| The rise of “localism” and civic identity in post-handover Hong Kong: Questioning the Chinese nation-state S Veg The China Quarterly 230, 323-347, 2017 | 256 | 2017 |
| Minjian: The rise of China’s grassroots intellectuals S Veg Columbia University Press, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Legalistic and utopian S Veg New Left Review, 55-73, 2015 | 73 | 2015 |
| Creating a textual public space: slogans and texts from Hong Kong's Umbrella movement S Veg The Journal of Asian Studies 75 (3), 673-702, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
| New readings of Lu Xun: Critic of modernity and re-inventor of heterodoxy S VEG China Perspectives, 49-56, 2014 | 65* | 2014 |
| The rise of China’s statist intellectuals: Law, sovereignty, and “repoliticization” S Veg The China Journal 82 (1), 23-45, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Testimony, History and Ethics: From the Memory of Jiabiangou Prison Camp to a Reappraisal of the Anti-Rightist Movement in Present-Day China S Veg The China Quarterly 218 (June), 514-539, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| Propaganda and Pastiche. Visions of Mao in Founding of a Republic, Beginning of the Great Revival, and Let the Bullets Fly S Veg China Perspectives 2012 (2012/2), 41‑53, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Popular memories of the Mao era: From critical debate to reassessing history S Veg Hong Kong University Press, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| The China Quarterly Y Zeng, S Hok-wui, YT Suen, C Randolph, H Chan, MV Lee, T Zhao, ... | 21* | 2021 |
| Introduction: Opening Public Spaces S Veg China Perspectives 2010 (2010/1), 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
| Cultural heritage in Hong Kong, the rise of activism and the contradictions of identity S Veg China Perspectives 2007 (2007/2), 2007 | 20* | 2007 |
| The limits of representation: Wang Bing's labour camp films S Veg Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6 (2), 173-188, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| Anatomy of the ordinary: new perspectives in Hong Kong independent cinema S Veg Journal of Chinese Cinemas 8 (1), 73-92, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| From Documentary to Fiction and Back: Reality and Contingency in Wang Bing’s and Jia Zhangke’s Films S Veg China Perspectives 2007 (2007/3), 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| Creating a Literary Space to Debate the Mao Era: The fictionalization of the Great Leap Forward in Yan Lianke's Four Books 1 S Veg The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke, 219-237, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| New Spaces, New Controls: China's Embryonic Public Sphere S Veg Current History 114 (773), 203, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Hong Kong’s enduring identity crisis S Veg The Atlantic 16, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Eliminating disharmony: Recent examples of censorship in Chinese writing and cinema S Veg China Perspectives 2007 (2007/3), 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| Building a Public Consciousness. A Conversation with Jia Zhangke S Veg China Perspectives 2010 (2010/1), 2010 | 11 | 2010 |
