Journal of Contemporary Asia

Article	Citations
The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Prosecutions and the Politics of Bail in Thailand	25
Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China. Wealth, Connections, and Crisis	25
Redesigning, Subverting, Rolling Back: How East Asia’s Conservatives Rebuilt Legitimacy	23
Class, Economy, and Politics in Southeast Asia	19
Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation	16
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons	15
Marx’s Literary Style	15
Vietnamese Patterns of Corruption and Accumulation: Research Puzzles	14
The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India	14
The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi	13
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies	12
India-Philippines Relations: Intersecting Interests, Shared Vision and Way Forward	11
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	11
Beijing’s Changing Hong Kong Policy: The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism	11
Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace	11
Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia	11
Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene.	10
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2023	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
Thailand’s 2020–2021 Pro-Democracy Protests: Diversity, Conflict, and Solidarity	9
“The Food Delivered is More Valuable Than My Life”: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Online Food-Delivery Work in China	9
Promoting China’s Development Model for the Hambantota International Port: Selling Shekou to Sri Lanka	9
The Social Origins of Capital: Trajectories of Accumulation at the Rural–Urban Interface in Pakistani Punjab	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
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
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages	7
Buddhist Majoritarian Nationalism in Thailand: Ideological Contestation, Narratives, and Activism	7
Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest of 2019	6
Environmental Advocacy in a Globalising China: Non-Governmental Organisation Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative	6
The Question of Socialism in China: An Introduction	6
Hongkongers’ International Front: Diaspora Activism During and After the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest	6
Intra-Oligarchic Struggles and the Rise of Digital Attacks on Civil Society in Indonesia	6
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools	6
Bayspeak: Narrating China’s Greater Bay Area	5
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	5
Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migration	5
Peter Limqueco (1939–2022)	5
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	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
Preventing Communal Violence in Myanmar: Power and Legitimacy in Local Conflict Prevention	5
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2025	5
Beyond Federalism? Inclusion, Citizenship, and Minorities Without Territory in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	5
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India	5
Is Indonesian Police Violence Excessive? The Dynamics of Police Shootings, 2005–2014	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
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands	4
Is Contract Farming Fair For Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study From India	4
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka	4
Entrepreneurial Women in a Saturated Marketplace: How Gendered Power Shapes Experiences of Debt in Rural Cambodia	4
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2022	4
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh’s Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought	4
Is China Socialist? Theorising the Political Economy of China	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
Populism in Taiwan: Rethinking the Neo-liberalism–Populism Nexus	4
On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?	3
Evolution of Overseas Chinese Remittances in Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia: Impacts of Trade and Exchange	3
The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey	3
The Politics of Knowledge and Social Cash Transfers: The Constitutive Effects of an Anti-Poverty Regime in Indonesia	3
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life	3
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat	3
Contentious Acts in Controlled Spaces: A Protest Event Analysis of Singaporean Demonstrations	3
Insights From The 2022 South Korean Presidential Election: Polarisation, Fractured Politics, Inequality, and Constraints on Power	3
Provoking Civilian Disruption against Popular Protests: The Myanmar Military’s Counter-Mobilisation Strategies	3
“A Road With No End”: Making the South Pacific a Permanent Labour Reserve	3
A Case of Rampaging Elephants: The Politics of the Middle Classes in Small-Town Pakistan	3
Still Capitalism (And Still Crazy) After All These Years	3
Failing Assumptions and the “Post-Myanmar Turn”	3
On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World	3
Making Mao’s Steelworks. Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism	2
Ideological Contestation and Gender Policy Reforms in Post- Reformasi Indonesia	2

Reinforcing the Path: The Paradox of Failed Reform in India’s Minority Policies (2004–2024)	2
Environmentalisms in Twenty-First Century Thailand: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Emerging Trajectories	2
The Politics of Hindutva: Indian Democracy at the Crossroads	2
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide	2
A Regal Authoritarian Turn in Cambodia	2
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia	2
Making the China Data Valley – The National Integrated Big Data Centre System and Local Governance	2
Instrumentalism or Commitment to Social Justice? Shifting Inter-Ethnic Solidarities in Post-Coup Myanmar	2
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? B	2
Beyond Post-Democracy: Precarious Labour in South Korea and the Legacies of Authoritarian Developmentalism	2
Analysing Vietnam’s Communist Model of Decentralisation after the 2013 Constitution	2
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India	1
