OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Modern China 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Market Success in a Planned Culture: Illegal Theatrical Performances in Post–Great Leap Forward China	12
Searching for Shangrila: Existential Authenticity, Buddhist Revival, and Ethnic Empowerment on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier	9
The Peaks and Ranges of Ecosystem Models	8
The KMT versus the CCP: Dueling Chinese Nationalisms and the Politics of Colonial Rule During Hong Kong’s 1956 Riots	8
Rural Reform in Republican China: Christian Women, Print Media, and a Global Vision of Domesticity	6
Maoist Miniatures: The Proletarian Everyday, Visual Remediation, and the Politics of Revolutionary Form	6
Fifty Years of Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science	5
The National Supervision Commission: A “Subaltern History”	5
Neither Withdrawal nor Resistance: Adapting to Increased Repression in China	4
Exiting the Revolution: Alternative Ways of Life in Beijing, 1966–1976	4
New Left without Old Left: The 70’s Biweekly and Youth Activism in 1970s Hong Kong	4
Shaming the Untrustworthy and Paths to Relief in China’s Social Credit System	4
The National Protection War and the Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Warlordism	3
Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor	3
Factory Humanisms: Technical Aesthetics, Sino-Soviet Encounters, and the Fashioning of the Postsocialist Factory in Reform-Era China	3
Militarization as Personal Cultivation: Student Military Training in Guomindang China, 1928–1937	2
Social Relations of Amateur Practice: The Socialist Vision for Culture in Hunan’s Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 1953–1958	2
The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism	2
What Is Minimalist Governance?*	2
The Recruitment Process for Grassroots Cadres in a Chinese County: The CCP Organization Department and Its Alarm Function	2
“What’s the Point of Having Meetings?”: The Everyday Politics of Communist Youth in Shanghai, 1922–1927	2
Workplace-Based Connection: Interest Articulation of Deputies in China’s Municipal People’s Congresses	2
The Relevance of the Household to Individual Businesses in Urban and Rural China	2
China’s “Economic Miracle” and the Universal Modernization Model	2
Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform	2

Rethinking the Cultural Relations between Hong Kong and China: An Analysis of the Chinese Reception of Stephen Chow’s Films	2
Speaking with Devils: Sino-European Vernaculars and Translingual Communication before the Treaty Ports	1
The Judicial Document as Informal State Law: Judicial Lawmaking in China’s Courts	1
Building City Walls: Reordering the Population through Beijing’s Upside-Down Villages	1
Understanding Bureaucratic Involution through Weber’s Bureaucracy: China’s Central Inspection Teams in Practice	1
China’s Modern Ecological History: Bringing the Politics Back In	1
Carrying the “Nation’s Thousand-Jin Burden”: Yiyun, the Relay Transportation System during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945	1
Benevolent Reeducation and Active Remolding: A Perspective from Liu Yuxuan’s Diary and Correspondence	1
Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule	1
Constrained Power Expansion: China’s Procuratorial Reforms within and beyond Criminal Justice	1
The Ongoing Business of Chinese-Language Reform: A View from the Periphery of Hong Kong in the Past Half Century	1
Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960	1
Reassessing the Mortality Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in China	1
Animal Representation in Alai’s Empty Mountains and the Role of Animals in the Remaking of Tibetan Identity and History in Contemporary Tibet	1
Politics from the Liminal Space: The Market and the Populist Articulation of Chinese Nationalism in the 1990s and 2000s	1
Cultural Interaction under State Expansion in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Changes in Marriage and Reproductive Practices in Yunnan since the Mid-Nineteenth Century	1
“In Other News”: China’s International Media Strategy on Xinjiang—CGTN and New China TV on YouTube	1
Culture for the Masses: Building Grassroots Cultural Infrastructure in China	0
Customary Mortgages and the Moral Economy of Kinship in Chinese Lineage Villages, 1905–1965	0
The CCP Information Order in the Early People’s Republic of China: The Case of Xuanjiao Dongtai	0
Monk Husband and Nun Wife: Clerical Marriage, Law, and the State in Contemporary China	0
“Green-Colored Uyghur Poet”: Religion, Nostalgia, and Identity in Contemporary Uyghur Poetry	0
Snares of Youth: Juvenile Offenders and Popular Criminology in the Early Reform Era	0
