About Me

Welcome! I am currently an assistant professor at School of Public Administration, Hunan University, China. Prior to this, I was a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) at School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, China (2022-2025). I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2022. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Comparative Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, and The China Quarterly.

Research Interests

– Public Opinion

– Media & Politics

– Chinese Politics

– Comparative Politics

– Governance and Public Policy Analysis

Publications

In Transparent Government We Trust: Open Government Data, Transparency Perception, and Public Trust in China, Public Management Review, 2026, Online First. (w/ Chen Zhang)
Learning to Question Authority? Higher Education and Political Trust in China, Journal of Contemporary China, 2026, Online First.
From Maoism to MAGA: Embracing Democracy with Authoritarian Imprints, Comparative Politics, 2026, 58(2): 149-172. (w/ Sibo Liu, Dong Zhang)
Sorrow under prosperity: how downtown residence influences the welfare of disabled people in China, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2026, 19(1): 257-276. (w/ Mengbing Du, Ning Qiu)
Elite Cues and Public Climate Attitudes: The Influence of the Trump Presidency on Republicans’ Attitudes Toward Global Warming, International Political Science Review, 2025, Online First. (w/ Mengbing Du)
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement from Large Language Models Increases Citizens’ Compliance Willingness in China, Policy Studies Journal, 2025, Online First. (w/ Miao Xiang)
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2025, 66(3): 315–327. (w/ Chen Zhang, Pak Hung Lam)
Digital government construction and civic policy participation: evidence from China, Policy Sciences, 2025, 58(2): 345–367.
Fandom culture as a catalyst for propaganda, The China Quarterly, 2024, 259: 814–823.
Birds of a feather: Sharing democratic values eases immigration in a postmaterialist society, Political Behavior, 2024, 46(3): 1887–1911. (w/ Jin Jiang, Dong Zhang)
Demystifying the dynamics of China’s overseas image with a large-scale social media dataset, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2024, Online First.
Knowing more, worrying less? Internet use eases public concern about immigrant cultural threat, Technology in Society, 2024, 77: 102591.
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy: evidence from 26 European countries, Policy Sciences, 2023, 56(4): 689–707.
Amusing ourselves to loyalty? Entertainment, propaganda, and regime resilience in China, Political Research Quarterly, 2022, 75(4): 1096–1112.
Framing as an information control strategy in times of crisis, Journal of East Asian Studies, 2022, 22(2): 255–279. (w/ Huang Huang, Dong Zhang)

Selected Working Papers

Social media and polarization R&R
Disinformation and Polarization

Teaching

– Instructor

Big Data and Public Policy
Social Science Research Methods
Digital Governance

– Teaching Assistant

Comparative Politics
Public Policy: Values & Processes
Media, Data and Politics

Services

As an ad hoc reviewer for Asian Journal of Social Science, British Journal of Political Science, China Quarterly, Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Chinese Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Poetics, Political Behavior, Public Performance & Management Review, Review of Policy Research, Scientific Reports and《公共管理评论》.