Yunsong Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yunsong Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yunsong |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3799-0071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The selectiveness of inclusiveness
A substantial body of literature examines the cultural strength of religion, yet there is a scarcity of work exploring how religion exerts an impact on the broader population of a secular society. Focusing on contemporary China, this study examines the relationship between religious visage, measured by the cumulative presence of Buddhist and Taoist temples, and cultural inclusiveness, captured by cultural taste entropy constructed from 749,545,47…
An analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects
The investigation of heterogeneous treatment effects is a current focus for many empirical sociologists. This article considers causal random forests and Bayesian additive regression trees as methods to demonstrate how algorithmic approaches potentially transcend conventional model-form and covariate-selection restrictions, and can examine complex interactions between the treatment effect and covariates. These two methods, respectively, illustrat…
Impact of religious cultural similarity on internal migration
Although research has examined migrants’ attraction to religious environments in detail, the broader impact of loosely organized religions on migration patterns in highly secularized countries such as China has received relatively little attention. This study bridges this gap by developing a religious cultural similarity (RCS) index to quantify cultural similarities among 339 Chinese cities based on their distribution of religious sites. Analysis…
Computing grounded theory
The inductive logic of grounded theory and the principle of avoiding theoretical preconceptions are significantly different from the deductive logic and hypothesis testing of traditional quantitative research. Based on the limitations of theory production in quantitative research, this paper proposes a Computing Grounded Theory (CGT) approach that directly quantitatively assists theories. With the help of machine learning and attribution algorith…
The shackles of gender still exist
Boys’ love (BL) fiction has flourished in China since the beginning of the twenty-first century. It primarily focuses on the romance between men, while most authors and readers of BL fiction are heterosexual women; thus it is paradoxically patriarchal and feminist. This study aims to explore two main questions: (1) What topics do Chinese BL fiction authors prefer? (2) How do the gender concepts of Chinese culture affect the topics and contents of…
Fight, flight or friction? The effect of population density on general trust in China
Population density affects human behavior. A dense population has been shown to exacerbate impulses such as, “fight” (aggression stimulated by crowding) or “flight” (withdrawal from social life for escape). This paper explores the impact of population density on the level of generalized trust that lies in China, a topic understated by extant empirical studies so far. Drawing data from Chinese General Social Survey (2010–2013), we attempt to exami…
Causal Effects of Social Capital
A Chinese tale of three regions
Over the past 70 years, because of their different historical and social contexts, the film industries of China’s three regions, namely mainland China, Taiwan, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), have exhibited distinct characteristics that grow out of a single cultural root. Based on data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), this study investigates how the image of China has spread overseas through cultural products by app…
Exploring the Longitudinal Relationship Between Lockdown Policy Stringency and Public Negative Emotions Among 120 Countries During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The findings confirm that stringent lockdown policies have a negative effect on public emotions via confining population mobility residential areas. To tackle the COVID-19, future public health policies should pay more attention to the unintended negative consequences of lockdown measures on public emotions
International Cinema’s Shifting Image of China
This paper examines how China has been portrayed in international cinema throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the Internet Movie Database, the authors extract the plot synopses of 4,927 China-related films. The authors apply the word embedding technology and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model to explore the cinematic plots, as well as achieve the sentiment score and ascertain the socioeconomic factors of score cha…
The greener, the happier? The effects of greenspace on residents' happiness in contemporary urban China
In recent years, research has begun to touch upon the associations between the natural environment and individuals' subjective wellbeing; however, whether such associations would vary among different groups of people remains under‐studied. Using four waves (2010–2013) of data from the Chinese General Social Survey, we investigate the group‐specific correlation between environment—specifically, greenspace exposure—and individuals' happiness in con…
PM2.5 exposure and anxiety in China
The enormous impact of PM 2.5 exposure indicates that the macroscopic environment can shape individual mentality and social behavior, and that it can be extremely destructive in terms of societal mindset
Attention to social stratification in the public discourse
Using the Chinese corpus of Google Books Ngram in line with other macro-level socioeconomic data, this paper examines and analyzes the trend of change in public discourse about social structure in China from 1949 to 2008, as well as the mechanism that influences this trend. We find that since the reform and opening-up, the official discourse on “class,” as constructed by the official ideology, has gradually declined, while the importance of a “st…
