Journal of Contemporary China

Article	Citations
Chinese Citizen Satisfaction with Government Performance during COVID-19	39
Rhetoric and Reality of China’s Global Leadership in the Context of COVID-19: Implications for the US-led World Order and Liberal Globalization	38
Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China	36
The US–China Rivalry in the Emerging Bipolar World: Hostility, Alignment, and Power Balance	26
Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals	22
The Indo-Pacific Strategy and US Alliance Network Expandability: Asian Middle Powers’ Positions on Sino-US Geostrategic Competition in Indo-Pacific Region	20
The Rise of China and Japan’s ‘Vision’ for Free and Open Indo-Pacific	18
The Political Logic of Protest Repression in China	18
Rethinking China’s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society	16
‘A Shared Future for Mankind’: Rhetoric and Reality in Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping	15
The Securitization of ‘Chinese Influence’ in Australia	15
Rural Urbanization in China: Administrative Restructuring and the Livelihoods of Urbanized Rural Residents	15
A Strong Leader for A Time of Crisis: Xi Jinping’s Strongman Politics as A Collective Response to Regime Weakness	15
Global Attitudes toward China: Trends and Correlates	15
A Partocracy with Chinese Characteristics: Governance System Reform under Xi Jinping	15
The Tenuous Co-Production of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Brazil and Latin America	14
China’s Health Silk Road in the Middle East and North Africa amidst COVID-19 and a Contested World Order	14
China’s Strategic Narratives in Global Governance Reform under Xi Jinping	14
The Quad’s Search for Non-Military Roles and China’s Strategic Response: Minilateralism, Infrastructure Investment, and Regional Balancing	13
China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects	12
Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance	12
Rural Reform in Contemporary China: Development, Efficiency, and Fairness	11
China’s Institutional Statecraft under Xi Jinping: Has the AIIB Served China’s Interest?	11
The Rationale and Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Domestic Political Economy	11
Americans’ Attitudes toward the US–China Trade War	10

The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China	10
Probing NGO–community Interactions through Village Cadres and Principal–agent Relationships: Local Effects on the Operation of NGO Projects in Rural China	10
How China Builds the Credibility of the Belt and Road Initiative	9
Domestic Contestation, International Backlash, and Authoritarian Resilience: How Did the Chinese Party-state Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?	9
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era	9
Conditional Justice: Evaluating the Judicial Centralization Reform in China	8
The Communist Party Leadership and Rule of Law: A Tale of Two Reforms	8
Chinese Multinational Enterprises Operating in Western Economies: Huawei in the US and the UK	8
Public Opinion Backlash against China’s International Expansion	8
A Question of Human Rights or Human Left? – The ‘People’s War against COVID-19’ under the ‘Gridded Management’ System in China	7
Party Building in an Unlikely Place? The Adaptive Presence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO)	7
China’s International Talent Policy (ITP): The Changes and Driving Forces, 1978-2020	7
Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power	7
Securing China’s ‘Latent Power’: The Dragon’s Anchorage in Djibouti	7
China and Western Aid Norms in the Belt and Road: Normative Clash or Convergence? A Case Study on Ethiopia	6
Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution	6
Queering Migrant Integration in Contemporary China: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Chinese Migrant Young Gay Men’s Urban Integration	6
The Crackdown on Rights-advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Repression	6
The Influence of Perceptions of Promotion Opportunities on Job Performance and Its Mechanisms: A Case Study of Chinese Junior Civil Servants	6
China’s Belt and Road Initiative as Nascent World Order Structure and Concept? Between Sino-Centering and Sino-Deflecting	6
From Defensive toward Offensive Realism: Strategic Competition and Continuities in the United States’ China Policy	6
Judicial Transparency as Judicial Centralization: Mass Publicity of Court Decisions in China	5
The Welfare Is Ours: Rural-to-Urban Migration and Domestic Welfare Chauvinism in Urban China	5
China’s Global Investment and Maritime Flows in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative	5
Cyber Nationalism and Regime Support under Xi Jinping: The Effects of the 2018 Constitutional Revision	5
Elite Networks and the Transregional Dimension of Authoritarianism: Sino-Emirati Relations in Times of a Global Pandemic	5
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: A Mixed Methods Examination	5
Sino-phobia in Russia and Kyrgyzstan	5
Constructing a U.S.-China Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond	5
China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice	4
Xi Jinping’s Counter-Reformation: The Reassertion of Ideological Governance in Historical Perspective	4
Defending Stability under Threat: Sensitive Periods and the Repression of Protest in Urban China	4
The Impact of China’s Dams on the Mekong River Basin: Governance, Sustainable Development, and the Energy-Water Nexus	4
