OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Positions-Asia Critique is 1. 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
Thinking Like a State: Policing Dangerous Thought in Imperial Japan, 1900–1945	10
From Immigrants to Refugees: Relocating Strangers in Two Plays about North Korean Defectors	6
Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk	6
The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages	5
Summer Happiness: Performing the Good Life in a Tibetan Town	4
Paris in Korean Cinema: Fraudulence and the Female Form in Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Kim Ki-duk's Wild Animals	4
“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages	3
Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan	3
The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan	3
Not before Twenty-Five: Contesting Marriage and Looking for the Good Life in Contemporary Urban China	3
Archiving Facts and Documentary Films: Sites of Memorial Struggle for the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Thailand	3
Spirits with Morality: Social Criticism and Notions of a Good Life in Laos through theBangbotImaginary	3
Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar	3
Pema Tseden's Balloon: Reincarnation of a Semi-transparent Envelope	3
Contributors	2
Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources	2
Introduction: The Politics of (Maoist) History	2
Contributors	2
Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility	2
Plugged into the Good Life: Living Electrically through the Ages in Urban Vietnam	2
Afterword: Conversing with the Good Left about PRC History	2
Mnemonic Politics around the Japanese Colonial Era in Post–Cold War Taiwan: Wei Te-sheng's Colonial Trilogy and Post–New Cinema	1
Editor's Introduction	1
Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation	1
Opening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear White	1

Archaeology of the Eyeball: Lu Xun, Eye-Gouging Myth, and Ocular Anatomy	1
The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Urban In-Between	1
Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and the Terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption	1
Guest Editor's Introduction—Expansive Trajectories: Remapping Transnationalism in the Global China Era	1
Editor's Introduction: Aesthetics of the Uncanny	1
Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature	1
Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope	1
Erratum	1
Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China	1
China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Chinese Working Class	1
Rewriting the Heart Sutra: Buddhism and the (Geo)Politics of Symbols in Qiu Zhijie's Art	1
Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future Workers	1
Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap	1
Contesting the Residue: Bandits, Collective Hamlets, and Japanese Colonialism in Manchuria	1
Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space	1
Animating the Trauma: Colonial Atrocities and the Use of New Media in Contemporary South Korean Museums	1
From the Law of Value Debate to the One-Child Policy in China: On Accounting and Biopolitics	1
Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture	1
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi: Middle-Class Food Practices, Capitalist Transformations, and the Late-Socialist Good Life	1
Zainichi Protagonists and the Making of Historical Fiction: Cold War Security and Economic Insecurity in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yang Sŏk-il's Chi to hone (Blood and Bones)	1