Wenfang Tang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenfang Tang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenfang |
| FAMILY NAME | Tang |
| SIGNATURE | TANG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4877-5732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping
The Chinese state-sponsored campaign for nationalism has intensified since the last decade. This article is an empirical study focusing on Chinese mass nationalism in the same period. Drawing data from the World Values Surveys, it finds that mass nationalism significantly increased from 2012/13 to 2018, ranked second with a growth rate of 13.7% among 27 selected countries and regions. The origin of this remarkable rise of mass nationalism is root…
Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
Revolution derailed: The struggle for media control and media freedom in China
Drawing on data from the 2018 China Internet Survey, this article analyzes the channels through which Chinese citizens acquire political information and how such information changes people's political attitude and behavior. It finds that while many people particularly among the younger generations are using social media, an equally large number of people continue to rely on the officially controlled TV news for political and social information. A…
Indigenization of Political Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Drawing data collected in 2021 from a probability sample of Hong Kong residents, we examine their political identity with the former colonists and their post-colonial ruler in China. The data show an expected anti-China sentiment but an unexpectedly lukewarm attitude toward their former colonists. Instead, the survey respondents expressed strong feelings toward indigenization with traditional Chinese culture. For the sources of such sentiment, th…
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach
Drawing data from a national survey, this study relies on several embedded list experiments to examine the grassroots bribery that the survey respondents tried to hide due to social desirability. The findings from the list experiments are extracted to develop an innovative weighting technique to provide accurate estimations of bribery behavior. It finds that the level of grassroots bribery in public sectors is significantly higher than what peopl…
Managed Mobilization: Ethnic Identity and Political Participation in China
How does ethnic identity affect political participation in China? The Chinese government gathers information and shapes public opinion through mass mobilization. These efforts include the managed mobilization of politically sensitive ethnic minorities. We draw on a dataset of the preferred political activities among 8,000 individuals in China, including more than 1,500 ethnic minority group members and find that politically sensitive minority gro…
Sexism in Mainland China and Taiwan: A Social Experimental Study
This study compares gender discrimination or sexism in mainland China and Taiwan by means of a social experiment. Mainland China, with its radical egalitarian socialist policies implemented in a centrally planned economy and during the Cultural Revolution, serves as the treatment group in this social experiment. Taiwan, with its conventional path of economic modernisation, political liberalisation and importation of post-material values, is set a…
The CPC as a Populist Authoritarian Party: An Impressionable Years Analysis
This study examines the political attitude and behaviour of the rank-and-file members of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It compares five generations of Party members that carry distinctive memories during their political socialisation, and the findings show a significant decline in Party identity among the younger members. The empirical evidence, drawn from five national surveys of 11,989 respondents including 1,607 Party members, also sugge…
Social Desirability of Dissent: An IAT Experiment with Chinese University Students
Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
This volume is about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. It attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests, on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand.
Affirmative Inaction: Education, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Attainment Among China's Uyghur Minority
This study finds that the Mandarin proficiency is partially responsible for the gap in socioeconomic inequality between the Han majority and the Uyghur Muslim minority. Multiple sources of evidence show that Uyghur Muslims share equal educational attainment as the Han majority, but are noticeably less fluent in Mandarin than the Han majority. Using data from the 2012 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we find that Mandarin proficiency can …
A Chinese Popularity Function: Sources of Government Support
The notion of a Chinese popularity function may seem surprising, given its authoritarian nature. However, exploring the possibility of indirect popularity functions in nondemocratic systems, we articulate a model of national government support in China. The model argues that sociodemographics, political attitudes, and performance issues mold central government satisfaction. Drawing on a countrywide 2008 public opinion survey, we conclude that reg…
Political Communication in China: Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?