Measuring and Forecasting the Rise of China: Reality over Image	4
Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization	4
Statecraft in the Steppes: Central Asia’s Relations with China	4
Upward Targeting and Social Protests in China	4
Breaking the Cycle? China’s Attempt to Institutionalize Center-local Relations	4
Rising Cohabitation and Chinese Modernity: Flexible Intimacy and Persistent Marriage	4
Propaganda as a Lens for Assessing Xi Jinping’s Leadership	4
<China Dream> and <Root-seeking>: The Rhetoric of Nationalism in The Voice of China	4
Conditioning China’s Influence: Intentionality, Intermediaries, and Institutions	4
Tournament Style Bargaining within Boundaries: Setting Targets in China’s Cadre Evaluation System	4
From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization and Elite Opportunity in Post-Reform China	4
China’s State-owned Enterprises: Instruments of Its Foreign Strategy?	4
The Politics of Policy Reformulation: Implementing Social Policy in Provincial China	4
How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China’s Development Initiative in Pakistan	4
‘Gratitude Education:’ Aid-as-Gift and the Agency of Recognition in Chinese Ethnic Governance	4
The Political Limits of China’s Anti-Corruption Reform: An Institutional Analysis of the New Supervision Commission	3
Bureaucratic Deliberation and China’s Engagement with International Ideas: A Case Study on China’s Adoption of Carbon Emissions Trading	3

A Rational Policy Design or Contingent Historical Creation? Considering the Emergence of China’s Distributed Solar Power Generation Regime	3
What Shapes Taiwan-related Legislation in U.S. Congress?	3
From ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Peacebuilder? How Evolving Chinese Discourses and Self-perceptions Impact Its Growing Influence in Conflict Societies	3
‘Security Is a Prerequisite for Development’: Consensus-Building toward a New Top Priority in the Chinese Communist Party	3
The Rising China is Not a ‘Sick Man’ Anymore: Cultural Nationalism in the Xi Jinping Era	3
Exchange Rate Exposure and International Competition: Evidence from Chinese Industries	3
Why Did China’s Zero-COVID Policy Persist? Decision Urgency, Regime Type, and Political Opportunity Structures	3
Does Greater Coercive Capacity Increase Overt Repression? Evidence from China	3
China-Vietnamese Relations in the Era of Rising China: Power, Resistance, and Maritime Conflict	3
Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality	3
Wasted Talents? China’s Higher Education Reforms Experienced through Its Visiting Scholars Abroad	3
Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam	3
Is Beijing’s Long Game on Taiwan About to End? Peaceful Unification, Brinkmanship, and Military Takeover	3
Propagating ‘Democracy’ in China? A Two-Way Communication Explanation	3
Adapting in Difficult Circumstances: Protestant Pastors and the Xi Jinping Effect	3
What Do We See When Looking at China’s Engagements in Africa? An Analysis of Mainstream Academic Perspectives	3
Effects of United States Anti-dumping Actions on Sino-U.S. Trade in Steel Products	2
The Multilevel Politics of County-to-District Mergers in China	2
In the Eyes of the Beholder: How China and the US See Each Other	2
National Identity and the Limits of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Philippines	2
Fragmented Soft Power: Bureaucratic Politics and China’s Foreign Aid in Education to Africa	2
Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals’ Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History	2
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China	2
American and Chinese Public Opinion in an Era of Great Power Competition: Ingroup Bias and Threat Perceptions	2
‘Head of the Dragon’ or ‘Trojan Horse’?: Reassessing China–Greece Relations	2
China-India Face-offs: How Does Reputation Matter in Crisis Management?	2
China as a Revisionist Power in Indo-Pacific and India’s Perception: A Power-Partner Contention	2
Maritime Territorial Disputes and China’s Soft Power in East Asia	2
Controlling the Mine? Assessing China's Emergence as a Minerals Super Power	2
“Digital Silk Road” as a Slogan Instead of a Grand Strategy	2
Black or Fifty Shades of Grey? The Power and Limits of the Social Credit Blacklist System in China	2
The Nexus Between China’s Global Image and Attitudes Toward Diasporic Chinese: A Comparison of Australia and the United States	2
Where the Rainbow Rises: The Strategic Adaptations of China’s LGBT NGOs to Restricted Civic Space	2
“Beautiful Countryside Construction,” Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China	2
Business is Business: How Does Trade Relationship Fail to Boost Image of China?	2
China-Africa Encounter and Worker Resistance: A Case Study of Wildcat Strikes Against a Chinese-Owned Company in Ethiopia	2
Social Resources Transfer Program under China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy: Rural Social Structure and Local Politics	2
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations?	2
Governing the Future through ‘Ecological civilization’: Anticipatory Politics and China’s Great Yangtze River Protection Programme	2
Strong State or Vulnerable Homeland: How Chinese State Media Sought to Combat Democratic Diffusion during the 2019 Hong Kong Protests	2
Pinpointing the Chinese Nomenklatura: An Index to Rank China’s Leadership Positions	2
