OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Chinese Studies in History 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The South China School: A case in historical anthropology—Editor’s introduction	1
Zhu Teng 朱騰, Liuhe weijia: Jiandu suojian Qin xian zhili yanjiu 六合爲家—簡牘所見秦縣治理研究 (Unifying the Realm: Studies on the Governance of Qin Counties as Documented on Bamboo and Wooden Slips)	1
A study of lost early Buddhist bibliographic catalogues	1
On the history and historiography of the “South China School”	1
Buddhist literature in Chinese history—Editors’ introduction	1
From national capital to provincial capital: Transformation of Hangzhou’s political spaces in the Early Yuan Dynasty	1
Gu Mengyu de qinggao: Zhongguo jindaishi de lingyizhong keneng 顧孟餘的清高：中國近代史的另一種可能 (above and apart: Gu Mengyu and His Search for an Alternative Path in Modern Chinese History).	0
Ouyang Zhesheng 歐陽哲生, Gudai Beijing yu Xifang wenming 古代北京與西方文明 (Ancient Beijing and Western Civilization)	0
Beyond the Critical Review: Examining Wu Mi’s “A Response to the New Culture Movement”	0
Huang Xingtao 黃興濤, Chongsu Zhonghua: jindai Zhongguo “Zhonghua minzu” guannian yanjiu 重塑中華：近代中國“中華民族”觀念研究 (Reshaping China: A Study of the Concept of the “Chinese Nation” in Modern China)	0
Modern Chinese law from the perspective of Japanese legal academics: A discussion on criminal justice	0
Historical trends, historical perspectives, and Western discourse on early modern Chinese history	0
Spatiality in Chinese history: Palace, landscape, and city—Editor’s introduction	0
Tangshi jingxiang zhong de sichou zhilu bianqian 唐詩鏡像中的絲綢之路	0
Women in the chase: Sports, empire, and gender in Shanghai, 1860–1945	0
Studies, cultivation of the mind, and formation of character: The life of scholars in Jiangnan in the Late Ming Dynasty	0
Shijie xiangxiang: Xixue dongjian yu Mingqing hanwen Dili wenxian 世界想像: 西學東漸與明清漢文地理文獻 (Imagination of the World: The Eastward Reflections of Western Learning and Chinese Geographical Documents	0
Ye Nong 葉農 and Shao Jian 邵建, Ren Guo Liu Hen: Faguo Yesuhui Danganguan Cang Shanghai Yesuhui Xiushimu Mubei Tapian 人過留痕: 法國耶穌會檔案館藏上海耶穌會修士墓墓碑拓片 (Trace as Left: Rubbings o	0
Hu Shi and the Critical Review group	0
Emotions history in China—Editor’s introduction	0
Yang Yi and Yu Bin, Yibainian, xuduo ren, xuduo shi: Yang Yi koushu zizhuan 一百年, 許多人, 許多事: 楊苡口述自傳 (One Hundred Years, Many People, Many Things: Yang Yi’s Oral Autobiogra	0
The untimely Don Quixotes: “The old school within the new school” during the May Fourth period	0
Folding and stretching of the historical processes—The existence and transformation of she (territorial shrine) and their significance in the studies of Chinese history	0
Lawrence Wang-Chi Wong 王宏志, Long yu shi de duihua: Fanyi yu Maga’erni fanghua shituan 龍與獅的對話：翻譯與馬戛爾尼訪華使團 (Dialogue Between the Dragon and the Lion: Translation and the Macartney Mission)	0
Duozhi xianming: He xiangu xinyang yu guangdong zengjiang liuyu difang shehui (960–1864) 裰織仙名: 何仙姑信仰與廣東增江流域地方社會 (960–1864)	0

Shiqi shiji feizhi 十七世紀廢址 (The Dream Book and the Lost Libraries of the Late Ming)Jerlian Tsao 曹志漣, Shiqi shiji feizhi 十七世紀廢址 (The Dream Book and the	0
Troubles both foreign and domestic: A comparative study of the political geography of the Song Dynasty	0
Regional interactions in the Chan Buddhist literature between Sichuan and Zhejiang in the Northern and Southern Song periods—Centering on the phenomena of “Sichuan Monks as Laju” and “Zhejiang	0
A new interpretation of histories of fallen states—Yuan Haowen’s stele inscriptions viewed in historiography and emotions history	0
