| A nation-state by construction: Dynamics of modern Chinese nationalism S Zhao Stanford University Press, 2004 | 1050 | 2004 |
| A state-led nationalism: The patriotic education campaign in post-Tiananmen China S Zhao Communist and post-communist studies 31 (3), 287-302, 1998 | 729 | 1998 |
| The China Model: can it replace the Western model of modernization? S Zhao Journal of contemporary China 19 (65), 419-436, 2010 | 462 | 2010 |
| Soft power: China's emerging strategy in international politics G Chen, J Chen, XCX Deng, Y Deng, J Kurlantzick, Z Pang, I Wibowo, ... Lexington Books, 2009 | 392 | 2009 |
| Chinese nationalism and its international orientations S Zhao Political Science Quarterly 115 (1), 1-33, 2000 | 372 | 2000 |
| Foreign policy implications of Chinese nationalism revisited: The strident turn S Zhao Construction of Chinese Nationalism in the Early 21st Century, 17-35, 2014 | 353 | 2014 |
| Chinese foreign policy: Pragmatism and strategic behavior S Zhao Routledge, 2016 | 256 | 2016 |
| Deng Xiaoping's southern tour: elite politics in post-Tiananmen China S Zhao Asian Survey 33 (8), 739-756, 1993 | 253 | 1993 |
| China's pragmatic nationalism: is it manageable? S Zhao The Washington Quarterly 29 (1), 131-144, 2005 | 244 | 2005 |
| Chinese intellectuals′ quest for national greatness and nationalistic writing in the 1990s S Zhao The China Quarterly 152, 725-745, 1997 | 244 | 1997 |
| A neo-colonialist predator or development partner? China's engagement and rebalance in Africa S Zhao Journal of Contemporary China 23 (90), 1033-1052, 2014 | 170 | 2014 |
| China's global search for energy security: cooperation and competition in Asia–Pacific S Zhao Journal of Contemporary China 17 (55), 207-227, 2008 | 166 | 2008 |
| Xi Jinping's Maoist Revival S Zhao J. Democracy 27, 83, 2016 | 148 | 2016 |
| Decision-making in Deng's China: perspectives from insiders CL Hamrin, S Zhao ME Sharpe, 1995 | 148 | 1995 |
| Rethinking the Chinese world order: The imperial cycle and the rise of China S Zhao Journal of contemporary China 24 (96), 961-982, 2015 | 146 | 2015 |
| Across the Taiwan strait: Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 crisis S Zhao Routledge, 2013 | 146 | 2013 |
| The ideological campaign in Xi’s China: Rebuilding regime legitimacy S Zhao Asian Survey 56 (6), 1168-1193, 2016 | 115 | 2016 |
| China and democracy: the prospect for a democratic China S Zhao Psychology Press, 2000 | 112 | 2000 |
| A New Model of Big Power Relations? China–US strategic rivalry and balance of power in the Asia–Pacific S Zhao Journal of Contemporary China 24 (93), 377-397, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
| A revisionist stakeholder: China and the post-world war II world order S Zhao Journal of Contemporary China 27 (113), 643-658, 2018 | 105 | 2018 |
