| Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang T Cliff University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 115 | 2019 |
| Neo Oasis: The Xinjiang Bingtuan in the Twenty-first Century TMJ Cliff Asian Studies Review 33 (1), 83-106, 2009 | 85 | 2009 |
| The partnership of stability in Xinjiang: state–society interactions following the July 2009 unrest T Cliff The China Journal 68 (1), 79-105, 2012 | 72 | 2012 |
| Lucrative Chaos: Inter-Ethnic Conflict as a Function of Economic Normalisation T Cliff Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West, 122, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Peripheral Urbanism. Making history on China’s northwest frontier T Cliff China Perspectives 2013 (2013/3), 13-23, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Post-Socialist Aspirations in a Neo-Danwei T Cliff The China Journal, 132-157, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Refugees, Conscripts, and Constructors: Developmental Narratives and Subaltern Han in Xinjiang, China T Cliff Modern China 47 (5), 540-568, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Emergent political norms in local state–private enterprise relations during China’s big push for poverty reduction L Fang, B Li, T Cliff American Behavioral Scientist 66 (2), 213-231, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| The living politics of self-help movements in East Asia T Cliff, T Morris-Suzuki, S Wei Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Face Funds: Political Maneuvers around Nonstate Welfare in Rural China T Cliff China Review 17 (2), 151-178, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| China’s partnership of stability in Xinjiang T Cliff East Asia Forum, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur T Cliff The China Journal, 137, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| Chinese Economies in Ethnographic Perspective: Two case studies of intersecting socioeconomic diversity AB Kipnis, T Cliff Modern Asian Studies 54 (6), 1987-2021, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| The rise of Xinjiang studies: A JAS new author forum R Thum, J Jacobs, T Cliff, D Brophy, K Kim, M Kobi The Journal of Asian Studies 77 (1), 7-18, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Survival as Citizenship, or Citizenship as Survival? Imagined and Transient Political Groups in Urban China T Cliff, K Wang The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia, 29-55, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Oil and water T Cliff Xinjiang Year Zero, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Concept Essay One: Ignoring the Attention-Seeking State T Cliff The living politics of self-help movements in East Asia, 17-27, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
| Neo oasis: the story of the Xinjiang bingtuan; from military-agricultural colony to high-tech urban utopia T Cliff The Australian National University, 2005 | 2 | 2005 |
| How elite networks shape private enterprises’ social welfare provision in rural China T Cliff The China Journal 86 (1), 21-45, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ethnic unrest and China’s multiple problematic others T Cliff Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China, 417-431, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
