OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Asian Studies 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	19
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	14
Sorry seems to be the hardest word: the 1972 system, the reparation issue, and the history problem in Sino-Japanese relations	13
Navigating Patron-Client Entrepreneurial Networks in Peri-Urban Kolkata, India	12
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong	12
Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China Agents of Subversion. The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China , b	12
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	12
We are Each Other’s Democracy: The Emergence of New Political Subjectivities and Solidarities during the Anti-Martial Law Protests in South Korea	10
Land Mafias in Indonesia	10
Lying Flat in Taiwan: Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era	9
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	9
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	7
Becoming a Tibetan Internet Celebrity: Lithang Tenzin’s Self-Presentation and Identity Performance on Chinese Social Media Platforms	7
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	6
The Production of “Indisputable” Confession Evidence in China	6
The Universal Meets the Himalayan Particular: Indigeneity, Race, and Decolonization in India	6
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	6
A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954	5
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Evolution and Institutionalization of Violence Entrepreneurism: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the South Korean Case	4
Colonial Prostitution in Burma: Inter-Asian Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality	4
Finding Love and Dignity at Work: Wang Bing’s “Youth” Trilogy	4
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	4
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	4
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3

Canes Build Ministers: Discipline, Memory, and Political Socialization at Thailand’s Premier Boys’ School, 1934–1942	3
Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftistzainichicommunity	3
In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	3
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	3
Flexible and compassionate, or violent and intimidating?: various accounts of law in Vietnam	3
Historical formation of Islamist ideology in Indonesia: the role of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (DDII)	3
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	3
Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	3
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	3
Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	2
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	2
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	2
CCAS Statement of Purpose	2
Podcasting Politics in Singapore: Hegemony, Resistance, and Digital Media	2
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	2
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	2
#Papuanlivesmatter: black consciousness and political movements in West Papua	2
Informal politics and local labor activism in Indonesia	2
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	2
Cadre ethnographer: Chinese land reform novels and the making of socialist history	2
The Paradox of Economic Growth and Gender Equality in South Korea	1
Forest Reserves as Frontiers of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli Investments of Work, Cultural Use, and Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve	1
Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia	1
Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli Selfhood in Western and Central India	1
From Cold War to Cold Brew: Crop Replacement Strategies, Bean Logistics, and Ethnicized Coffee Commerce in Northern Thailand	1
Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh	1
Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship in Brunei	1
Negotiating Between Belief and Custom: The Encounters of Han Muslim Converts in China	1
Neoliberal Feminism and Work-Family Tensions among Professional Women in Beijing	1
Warrior monk: guns, grenades, and the rise of the Ninth Panchen Lama on Sino–Mongol–Tibetan frontiers, 1924–1937	1
Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist	1
Layers of (in)visible resilience: art, women, and homelessness in Japan	1
Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific	1
Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic	1
Trauma’s Transformations in a Chinese Village	1
Becoming Paṇḍit: Religious Teachings, Diploma Politics, and Doctoral Education in Post-War Cambodia	1
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore	1
Revisiting the CIA’s Deceptions in Asia	1
Hair Discipline in Singapore: Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender	1
The politicization of everyday life: understanding the impact of the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests on pro-democracy protesters’ political participation in Hong Kong	1
The Korean War and the environment	1
Milk consumption in Modern China: politics of science, dietary health knowledge, and identity building	1
Historical Agrarian Change and its Connections to Contemporary Agricultural Extension in Northwest Cambodia	0
Dynastic Female Politicians and Family Rule in Thailand: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 General Elections	0
Theulama, the state, and politics in Malaysia	0
The Paradox of High-Income Poverty among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China	0
Ritualized Relational Work: Secret Banquets and Rural Cadres in China	0
