| China’s western development program: Its rationale, implementation, and prospects HH Lai Modern China 28 (4), 432-466, 2002 | 392 | 2002 |
| China's soft power and international relations H Lai, Y Lu Routledge, 2012 | 192 | 2012 |
| China's oil diplomacy: is it a global security threat? HH Lai Third World Quarterly 28 (3), 519-537, 2007 | 189 | 2007 |
| Mounting challenges to governance in China: Surveying collective protestors, religious sects and criminal organizations JH Chung, H Lai, M Xia The China Journal, 1-31, 2006 | 136 | 2006 |
| The domestic sources of China's foreign policy: Regimes, leadership, priorities and process L Hongyi Routledge, 2010 | 111 | 2010 |
| China's cultural diplomacy: going for soft power H Lai China's soft power and international relations, 83-103, 2012 | 87 | 2012 |
| The religious revival in China HH Lai The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 18, 40-64, 2003 | 87 | 2003 |
| Domestic bureaucratic politics and Chinese foreign policy H Lai, SJ Kang Journal of Contemporary China 23 (86), 294-313, 2014 | 79 | 2014 |
| Assessing the “Revive the Northeast”(zhenxing dongbei) programme: origins, policies and implementation JH Chung, H Lai, JH Joo The China Quarterly 197, 108-125, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| Behind China's world trade organization agreement with the USA HH Lai Third World Quarterly 22 (2), 237-255, 2001 | 61 | 2001 |
| Reform and the non-State economy in China: the political economy of liberalization strategies H Lai Springer, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| Uneven opening of China's society, economy, and politics: Pro-growth authoritarian governance and protests in China H Lai Journal of Contemporary China 19 (67), 819-835, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| China's governance model: Flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism H Lai Routledge, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Introduction: the soft power concept and a rising China H Lai China's soft power and international relations, 1-20, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Religious policies in post-totalitarian China: Maintaining political monopoly over a reviving society HH Lai Journal of Chinese Political Science 11, 55-77, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Developing central China: a new regional programme H Lai China: An International Journal 5 (1), 109-128, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| Rationale of internationalization of China’s national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization? H Lai, S O’Hara, K Wysoczanska Managing China's Energy Sector, 87-105, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Asian energy security: The maritime dimension H Lai Springer, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| China’s ethnic policies: political dimension and challenges H Lai East Asian Policy 1 (3), 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| The Rationale and effects of China's Belt and Road initiative: Reducing vulnerabilities in domestic political economy H Lai China’s Big Power Ambition under Xi Jinping, 118-135, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
