with Disabilities in PRC Higher Education3
The Construction of Consent for High-altitude Resettlement in Tibet3
Governing Rural Poverty on Urban Streets: Guangzhou's Management of Beggars in the Reform Era3
Building a “Double First-class University” on China's Qing-Zang Plateau: Opportunities, Strategies and Challenges3
Class Consciousness of Rural Migrant Children in China3
Party All the Time: The CCP in Comparative and Historical Perspective3
The Limits of Judicial Reforms: How and Why China Failed to Centralize Its Court System3
Bringing the Party Back into the Community: Restructuring Grassroots Governance in Shenzhen3
Balances, Norms and Institutions: Why Elite Politics in the CCP Have Not Institutionalized3
An Institutional Dilemma in China's Skills-development System: Evidence from Two Apprenticeship Reforms3
From Court Fools to Stage Puppets: Country Bumpkins in the Skits on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, 1983–20223
Temporary Leaders and Stable Institutions: How Local Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs Institutionalize China's Low-Carbon Policy Experiments3
From Cold War Geopolitics to the Crisis of Global Capitalism: The History of Chinese Wireless Network Infrastructures (1987–2020)3
Leaping over the Dragon's Gate: The “Air Silk Road” between Henan Province and Luxembourg3
Social Organizations in Rural China: From Autonomy to Governance2
Environmental Clientelism: How Chinese Private Enterprises Lobby under Environmental Crackdowns2
Lineage Solidarity and Rhetorical Resonance: Village Strategies to Retain Primary Schools in Rural China2
Policy Experimentation as Communication with the Public: Social Policy, Shared Responsibility and Regime Support in China2
Accommodating China's Floating Population: Local Variations and Determinants of Housing Policies for Rural Migrant Workers2
Urban Regeneration under National Land Use Control: Guangdong's “Three-Old” Redevelopment Programme2
Taiwanese Public Opinion on the Chinese and US Military Presence in the Taiwan Strait2
Alternative Publications, Spaces and Publics: Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th- and 21st-century China2
Legal Professionalism and the Ethical Challenge for Legal Education: Insights from a Comparative Study of Future Lawyers in Greater China2
Upward Earnings Mobility in Hong Kong: Policy Implications Based on a Census Data Narrative2
Care for the Family and the Environment in China's Coal Country2
Experimentation-based Policymaking for Urban Regeneration in Shenzhen, China2
Central–Local Relations in China: A Case Study of Heilongjiang's GMO Ban2
Meritocracy and the Making of the Chinese Academe, 1912–19522
Institutional Changes, Influences and Historical Junctures in the Communist Youth League of China2
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Yi, Manchu and Han People in Rural China, 2002–20182
China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism?2
Care as Critique of Care: Public Services, Social Security and Ritual Responsiveness2
Producing Scientific Motherhood: State-led Neoliberal Modernization and Nannies' Subjectivity in Contemporary 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
Leader of the Pack? Changes in “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” after a Politburo Collective Study Session2
“One China” and the Cross-Taiwan Strait Commitment Problem2
Sex Work and Stigma Management in China and Hong Kong: The Role of State Policy and NGO Advocacy2
Creating Public Opinion, Advancing Knowledge, Engaging in Politics: The Local Public Sphere in Chengdu, 1898–19212
China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications2
Fragmented but Enduring Authoritarianism: Supply-side Reform and Subnational Entrepreneurialism in China's Rail Delivery Services2
Whither the Global in Chinese Higher Education? The Production of Space in China's “New Era” Universities2
Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials’ Appearance System2
“Dig Deep and Reach Wide”: The Changing Politics of the Chinese Communist Party's Consultative Information System2
“Innocent Young Girls”: The Search for Female Provincial Leaders in China2
Care Scales:DibaoAllowances, State and Family in China2
Local Integration of Urban–Rural Social-assistance Programmes in China: What Are the Driving Forces?2
Crises of Care in China Today2
Job Preferences and Outcomes for China's College Graduates1
“Single Sparks” and Legacies: An Eventful Account of the May Fourth Movement1
Books received1
Interlacing China and Taiwan: Tea Production, Chinese-language Education and the Territorial Politics of Re-Sinicization in the Northern Borderlands of Thailand1
Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China Matthew Noellert Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020 xviii + 324 pp. $39.99; £31.50 ISBN 978-0-472-03798-81
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
COVID-19 and the International Politics of Blame: Assessing China's Crisis (Mis)Management Practices1
The National New Area as an Infrastructure Space: Urbanization and the New Regime of Circulation 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
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
Loyalist, Dissenter and Cosmopolite: The Sociocultural Origins of a Counter-public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong1
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
Economic Development in West Sichuan: The Case of Daocheng County1
Why Parents’ Fertility Plans Changed in China: A Longitudinal Study1
The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below Edited by Richard Madsen Leiden: Brill, 2021 178 pp., €116.00; $140.00 ISBN 978-90-04-46517-61
Equality and Equity in Chinese Higher Education in the Post-massification Era: An Analysis Based on Chinese Scholarly Literature1
The Illusion of Merit in Political Leadership Selection in China1
Reactions to China-linked Fake News: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan1
Explaining Policy Failure in China1
Working without Wages: Network Structure and Migrant Construction Workers’ Protests in China1
How China's Wildlife Trade Legislation Permits Commercial Trade in Protected Wild Animal Species1
Selection and Description Bias in Protest Reporting by Government and News Media on Weibo1
“On the Centre–Periphery Borderline”: Educational Studies on/in Mainland China in the Global Context1
Dethroning the Mao-era Elite, Clearing the Way for Reform1
Back to Cheap Labour? Increasing Employment and Wage Disparities in Contemporary China1
Direct Election, Bureaucratic Appointment and Local Government Responsiveness in Taiwan1
The Political Economy of China's Dramatically Improved Coal Safety Record1
Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda1
Proletarian Power Misplaced: The Worker Propaganda Teams in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution1
Access to Justice in Higher Education: The Student as Consumer in China1
China, Ethiopia and the Significance of the Belt and Road Initiative1
The Multilevel Politics of Government–Business Collaboration in China's Rural Poverty Alleviation1
Water Governance and Regional Development in Xi's 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
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
Africans in China, Western/White Supremacy and the Ambivalence of Chinese Racial Identity1
China's Prosperous Middle Class and Consumption-led Economic Growth: Lessons from Household Survey Data1
Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress1
Invisible China: How the Urban–Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise SCOTT ROZELLE and NATALIE HELL Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020 248 pp. £27.50 ISBN 978-0-2267-3952-61
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance Jinghan Zeng. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 125 pp. $29.00 (pbk). ISBN 978981190721
All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order Zhao Tingyang, translated by Joseph E. Harroff Oakland: University of California Press, 2021 xxviii + 301 pp. $85.00 ISBN 978-0-520-32501
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