Three Murders in a Million: The Killings that Launched Pol Pot’s Rise, Silenced his Regime’s Leading Dissident, and Marked its End	0
Mediating Coalitions and the Politics of Civil Rights in the Philippines under Duterte	0
Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier	0

Localizing global concepts: an exploration of Indigeneity in Cambodia	0
Exhibition review: Portraits of Ryukyu	0
The Rise and Fall of Factory-based Schools in China	0
Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation	0
A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor	0
Okinawa studies today	0
The Specter of Potential Foreigners: Revisiting the Postcolonial Citizenship Regimes of Myanmar and India	0
The Making of a Postcolonial Sanctuary: Exile Experiences of Korean Deserters and Draft Evaders During the 1950s	0
Continuity and Complexity: A Study of Patronage Politics in State-owned Enterprises in Post-authoritarian Indonesia	0
Translating Filipino Chinese: The Bureaucratic Racialization of Transnational Migrants in Singapore	0
Correction	0
Reviewing “The Chinese Question” in Southeast Asia	0
Correction	0
Private Power and Public Office: The Rise of Business Politicians in Indonesia	0
Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation	0
Tuu Karrai Spi: Deconstructing Aman Committees and Life in South Waziristan	0
Populist Revolt from the Margins: The Ambiguous Case of Uma Bharati	0
CCAS statement of purpose	0
A “Forgotten” Massacre: The Battle of Thakhek in Laos, 1946	0
“Framing” the Opposition: The Limits of Mobilization against Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the Philippines	0
Zhuang Xueben and the Ninth Panchen Lama’s final journey	0
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures	0
From Bizarre Encounters to Native Strangeness: Indigenous Otherness and Insider-Outsider Interactions in Indonesia	0
Going to Yan’an: The Making of China’s New Ruling Class	0
Converging Histories: South Korea’s Martial Law Crisis in a Global Conjunctural Frame	0
Turning Marx on His Head? North KoreanJucheas Developmental Nationalism	0
Creating Racial Subjects: Eugenics, Psychiatry, and the Ainu	0
Say Yes to Dams? Negotiating Development and Uncertainty in a Large Dam Project in the Philippines	0
COVID-19’s impact on Nepalese migrants: families. Vulnerability, coping strategies, and the role of state and non-state actors	0
Women as a pathway: dilemmas of the Marriage Law in Northeast China in the early 1950s	0
Re-reading The Indo-Pacific as Aidagara : Watsuji Tetsurō’s Relevance to Japan’s Foreign Relations	0
Introduction: Martial Law Crisis and Democratic Renewal in South Korea	0
Agent politics of Chinese think tanks and cultural industry governance in China’s “new era”	0
The Politics of Misalignment: NGO Livelihood Interventions and Exclusionary Land Claims in an Indonesian Oil Palm Enclave	0
On the existence of (global) Maoism	0
Myanmar’s Menu of Electoral Manipulation: Self- and External Legitimation after the 2021 Coup	0
Okinawan memories in Argentina: between a transnational circulation of memories and migrants’ agency, 1945–1965	0
Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: the contradictions of neoliberalism	0
Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh	0
“We used to have lice … ” interethnic imagery in post-war upland Laos	0
CCAS Statement of Purpose	0
Emotions of perpetrators and victim-survivors: multi-layered violence against Chinese women during the Asia-Pacific War	0
Unveiling Class Discourse: Its Articulation and Generation in Chinese Labor Struggles	0
Statement of Purpose	0
Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry	0
The Emergence of Political Indigeneity: The Resistance Movement on Jeju Island against Colonization by Development	0
The making of a local deity: the Patriarch of Sanping’s cult in post-Mao China, 1979–2015	0
Network discrimination against LGBTQ minorities in Taiwan after same-sex marriage legalization: a Goffmanian micro-sociological approach	0
Correction	0
Subject making with Chinese characteristics: gender, sexuality, and Chineseness in neoliberal popular and public imaginaries	0
Decolonizing knowledge of and from Okinawa	0
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse: Kunga Tsomo, the goddess, and the LAC	0
The 2024 Martial Law Declaration and Necropolitical Living under South Korean Subimperialism	0
The limits of civil society activism in Indonesia: the case of the weakening of the KPK	0
The 1974 Battle of Jolo: testimonial narratives of survivors and intra-Tausug relations	0
Claim-Making and Citizenship in Indonesia	0
Xi Is Not Emperor of All He Surveys Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise , by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri, (Cambridge University Press: Cam	0
Negotiating Work-Family Transitions: Reverse Family Migration among Second-Generation Hong Kong Mothers	0
The co-production of disasters: how the nexus of climate change, tourism, and COVID-19 increases socioeconomic vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal	0
Bread-and-Butter Politics: Arrested Liberalization and Hegemonic Materialism in Singapore	0
When Indigenous Religious Traditions and Environmentalism Collide in Southeast Asia	0
“No city for lovers:” anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city	0
Recovering a Colonial Massacre in the Southern Philippines	0
The Making and Unmaking of Yoon’s Martial Law Crisis: Personal Crisis as Manufactured National Emergency, Democratic Resilience as Authentic National Security	0
Source Governance of Social Disputes in China	0
The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China	0