Publications

Peng, Xu. 2026. Checkpoints, conflict and scam logistics: Mobile control and the politics of circulation in the China–Myanmar–Thailand borderlands. Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) issue 13

Peng, Xu. 2026. “China’s Selective Influence in Myanmar’s Conflict.” Current History 125 (870): 133–138.

Peng, Xu. 2025. “The Politics of Persistence: China’s Border Government and Aid to the Communist Party of Burma, 1969–1989.” Asian Studies Review: 1–21.

Peng, Xu. 2025. “The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies in the China-Myanmar Borderlands.” Journal of Contemporary Asia: 1–23.

Peng, Xu. 2024. “Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands.” China Perspectives 138: 9–20.

Peng, Xu. 2024. “The Political Economy of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderland: Opium, Gambling, and Online Scams.” Global China Pulse, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University.

Peng, Xu. 2026. “Governing Risk in UK–China Economic Engagement: Shell Companies, Illicit Capital, and Cross-Border Compliance” (CHI0053), Written evidence accepted and published by the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee, UK Parliament, for the China and the UK Economy inquiry.

Peng, Xu. 2024. Review of Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China’s Ascendancy, edited by Karl Chee Leong Lee and Ying-kit Chan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies 8 (1): 240–242.

Peng, Xu. 2025. “Huge Online Scam Operations Are Flourishing in War-torn Myanmar.” The Conversation.

Peng, Xu, Jonathan Goodhand, Patrick Meehan, and Naomi Yonder. 2025. “Capitalism and Conflict at the Margins: Why Online Scams Flourish in Myanmar’s Borderlands.” SOAS Blog.

Peng, Xu. 2023. “The Enduring Legacy and Historical Continuity of Kokang’s Mutinies.” Tea Circle: A Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar.

Peng, Xu. 2023. “The Shadow of Chinese War: Ethnic Tensions, Geopolitics, and Online Scams in the Kokang Conflict in the China-Myanmar Borderland.” SOAS China Institute Blog.

Peng, Xu. In progress. “The Logistics and (Im)Mobilities of Digital Illicit Economies: The Online Scam Industry in Southeast Asia.”

Peng, Xu et al. In progress. “Repositioning the Gender Lens in Conflict Studies.”

Peng, Xu. In progress. “Minor Nationalism, Strategic Ambiguity, and Nation-Making in the Liminal Polity.”