Social prediction
Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction. For many years, due to data and computing power constraints, quantitative research in social science has primarily focused on statistical tests to analyze correlations and causality, leaving predictions largely ignored. By sorting out …
Migration status, emotional engagement, and social exclusion in Chinese schools
INTRODUCTION: Since migration has become one of the pressing issues of our time, the school engagement of migrant children in the destination cities has drawn increasing scholarly attention. While most existing studies have focused on the cognitive and behavioral dimensions of school engagement of migrant children compared to local children, the emotional dimension has received less scholarly attention. Using a large-scale, national representativ…
The association between PM2.5 exposure and suicidal ideation
We innovatively proposed the measure of suicidal ideation and provided suggestive evidence of a positive association between suicidal ideation and PM 2.5 level
The werther effect revisited
Mapping Public Concerns of Electronic Cigarettes in China
E-cigarettes have gained growing visibility in recent years. However, there lacks a panoramic image of e-cigarette concerns, particularly in low-income countries, such as China. Studying the public concern at a macro level may help reveal the development of the e-cigarette market, and potential health burden of a province as a whole, which is crucial for the policy regulation of the e-cigarette market, and for the allocation of medical resources …
Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the subject of whether and how social connections affect political trust. China provides a critical case because of the unique guanxi networks and the symbiosis between the state and non-governmental associations. In the Chinese context, this analysis proposes that: 1) informal social ties impair political trust since guanxi networking offers provisional publics the transmission of political stimuli, 2…
Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China
The Health Consequences of Social Mobility in Contemporary China
Although numerous studies have shown the importance of an individual's socioeconomic status on his or her self-rated health status, less well-known is whether self-perceived class mobility, a measure highly correlated with an individual's de facto social class and past mobility experiences, affects self-rated health. In this paper, we attempt to fill the gap by examining how perception of class mobility is associated with self-rated health. Using…
Subjective Social Status in Transitioning China
Objective This study provides the first representative portrait of temporal trends in subjective social status (SSS) in China. SSS has been shown to be important for health and well‐being outcomes, yet little is known how its determinants change over time. Methods Using data from 10 nationally representative survey waves, 2003 to 2012 ( N = 80,141), we examine descriptive and multivariate trends. Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition is used to decompose …
Laugh and grow fat
International visibility as determinants of foreign direct investment
Occupational interactions and income level
This study aims to explore the impact of social resources within the workplace on individuals' income level among Chinese urban residents, using data provided by JSNET2009. To adequately address the endogeneity problem, we use the first-order difference method to help identify analysis models. The results indicate that: (1) both internal and outward interactions have positive effects on income level; (2) the effect of outward interactions is stro…
Subjective well-being in the new China
We present the first nationally representative evidence on the relationship between religion and subjective well-being for the case of China. Research on Western societies tends to find a positive association between being religious and level of well-being. China provides an interesting critical case as the religious population is growing rapidly and the religious and socioeconomic environments are profoundly different from Western societies, imp…
Subjective Social Status in Transitioning China
Objective This study provides the first representative portrait of temporal trends in subjective social status (SSS) in China. SSS has been shown to be important for health and well‐being outcomes, yet little is known how its determinants change over time. Methods Using data from 10 nationally representative survey waves, 2003 to 2012 ( N = 80,141), we examine descriptive and multivariate trends. Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition is used to decompose …
The Causal Effect of Social Capital in the Labor Market
Although there has been a large body of empirical literature assessing the role of social capital in the labor market, it is still unclear whether the relationship between measures of social capital and individual outcomes is causal due to the presence of endogeneity. This article offers a systematic review of the progress made by social scientists in alleviating the endogeneity bias and improving causal inferences on the effects of social capita…
Discordance between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China
This study investigates the divergence between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China, using the unique data assembled from 10 waves of nationally representative surveys from 2003 to 2012. We construct the measure of status discordance by subtracting objective status generated by latent class analysis from self-rated social position. We find that more than half of urban residents in China underestimated their genuine social …
Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the subject of whether and how social connections affect political trust. China provides a critical case because of the unique guanxi networks and the symbiosis between the state and non-governmental associations. In the Chinese context, this analysis proposes that: 1) informal social ties impair political trust since guanxi networking offers provisional publics the transmission of political stimuli, 2…
Laugh and grow fat
Economic performance and public concerns about social class in twentieth-century books
Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China
Social prediction
Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction. For many years, due to data and computing power constraints, quantitative research in social science has primarily focused on statistical tests to analyze correlations and causality, leaving predictions largely ignored. By sorting out …
Local name, global fame
How is a city’s international visibility historically formed? Applying a novel approach based on the Google Books N-gram corpus, we conducted the first empirical study to examine the pattern of and factors shaping the accumulation of international visibility by 294 major Chinese cities between the years of 1700 and 2000. We analyse the usage frequency of city names in Google English-language books to capture the international visibility of these …
Do Networks Pay Off Among Internal Migrants in China
Rural-to-urban migrants in China return home frequently within a year. This pattern of return implies the pivotal role of the village-level outflow of migrants in determining their job outcomes at the destination. Using data from twenty-two provinces in China, this paper assesses whether a migrant's wage is positively influenced by the number of fellow villagers who migrated to urban areas. Heckman's two-stage method is used to correct for sample…
The greener, the happier? The effects of greenspace on residents' happiness in contemporary urban China
In recent years, research has begun to touch upon the associations between the natural environment and individuals' subjective wellbeing; however, whether such associations would vary among different groups of people remains under‐studied. Using four waves (2010–2013) of data from the Chinese General Social Survey, we investigate the group‐specific correlation between environment—specifically, greenspace exposure—and individuals' happiness in con…
International visibility as determinants of foreign direct investment
Centuries of sociology in millions of books
The Google Books N-gram corpus contains an enormous volume of digitized data, which, to the best of our knowledge, sociologists have yet to fully utilize. In this paper, we mine this data to shed light on the discipline itself by conducting the first empirical study to map the disciplinary advancement of sociology from the mid-nineteenth century to 2008. We analyse the usage frequency of the most common terms in five major sociology categories: d…
The Causal Effect of Social Capital in the Labor Market
Although there has been a large body of empirical literature assessing the role of social capital in the labor market, it is still unclear whether the relationship between measures of social capital and individual outcomes is causal due to the presence of endogeneity. This article offers a systematic review of the progress made by social scientists in alleviating the endogeneity bias and improving causal inferences on the effects of social capita…
Do Networks Pay Off Among Internal Migrants in China
Rural-to-urban migrants in China return home frequently within a year. This pattern of return implies the pivotal role of the village-level outflow of migrants in determining their job outcomes at the destination. Using data from twenty-two provinces in China, this paper assesses whether a migrant's wage is positively influenced by the number of fellow villagers who migrated to urban areas. Heckman's two-stage method is used to correct for sample…
Discordance between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China
This study investigates the divergence between subjective and objective social status in contemporary China, using the unique data assembled from 10 waves of nationally representative surveys from 2003 to 2012. We construct the measure of status discordance by subtracting objective status generated by latent class analysis from self-rated social position. We find that more than half of urban residents in China underestimated their genuine social …
Social capital and homophily both matter for labor market outcomes – evidence from replication and extension
Subjective well-being in the new China
We present the first nationally representative evidence on the relationship between religion and subjective well-being for the case of China. Research on Western societies tends to find a positive association between being religious and level of well-being. China provides an interesting critical case as the religious population is growing rapidly and the religious and socioeconomic environments are profoundly different from Western societies, imp…
Centuries of sociology in millions of books
The Google Books N-gram corpus contains an enormous volume of digitized data, which, to the best of our knowledge, sociologists have yet to fully utilize. In this paper, we mine this data to shed light on the discipline itself by conducting the first empirical study to map the disciplinary advancement of sociology from the mid-nineteenth century to 2008. We analyse the usage frequency of the most common terms in five major sociology categories: d…
Economic performance and public concerns about social class in twentieth-century books
Occupational interactions and income level
This study aims to explore the impact of social resources within the workplace on individuals' income level among Chinese urban residents, using data provided by JSNET2009. To adequately address the endogeneity problem, we use the first-order difference method to help identify analysis models. The results indicate that: (1) both internal and outward interactions have positive effects on income level; (2) the effect of outward interactions is stro…
