Juyan Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juyan Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8452-5282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Consistency Matters
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) empowers robots to acquire new skills through human demonstrations, making it feasible for everyday users to teach robots. However, the success of learning and generalization heavily depends on the quality of these demonstrations. Consistency is often used to indicate quality in LfD, yet the factors that define this consistency remain underexplored. In this article, we evaluate a comprehensive set of motion data …
China’s Religious Diplomacy for its Belt and Road Initiative
This article analyzes China’s religious diplomacy surrounding its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an interagency effort that serves multiple goals ranging from image cultivation to diplomatic engagement. The author reviews diplomatic engagement with Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Taoists before and after 2015. The brief concludes by assessing the factors that impact the effectiveness of China’s religious diplomacy. Factors such as competitio…
Tārā, Cundā, and their Prototypes
Through intertextual analysis of ancient stone and metal images as well as written texts, this article explores the origins and identities of Tārā and Cundā, two Buddhist goddesses that are widely worshipped in the Indic and Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāṇa traditions. By charting the goddesses’ iconographic characteristics, their quality, and their relationships with Avalokiteśvara, it argues that the prototype of Tārā is Yaśodharā-to-be, and that…
Deconstructing the Blackface Minstrel Show, (Re)constructing African American Identity
A Way Toward Mind Deliverance, or Higher
Using the Grounded Theory and the northern Āgamas, this research demonstrates that the doctrines of early Mahāyāna, when defined as the six pāramitās, is rooted in the Brahmavihāras’ benefits, their culminations, and their combinations with meditations for wisdom deliverance. The research first develops a taxonomy of the Brahmavihāras’ benefits and their combinations with other mediations. This then leads to a conceptualization that consists of t…
Political Myth as Strategic Communication
Within a meaning-centered framework that integrates theories of strategic communication, political myth and the Encoding-Decoding model, this research examines the Chinese government’s rhetoric and English news media’s interpretations surrounding the Chinese Dream campaign. Findings show that English news media made largely oppositional readings, in contrast to the meanings encoded by the Chinese government. The research proposes that this was ca…
A Strategic Issue Management (SIM) Approach to Social Media Use in Public Diplomacy
This research proposed that social media use in public diplomacy should first be a strategic issue management (SIM) process. Using two case studies, the research identified four phases of the SIM process, namely the issue fermenting and going viral phase, the proactive phase, the reactive phase, and the issue receding and new issue fermenting phase. Social media are largely tactical tools in the first and the last phases. But they may become stra…
The path to war
This study combines both the agenda-building and the second-level agenda approaches. It proposes an expansion of agenda-building research by examining the interaction among the president, the media and the public for an event that was not considered an existing ‘real-world’ condition. Specifically, this study uses former President Bush’s five most prominent rationales for invading Iraq to explore the three-way reciprocal relationship among the me…
The structural transformation of China’s propaganda
In this historical analysis, Jacques Ellul’s theory of propaganda is applied to analyse the changes of China’s propaganda. It is found that China’s propaganda is undergoing structural transformations from depending on human organisation to extensive control and use of media technology. Sociological propaganda as a complement to political propaganda has significantly expanded; integration propaganda replaced agitation propaganda. International ima…
A contingency approach to the Sino–U.S. conflict resolution
The path to war
This study combines both the agenda-building and the second-level agenda approaches. It proposes an expansion of agenda-building research by examining the interaction among the president, the media and the public for an event that was not considered an existing ‘real-world’ condition. Specifically, this study uses former President Bush’s five most prominent rationales for invading Iraq to explore the three-way reciprocal relationship among the me…
A Strategic Issue Management (SIM) Approach to Social Media Use in Public Diplomacy
This research proposed that social media use in public diplomacy should first be a strategic issue management (SIM) process. Using two case studies, the research identified four phases of the SIM process, namely the issue fermenting and going viral phase, the proactive phase, the reactive phase, and the issue receding and new issue fermenting phase. Social media are largely tactical tools in the first and the last phases. But they may become stra…
Political Myth as Strategic Communication
Within a meaning-centered framework that integrates theories of strategic communication, political myth and the Encoding-Decoding model, this research examines the Chinese government’s rhetoric and English news media’s interpretations surrounding the Chinese Dream campaign. Findings show that English news media made largely oppositional readings, in contrast to the meanings encoded by the Chinese government. The research proposes that this was ca…
The structural transformation of China’s propaganda
In this historical analysis, Jacques Ellul’s theory of propaganda is applied to analyse the changes of China’s propaganda. It is found that China’s propaganda is undergoing structural transformations from depending on human organisation to extensive control and use of media technology. Sociological propaganda as a complement to political propaganda has significantly expanded; integration propaganda replaced agitation propaganda. International ima…
A contingency approach to the Sino–U.S. conflict resolution
The path to war
This study combines both the agenda-building and the second-level agenda approaches. It proposes an expansion of agenda-building research by examining the interaction among the president, the media and the public for an event that was not considered an existing ‘real-world’ condition. Specifically, this study uses former President Bush’s five most prominent rationales for invading Iraq to explore the three-way reciprocal relationship among the me…
A Strategic Issue Management (SIM) Approach to Social Media Use in Public Diplomacy
This research proposed that social media use in public diplomacy should first be a strategic issue management (SIM) process. Using two case studies, the research identified four phases of the SIM process, namely the issue fermenting and going viral phase, the proactive phase, the reactive phase, and the issue receding and new issue fermenting phase. Social media are largely tactical tools in the first and the last phases. But they may become stra…
Political Myth as Strategic Communication
Within a meaning-centered framework that integrates theories of strategic communication, political myth and the Encoding-Decoding model, this research examines the Chinese government’s rhetoric and English news media’s interpretations surrounding the Chinese Dream campaign. Findings show that English news media made largely oppositional readings, in contrast to the meanings encoded by the Chinese government. The research proposes that this was ca…
A Way Toward Mind Deliverance, or Higher
Using the Grounded Theory and the northern Āgamas, this research demonstrates that the doctrines of early Mahāyāna, when defined as the six pāramitās, is rooted in the Brahmavihāras’ benefits, their culminations, and their combinations with meditations for wisdom deliverance. The research first develops a taxonomy of the Brahmavihāras’ benefits and their combinations with other mediations. This then leads to a conceptualization that consists of t…
Deconstructing the Blackface Minstrel Show, (Re)constructing African American Identity
China’s Religious Diplomacy for its Belt and Road Initiative
This article analyzes China’s religious diplomacy surrounding its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an interagency effort that serves multiple goals ranging from image cultivation to diplomatic engagement. The author reviews diplomatic engagement with Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Taoists before and after 2015. The brief concludes by assessing the factors that impact the effectiveness of China’s religious diplomacy. Factors such as competitio…
Tārā, Cundā, and their Prototypes
Through intertextual analysis of ancient stone and metal images as well as written texts, this article explores the origins and identities of Tārā and Cundā, two Buddhist goddesses that are widely worshipped in the Indic and Tibetan Mahāyāna and Vajrayāṇa traditions. By charting the goddesses’ iconographic characteristics, their quality, and their relationships with Avalokiteśvara, it argues that the prototype of Tārā is Yaśodharā-to-be, and that…
Consistency Matters
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) empowers robots to acquire new skills through human demonstrations, making it feasible for everyday users to teach robots. However, the success of learning and generalization heavily depends on the quality of these demonstrations. Consistency is often used to indicate quality in LfD, yet the factors that define this consistency remain underexplored. In this article, we evaluate a comprehensive set of motion data …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Diplomacy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works)