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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tracing the Path of Sino-Ukrainian Relations: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Russo-Ukrainian War	71
China’s Promotion of Knowledge Diffusion in Africa - a Case Study on Ethiopia’s Manufacturing Sector	49
China’s Political Discourse on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: The Evidence from People’s Daily (2010–2024)	24
Reforms and Inequality: Examining the Impact of China’s Primary Distribution System Reforms on Wage Inequality (1989–2015)	24
Reassessing Seoul’s “One China” Policy: South Korea-Taiwan “Unofficial” Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)	24
Is China Truly the Spokesperson for Developing Countries? An Examination of China’s Voting Position with Africa in the United Nations Security Council	23
New Clientelism in Urban China: Broker-Based Evasions in Residential Property Market	20
Explaining ‘Grey Capital’: The Sociology of Transnational Chinese Companies and Crime in Thailand	19
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	16
The Scholar and the Ghost: Thucydides, China’s Rise, and Major Power War	16
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	15
Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics	15
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	15
Public Consultation and Policy Change in China’s Cyber Governance	14
NPC Amendments: Understanding Drivers of Bill Revision in the Chinese National Legislature	14
Understanding Generational Shifts and Democratic Support in China: Value Change Vs. Life Satisfaction	14
Peaceful Reunification or Else: Untangling the China-Taiwan Gordian Knot	13
China’s Interventions in ‘Gray Special Economic Zones’ in Southeast Asia’s Borderlands	13
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	13
Imported Nationalism: How Foreign Influencers and Local Followers Amplify the Chinese Dream in Weibo’s Attention Economy	13
Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities	13
The Logic of Stability Maintenance in China’s NGO Governance: Balancing Weiwen Through Incorporation and Suppression	12
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
Toward a Perfection of Nuclear Strategy: China’s Adoption of Limited Nuclear Deterrence in the Xi Jinping Era	11
The Political Logic of the Developmental State: Causes of Hits and Misses in China’s Industrial Policies	11

International Dispute Resolution of BRI-Related Cases: Changes and Challenges	11
Policy Feedback Loop: Central-Local Interactions in China’s International Economic Policy	11
Efficacy of China’s Soft Power in Nigeria: Impact of Personal Engagement and Media Exposure on Lagos Residents’ Attitude Towards China	10
Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine	10
China, Africa, and the Market for Donkeys: Why Did the African Union Ban the Ejiao -Linked Donkey Hide Trade?	10
Navigating Uncertainty: The Use of Expert Deliberation in China’s Policymaking	10
‘I Am Patriotic, but…’: The Political Disclaimer as a Social Media Strategy in China	10
Confrontation versus Coexistence: The Dynamics of Australia-China Ideological Relations 1996-2022	9
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	9
‘Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era	9
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	8
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Social Identity Salience and Regime Legitimacy in China	8
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	8
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	8
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	8
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	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
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
Butter or Guns: Taiwan’s Economic Policy Toward China	8
China Plans for ‘Total War’: Developing the Capacity to Defeat the ‘Strong Enemy’ of the United States	7
Marketization, Authoritarian Government, and Nonprofit Scaling-Up in China: A Case of Adolescent Sexuality Education	7
Empathetic Solidarity: How Chinese English-Language Media Portrays Urban Community Participation	7
Limited Power-Sharing in a Personalized Regime: Xi Jinping’s Strategic Retreat from Local Politics	7
Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: A Text-As-Data Approach	7
Rising Powers and Normative Resistance: China, India, and the Responsibility to Protect	7
Impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on Nation-Building in Pakistan: A Case Study of Balochistan	7
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	7
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	7
China, Gaza War and Competitive Shaming: Between Condemnation and Constraints	7
Unlocking China’s Banking Competition: The Role of Clan Culture	7
From Hu’s Outward-Looking Pragmatism to Xi’s Ambitious Nationalist Leninism: Contrasting Agendas in Politburo Collective Study Sessions	7
Financial Statecraft in the Digital Age: FinTech and the Institutional Shifts in China’s Cross-Border Payment Sector Since 1993	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
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	6
Understanding Environmental Governance in China Through the Green Shield Action Campaign	6
The Rise and Fall of a New Cold War: The US–China Great Power Rivalry from President Trump I to II	6
The Rise of Pro-Regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet	6
Attitudes Toward Income Inequality in China: Revisiting the Concern About Inequality from a Comparative Perspective	6
Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building Under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign	6
