Ching Kwan Lee

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Ching Kwan Lee is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ching Kwan Lee has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ching Kwan Lee's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (23 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (7 papers). Ching Kwan Lee is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (23 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 papers) and Chinese history and philosophy (7 papers). Ching Kwan Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Ching Kwan Lee's co-authors include Robert Tierney, Yonghong Zhang, Eli Friedman, You‐tien Hsing, Ellen R. Judd, Stephen W.K. Chiu, Lisa A. Keister, Ellen Hertz, Mary E. Gallagher and David L. Wank and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Ching Kwan Lee

44 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and S... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2013 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
    2008 377 citations Ching Kwan Lee et al. profile →
  2. The Power of Instability: Unraveling the Microfoundations of Bargained Authoritarianism in China
    2013 306 citations Ching Kwan Lee, Yonghong Zhang American Journal of Sociology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ching Kwan Lee United States 20 1.6k 1.6k 537 462 240 46 2.7k
Ira Katznelson United States 21 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 195 0.4× 180 0.4× 281 1.2× 97 2.7k
William I. Robinson United States 26 1.1k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 358 0.7× 164 0.4× 232 1.0× 108 3.0k
Ronaldo Munck Ireland 23 615 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 430 0.8× 318 0.7× 151 0.6× 167 1.8k
Ruth Berins Collier United States 18 1.5k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 379 0.7× 137 0.3× 213 0.9× 41 2.6k
Dietrich Rueschemeyer United States 17 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 197 0.4× 107 0.2× 261 1.1× 45 2.8k
Michael Keating United Kingdom 32 2.7k 1.7× 1.3k 0.8× 148 0.3× 114 0.2× 178 0.7× 141 3.6k
Sarah Babb United States 19 844 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 162 0.3× 184 0.4× 316 1.3× 34 2.4k
Nicos Poulantzas France 16 980 0.6× 1.7k 1.1× 217 0.4× 123 0.3× 168 0.7× 57 2.9k
Stephen Skowronek United States 16 2.3k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 410 0.8× 83 0.2× 489 2.0× 52 3.5k
Jude Howell United Kingdom 22 818 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 161 0.3× 104 0.2× 94 0.4× 70 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ching Kwan Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ching Kwan Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ching Kwan Lee

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2023). Gender and the South China Miracle. 3 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2018). China’s precariats. Globalizations. 16(2). 137–154. 30 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2014). The Spectre of Global China. New left review. 2(89). 28–65.
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2014). State & Social Protest. Daedalus. 143(2). 124–134. 6 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan & Yonghong Zhang. (2013). The Power of Instability: Unraveling the Microfoundations of Bargained Authoritarianism in China. American Journal of Sociology. 118(6). 1475–1508. 306 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Ching Kwan, et al.. (2012). The Politics of Precarity. Work and Occupations. 39(4). 388–408. 89 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan, et al.. (2009). China. Work and Occupations. 36(2). 110–125. 28 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2008). Rights Activism in China. Contexts. 7(3). 14–19. 17 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2007). Working in China : ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 48 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2007). Against the Law. 379 indexed citations
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Gallagher, Mary E., Ching Kwan Lee, & Albert Park. (2003). The Labor of Reform in China. 11(1). 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (2002). From the specter of Mao to the spirit of the law: Labor insurgency in China. Theory and Society. 31(2). 189–228. 81 indexed citations
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Wank, David L., Ellen Hertz, & Ching Kwan Lee. (2000). The Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 29(2). 374–374. 1 indexed citations
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Judd, Ellen R. & Ching Kwan Lee. (1999). Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Pacific Affairs. 72(2). 258–258. 60 indexed citations
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Keister, Lisa A. & Ching Kwan Lee. (1999). Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women.. Social Forces. 78(1). 377–377. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (1998). Gender and the South China Miracle. 253 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (1998). The Labor Politics of Market Socialism. Modern China. 24(1). 3–33. 34 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan, et al.. (1997). Withering away of the Hong Kong dream?: Women workers under industrial restructuring. 98–132. 6 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (1995). Engendering the Worlds of Labor: Women Workers, Labor Markets, and Production Politics in the South China Economic Miracle. American Sociological Review. 60(3). 378–378. 85 indexed citations
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Lee, Ching Kwan. (1993). FAMILIAL HEGEMONY:. Gender & Society. 7(4). 529–547. 12 indexed citations

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