The reception of Sima Qian in the world—Editor’s introduction	0
Rong Xinjiang 榮新江, Cong Zhang Qian dao Makeboluo: Sichou zhi lu shiba jiang 從張騫到馬可波羅: 絲綢之路十八講 (From Zhang Qian to Marco Polo: Eighteen Lectures on the Silk Road)Rong Xin	0
Teaching good and doing good: Late-Qing Sichuan folk preaching and its effects	0
Imperial China in transition: Politics and society in the 10th–13th centuries—Editors’ introduction	0
Chūgoku Panda Gaikōshi 中国パンダ外交史	0
The symbolic world of cattle: Issues in the advertising, consumption, and production of beef in Taiwan (1895–1937)	0
An initial exploration of the history of China's environmental changes and its characteristics	0
From sacred to secular: A study of the transformation in spatial functions of modern Confucian temples (1906–1937)	0
Yang Bin 楊斌, Haibei yu beibi: Xianweirenzhi de quanqiushi 海貝與貝幣: 鮮為人知的全球史 (Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History)Yang Bin 楊斌, Haibei yu beibi:	0
From traditional flower fair to “degenerate temple” to modern exposition: The local politics and spatial improvement of Qingyang Palace in Chengdu (1906–1937)	0
From oriental studies to sinology: Comparative linguistics and Joseph Edkins’s Chinese research in the 19th century	0
Uncovering the history of the Predynastic Kitan: The historical memory of Dynasties of Northern Descent from a polity perspective	0
“Becoming a Sage” in the locale: The case of 17th-century northern scholar Yan Yuan	0
Muru yu niunai: Jindai Zhongguo muqin juese de chongsu, 1895–1937 母乳與牛奶: 近代中國母親角色的重塑, 1895–1937 (Infant Feeding and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Modern China, 1895–1937).	0
An overview of the research of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) in South Korea over the past forty years (1971–2010)	0
Enriching Song literati culture: With an emphasis on the four treasures of the study (Wenfang Sibao) of the Southern Tang	0
The collection and translation of Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) in Russia	0
Xu Lanjun 徐蘭君. Ertong yu zhanzheng: Guozu, Jiaoyu ji dazhong wenhua 兒童與戰爭: 國族、教育及大眾文化 (Chinese Children and War: Nation, Education and Mass Culture)Xu Lanjun徐蘭君,	0
An analysis of the image positioning and literary characteristics of Burton Watson’s English translation of Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)	0
Zhao Dongmei 趙冬梅, Renjian yanhuo: Yanmai zai lishi li de richang yu rensheng 人間煙火：埋藏在歷史裡的日常與人生 (Mundane Stories: Daily Routine and Life Buried in History)	0
Zhao Shiyu 赵世瑜, Mengjiang huanxiang: Dongting dongshan de xin jiangnanshi 猛将还乡：洞庭东山的新江南史 (the Return of the Fierce General: Dongting East Mountain and the New Jiangnan History)	0
Chinese servants and cooks in the foreign factories in Canton on the eve of the First Opium War	0
Du Hongtao 杜洪濤, Shugu fengyan: Mingdai Liaodong de weisuo tizhi yu junshi shehui 戍鼓烽煙: 明代遼東的衛所體制與軍事社會 (War Drum and Beacon Fire: Garrison System and Military Society in	0
Taking refuge in melancholy amidst natural landscapes: Zhang Dai’s idle life in the Ming-Qing transition	0
Anping temples and ritual traditions	0
How an event was created: Emperor Daoguang’s routinized life and the formation of the “Opium War” as a historical event	0
Travel, leisure, amusement, and play: Social mobility and cultural shifts in the late Ming	0
The past, present, and future of environmental history in contemporary China	0
“The emotional community” and the direction of mass movements—The coexistence of oppositional developments in the social trend of 1920s Hunan	0
A tale of multi-species encounterings in mid-Victorian London: Controversies surrounding the Smithfield Livestock Market	0