Reclaiming the Future: Waiting, Resistance, and Expectations in Myanmar’s Post-Coup University Boycotts	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
Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State	1
The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy	1
Buddhist Nationalist Sermons in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Moral Panic, Conspiracy Theories, and Socio-Cultural Legacies	1
Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea	1
COVID-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State	1
Domestic Actors and the Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power: Evidence from Pakistan	1
Productive and Unproductive Labour: Mapping Iran’s System of National Accounts to Classical Economic Categories, 1986–2016	1
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia	1
Paradoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad	1
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part II: The Commonwealth Period	1
The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental 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
Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier	1
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India	1
What is Wrong with the Historiography on Colonialism in Malaya? Penang at the Periphery	1
Towards the Indonesian Republic: Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution	1
The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order	1
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India. By Johan Fischer. London: Routledge, 2023.	1
Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949	1
A Prize for the Village Ruling Class: “Village Funds” and Class Dynamics in Rural Indonesia	1
Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar	1
Modi’s India: The Rise of Ethnic Democracy	1
Eviscerated to Revolutionary: Rethinking International Aid and Civil Society in Cambodia and Myanmar	1
Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation	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
Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic	1
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy	1
The State in a Capitalist Society: Protests and State Reactions in Vietnam and Indonesia	1
Still the “Opium of the Masses”? Religion and Labour Struggles in Indonesia	0
Brokered Rule: Militias, Drugs, and Borderland Governance in the Myanmar-China Borderlands	0
Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar	0
Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam	0
The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management	0
East Asian Varieties of Capitalism and Socio-Economic Inequality: South Korea and Hong Kong Compared	0
Archaism and Actuality. Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary	0
Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India	0
Zombie Apocalypse and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Class, Precarious Work, and Environment	0
The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia	0
The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy	0
Brewing the Global Shift: Variegated Capitalism, Firm Strategies, and the Restructuring of the Southeast Asian Beer Industry	0
Capital Accumulation in the “Lucky Country”: Australia from the “Sheep’s Back” to the “Quarry Economy.” Part I: The Colonial Period	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2024	0
Traffic, Money, and Political Consent: Explaining the Growth of Commercial Cyber-Nationalism in China	0
From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century	0
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2026	0
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression	0
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019	0
Indonesia’s New Developmental State: Interrogating Participatory Village Governance	0
“Technocratic Socialism”: The Political Thought of Lee Kuan Yew and Devan Nair (1954–1976)	0
Climate Breakdown in Pakistan: (Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery	0
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities: Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns	0
New Political Leadership, Plus Ça Change ? State–Civil Society Relations in Central Asia	0
A Political Economy of the Evolution of Public-Private Partnership Mechanism in the Chinese Water Sector	0
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Inequality and Uneven and Combined Development In India	0
The Politics of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Exploring Adaptation Lock-ins in China and the United States	0
Introduction: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar	0
The Perils of Wishful Thinking: A Response to Peterson, Bedner, and Berenschot	0
The Return of Authoritarian Neo-Liberalism in Indonesia?	0
Lost Opportunity: Local Councils and Grassroots Democracy Reforms after the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong	0
Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs	0
Manipur on Fire: Eyewitness to Ethnic Strife and Survival	0
“Living With” Revolution: The Everyday Experiences of Myanmar’s Generation Z Revolutionaries	0
Restoring the State Back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain	0
A Soldier King. Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X.	0
“This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution	0
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0

Expressive Solidarity in Courtrooms: Defiant Senior Citizens in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong	0
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Policies in South Korea and Taiwan: Decision-Making under Strong versus Weak Partisanship	0
The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China–Myanmar Borderlands	0
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution	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
Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution	0
Democratisation and Social Conflict in Timor-Leste: A Not So Great Transformation	0
The Rise and Fall of Student Labour Activism in Authoritarian China	0
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens	0
Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh	0
Correction	0
Chinese NGOs “Going Out”: Depoliticisation and Diplomatisation	0
The Prison and the Revolution in Myanmar: Exploring Prison Protests During a Revolutionary Situation	0
