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. It was purported to be the only English-language journal edited in North America that provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for scholars, business people and government policy-makers.
As of 2025, the journal's editor is Suisheng Zhao. Some scholars affiliated with the journal have also contributed to articles published by Brookings and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences 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 America: History & Life, British Humanities Index, CSA Abstracts, ''GEOBASE, Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, International Development Abstracts, and MLA International Bibliography''.