Li Jinzheng 李金錚, Chongfang geming: Zhonggong “xin gemingshi” de zhuanxiang 重訪革命: 中共“新革命史”的轉向, 1921–1949 (Revisit the Revolution: The Turn to A New Chinese Communist Revo	0
Zhao Yanjie 赵妍杰. Jiating geming: Qingmo minchu dushuren de chongjing 家庭革命: 清末民初讀書人的憧憬 (the Quest for Family Revolution in Late Qing and Early Republican China 1895–1923)	0
Police system reform in China after the Sino-Japanese War	0
An intangible symbol: Behind the wartime construction of the Capital Martyrs’ Shrine	0
Guowen de chuangsheng: Qingji wenxue jiaoyu yu zhishi yanbian 國文的創生：清季文學教育與知識衍變; Jindai Zhongguo dazhong jiaoyu de xingqi 近代中國大眾教育的興起, 1927–1937	0
Yujian huangdong: 18-19 shiji zhujiangkou de xiaorenwu yu dashijie 遇見黃東：18-19世紀珠江口的小人物和大世界 (Encountering Whang Tong: Little People and the Big World in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Pea	0
Modern Chinese history in Japan—Editors’ introduction	0
The open and closed nature of channels for information: An examination of institutional culture from the perspective of the “Yanlu” of the Song Dynasty	0
Cui Guangqing 崔廣慶, Gudai xinjiang diqu ruxue wenhua chuanbo jianzhi 古代新疆地區儒學文化傳播簡史 (A Brief History of the Spread of Confucian Culture in Ancient Xinjiang)	0
Zhou Jian 周健, Weizhengzhigong: Qingdai tianfu yu guojia shuishou (1730-1911) 維正之供: 清代田賦與國家稅收 (1730-1911) (The Essential Tax: Land Tax and National Taxation System in Qin	0
Ye Yiliang 葉奕良, Zhongguo Yilang Wenhua Jiaoliu Shi 中國伊朗文化交流史 (History of cultural exchanges between China and Iran).	0
A reassessment of source citation issues in The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin	0
Confucian thought and the practice of family ethics in lower-class society in Northern China during the 17th century	0
Cultural ecology and changes in 19th–20th century Jiangnan field landscapes	0
Liu Jie and Nakamura Motoya, 劉傑・中村元哉, Chotaikoku・Chugoku no Yukue 1 Bunmeikanto Rekishininshiki 超大国・中国のゆくえ１文明観と歴史認識 (China’s View of Civilization and Historical Awaren	0
Wealth and power without a strong military? The four postwar periods of modern East Asia	0

Pan Guangzhe 潘光哲, Chuangzao jindai Zhongguo de “shijie zhishi” 創造近代中國的「世界知識」(The Making of “World Knowledge” in Modern China).Pan Guangzhe 潘光哲, Chuangzao	0
Onodera Shirō 小野寺史郎, Sengo Nihon no Chūgokukan: Ajia to Kindai wo Meguru Kattō 戦後日本の中国観:アジアと近代をめぐる葛藤 (China in Postwar Japan: Entanglements around Asia and the Modern Er	0
Zhoudai de xinyang: tian, di, zuxian 周代的信仰: 天、帝、祖先	0
“The unstable layer of Confucian culture”—Several thoughts on “modern local history”	0
County officials close to the people—Power structures and the operation of grassroots society	0
Shengru xintong: guoyu yundong yu xiandai zhongguo 聲入心通:國語運動與現代中國 (Knowing upon Hearing: National Language Movement and Modern China)	0
Lu Xiqi 魯西奇, Xi: Yige Qin li he ta de shijie 喜：一個秦吏和他的世界 (Xi: A Qin Official and His World)	0
Sitanyin Dunhuang Kaogu Dang’an Yanjiu 斯坦因敦煌考古檔案研究 (Study on Archives of Stein’s Archaeological Activities in Dunhuang)Wang Jiqing 王冀青, Sitanyin Dunhuang Kaogu Dang’a	0
The entanglement of constitutional government and revolution in modern China	0
Qingdai weisheng fangyi jizhi jiqi jindai yanbian 清代衛生防疫機制及其近代演變 (修訂版) (The Public Health and Epidemic Prevention Mechanisms in Qing Dynasty and Their Evolution in Modern China (rev	0
The evolution of Buddhist views on divination: From Original Buddhism to Esoteric Buddhism	0
Imagining a common homeland: A study of Northeast landscape writing during the war of resistance against Japan	0
A village story and a country’s history: The case of Zhanglin and the methodology of traditional rural sociology	0