It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or the power to regulate.Political Communication in China examines the two factors which have contributed to the rapid development of media infrastructur…
Chinese Nationalism and its Political and Social Origins
Using the 2008 China Survey, this paper examines Chinese respondents' feelings toward their country and how such feelings are related to their democratic values. First, it compares Chinese nationalism with that of 35 countries and regions in the 2003 National Identity Survey. Second, it looks at the origins of Chinese nationalism as embedded in the social and political characteristics of individuals. Third, it further examines the impact of natio…
The Emerging Media System in China: Implications for Regime Change
It is well established that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support
Exploring the Sources of Institutional Trust in China: Culture, Mobilization, or Performance
While democratic countries have been concerned about a “trust crisis” since the 1960s, China surprisingly displays a very high level of public trust in institutions. Why do people trust institutions and to what extent does institutional trust in China differ from that in democracies? Using the 2004 China Values and Ethics Survey, this article explores three different dimensions of institutional trust in China: trust in administrative institutions…
Nationalism and Electoral Outcome in Taiwan: The Impact of Identity Fence-sitting on Voting Behaviour
National identity is a central issue within Taiwan's flourishing electoral politics. Scholarly attention focuses on the changing pro-Chinese/pro-Taiwanese identity patterns and their impact on electoral outcome. My article contributes further to literature on the topic by examining the third dimension of voter encompassed in the Taiwan national identity issue—the fence-sitter—and how it makes electoral decisions. Given the closeness of outcome in…
Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Social Reaction to Reform in Urban China
In China, market reform did not increase popular desire for democracy. In fact, the massive urban demonstrations in 1989 were triggered mostly by the fear that reform was going too fast. Although Chinese urbanites enjoyed the newly available consumer goods, they were deeply divided and unable to identify the sources of the negative consequences of reform
Chinese labor relations in a changing work environment
The work environment in Chinese factories is a unique combination of elements in socialist central planning, traditional kinship ties, and market competition. These factors have varying consequences on employees’ job satisfaction, work commitment and workplace interest articulation. Market reform changed the social contract between the government and workers. It brought higher wages, but less security and more market whip. The changing social con…
Post-Socialist Transition and Environmental Protection
This article examines the institutional characteristics of market and centrally planned economies and their impact on the environment. It argues that while the planned economies are utilising market mechanisms in environmental protection, their market counterparts are facing more and more environmental problems that require governmental intervention. Using the latest statistical information, the records of sulphur dioxide emission under market an…
Workplace Participation in Chinese Local Industries
Using the World Bank and Chinese Academy of Social Science survey data, this study examines employee participation in management decision making in Chinese local industrial firms. It argues that it is not only important to study why workers should participate but also why they want to participate. Three modes of participation are defined through a factor analysis. These modes are further discussed in light of the Western participation literatures…
Chinese Nationalism and its Political and Social Origins
Using the 2008 China Survey, this paper examines Chinese respondents' feelings toward their country and how such feelings are related to their democratic values. First, it compares Chinese nationalism with that of 35 countries and regions in the 2003 National Identity Survey. Second, it looks at the origins of Chinese nationalism as embedded in the social and political characteristics of individuals. Third, it further examines the impact of natio…
Exploring the Sources of Institutional Trust in China: Culture, Mobilization, or Performance
While democratic countries have been concerned about a “trust crisis” since the 1960s, China surprisingly displays a very high level of public trust in institutions. Why do people trust institutions and to what extent does institutional trust in China differ from that in democracies? Using the 2004 China Values and Ethics Survey, this article explores three different dimensions of institutional trust in China: trust in administrative institutions…
A Chinese Popularity Function: Sources of Government Support
The notion of a Chinese popularity function may seem surprising, given its authoritarian nature. However, exploring the possibility of indirect popularity functions in nondemocratic systems, we articulate a model of national government support in China. The model argues that sociodemographics, political attitudes, and performance issues mold central government satisfaction. Drawing on a countrywide 2008 public opinion survey, we conclude that reg…
The Emerging Media System in China: Implications for Regime Change
It is well established that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support
Affirmative Inaction: Education, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Attainment Among China's Uyghur Minority
This study finds that the Mandarin proficiency is partially responsible for the gap in socioeconomic inequality between the Han majority and the Uyghur Muslim minority. Multiple sources of evidence show that Uyghur Muslims share equal educational attainment as the Han majority, but are noticeably less fluent in Mandarin than the Han majority. Using data from the 2012 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we find that Mandarin proficiency can …
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping
The Chinese state-sponsored campaign for nationalism has intensified since the last decade. This article is an empirical study focusing on Chinese mass nationalism in the same period. Drawing data from the World Values Surveys, it finds that mass nationalism significantly increased from 2012/13 to 2018, ranked second with a growth rate of 13.7% among 27 selected countries and regions. The origin of this remarkable rise of mass nationalism is root…
Workplace Participation in Chinese Local Industries