The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Attribute of Military Cooperation	5
Collusive Infrapolitics: The Hidden Gay Worlds of HIV Community Based Organizations in Kunming, China	5
China’s Twitter Diplomacy in Germany: Practices, Reactions, and Discrepancies	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
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	5
Trust Chains and the Resilience of Patronage Networks :The Use of Indirect Guanxi Under Anti-Corruption	5
What Makes a COVID Hero in China? - A Glimpse of Heroism in Xi Jinping’s New Era	5
Constructing Chinese Firms as Development Catalysts: State-Firm Public Diplomacy Collaboration in Kenya	5

Digital Governance, Dataveillance, and Participatory Panopticon: Public Health Surveillance in China from 2020 to 2022	5
When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children	5
After the Dust Settled: Online Participation and Adaptation in Hong Kong	4
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	4
Chinese Coercion, Wedge Strategies, and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance	4
Diverse Patterns of Paradiplomacy by Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Case Study of Zhejiang and Yunnan Provinces	4
When Independence Meets Reality: Symbolic and Pragmatic Politics in Taiwan	4
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power	4
Innovation Network Formation and the Catalyzing State: A Study of Two Innovative Industry Clusters in China	4
Correction	4
Securing Legitimacy Through Poverty Alleviation: How China’s Communist Party Strengthens Grassroots Control	4
Flexible Organizational Weapon of the Party: The New Presence of Women’s Federations in Women’s NGOs in China	4
Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?	4
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: China’s Varied Responses to US Strategic Competition	4
The Chinese Restrictive Approach to the Law on the Use of Force and Its Application in Cyberspace	4
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	4
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	4
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	4
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	3
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	3
Designated Accountability: Pair-Making Mechanisms and Evolving Central-Local Relations in China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation	3
Administration-Led Carbon Markets and China’s Green Transition: Efficiency, Fairness and Rent-Seeking	3
Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	3
From Pricing Power to Autonomy: The Geopolitics of RMB-Denominated Oil Futures Benchmark	3
Between Centralism and Localism: Dual Mobility Regimes in the Chinese Bureaucracy	3
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	3
The Evolution of American Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?	3
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	3
The Chinese Way of World Order-Making and Shaping: The Russo-Ukrainian War as a Test and an Opportunity	3
The World Is Grateful to China: Chinese Government Discourse During COVID-19	3
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	3
The Ramifications of China’s Maritime Equipment Industry Policies for the EU	3
The Quad, AUKUS and Australian Security Minilateralism: China’s Rise and New Approaches to Security Cooperation	3
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	3
Governance Challenge and Tiered State Assistance: The Fiscal Gap in the Chinese Ethnic Tibetan Autonomous Areas	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
Reputational Governance and Party-State Capitalism: A Tale of Two Chinese-Sponsored Railways in Africa	2
From Crisis Management to Infrastructural Power: How China Selectively Institutionalized COVID-19 Governance	2
The Rule of Discourse: How Ideas and Institutions Shape China’s COVID Policy	2
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	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
Perception of China in Zimbabwe: Influence of Partisanship and Media Exposure	2
Politicization as a Policy Instrument: China’s Politicized Policy Narrative of Environmental Protection and Control of Its Social Resonance	2
Remaking China’s Global Image with the Belt and Road Initiative: Is the Jury Out?	2
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	2
Dual Authoritative Mediation: Policing and Community Governance in Urban China	2
Legality, Legitimacy and Institutionalization: China’s Dilemma of Sanctions and Economic Coercion	2
Serve the People: Public Service Information and Communication Strategies of Local Governments in China	2
Australia’s Approach to Chinese Power and Managing Relations with Beijing: The Enduring Paradigm of Liberalism	2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	2
Correction	2
Brazilian Perception of the China-Led Belt and Road Initiative	2
How Do Chinese Local Governments Persuade the Central Government in International Economic Cooperation Projects? A ‘Local Alliance’ Model	2
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping	2
Disentangling Diversity of Deliberativeness in Chinese Deliberative Democracy	2
Caught Between China and the United States: Small Western States’ Reactions to Chinese Port Investments	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
Threat Perception, Otherness and Hate Speech in China’s Cyberspace	2
Masculine Repertories: Family and Articulations of Masculinities Among Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men	2
How Policy Shapes Politics: Uneven Environmental Policy Implementation in China	2
Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea	2