Journal of Contemporary Asia

Article	Citations
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand	36
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons	28
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis	20
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia	19
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy	19
The Integration of Immigrant-origin Youth in Japan: Theoretical Insights from Narratives on School Experiences	16
Towards the Indonesian Republic: Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution	15
Marx’s Literary Style	14
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies	14
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	14
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace	13
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward	13
Toppling the First Ministry: Kerala, the CIA, and the Struggle for Social Justice	12
China’s Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and Market	12
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia	11
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism	11
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India	11
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka	10
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity	10
Highways to the End of the World. Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia	10
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	9
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway	9
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore’s Developmental State	9
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023	9
Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests.	8

The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab	8
L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [Southeast Asia 2022: assessment, challenges and perspectives]. L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux et perspectives [South	8
Contextualising the 2025 Indonesian Protests: Authoritarian Statism, Militarisation, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction	8
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn	8
Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard	7
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction	7
Political Economy of Eco-sustainable Alternatives: Progressive and Equitable Futures	7
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages	7
Market Society as a Liberal Utopia	7
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia	7
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2025	6
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	6
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition . Yi-Lin Chiang. Princeton: Pri	6
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools	6
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	6
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations	5
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)	5
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	5
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City	5
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence from Japan and China	5
Gendered Dynamics of Rural Livelihood Diversification: Tea Farmers in the Black Sea Region of Turkey	4
The Malayan Communist Party and the Question of Hegemony: A Response to Lockwood’s The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party From 1930 to 1948	4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India	4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China	4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia	4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	4
War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World	4
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India	4
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?	4
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years	3
Banditry in the Sundarbans: The Political Economy of a Mangrove Frontier	3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat	3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan	3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey	3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange	3
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus	3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations	3
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia	2
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies	2
Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests	2
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World	2
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”	2
Analysing Vietnam’s Communist Model of Decentralisation after the 2013 Constitution	2
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance	2
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life	2
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia	2
Beyond Post-Democracy: Precarious Labour in South Korea and the Legacies of Authoritarian Developmentalism	2

A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea	1
The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism . By	1
The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order	1
Towards the Indonesian Republic: Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution	1
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts	1
The Impact of Gender Inequality on Iraq’s Environmental Activism	1
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	1
Reinforcing the Path: The Paradox of Failed Reform in India’s Minority Policies (2004–2024)	1
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads	1
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	1
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China	1
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.	1
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–2016	1
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India	1
Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad	1
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State	1
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State	1
Making Mao’s Steelworks. Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism	1
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B	1
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India	1
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar	1
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	1
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	1
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism . By Kohei Saito. Cambridge: Cambridge	1
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	1
Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar	1
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia	1
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide	1
The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship	0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–2020	0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.	0
Devaluation without Dispossession: State-Initiated Land Acquisition and its Discontents in Vietnam	0
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation	0
Negotiating Work: China’s Labour Model in the Pacific	0
Political Coalitions of Labour Control: Comparing Singapore and Cambodia	0
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development	0
Backlash: China’s Struggle for Influence in Central Asia	0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	0
A Political Economy of the Evolution of Public-Private Partnership Mechanism in the Chinese Water Sector	0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War	0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	0
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam	0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand	0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)	0
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens	0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India	0
Expressive Solidarity in Courtrooms: Defiant Senior Citizens in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong	0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong	0
On the Need to Study Weak State Institutions: A Rejoinder	0
Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	0
The Dark Side of Corporate Social Responsibility: Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	0
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World. Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World. By Brett Christophers. London: Verso, 2	0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	0
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State	0
Chinese and Japanese Capitalisms: A Comparative Analysis of Co-ordination Problems in Vehicle Electrification Paths	0
My Turbulent Life and 21 Years in the People’s Republic of China	0
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression	0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar	0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia	0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness	0
The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands	0
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation	0
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support	0
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka	0
Development for Whom? The Politics of Heritage Conservation-cum-Tourism in Indonesia	0
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	0
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists	0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry	0
Perilous Wagers. Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-first Century Tokyo	0
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines	0
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities	0
Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas	0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment	0
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation	0

Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	0
Digital Defiance: Analysis of Public Responses to Youth Activism in Thailand, 2020–2023	0
Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies	0
Manipur on Fire: Eyewitness to Ethnic Strife and Survival	0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.	0
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime	0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago	0
Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar	0
Correction	0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship	0
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States	0
What has Happened to the Poster Child: is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?	0
The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management	0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution	0
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary	0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	0
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines	0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation	0
Understanding and Combating Modern Slavery in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh	0
Praetorian Kingdom. A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand	0
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election	0
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	0
Uberisation and Resistance to Online Food Delivery Gig Work in Asia: Lessons from Malaysia	0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	0
New Political Leadership, Plus Ça Change ? State–Civil Society Relations in Central Asia	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2024	0
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State	0
Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations	0
Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power	0
Unequal Chains: Global Value Chains and Income Disparity	0
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea	0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China	0
The Return of Authoritarian Neo-Liberalism in Indonesia?	0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	0
Political Trust in China	0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?	0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia	0
The Perils of Wishful Thinking: A Response to Peterson, Bedner, and Berenschot	0
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	0
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India	0
Correction for Book Review (https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2446895)	0
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy	0
The Politics of Thailand’s Participation in PISA: Playing a Neo-Liberal Game in Education	0
Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand . By Arjun Subrahmanyan. Albany: State U	0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia	0
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong	0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose	0
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns	0
China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability	0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	0
Marxism and Capitalism Forever: A Response to Smith	0
Centre-Periphery in Shaping an Intellectual Outlook: Andre Gunder Frank	0
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020	0
About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics	0
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery	0
Peace and Murder in Cold War Thailand	0
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	0
Geo-Politics and the Changing Social Imaginaries of Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan	0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia	0
Indonesia’s Leading Fraction of Capital	0
The Rise and Fall of Student Labour Activism in Authoritarian China	0
The Perils of Legal Formalism: Litigating Land Conflicts in Indonesia	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2026	0
The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of Hegemony and Changing Global Orders The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of H	0
Decoding Australia’s “China Threat”: Geo-Politics, Knowledge Formation, and Public Opinion	0
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation	0
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar	0
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam	0
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture	0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh	0
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	0
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka	0