Journal of Contemporary China


The Journal of Contemporary China is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal on contemporary Chinese affairs. It is published five times per year by Routledge and covers issues such as Chinese politics, law, economy, culture, and foreign policy, among others. Its current editor-in-chief is Suisheng Zhao.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and is listed in the Journal Citation Reports with an impact factor of 0.953 in the category "Area Studies" in 2013. It is also indexed in , British Humanities Index, CSA Abstracts, GEOBASE, Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, International Development Abstracts, and MLA International Bibliography.