OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary China is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	83
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	59
China’s Political Discourse on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: The Evidence from People’s Daily (2010–2024)	28
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	28
Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Workers at the Margins: Evidence from a Sichuan Case Study	27
Memory in Motion: The Configuration of Korean War Memory in Chinese Popular Representations	23
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	22
The Sino-American Struggle for Normative Security: The Strategic Framing and Shaping of Alignment of Belief in the Human Rights Council During the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	19
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	18
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	18
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	18
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	17
Public Consultation and Policy Change in China’s Cyber Governance	16
NPC Amendments: Understanding Drivers of Bill Revision in the Chinese National Legislature	16
Imported Nationalism: How Foreign Influencers and Local Followers Amplify the Chinese Dream in Weibo’s Attention Economy	15
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	15
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	15
Understanding Generational Shifts and Democratic Support in China: Value Change Vs. Life Satisfaction	15
Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot	14
Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking	13
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	13
Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era	13
International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	13
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	13

The Dynamics of Anti-Corruption Campaigns in China: An Empirical Study of the Official Rank-Punishment Nexus in the Context of Political and Legal Changes	12
The Logic of Stability Maintenance in China’s NGO Governance: Balancing Weiwen Through Incorporation and Suppression	11
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	10
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	10
The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies	10
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	10
‘I Am Patriotic, but…’: The Political Disclaimer as a Social Media Strategy in China	9
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	9
Negotiating Life Rhythms in Accelerated China – A Case Study of the ‘Anti-Social Clock’ Online Group	9
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	9
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	9
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	8
Unlocking China’s Banking Competition: The Role of Clan Culture	8
China Plans for ‘Total War’: Developing the Capacity to Defeat the ‘Strong Enemy’ of the United States	8
Bereaved Single-Child Parents as the Focus of Family Planning Officials: State Support, Social Stability, and the Unresolved Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy	8
Stability Maintenance and the ‘Three Evils’: Framing China’s Role in Central Asia	8
Zero-COVID or Coexistence? It is a Question: Examining Ideological Factors Underlying the Chinese Public’s Attitude to Health Policies	8
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	8
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	8
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	7
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	7
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	7
Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education	7
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	7
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	7
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	7
China, Gaza War and Competitive Shaming: Between Condemnation and Constraints	7
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	7
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	7
Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: A Text-As-Data Approach	7
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	6
The Rise and Fall of a New Cold War: The US–China Great Power Rivalry from President Trump I to II	6
Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement	6
Centralized Control and Dispersed Mandates: The Multiple Institutional Logics Behind Lenient Local Discipline in China	6
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	6
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993	6
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	5
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	5
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	5
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	5
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	5
Trust Chains and the Resilience of Patronage Networks :The Use of Indirect Guanxi Under Anti-Corruption	5
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	5
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	5
How COVID-19 has Impacted American Attitudes Toward China: A Study on Twitter	5
The Power of Extended Contact: The Attitudes of National Quemoy University Students Towards China	5
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	5
Digital Governance, Dataveillance, and Participatory Panopticon: Public Health Surveillance in China from 2020 to 2022	5
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	5

After the Dust Settled: Online Participation and Adaptation in Hong Kong	4
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	4
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	4
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	4
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	4
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	4
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	4
Chinese Coercion, Wedge Strategies, and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance	4
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	4
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	4
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	4
From Pricing Power to Autonomy: The Geopolitics of RMB-Denominated Oil Futures Benchmark	4
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	4
The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application in Cyberspace	4
Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control	4
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	4
Poverty in Urban China 2012–2020: Applying an Income-Asset Joint Framework	4
Between Centralism and Localism: Dual Mobility Regimes in the Chinese Bureaucracy	4
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	4
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	4
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: China’s Varied Responses to US Strategic Competition	4
The Chinese Way of World Order-Making and Shaping: The Russo-Ukrainian War as a Test and an Opportunity	3
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	3
Correction	3
Brazilian Perception of the China-Led Belt and Road Initiative	3
Administration-Led Carbon Markets and China’s Green Transition: Efficiency, Fairness and Rent-Seeking	3
Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea	3
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping	3
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China	3
Masculine Repertories: Family and Articulations of Masculinities Among Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men	3
The Quad, AUKUS and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation	3
Perception of China in Zimbabwe: Influence of Partisanship and Media Exposure	3
Threat Perception, Otherness and Hate Speech in China’s Cyberspace	3
Politicization as a Policy Instrument: China’s Politicized Policy Narrative of Environmental Protection and Control of Its Social Resonance	3
Reputational Governance and Party-State Capitalism: A Tale of Two Chinese-Sponsored Railways in Africa	2
Exploring the Social Dynamics of Public Stigmatization in China of Wuhanese During the Initial Outbreak of COVID-19: A Moral Panic Analysis	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
Caught Between China and the United States: Small Western States’ Reactions to Chinese Port Investments	2
Dual Authoritative Mediation: Policing and Community Governance in Urban China	2
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	2
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	2
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China	2
Promoting Authoritarianism? Continuity and Change in China’s Policy Towards Myanmar (1990–2023)	2
Care Under Strain: Caregiver Mental Health and Early Childhood Development in Rural China	2
More Red but Still Expert: Party-Army Relations Under Xi Jinping	2
Institutional and Perceptional Welfare Boundaries: A Comparative Study of Migrants’ Welfare Experiences Across Three Chinese Metropolises	2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	2
From Crisis Management to Infrastructural Power: How China Selectively Institutionalized COVID-19 Governance	2
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces: China’s Human Rights Strategies in a Changing World Order	2
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	2
Governance Challenge and Tiered State Assistance: The Fiscal Gap in the Chinese Ethnic Tibetan Autonomous Areas	2
“Top-Down Communitarianism”: The Purposes and Limitations of China’s Point System Governance	2
Serve the People: Public Service Information and Communication Strategies of Local Governments in China	2
Disentangling Diversity of Deliberativeness in Chinese Deliberative Democracy	2
Between Politics and Expert: Institutional Transposition and the Admission of Economic Bureaucrats into Party Elite in China	2
Foundation of the Political Resilience in China: A Perspective of State Capacity	2
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	2
Assessing Public Support for (Non)Peaceful Unification with Taiwan: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey in China	2
Provinces in Command: Changes in Prefectural Appointments from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (2003-2020)	2
The Political Leadership of Xi Jinping: Narratives of Integrity Through Ordeal	2
How Do Chinese Local Governments Persuade the Central Government in International Economic Cooperation Projects? A ‘Local Alliance’ Model	2
When the Mass Line Encounters the Ground: Public-Oriented Accountability and Frontline Coping in China	2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	2