China Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of China Journal 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
:Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887–197520
:The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China19
:The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class: Labor Activism and Passivity in China15
:Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China: A Global Social Science Approach14
:China’s Maritime Security Strategy: The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power14
:The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China9
:The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society9
:Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector9
Contributors8
:Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism8
:Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture7
Contributors6
:How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–19766
:The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work, and the Glass Ceiling5
:Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–19665
The Limits of Socialist Mercantilism: China’s Corporate Expansion Abroad4
: Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China4
: Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, and Nationalism4
: Upstart: How China Became a Great Power4
:Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program3
Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era3
Patient Group Advocacy in China: Local Activism and Translocal Networks2
:China’s Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative2
:Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise2
:Pension Policy and Governmentality in China: Manufacturing Public Compliance2
:The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials1
:Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China1
:Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-reform Shanghai1
:Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China1
US-China Naval Co-Operation Against the Soviet Union: Carter’s Navy1
:Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work1
:Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China1
Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China1
:The Rise of China and International Law: Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously1
:Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953–20181
:The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier0
Bureaucratic Avoidance in China’s Local Governments: The Persistence of Formalism and the Limits of Central Control0
:Ancestral Genealogies in Modern China: A Study of Lineage Organizations in Hong Kong and Mainland China0
Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China0
:China’s Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative0
Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade0
:The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China’s Supplemental Education Industry0
:Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition0
:Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan0
:Engaging China: Rebuilding Sino-American Relations0
:China’s Urbanisation in the New Round of Technological Revolution, 2020–2050: Impact, Prospect, and Strategy0
:Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China0
:A Century of Development in Taiwan: From Colony to Modern State0
:The Chinese Internet: Political Economy and Digital Discourse0
The Maoist Roots of China’s Extreme Income Inequality0
:Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi0
:The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China’s Civil War0
:The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949–20190
:The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia0
:Corporate Women in Contemporary China: “We’ve Always Worked,”0
:A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination0
: The New Politics of Beijing–Hong Kong Relations: Ideological Conflicts and Factionalism0
Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America0
: China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy0
In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan0
Front Matter0
:The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China’s Development Finance0
:Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China0
:Rethinking Chinese Politics0
:Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China0
: Nine Dash Line: Deciphering the South China Sea Conundrum0
:Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party0
Contributors0
:The Children of China’s Great Migration0
:Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society0
:Reinventing the Chinese City0
:Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China0
:Taming Sino-American Rivalry0
:Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State0
:Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace0
: On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World0
:The Political Thought of Xi Jinping0
Contributors0
:China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia0
:Reclaiming the Wilderness: Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao0
Urban Investment and Development Companies in China’s Local Governance: The Paradox of Marketization0
: Mobilising China’s One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC0
:Innovation in China: Challenging the Global Science and Technology System0
Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China0
: The Xi Jinping Effect0
Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness Through Intergenerational Relationships0
:Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation0
:The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–20000
:Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China0
:Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic0
:Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society0
:The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade0
:Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery during the Cold War0
:The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach0
:Home beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China0
: In Search of Green China0
:A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao0
:Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China0
The Making of the Landless Landlord Peasant: Government Policy and the Development of Villages-in-the-City in Shanghai and Guangzhou0
:Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China0
Front Matter0
: Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule0
:The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China0
Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–19450
Front Matter0
: China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?0
:European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative0
:The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China; 1998–20180
: The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping0
: Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong0
:The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City0
:China’s Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century0
:Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China0
China’s Bureaucratic Slack: Material Inducements and Decision-Making Risks among Chinese Local Cadres0
:Congress and China Policy: Past Episodic, Recent Enduring Influence0
Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests0
:Global Civil Society and China0
:Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire0
:Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921–1978: Revolution and Social Change0
:Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms0
: Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony0
: Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China0
: From Confucius to Xi Jinping: The DNA of Chinese Politics0
:The Sentinal State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China0
:Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption0
Counterfeited in China: The Operations of Illicit Businesses0
:Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative0
A Perfect Storm: Fiscal Discipline, COVID, and Local Government Debt in China0
:A Hierarchical Vision of Order: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy in Asia0
