OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Submerged Hostilities	11
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action	11
La chair des stèles: Enquête sur les donateurs et les Épigones du Bouddha et des divinités, au Vietnam, des origins à la fin du XVIIe siècle	10
Mongolian Sound Worlds	6
Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale	3
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China	3
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific	2
Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953	2
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh	2
The Early Twentieth Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World: Studies in Central Asian Buddhism	2
Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media	2
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998	2
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China	2
Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China	1
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion	1
Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c. 1500–1937 By Margherita Zanasi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii, 239 pp. ISBN: 9781108499934 (cloth).	1
Fabricating Homeland Security: Israel, India, and the Making of a Global Policing Regime	1
The “Roof Koreans” Meme	1
In Search of Vietnam's Comfort Women	1
Modern Chinese Foodways	1
From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop: Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Argentine Garment Industry By Jihye Kim. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2021. xv, 183 pp. ISBN: 9781498584012 (cloth).	1
Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China By Yuanfei Wang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. viii, 218 pp. ISBN: 9780472132546 (cloth).	1
Accidental Conﬂict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives	1
Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care	1
Editorial Foreword	1

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion	1
Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong	1
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China	1
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand	1
Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas	1
Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra	1
Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–51 By Sonya Grypma. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2021. xxvi, 387 pp. ISBN: 9780774865722 (paper).	1
Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China	1
Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court	1
Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China By Grace C. Huang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. 442 pp. ISBN: 9780674260146 (paper).	1
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled out of Control	1
Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919–45	1
Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity	1
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780674987906 (cloth).	1
Breaking the Saffron Wave?	1
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy By Christophe Jaffrelot. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 656 pp. ISBN: 9780691206806 (cloth).	1
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer	1
Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush	1
Financial Liberalization and Economic Development in Korea: 1980–2020 By Yung Chul Park, Joon-Kyung Kim, and Hail Park. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. xix, 315 pp. ISBN: 97806742512	1
Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in South Korea	1
China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier	1
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization	0
Making Audiences: A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media	0
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands	0
“Let the Story Go Round and Round”	0
The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960	0
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History	0
The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji	0
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present By Adeeb Khalid. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 556 pp. ISBN: 9780691161396 (cloth).	0
Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements	0
Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance, and Ritual	0
Minor Transliteration	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Inscribing Death: Burials, Representations, and Remembrance in Tang China	0
Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China By Joel Andreas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780190052614 (paper).	0
Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia	0
Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories	0
Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life	0
Transforming Inner Mongolia: Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier	0
China's Cold War Science Diplomacy	0
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature	0
Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China	0
Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China	0
Zhou Enlai: A Life	0
Asian Political Cartoons	0
Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021	0
Speaking on Behalf of the Korean King	0
Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia	0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City By Darren Byler. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. 269 pp. ISBN: 9781478017646 (paper).	0
Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia	0

Conclusion	0
Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security	0
The Miniaturized Futures of New Seoul	0
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949	0
The Cambridge Economic History of China	0
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations	0
Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing By Mieke Matthyssen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 380 pp. ISBN: 9783030739010 (cloth).	0
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s	0
Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China	0
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property	0
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China	0
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding	0
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society By Joshua Esler. London: Lexington Books, 2020. xx, 314 pp. ISBN: 978149858466	0
A Technomoral Politics: Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India	0
Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film	0
Stepping in the Madang: Sustaining Expressive Ecologies of Korean Drumming and Dance	0
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China	0
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia	0
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia	0
The Sensational Proletarian: Leftist Cultures in Colonial Korea	0
Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo	0
Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910	0
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia By Anand A. Yang. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. vii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780520294561 (cloth).	0
The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm	0
The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945	0
Memorializing the Mukden Incident	0
Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan By Stevie Suan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781517911782 (paper).	0
Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India	0
The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism	0
Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d'un royaume l'autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955)	0
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Air Defense in Wartime Japan	0
Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China	0
Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland	0
The Republic of China, 1912 to 1949	0
A History of Uyghur Buddhism	0
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism	0
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India	0
Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya By Teren Sevea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxviii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9781108477185 (cloth).	0
Maoist Pigs	0
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death	0
China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future	0
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad By Manu Karuka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 297 pp. ISBN: 9780520296640 (paper).	0
Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games	0
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture	0
Infrastructures of Impunity: New Order Violence in Indonesia	0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence	0
A Tibetan Ceremony of State	0
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu	0
Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier	0
Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World Literature, Film, and Media	0
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea	0
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India	0
Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period	0
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated Edition By James A. Millward. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780231204545 (cloth).	0
Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957	0
Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China	0
The Sino-Indian Border Dispute: From Its Genesis to War and Beyond	0
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus	0
Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past	0
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry	0
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire	0
Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell	0
Incomplete or Extraordinary Koreans?	0
Chinese Religious Practice as Protest	0
Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77	0
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting	0
Making Love (and Maps), Not War	0
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty	0
World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan	0
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire By Henrietta Harrison. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. xiv, 341 pp.	0
Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change	0
Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army, 1939–1945	0
In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South	0
Buddhist Historiography in China	0
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India By Elaine M. Fisher. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xii, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520293014 (paper).	0
The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism	0
Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy	0

Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	0
Technology in a Transimperial Moment	0
Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia	0
Tracing the Bunny	0
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam	0
“Swoop and Grab Your Rights”	0
The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973: Managing a Free World By Naoko Koda. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. xiii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781498583411 (cloth; also available in pap	0
Editorial Foreword	0
The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism: Jōdo Shin Thought and Politics, 1890–1962	0
Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea	0
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China	0
Making the Margins Viable	0
The Rohingya and Arakan	0
States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century	0
Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam By Ted Osius. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2022. xxv, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781978825161 (cloth).	0
“Littoral Marginality”	0
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China	0
Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China	0
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present By Shivshankar Menon. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780815737230 (paper).	0
Literati of the Garrisons	0
Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond	0
Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context	0
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early China	0
Yuan Tongli nianpu changbian [Yuan Tongli: An extended chronological biography]	0
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge	0
Revisualizing Slavery: Visual Sources on Slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago and Indian Ocean	0
Gendered Denunciation, Sexual Misconduct, and the Regulation of the Maoist Cadres During the Socialist Education Movement	0
Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare	0
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control By Yuriko Furuhata. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2022. x, 246 pp. ISBN: 9781478017806 (paper).	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Beyond Punjab: Sikhs in East and Northeast India	0
A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature	0
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction	0
Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies, and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean	0
Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France	0
May It Appease the Court	0
When Muslim Rulers Were Like Hindu Gods	0
Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China	0
Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010	0
Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800–1600	0
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics	0
Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System	0
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era	0
State Formation Through Emulation: The East Asian Model	0
Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the “Tale of Genji”	0
Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China: Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform	0
Disputes over Burial Mountains	0
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	0
Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World	0
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China	0
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland	0
The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan	0
To Africa	0
New Asian Disorders: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century	0
Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan	0
The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980	0
Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868–1912) By Atsuko Ueda. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. x, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780520381711 (paper).	0
Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946–1961	0
Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya	0
Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and Nation-State Deferred	0
Whose Islam? The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia	0
Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia By Marcus Mietzner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 77 pp. ISBN: 9781108468954 (paper; also available as e-book).	0
Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368	0
Critical Engagements and Messy Entanglements	0
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE	0
Studying Race and Racism in South Korean and Japanese Contexts	0
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin	0
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China By Calvin Hui. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231192491 (paper).	0
Black Lives Matter in Japan Too	0
Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction	0
Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War	0
Editorial Foreword	0
Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China	0
Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya	0
The Square Is Closed	0
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire By Sujit Sivasundaram. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xxvii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780226790411 (paper).	0
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond	0
Anticorruption, Development, and the Indian State	0
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism	0
Asia in a Fragile World	0
Criminalizing Job Performance	0
Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility	0
A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer	0
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921–1945 By David Jenkins. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2021. xliv, 503 pp. ISBN: 9789814881012 (paper).	0
JAS volume 81 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Dhol: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab	0
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy By Gabriele Koch. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 248 pp. ISBN: 9781503610576 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book)	0
“Gods Feast on Holy Smoke, Not Tear Gas!”	0
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security on the Bangladesh-India Border	0
The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City	0
Being Dead Otherwise	0
Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War	0
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands	0
A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji	0
Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen	0