Local name, global fame
How is a city’s international visibility historically formed? Applying a novel approach based on the Google Books N-gram corpus, we conducted the first empirical study to examine the pattern of and factors shaping the accumulation of international visibility by 294 major Chinese cities between the years of 1700 and 2000. We analyse the usage frequency of city names in Google English-language books to capture the international visibility of these …
The Health Consequences of Social Mobility in Contemporary China
Although numerous studies have shown the importance of an individual's socioeconomic status on his or her self-rated health status, less well-known is whether self-perceived class mobility, a measure highly correlated with an individual's de facto social class and past mobility experiences, affects self-rated health. In this paper, we attempt to fill the gap by examining how perception of class mobility is associated with self-rated health. Using…
Subjective Social Status in Transitioning China
Objective This study provides the first representative portrait of temporal trends in subjective social status (SSS) in China. SSS has been shown to be important for health and well‐being outcomes, yet little is known how its determinants change over time. Methods Using data from 10 nationally representative survey waves, 2003 to 2012 ( N = 80,141), we examine descriptive and multivariate trends. Oaxaca‐Blinder decomposition is used to decompose …
Laugh and grow fat
International visibility as determinants of foreign direct investment
Mapping Public Concerns of Electronic Cigarettes in China
E-cigarettes have gained growing visibility in recent years. However, there lacks a panoramic image of e-cigarette concerns, particularly in low-income countries, such as China. Studying the public concern at a macro level may help reveal the development of the e-cigarette market, and potential health burden of a province as a whole, which is crucial for the policy regulation of the e-cigarette market, and for the allocation of medical resources …
Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China
Much scholarly attention has been devoted to the subject of whether and how social connections affect political trust. China provides a critical case because of the unique guanxi networks and the symbiosis between the state and non-governmental associations. In the Chinese context, this analysis proposes that: 1) informal social ties impair political trust since guanxi networking offers provisional publics the transmission of political stimuli, 2…
Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China
Migration status, emotional engagement, and social exclusion in Chinese schools
INTRODUCTION: Since migration has become one of the pressing issues of our time, the school engagement of migrant children in the destination cities has drawn increasing scholarly attention. While most existing studies have focused on the cognitive and behavioral dimensions of school engagement of migrant children compared to local children, the emotional dimension has received less scholarly attention. Using a large-scale, national representativ…
The association between PM2.5 exposure and suicidal ideation
We innovatively proposed the measure of suicidal ideation and provided suggestive evidence of a positive association between suicidal ideation and PM 2.5 level
The werther effect revisited
PM2.5 exposure and anxiety in China
The enormous impact of PM 2.5 exposure indicates that the macroscopic environment can shape individual mentality and social behavior, and that it can be extremely destructive in terms of societal mindset
Attention to social stratification in the public discourse
Using the Chinese corpus of Google Books Ngram in line with other macro-level socioeconomic data, this paper examines and analyzes the trend of change in public discourse about social structure in China from 1949 to 2008, as well as the mechanism that influences this trend. We find that since the reform and opening-up, the official discourse on “class,” as constructed by the official ideology, has gradually declined, while the importance of a “st…
Social prediction
Sociology is a science concerned with both the interpretive understanding of social action and the corresponding causal explanation, process, and result. A causal explanation should be the foundation of prediction. For many years, due to data and computing power constraints, quantitative research in social science has primarily focused on statistical tests to analyze correlations and causality, leaving predictions largely ignored. By sorting out …
Causal Effects of Social Capital
A Chinese tale of three regions
Over the past 70 years, because of their different historical and social contexts, the film industries of China’s three regions, namely mainland China, Taiwan, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), have exhibited distinct characteristics that grow out of a single cultural root. Based on data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), this study investigates how the image of China has spread overseas through cultural products by app…
Exploring the Longitudinal Relationship Between Lockdown Policy Stringency and Public Negative Emotions Among 120 Countries During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The findings confirm that stringent lockdown policies have a negative effect on public emotions via confining population mobility residential areas. To tackle the COVID-19, future public health policies should pay more attention to the unintended negative consequences of lockdown measures on public emotions
Sociology (21 works) · China (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Social science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Econometrics (9 works)