: The Judicial System of China0
:World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century0
:China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order0
:From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism: Origins and Diversification of Conservative Ideas in Republican China0
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry: Strategic Alliances Between Local Governments and Private Capital0
Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China0
:Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State0
:Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program0
:Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China0
:Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims0
Who Will Deliver Common Prosperity in China? A Look at Policy Instruments0
:Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China0
Contributors0
:Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China0
Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction0
:The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Relations0
:China as Number One? The Emerging Values of a Rising Power0
:Awakening to China’s Rise: European Foreign and Security Policies toward the People’s Republic of China0
:Factional Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?0
:In the Event of Women0
:From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State0
Farmer Cooperatives and the Limits of Agricultural Reform in Rural Hubei0
: Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China0
The Rapid Ascent of China’s Corporate Giants0
:Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China’s Future0
:Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China0
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution0
: China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets0
:China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: The Contest for Supremacy0
:Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre0
Love Troubles: Inequality in China and Its Intimate Consequences0
:Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations, and Contestations0
:Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China0
:The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918–1951,0
:Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model0
:Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative0
:Social Credit: The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire0
:China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy0
:Language Rights in a Changing China: A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study0
Historical Nihilism: The Rise of a Political Technology0
:The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era0
: China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One0
:Love Troubles: Inequality in China and Its Intimate Consequences0
:Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–19530
:Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality0
:When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet0
The Tidal Wave of New Unions during the Hong Kong Resistance Movement of 2019–20: Toward Social Movement Trade Unionism0
:Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s–1960s0
Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century0
:Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao0
:Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong0
The Rise of Party Law: Rewiring the Party, Recalibrating the Party-State Relationship0
:Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death0
Automating Governance in China? Data-Driven Systems in the Scoring Society0
:Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State0
:The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War0
:The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978 to 20200
China’s Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion0
:The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem0
:Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China0
:China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier0
:Negotiating a Chinese Federation: The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations between China’s Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919–19230
:New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century0
:Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe0
: Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions0
Defending Hierarchy in the Name of Equality: The Statist Metamorphosis of China’s New Left0
Front Matter0
:Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class0
:Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction0
Different Shades of Nationalism: Unpacking Chinese Online Narratives about the Russia-Ukraine War0
Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Inequality in China0
:A New Era of Risk: Why We Need a New, Sustainable Internationalism to Manage the Rise of China0
Beyond Self-Censorship: Hong Kong’s Journalistic Risk Culture under the National Security Law0
:The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory0
:Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty0
:Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic0
:China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions0
:Banking on Growth Models: China’s Troubled Pursuit of Financial Reform and Economic Rebalancing0
:Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order0
: The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China0
:Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary0
:Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China0
:China’s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy0
:The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong0
:Sinology during the Cold War0
:Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age0
:How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions0
:Social Enterprise in China: State–Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness0
Front Matter0
Governing “Untrustworthy” Civil Society in China0
:Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts, Domestic Politics, and Taiwan’s Status in Sino-American Relations0
Institutional Genes: Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism0
: The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism0
Local Government Debt in China: The 2023 Bailout and Future Prospects0
Precarity Without Protest: The Muted Political Consequences of College-Graduate Employment Hardship in China0
: The Governance of Economic Development: Investment, Innovation, and Competition in China0
:Is the Chinese Economy a Miracle or a Bubble?0
:Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism0
:Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China: Government Views versus Local Perspectives0
Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society0
:Sovietology in Post-Mao China: Aspects of Foreign Relations, Politics, and Nationality, 1980–1999,0
:Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control0
Vanishing Quotas: Tibetan Political Disenfranchisement in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Han-Centrism0
:The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America0
Professionalizing China’s Rural Cadres0
:Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan0
:Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China’s Ruler for Life0
:China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower0
: Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 19490
:Outlaws of the Sea: Maritime Piracy in Modern China0
:Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978–2021: Reform and Market Socialism0
:Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China0
Democracy Through the Lens of Chinese Scholars: The Battle of Ideas0
:Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–19850
:China’s Health Silk Road: Vaccine Diplomacy and Health Governance0
:China’s Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations0
:Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression0
:Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–970
:Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order0
Groundwork for Democracy? Community Abeyance and Lived Citizenship in Hong Kong0
:Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle against Authoritarian Culture in China0
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