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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconfiguring vulnerability: climate change adaptation in the Cambodian highlands	20
When Indigenous Religious Traditions and Environmentalism Collide in Southeast Asia	14
Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh	12
From Bizarre Encounters to Native Strangeness: Indigenous Otherness and Insider-Outsider Interactions in Indonesia	10
Populist Revolt from the Margins: The Ambiguous Case of Uma Bharati	10
Forest Reserves as Frontiers of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli Investments of Work, Cultural Use, and Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve	10
Negotiating antifascist solidarity across ethnic difference in Myanmar: Bhamo Tin Aung’sYoma Taikbwe	9
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	8
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	8
Myanmar’s Menu of Electoral Manipulation: Self- and External Legitimation after the 2021 Coup	6
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	6
Sorry seems to be the hardest word: the 1972 system, the reparation issue, and the history problem in Sino-Japanese relations	5
Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship in Brunei	4
“We used to have lice … ” interethnic imagery in post-war upland Laos	4
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	4
Unveiling Class Discourse: Its Articulation and Generation in Chinese Labor Struggles	4
The Korean War and the environment	4
Bread-and-Butter Politics: Arrested Liberalization and Hegemonic Materialism in Singapore	3
The Politics of Misalignment: NGO Livelihood Interventions and Exclusionary Land Claims in an Indonesian Oil Palm Enclave	3
Flexible and compassionate, or violent and intimidating?: various accounts of law in Vietnam	3
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	3
Continuity and Complexity: A Study of Patronage Politics in State-owned Enterprises in Post-authoritarian Indonesia	3
Reviewing “The Chinese Question” in Southeast Asia	3
Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: the contradictions of neoliberalism	3
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	3

Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	3
Milk consumption in Modern China: politics of science, dietary health knowledge, and identity building	3
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3
Mediating Coalitions and the Politics of Civil Rights in the Philippines under Duterte	2
Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh	2
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	2
Land Mafias in Indonesia	2
Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic	2
Ritualized Relational Work: Secret Banquets and Rural Cadres in China	2
Network discrimination against LGBTQ minorities in Taiwan after same-sex marriage legalization: a Goffmanian micro-sociological approach	2
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	2
Dynastic Female Politicians and Family Rule in Thailand: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 General Elections	2
The Emergence of Political Indigeneity: The Resistance Movement on Jeju Island against Colonization by Development	2
Informal politics and local labor activism in Indonesia	1
CCAS Statement of Purpose	1
The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China	1
Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	1
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	1
CCAS Statement of Purpose	1
#Papuanlivesmatter: black consciousness and political movements in West Papua	1
Civil society in the PRC: empirical studies and normative lenses	1
Tuu Karrai Spi: Deconstructing Aman Committees and Life in South Waziristan	1
Becoming Paṇḍit: Religious Teachings, Diploma Politics, and Doctoral Education in Post-War Cambodia	1
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	1
In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	1
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong	1
The Pol Pot regime’s simultaneous war against Vietnam and genocide of Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese minority	1
Under imperialism “Black lives don’t matter.” Ho Chi Minh, The Black Race, and Black liberation	1
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	1
Negotiating Between Belief and Custom: The Encounters of Han Muslim Converts in China	1
Podcasting Politics in Singapore: Hegemony, Resistance, and Digital Media	1
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse: Kunga Tsomo, the goddess, and the LAC	0
Claim-Making and Citizenship in Indonesia	0
Hair Discipline in Singapore: Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender	0
Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry	0
The Specter of Potential Foreigners: Revisiting the Postcolonial Citizenship Regimes of Myanmar and India	0
“Framing” the Opposition: The Limits of Mobilization against Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the Philippines	0
Layers of (in)visible resilience: art, women, and homelessness in Japan	0
“No city for lovers:” anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city	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
Subject making with Chinese characteristics: gender, sexuality, and Chineseness in neoliberal popular and public imaginaries	0
Lying Flat in Taiwan:Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era	0
Correction	0
A “Forgotten” Massacre: The Battle of Thakhek in Laos, 1946	0
Correction	0
Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific	0
Trauma’s Transformations in a Chinese Village	0
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	0
The making of a local deity: the Patriarch of Sanping’s cult in post-Mao China, 1979–2015	0

The Production of “Indisputable” Confession Evidence in China	0
Becoming Korean: Japanese wives in the boundary formation of a leftistzainichicommunity	0
Private Power and Public Office: The Rise of Business Politicians in Indonesia	0
Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation	0
Turning Marx on His Head? North KoreanJucheas Developmental Nationalism	0
Theulama, the state, and politics in Malaysia	0
Exhibition review: Portraits of Ryukyu	0
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	0
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	0
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore	0
Say Yes to Dams? Negotiating Development and Uncertainty in a Large Dam Project in the Philippines	0
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	0
Decolonizing knowledge of and from Okinawa	0
Revisiting the CIA’s Deceptions in Asia	0
Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist	0
Okinawan memories in Argentina: between a transnational circulation of memories and migrants’ agency, 1945–1965	0
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	0
Localizing global concepts: an exploration of Indigeneity in Cambodia	0
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	0
Historical Agrarian Change and its Connections to Contemporary Agricultural Extension in Northwest Cambodia	0
Emotions of perpetrators and victim-survivors: multi-layered violence against Chinese women during the Asia-Pacific War	0
Myanmar’s hidden-in-plain-sight social infrastructure: nalehmu through multiple ruptures	0
Warrior monk: guns, grenades, and the rise of the Ninth Panchen Lama on Sino–Mongol–Tibetan frontiers, 1924–1937	0
Neoliberal Feminism and Work-Family Tensions among Professional Women in Beijing	0
Translating Filipino Chinese: The Bureaucratic Racialization of Transnational Migrants in Singapore	0
Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier	0
Myanmar’s military coup and the elevation of the minority agenda?	0
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	0
The limits of civil society activism in Indonesia: the case of the weakening of the KPK	0
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	0
The co-production of disasters: how the nexus of climate change, tourism, and COVID-19 increases socioeconomic vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal	0
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	0
The 1974 Battle of Jolo: testimonial narratives of survivors and intra-Tausug relations	0
Defending lands and forests: NGO histories, everyday struggles, and extraordinary violence 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
Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia	0
Creating Racial Subjects: Eugenics, Psychiatry, and the Ainu	0
On the existence of (global) Maoism	0
Becoming a Tibetan Internet Celebrity: Lithang Tenzin’s Self-Presentation and Identity Performance on Chinese Social Media Platforms	0
Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli Selfhood in Western and Central India	0
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Negotiating Work-Family Transitions: Reverse Family Migration among Second-Generation Hong Kong Mothers	0
Okinawa studies today	0
Going to Yan’an: The Making of China’s New Ruling Class	0
Statement of Purpose	0
Finding Love and Dignity at Work: Wang Bing’s “Youth” Trilogy	0
The Paradox of Economic Growth and Gender Equality in South Korea	0
Source Governance of Social Disputes in China	0
Agent politics of Chinese think tanks and cultural industry governance in China’s “new era”	0
Historical formation of Islamist ideology in Indonesia: the role of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (DDII)	0
From Cold War to Cold Brew: Crop Replacement Strategies, Bean Logistics, and Ethnicized Coffee Commerce in Northern Thailand	0
Zhuang Xueben and the Ninth Panchen Lama’s final journey	0
The Making of a Postcolonial Sanctuary: Exile Experiences of Korean Deserters and Draft Evaders During the 1950s	0
CCAS statement of purpose	0
Cadre ethnographer: Chinese land reform novels and the making of socialist history	0
A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954	0
A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor	0