Figures & data
Figure 1. Publications on Central Asia in the PRC (1992–2022).
![Figure 1. Publications on Central Asia in the PRC (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/37b97ff2-0935-4262-a662-d7303f15eedf/ccas_a_2314083_f0001_oc.jpg)
Figure 2. Highest number of publications on Central Asia in Chinese journals (1992–2022).
![Figure 2. Highest number of publications on Central Asia in Chinese journals (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/71df4773-0359-4cf9-a4ff-588382f7d3f9/ccas_a_2314083_f0002_oc.jpg)
Figure 3. Most prolific researchers of Central Asia in the PRC (1992–2022).
![Figure 3. Most prolific researchers of Central Asia in the PRC (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/4aa6621f-5609-4850-bdbd-6a0c2031cb6b/ccas_a_2314083_f0003_oc.jpg)
Table 1. Qualitative clusters resulting from the Structural Topic Model.
Figure 4. Top 15 topics for topic prevalence in the corpus.
![Figure 4. Top 15 topics for topic prevalence in the corpus.](/cms/asset/3ba654d4-d3b5-4d51-9fd4-29ef0e13458a/ccas_a_2314083_f0004_oc.jpg)
Figure 5. Topic prevalence of topics in cluster 3 on language studies over time (1992–2022).
![Figure 5. Topic prevalence of topics in cluster 3 on language studies over time (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/0e79b416-cd23-4df0-8560-e841e42f0723/ccas_a_2314083_f0005_oc.jpg)
Figure 6. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 8 on security and internal politics (1992–2022).
![Figure 6. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 8 on security and internal politics (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/96af522c-a054-4c2b-9d48-cd4b6b4eb83b/ccas_a_2314083_f0006_oc.jpg)
Figure 7. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 2 on Macroeconomics (1992–2022).
![Figure 7. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 2 on Macroeconomics (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/4fb7bd32-b0b5-4a38-a0d8-21dd26da572b/ccas_a_2314083_f0007_oc.jpg)
Figure 8. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 4 on Chinese governmental narratives (1992–2022).
![Figure 8. Topic prevalence over time of topics in Cluster 4 on Chinese governmental narratives (1992–2022).](/cms/asset/10856d40-ac80-48ee-8c0c-1ffbf8578433/ccas_a_2314083_f0008_oc.jpg)
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