Explaining Chinese Military Coercion in Sino-Indian Border Disputes	2
Changing Strategies and Mixed Agendas: Contradiction and Fragmentation within China’s External Propaganda	2
Introduction: Explaining Cooperation and Rivalry in China-India Relations	2
Top-Level Design and Enlarged Diplomacy: Foreign and Security Policymaking in Xi Jinping’s China	2
The Chinese Public’s Perceptions of the European Union: Changes and Stability Revealed by 2010 and 2020 Surveys	2
Internationalizing China Standards Through Corporate Social Responsibility: An Exploratory Study of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa	2
Authority and Autonomy without Independence: The Gradual Institutional Change of the Chinese Central Bank	2
Towards a Green Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics?	2
Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue	1
Comparative Ethnic Territorially-based Autonomy in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia of China 2010-2015: An Analytical Framework	1
Differential Coalescing: Re-Building the Coalition for ‘Single Women’s’ Reproductive Rights in China	1
Protest and Power Structure in China	1
Public Opinion on Chinese Foreign Aid Policy: Calculated Opposition or General Discontent?	1
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films	1
From Corruption Control to Everything Control: The Widening Use of Inspections in Xi’s China	1
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China	1
‘Trace the Money, Seize the Fugitives’: China’s Other Anticorruption Battle	1
Political Events and Cultural Othering: Impact of Protests and Elections on Identities in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 1997–2021	1
The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional, and Regulatory Genealogy	1
Critical Nationalists: A Discourse Analysis of Quotidian Nationalist Expression Among Chinese Elite Urbanites	1
The Initial Digitalization of Chinese Diplomacy (2019–2021): Establishing Global Communication Networks on Twitter	1
The Implementation of China’s Rangeland Protection Program: The Case of Nagchu in the Tibet Autonomous Region	1
A Unique Path of Political Development: The Confucian Dialectic of Domestic and International Interaction in the History of the Communist Party of China	1
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: China’s Varied Responses to US Strategic Competition	1
Infrastructural Imaginaries of Region and Nation in the Pearl River Delta’s Express Railway Link	1
The Leadership of Xi Jinping: A Dengist Perspective	1
China-South Korea Disputes in the Yellow Sea: Why a More Conciliatory Chinese Posture	1
Tweets and Memories: Chinese Censors Come after Me. Forbidden Voices of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sina Weibo, 2012-2018	1
Twitter, Public Diplomacy and Social Power in Soft-balancing China–France Relations	1
Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization	1
Contesting for Legitimacy: Worker Representation in Collective Bargaining in Guangdong	1
Reforming the Chinese State Sector: Mixed Ownership Reforms and State-Business Relations	1
The Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: Particularities and Impact on Local Governance	1
“Islamization” and Crackdown in Ningxia: Another Xinjiang?	1
The Domestic Mechanisms of China’s Vertical Multilateralism: The FOCAC and the 16+1 Format Case Studies	1
‘One Step Forward, One Leap Back’: Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries under Changing Party-state Sector Relations	1
How China’s Online Nationalists Constrain Policymaking – the Case of Foreigners’ Permanent Residency Reform	1
China’s Growing Power Makes Its Youth Hawkish? Evidence from the Chinese Youth’s Attitudes toward the US and Japan	1
Hardening Chinese Realpolitik in the 21st Century: The Evolution of Beijing’s Thinking about Arms Control	1

Old Wine in New Bottles: Discourse Articulation and China’s Ideological Adaptation in the Time of Transition	1
A Cultural Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy	1
Local Governance Diversity in the Unitary Authoritarian State: NGO-State Relations in Guangzhou and Hangzhou	1
From Peripheral Actors to Established Players: Environmental NGOs’ Participation Through Public Notice-And-Comment Procedures and Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China	1
Beyond Parochial Activism: Cross-Regional Protests and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China	1
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach	1
China and Authoritarian Collaboration	1
Politicized Adjudication Vis-à-vis Petitioners in Chinese Criminal Justice	1
Sources of Public Support for the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong: Localism or Others?	1
Poor and Lazy: Understanding Middle-class Perceptions of Poverty in China	1
Naturalized Athletes and Racialized National Identity in China	1
Does China’s Case Falsify Modernization Theory? Interim Assessment	1
China’s Ideational Influence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and European Scholars’ Interpretations of China-CEE Cooperation	1
The Anti-Corruption Campaign, Luxury Consumption, and Regime Trust in China: Changing Patterns of Perceived Political Risk and Their Consequences	1
“Residential Surveillance at a Designated Residence”: A Special Form of Pre-trial Detention in China’s Criminal Procedure	1
The Paradox of Responsiveness and Social Protest in China	1