Transitional Frictions: Intimate Ties, Grassroots Bureaucracy, and Family Reunion in Post-Mao China, 1975–1985	0
Energy, Labor, and Soviet Aid: China’s Northwest Highway, 1937–1941	0
Integrating Stability Maintenance into Comprehensive Governance: The Burgeoning “Safe China” Behemoth	0
Fuwuyuan on Film: Cinema, Socialist Education, and Service Labor from the Great Leap Forward to Reform and Opening Up	0
Marketization of Eldercare in Urban China: Processes, Effects, and Implications	0
Natural Embeddedness, Place Attachment, and Local Opposition to Developmental Projects: A Polanyian Analysis of the Origins of Preemptive Environmental Protests in China	0
Institutionalization within Revolutionary Crisis: The Chinese Communist Party’s Radio Communications and Reconnaissance, 1933–1936	0
Going Local: Policy Intellectuals’ Adaptive Strategies under Xi Jinping	0
The Social Science of Practice Approach to the Study of China’s Development: A Methodological Discussion	0
The Past, Present, and Future of Commercial Associations in China: Reflections on Theory and the Pathways of Practice	0
The Rise in Cesarean Births and the Technocratic Medicalization of Childbirth in Late-Reform China	0
Diligent Daughters: Women’s Educational Outperformance in Contemporary China	0
Preface to “Reflections on Stevan Harrell’s An Ecological History of Modern China”	0
Ecological History in Preindustrial and Postagrarian China	0
Stalemate within Stalemate: The 1923 Changsha Incident	0
Becoming China’s Baudelaire: A Case Study on the Learning and Use of the French Language by Chinese Work-Study Students	0
Justice for Whom? Redressing the “1975 Shadian Incident” in the Post-Mao Era, 1978–2019	0
“Good Samaritans” and Approaches of Resistance in the Cultural Revolution	0
Buddhism Revamped for Socialism: The Monastic Economy on Mount Jiuhua from 1949 to 1966	0
A Critique of Marketism: Varieties of Exchanges in China’s Past and Present	0
Filial Affection as Political Failing: The Children of Rural Class Enemies under the Maoist Emotional Regime	0
“There Is Only One Childhood”: A New Interpretation of China’s “Crackdown” on Education Companies	0
A Reflection on Postwar Neoclassical Economics: The Shift from General Equilibrium Theory to the New Microeconomic Theories	0
States of Diffusion: Ideology, Text, Voice, and Sound in Cold War Chinas	0
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China	0
Demobilizing Veterans: Campaign-Style Stability Maintenance in China	0
Does Governmental Policy Shape Migration Decisions? The Case of China’s Hukou System	0

“You Cannot Make Friends at Work”? Relatedness in and beyond the Workplace and the Reconfiguration of Kinship and Gender in Urban China	0
Yan Fu, John Seeley, and the Idea of Liberty	0
Indenturing Celebrity: Governing China’s Entertainment Industries	0
Cycles, Breakthroughs, and Histories of Ecological Change: 1949 or 1972?	0
The Theories of “Differential Optimums” and “Vertical Integration” and Their Implications for China	0
The Current State and Debate on the Land Contract System in Rural China and A Proposal for Its Reform	0
Reflections on the Ideas, Paradigms, and Methodologies of China Studies: Philip C. C. Huang and Modern China	0
Revisiting “the Great Divergence”: Clarifying the Two Major Modes of Agriculture in China and the West	0
Whither Economics in China? A Comment on Professor Jia Genliang’s “Reflections on Economics Education in China and Suggestions for Its Reform”	0
Contested Memories: An Imaginary Museum for a Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyr, Liu Hulan	0
The Collectivist Legacy and Agrarian Development in China since 1978	0
Theory of Practice and China Research: Legal and Social Science Studies	0
Performance-Based Authoritarianism Revisited: GDP Growth and the Political Fortunes of China’s Provincial Leaders	0
The “Social Science of Practice”: An Introductory Summary and Analysis	0
Hearths, Mythologies, and Livelihood Choices: Exploring Cultural Change under Poverty Alleviation with the Nuosu-Yi of Liangshan	0
“Roots with Wings”: Impacts of Tourism-Induced Mobility on Individuals and Family Ties among the Miao in China’s Individualization Process	0
From Dualistic Opposition to Dyadic Integration: Toward a New Political Economy of Chinese Practice	0
Unsung Heroine: Wang Ruqi, the 1950 Marriage Law, and State-Legal Feminism	0
The Aesthetic Needs of the Masses: Cultural Work in the Aftermath of the Great Leap Forward	0
A Pluralist Vision of Society in Defiance of State Power: Guild Socialism in China after the First World War	0
Silver and Gold: Sino-Japanese Competition in Manchuria during the 1930s World Depression	0