Using the World Bank and Chinese Academy of Social Science survey data, this study examines employee participation in management decision making in Chinese local industrial firms. It argues that it is not only important to study why workers should participate but also why they want to participate. Three modes of participation are defined through a factor analysis. These modes are further discussed in light of the Western participation literatures…
Indigenization of Political Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Drawing data collected in 2021 from a probability sample of Hong Kong residents, we examine their political identity with the former colonists and their post-colonial ruler in China. The data show an expected anti-China sentiment but an unexpectedly lukewarm attitude toward their former colonists. Instead, the survey respondents expressed strong feelings toward indigenization with traditional Chinese culture. For the sources of such sentiment, th…
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach
Drawing data from a national survey, this study relies on several embedded list experiments to examine the grassroots bribery that the survey respondents tried to hide due to social desirability. The findings from the list experiments are extracted to develop an innovative weighting technique to provide accurate estimations of bribery behavior. It finds that the level of grassroots bribery in public sectors is significantly higher than what peopl…
Social Desirability of Dissent: An IAT Experiment with Chinese University Students
Revolution derailed: The struggle for media control and media freedom in China
Drawing on data from the 2018 China Internet Survey, this article analyzes the channels through which Chinese citizens acquire political information and how such information changes people's political attitude and behavior. It finds that while many people particularly among the younger generations are using social media, an equally large number of people continue to rely on the officially controlled TV news for political and social information. A…
Nationalism and Electoral Outcome in Taiwan: The Impact of Identity Fence-sitting on Voting Behaviour
National identity is a central issue within Taiwan's flourishing electoral politics. Scholarly attention focuses on the changing pro-Chinese/pro-Taiwanese identity patterns and their impact on electoral outcome. My article contributes further to literature on the topic by examining the third dimension of voter encompassed in the Taiwan national identity issue—the fence-sitter—and how it makes electoral decisions. Given the closeness of outcome in…
Chinese labor relations in a changing work environment
The work environment in Chinese factories is a unique combination of elements in socialist central planning, traditional kinship ties, and market competition. These factors have varying consequences on employees’ job satisfaction, work commitment and workplace interest articulation. Market reform changed the social contract between the government and workers. It brought higher wages, but less security and more market whip. The changing social con…
Post-Socialist Transition and Environmental Protection
This article examines the institutional characteristics of market and centrally planned economies and their impact on the environment. It argues that while the planned economies are utilising market mechanisms in environmental protection, their market counterparts are facing more and more environmental problems that require governmental intervention. Using the latest statistical information, the records of sulphur dioxide emission under market an…
Workplace Participation in Chinese Local Industries
Using the World Bank and Chinese Academy of Social Science survey data, this study examines employee participation in management decision making in Chinese local industrial firms. It argues that it is not only important to study why workers should participate but also why they want to participate. Three modes of participation are defined through a factor analysis. These modes are further discussed in light of the Western participation literatures…
Social Reaction to Reform in Urban China
In China, market reform did not increase popular desire for democracy. In fact, the massive urban demonstrations in 1989 were triggered mostly by the fear that reform was going too fast. Although Chinese urbanites enjoyed the newly available consumer goods, they were deeply divided and unable to identify the sources of the negative consequences of reform
Chinese labor relations in a changing work environment
The work environment in Chinese factories is a unique combination of elements in socialist central planning, traditional kinship ties, and market competition. These factors have varying consequences on employees’ job satisfaction, work commitment and workplace interest articulation. Market reform changed the social contract between the government and workers. It brought higher wages, but less security and more market whip. The changing social con…
Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Nationalism and Electoral Outcome in Taiwan: The Impact of Identity Fence-sitting on Voting Behaviour
National identity is a central issue within Taiwan's flourishing electoral politics. Scholarly attention focuses on the changing pro-Chinese/pro-Taiwanese identity patterns and their impact on electoral outcome. My article contributes further to literature on the topic by examining the third dimension of voter encompassed in the Taiwan national identity issue—the fence-sitter—and how it makes electoral decisions. Given the closeness of outcome in…
Exploring the Sources of Institutional Trust in China: Culture, Mobilization, or Performance
While democratic countries have been concerned about a “trust crisis” since the 1960s, China surprisingly displays a very high level of public trust in institutions. Why do people trust institutions and to what extent does institutional trust in China differ from that in democracies? Using the 2004 China Values and Ethics Survey, this article explores three different dimensions of institutional trust in China: trust in administrative institutions…
The Emerging Media System in China: Implications for Regime Change
It is well established that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support
Chinese Nationalism and its Political and Social Origins
Using the 2008 China Survey, this paper examines Chinese respondents' feelings toward their country and how such feelings are related to their democratic values. First, it compares Chinese nationalism with that of 35 countries and regions in the 2003 National Identity Survey. Second, it looks at the origins of Chinese nationalism as embedded in the social and political characteristics of individuals. Third, it further examines the impact of natio…
Political Communication in China: Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?
