Journal of Contemporary Asia

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary Asia 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.)
ArticleCitations
Painting Myanmar’s Transition41
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation20
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis17
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns16
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 194914
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime12
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam12
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea11
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons10
Indonesia’s Leading Fraction of Capital10
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)10
Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork under Digital Surveillance: Investigating Labour Politics in China’s Tech Industry10
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention9
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India9
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left9
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines8
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, 28
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.7
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens7
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics7
Twin Movement: State, Market and the Non-Elite Middle Class in Post-Reform India7
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 7
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier7
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China6
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India6
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy5
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States5
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period5
Institutions, Chain Governance and the Predicament of Local Upgrading: A Case Study of Hangzhou’s Mobile Game Industry5
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India4
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts4
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–20204
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?4
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic4
Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka4
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve4
State–Business Relations in Flux: Capturing the Structural Power of Business in South Korea’s Green Industrial Policy4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia4
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India3
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought3
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia3
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands3
Exploring Biographical Ties among Party and State Leaders in China: A Social Network Analysis3
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs3
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia3
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20243
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat3
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery3
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles3
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia3
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years3
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi3
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam3
The Two Faces of Gross National Happiness: Can Bhutan’s Nation-Building Strategy Also Be a Sustainable Alternative Development Paradigm?3
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–20163
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State3
Multiple Careers: Towards a Post-Work Way of Life2
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State2
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus2
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace2
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India2
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations2
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20222
Marx’s Literary Style2
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand1
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis1
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution1
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation1
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power1
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China1
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies1
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India1
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines1
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy1
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared1
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism1
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development1
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 1
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.1
On the Need to Study Weak State Institutions: A Rejoinder1
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan1
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution1
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey1
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation1
What is Wrong with the Historiography on Colonialism in Malaya? Penang at the Periphery1
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain1
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia1
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century1
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support1
China’s Outward Investment under “Hierarchical Steering” and “Grassroots Internationalisation”1
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State1
The Cost of Belonging. An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown1
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China1
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 H1
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan1
China’s Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society1
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea1
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance1
“Risk is not Measured, but Contested and Compromised”: A Case Study of Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway1
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities1
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap: The Case of Malaysia1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea1
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry0
The “Peculiarities” Of Modernisation In Korea: Revisiting The Debate On “Colonial Modernisation” Vs. “Colonial Plunder”0
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India0
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World0
The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands0
Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy0
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy0
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong0
New Political Leadership, Plus Ça Change ? State–Civil Society Relations in Central Asia0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution0
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary0
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.0
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia0
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism0
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 . By0
The Japanese Economy0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong0
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 20190
Correction0
Correction for Book Review (https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2446895)0
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest0
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar0
Duterte’s Violent Populism: Mass Murder, Political Legitimacy and the “Death of Development” in the Philippines0
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia0
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction0
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance0
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship0
Revisiting the Wages of Burman-Ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar0
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life0
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories0
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia0
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand0
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies0
Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand Amnesia. A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand . By Arjun Subrahmanyan. Albany: State U0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation0
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka0
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism0
The Perils of Wishful Thinking: A Response to Peterson, Bedner, and Berenschot0
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay0
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance0
Dynamics of Tactical Radicalisation and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement0
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City0
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–20200
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia0
Weapon of Resistance or Tool of Control? Chinese Labour Law in a Post-Strike Era0
The Rise and Fall of Student Labour Activism in Authoritarian China0
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 [South0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose0
Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.0
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition0
The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy and Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment0
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads0
The Perils of Legal Formalism: Litigating Land Conflicts in Indonesia0
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period0
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State0
Digital and Green Transitions and Automotive Industry Reconfiguration: Evidence From Japan and China0
Using Labour to Characterise Forms of Agriculture: A Thai Family Rubber Farming Case Study0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20250
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka0
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy0
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago0
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar0
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative0
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong0
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands0
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration0
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity0
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools0
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area0
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”0
Uberisation and Resistance to Online Food Delivery Gig Work in Asia: Lessons from Malaysia0
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)0
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–20140
Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction0
Making Mao’s Steelworks. Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism0
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence0
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: Pri0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–20190
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy0
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia0
Labour Recruitment Systems in Global Production Networks: The Ruralisation of Labour Regimes in South India’s Garment and Textile Industries0
Handbook on China and Globalization0
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh’s Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program0
Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia0
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide0
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar0
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar0
Negotiating Work: China’s Labour Model in the Pacific0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?0
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution0
From the “Lost Decades” to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan0
Correction0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 20230
Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance0
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China0
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