| Giving the people a voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China B He, S Thøgersen Journal of Contemporary China 19 (66), 675-692, 2010 | 284 | 2010 |
| A county of culture: twentieth-century China seen from the village schools of Zouping, Shandong S Thøgersen University of Michigan Press, 2002 | 132 | 2002 |
| Secondary education in China after Mao: Reform and social conflict S Thøgersen (No Title), 1990 | 125 | 1990 |
| The making of a Chinese city: History and historiography in Harbin S Clausen, S Thogersen Routledge, 2016 | 99 | 2016 |
| Revisiting a dramatic triangle: The state, villagers, and social activists in Chinese rural reconstruction projects S Thøgersen Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 38 (4), 9-33, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Parasites or civilisers: the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party in rural areas S Thøgersen Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set), 1117-1140, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Beyond official Chinese: language codes S Thøgersen, M Heimer, S Thøgersen Doing fieldwork in China 1, 110, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| The anthropology of Chinese transnational educational migration AS Hansen, S Thøgersen Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 44 (3), 3-14, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| 'He Is He, and I Am I': Individual and Collective among China's Rural Elderly S Thøgersen, N Anru European Journal of East Asian Studies 7 (1), 11-37, 2008 | 37 | 2008 |
| Building a new socialist countryside: model villages in Hubei S Thøgersen Politics and markets in rural China, 172-186, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| The'quality'of Chinese education and the new ideal student S Thøgersen Nias Nytt. Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies, 4-7, 2000 | 32 | 2000 |
| Kina: individ og samfunn MH Hansen, S Thøgersen Universitetsforl., 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| China's senior middle schools in a social perspective: a survey of Yantai district, Shandong province S Thøgersen The China Quarterly 109, 72-100, 1987 | 29 | 1987 |
| Frontline soldiers of the CCP: the selection of China's township leaders S Thøgersen The China Quarterly 194, 414-423, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Approaching the field through written sources S Thøgersen Doing fieldwork in China, 189-208, 2006 | 28 | 2006 |
| Chinese transnational students and the global education hierarchy AS Hansen, S Thøgersen Learning and Teaching 8 (3), 1-12, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Chinese students in europe: policies, experiences and prospects S THøgersen European Review 24 (2), 297-305, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| Chinese students' great expectations: Prospective pre-school teachers on the move S Thøgersen Learning and Teaching 5 (3), 75-93, 2012 | 21 | 2012 |
| Organizing rural China, rural China organizing A Bislev, S Thøgersen Lexington Books, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| Consultative elections of Chinese township leaders: the case of an experiment in Ya'an, Sichuan S Thøgersen, J Elklit, D Lisheng China Information 22 (1), 67-89, 2008 | 20 | 2008 |