Marxism and Capitalism Forever: A Response to Smith	0
Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power	0
Correction	0
Uberisation and Resistance to Online Food Delivery Gig Work in Asia: Lessons from Malaysia	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
The Road to Electoral Authoritarianism: Tracing Three Phases of State-Society Contention in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 2003–2020	0
The Politics of De-Privatisation: Philippine Higher Education in Transition	0
Dissident Labour Activism in Vietnam	0
Negotiating Work: China’s Labour Model in the Pacific	0
The Perils of Legal Formalism: Litigating Land Conflicts in Indonesia	0
Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists	0
Indonesia’s Leading Fraction of Capital	0
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues: The Continuing Primacy of Customary Land Tenure in Papua New Guinea	0
The Origins of Collaborative Governance in South Korea: An Analysis of the First Ten Years after Democratisation	0
Skills and Training in Hierarchical Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of Vocational Training in South Korea	0
North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development	0
The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in Singapore: Structural and Situational Opportunities in an Illiberal Regime	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program	0
Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution	0
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty: Against the State or for the State?	0
Litigating Equal Pay for Equal Work in Japan, 2012–2020	0
Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy	0
Local State Autonomy and Economic Transformation: A Comparative Study of Two Chinese Cities	0
Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar	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
Is the Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 in the Making? The Case of Central Asia	0
Compressed Development: Time and Timing in Economic Development	0
Political Resistance in the Marketplace: Consumer Activism in the Milk Tea Alliance	0
Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State	0
Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose	0
Under Treasury Control: Japan’s Emergence as an Egalitarian, Small-government State	0
Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand	0
Anti-Colonial and Civil Conflict in Cambodia: From the First World War to the First Indochina War	0
International Aid Partnerships Amidst Myanmar’s Revolution: Solidarity or Self-Preservation and Compliance?	0
Liminal Space for Progressive Leftists in South Korea's Bipartisan Politics After the 2024 General Election	0
Higher Education in Indonesia: The Political Economy of Institution-Level Governance	0
Perfect Pretext: Populist Authoritarian Seizure of Pandemic Emergency Powers in India and the Philippines	0
State Categories and Their Afterlives: The Politics of “Tribalisation” in Eastern India	0
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh’s Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks	0
Pension Systems and Labour Resistance in Post-socialist China and Vietnam: A Welfare Regime Analysis	0
China’s Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers’ Performance Pay	0
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand	0
States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order.	0
Geo-Politics and the Changing Social Imaginaries of Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan	0
Politics Through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India During the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Catching-up and Pulling Ahead: The Role of China’s Revolutions in its Quest to Escape Dependency and Achieve National Independence	0
Political Coalitions of Labour Control: Comparing Singapore and Cambodia	0
Governing the Digital Economy: An Exploration of Blockchains with Chinese Characteristics	0
Exporting the Will to Compete in Korea’s Global Saemaul Undong	0
Asian Military Evolutions: Civil–Military Relations in Asia	0
Development for Whom? The Politics of Heritage Conservation-cum-Tourism in Indonesia	0
Painting Myanmar’s Transition	0
Handbook on China and Globalization	0
The Cultural Political Economy of Knowledge in Neo-Liberal Indonesia	0
Redeveloping China’s Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation	0
Categorising the Urban Poor: Undermined State Protection for Informal Settlers in the Philippines	0
Disaster, Societal Responses, and State Legitimacy in Crisis in Vietnam	0
Revolution or Order? Buddhist Responses to the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar	0
About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics	0
Death from Overwork in a Time of Pandemic: How Delivery Work Became a Locus of Public Debate in South Korea	0
Correction for Book Review (https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2446895)	0
Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka	0
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness	0
Strange Bedfellows or Trusted Comrades? Digital Solidarity Building among Myanmar’s Revolutionaries	0
On the Need to Study Weak State Institutions: A Rejoinder	0
China’s Outward Investment under “Hierarchical Steering” and “Grassroots Internationalisation”	0
Hardening National Boundaries in a Globally-Connected World: Technology, Development and Nationalism in China	0
From the “Lost Decades” to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan	0
Soldier Defection as a Revolutionary Strategy in Myanmar	0
Understanding and Combating Modern Slavery in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh	0
Adaptation and Resilience: How Pro-democracy Protesters Respond to Autocratisation in Hong Kong	0
The Politics of Thailand’s Participation in PISA: Playing a Neo-Liberal Game in Education	0
When Do South Koreans Support Government Restrictions on Media? The Roles of Partisanship and Democratic Support	0
Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022)	0
High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago	0
The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism	0
Centre-Periphery in shaping an intellectual outlook: Andre Gunder Frank	0
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture	0