The leisure views of Jiangnan’s literati in the late Ming: A comparative analysis of China and the West	0
Beyond the grand narrative: New studies of the Opium War—Editors’ introduction	0
The creation of the geographical space of Xanadu of the Yuan Dynasty and the establishment of a unified multiethnic state	0
Environmental history in China—Editor’s introduction	0
Sun Ming 孫明, Zhidao zhi tong: chuantong Zhongguo zhengzhi sixiang de yuanxing yu dingxing 治道之統: 傳統中國政治思想的原型與定型 (The Genealogy of Zhidao :	0
Animal history: Cross-cultural perspectives—Editor’s introduction	0
Literature and Media in Shanghai During the Japanese Occupation: Cultural Activities of Chinese Collaborators with Japan 日本占領期上海の文学とメディア: 「対日協力者」の文化活動	0
Cui Zhihai崔志海, Meiguo yu wanqing Zhongguo (1894–1911) 美國與晚清中國 (1894–1911) (The United States and Late Qing China, 1894–1911)Cui Zhihai崔志海, Meiguo yu wanqi	0
Structural processes in local societies and cultures: A dialogue between historiography and anthropology in Pearl River Delta studies	0
Grassroots Confucianism in late imperial China—Editors’ introduction	0
“Running counter to what contemporaries valued”—The intellectual shift of Liu Boming of the May Fourth period	0
The Buddhist philosophic origins of the literary xingling theory	0
The esthetics of everyday life for Jiangnan literati in the late Ming and early Qing period: Drinking culture as a case study	0
“New Humanist” Confucianism: A study of Mei Guangdi of the Xueheng group	0
A new discussion of Song-era “urban culture”	0
Leisure and pleasure in Late Imperial China—Editor’s introduction	0
Zhang Xianqing 張先清. Diguo qianliu: Qingdai qianqi de Tianzhujiao, diceng zhixu yu shenghuo shijie 帝國潛流: 清代前期的天主教、底層秩序與生活世界 (Undercurrents of the Empire: Catholicism, the Order of the Underclass	0
杜春媚 (編), Lengzhan shiqi de Meiguo yu Dongya shehui 冷戰時期的美國與東亞社會 (The United States and the East Asia Society in the Cold War Era)Chunmei Du, ed., 杜春媚 (編),	0
Qiren Qidi Qishu: Xuan Zang yu Da Tang Xiyu Ji奇人奇地奇書：玄奘與《大唐西域記》(Incredible Figure, Incredible Land and Incredible Book: Xuanzang and His Great Tang Records on the Western Regions)	0
Between the old and the new: Reevaluating the Critical Review and its legacy—Editors’ introduction	0
Maixiang zhishi shijie zhuyi: Luokefeile jijinhui de zaihua shiye (1914–1966) 邁向智識世界主義: 洛克菲勒基金會的在華事業 (1914–1966)	0
Replication and recreation of a classic: Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang’s English translation of The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji)	0
Starting from the first premise of history: Chinese environmental history’s ideological beginning, progress, and goals	0
Shenyi gantong, Huali youqing: Dunhuang gaoseng zhuanzan wenxian yanjiu 神異感通, 化利有情：敦煌高僧傳讚文獻研究 (Divine Marvels and Spiritual Resonance, Transforming and Benefiting Sentient Beings: A Study on th	0
The tale of the British “third princess” and the Chinese public reception of the Opium War	0
Postwar Taiwanese political history studies in Japan: A renewed focus on “external” and “internal” legitimacy	0
The Kangxi Court’s “tribute lion” and Lodovico Buglio’s On Lions	0
Knowing oneself and one’s home country: Reflections on Fang Junbi's experiences from the perspectives of emotions and feminist history	0
A new landscape in central Asian philology, history, and grotto archaeology	0
Gongzhu zhi si: Ni suo bu zhidao de zhongguo falüshi 公主之死: 你所不知道的中國法律史	0
Cultural translation: Horse racing, greyhound racing, and Jai Alai in modern Shanghai	0
Zhou Lin 周琳, Shanglü anfou: Qingdai Chongqing de shangyezhidu 商旅安否：清代重慶的商業制度 (Convenient or Restrictive: The Commercial System of Chongqing in the Qing Dynasty)	0