OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Asian Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Populism and Thai Conservative Movements, 2006-2014	20
Crafting Utopias for Spiritual Nationhood: Digested India in Contemporary Self-cultivation Practices in China	20
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	15
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong	14
We are Each Other’s Democracy: The Emergence of New Political Subjectivities and Solidarities during the Anti-Martial Law Protests in South Korea	14
Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry	14
Camouflaged Extremism: Authoritarian Legacies and the Far Right in South Korea	13
Navigating Patron-Client Entrepreneurial Networks in Peri-Urban Kolkata, India	11
Land Mafias in Indonesia	10
Who is Insulting China? Popular Nationalism and Ruhua Accusations	8
Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures	8
Becoming a Tibetan Internet Celebrity: Lithang Tenzin’s Self-Presentation and Identity Performance on Chinese Social Media Platforms	8
Lying Flat in Taiwan: Young People’s Alternative Life Choices in a Post-developmentalist Era	8
The Patani Malay Dilemma: The 2023 Electoral Landscape in Thailand’s Deep South	7
Time-Space Companions: Digital Surveillance, Social Management, and Abuse of Power During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China	7
Competing for opium profits: the Japanese Empire and imperial subjects in Manchukuo, 1932–1937	6
The Production of “Indisputable” Confession Evidence in China	6
A Sovereign New Korea: North Korea’s Postcolonial State Building, Women’s Liberation, and Early Cold War Internationalism, 1945-1954	6
Governance and state–society relations in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Universal Meets the Himalayan Particular: Indigeneity, Race, and Decolonization in India	5
The Self-Image of Propaganda: Biopolitics of Yuqing Governance	5
Finding Love and Dignity at Work: Wang Bing’s “Youth” Trilogy	4
Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening	4
The Taliban Are Coming! How Intra-Oligarchic Conflict Proliferates Computational Propaganda in Indonesia	4
Dragon Not for Sale: Commodification of Nature, Indigenous Multispecies Politics and Ecotourism from Below in Komodo National Park, Indonesia	4

Keeping A Distance: Changing Everyday Lives of Married Migrant Gay Men in China’s State-owned Enterprises	4
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
Performative secularism: school-sponsored prayer in China's National College Entrance Exam	3
Moderate Citizen Agents: Grassroots Legal Practitioners and Migrant Workers’ Rights in South China	3
Collaboration, Conflict, and Integration: Tracing Pakistani Migrant Networks in China	3
CCAS Statement of Purpose	3
Crime Talk and Male Criminality: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Malaysia, 1978-2018	3
Spiritually surviving precarious times: Millennials in Jakarta, Indonesia	3
Compound Capitalism: A Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Operations	3
Canes Build Ministers: Discipline, Memory, and Political Socialization at Thailand’s Premier Boys’ School, 1934–1942	3
In stagnation: a case study of a Chinese community-based labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta	3
The Politics of Space in Modern Tokyo	3
Podcasting Politics in Singapore: Hegemony, Resistance, and Digital Media	3
“Water in One Hand, Fire in the Other:” Coping with Multiple Crises in Post-coup Burma/Myanmar	3
Feeding hungry ghosts: grief, gender, and protest in Hong Kong	3
Thailand's Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and the Need to Better Protect Smallholders	3
Revisiting the CIA’s Deceptions in Asia	2
Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist	2
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	2
Layers of (in)visible resilience: art, women, and homelessness in Japan	2
The Number One Fake Museum Under Heaven and the Malleable Authenticity of Artifacts in China’s Museum Boom	2
“I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines	2
From Cold War to Cold Brew: Crop Replacement Strategies, Bean Logistics, and Ethnicized Coffee Commerce in Northern Thailand	2
Warrior monk: guns, grenades, and the rise of the Ninth Panchen Lama on Sino–Mongol–Tibetan frontiers, 1924–1937	2
Idealized Past, Exclusivist Present: Right-wing Appropriation of the Decolonial Rhetoric in Malaysia	2
Forest Reserves as Frontiers of Indigeneity: Semai Orang Asli Investments of Work, Cultural Use, and Identity in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve	2
Hair Discipline in Singapore: Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender	2
Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli Selfhood in Western and Central India	2
Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific	2
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore	2
Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship in Brunei	2
The limits of civil society activism in Indonesia: the case of the weakening of the KPK	1
The Rise and Fall of Factory-based Schools in China	1
Negotiating Between Belief and Custom: The Encounters of Han Muslim Converts in China	1
Becoming Paṇḍit: Religious Teachings, Diploma Politics, and Doctoral Education in Post-War Cambodia	1
Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic	1
Turning Marx on His Head? North KoreanJucheas Developmental Nationalism	1
The Making of a Postcolonial Sanctuary: Exile Experiences of Korean Deserters and Draft Evaders During the 1950s	1
The co-production of disasters: how the nexus of climate change, tourism, and COVID-19 increases socioeconomic vulnerability in Mustang, Nepal	1
The Gendered Life Cycle of Forced Criminality: Female Victims in Southeast Asia’s Online Scam Industry	1
Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier	1
The Paradox of Economic Growth and Gender Equality in South Korea	1
Discipline, Development, and Duress: The Art of Winning an Election in Bangladesh	1
A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor	1
The 1974 Battle of Jolo: testimonial narratives of survivors and intra-Tausug relations	1
Claim-Making and Citizenship in Indonesia	1
Surviving Pemakö’s pluriverse: Kunga Tsomo, the goddess, and the LAC	1
Neoliberal Feminism and Work-Family Tensions among Professional Women in Beijing	1
Milk consumption in Modern China: politics of science, dietary health knowledge, and identity building	1

Trauma’s Transformations in a Chinese Village	1
Say Yes to Dams? Negotiating Development and Uncertainty in a Large Dam Project in the Philippines	1