PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Balancing Engagement and Containment: An Examination of U.S. Financial Sanctions on Hong Kong." International Forum: 4: 87-102.
"Loyalty and Competence: The Political Selection of Local Cadres in China." The China Quarterly, 251, 726-750. doi:10.1017/S0305741022000364. 2022.
“The Organizational and Performance Aspect of Local Cadre Promotion: An Empirical Study at the Township and County-level” with Jinyou Pang. Administrative Tribune 1: 86-97. 2022.
“Perceptions of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era in the Sinology Community.” Contemporary World and Socialism 2: 169-176. 2021.
"Governing by the Internet: Local Governance in the Digital Age" with Rongbin Han. Journal of Chinese Governance 3(1): 67-85. 2018.
"The ASEAN approach to Conflict Management: Concepts, Challenges and Change." Journal of Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies (ISSN 1007-161X) 6: 132- 155. 2014. (Rpt. in International Politics, 2015, issue 4.)
"Northeastern Asian Perceptions of China's Rise: To What Extent Does Economic Interdependence Work?" with Min Xia and Jie Chen. Modern China Studies 21(2): 87-132. 2014.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
“Ruling by the Internet: Local Governance in the Digital Age” with Rongbin Han. In Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China, eds. J. Yu, and S. Guo. 2019.
“Rescuing Authoritarian Rule: The Anti-Gongzhi Discourse in Chinese Cyberspace” with Rongbin Han. In Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, ed. C. Shei. 2019.
TRANSLATION
English to Chinese: Paper series of “The 40th Anniversary of U.S.-China Relations: Seeking a New Framework for Managing U.S.-China Relations” International Symposium, The Carter Center, 2019.
English to Chinese: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Part V Political Instability, Political Conflict, ed. C. Boix and S. C. Stokes, Oxford University Press, 2007. The Chinese edition of the book was published in China in 2016 by People's Publishing House, China.
INVITED RESEARCH TALK
University of Oxford, All Souls College, Workshop "Change, Adaptation and Contention in Formal Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes," April 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Tsinghua University, Schwarzman College, Deep Dive Course, February and October 2023, October 2024, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Pekingology podcast, episode “Political Selection of Local Cadres,” October 2022, Washington, DC, United States of America.
https://www.csis.org/podcasts/pekingology/political-selection-local-cadres