It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or the power to regulate.Political Communication in China examines the two factors which have contributed to the rapid development of media infrastructur…
A Chinese Popularity Function: Sources of Government Support
The notion of a Chinese popularity function may seem surprising, given its authoritarian nature. However, exploring the possibility of indirect popularity functions in nondemocratic systems, we articulate a model of national government support in China. The model argues that sociodemographics, political attitudes, and performance issues mold central government satisfaction. Drawing on a countrywide 2008 public opinion survey, we conclude that reg…
Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
This volume is about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. It attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests, on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand.
Affirmative Inaction: Education, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Attainment Among China's Uyghur Minority
This study finds that the Mandarin proficiency is partially responsible for the gap in socioeconomic inequality between the Han majority and the Uyghur Muslim minority. Multiple sources of evidence show that Uyghur Muslims share equal educational attainment as the Han majority, but are noticeably less fluent in Mandarin than the Han majority. Using data from the 2012 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we find that Mandarin proficiency can …
Sexism in Mainland China and Taiwan: A Social Experimental Study
This study compares gender discrimination or sexism in mainland China and Taiwan by means of a social experiment. Mainland China, with its radical egalitarian socialist policies implemented in a centrally planned economy and during the Cultural Revolution, serves as the treatment group in this social experiment. Taiwan, with its conventional path of economic modernisation, political liberalisation and importation of post-material values, is set a…
The CPC as a Populist Authoritarian Party: An Impressionable Years Analysis
This study examines the political attitude and behaviour of the rank-and-file members of the Communist Party of China (CPC). It compares five generations of Party members that carry distinctive memories during their political socialisation, and the findings show a significant decline in Party identity among the younger members. The empirical evidence, drawn from five national surveys of 11,989 respondents including 1,607 Party members, also sugge…
Social Desirability of Dissent: An IAT Experiment with Chinese University Students
Managed Mobilization: Ethnic Identity and Political Participation in China
How does ethnic identity affect political participation in China? The Chinese government gathers information and shapes public opinion through mass mobilization. These efforts include the managed mobilization of politically sensitive ethnic minorities. We draw on a dataset of the preferred political activities among 8,000 individuals in China, including more than 1,500 ethnic minority group members and find that politically sensitive minority gro…
Indigenization of Political Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Drawing data collected in 2021 from a probability sample of Hong Kong residents, we examine their political identity with the former colonists and their post-colonial ruler in China. The data show an expected anti-China sentiment but an unexpectedly lukewarm attitude toward their former colonists. Instead, the survey respondents expressed strong feelings toward indigenization with traditional Chinese culture. For the sources of such sentiment, th…
Detecting Grassroots Bribery and Its Sources in China: A Survey Experimental Approach
Drawing data from a national survey, this study relies on several embedded list experiments to examine the grassroots bribery that the survey respondents tried to hide due to social desirability. The findings from the list experiments are extracted to develop an innovative weighting technique to provide accurate estimations of bribery behavior. It finds that the level of grassroots bribery in public sectors is significantly higher than what peopl…
Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism
Revolution derailed: The struggle for media control and media freedom in China
Drawing on data from the 2018 China Internet Survey, this article analyzes the channels through which Chinese citizens acquire political information and how such information changes people's political attitude and behavior. It finds that while many people particularly among the younger generations are using social media, an equally large number of people continue to rely on the officially controlled TV news for political and social information. A…
Constructed Community: Rise and Engines of Chinese Nationalism Under Xi Jinping
The Chinese state-sponsored campaign for nationalism has intensified since the last decade. This article is an empirical study focusing on Chinese mass nationalism in the same period. Drawing data from the World Values Surveys, it finds that mass nationalism significantly increased from 2012/13 to 2018, ranked second with a growth rate of 13.7% among 27 selected countries and regions. The origin of this remarkable rise of mass nationalism is root…
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