Yi Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yi Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5272-8648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spontaneous action coalescence: Rethinking collective contention under high surveillance
This article develops the concept of spontaneous action coalescence (SAC) to explain protest participation under conditions of high surveillance. Drawing on 26 in-depth interviews that combine media-published and researcher-conducted accounts, we explore how individuals engage in contention without prior coordination, organizational ties, or shared strategic intent. We argue that SAC captures a distinct logic of action where independent, atomized…
Textual quantitative analysis of China’s fertility-friendly policies——based on a two dimensional analytical framework of policy tools and policy objectives
To quantitatively analyze China’s fertility-friendly policies issued from 2016 to 2025, examine their structural characteristics and evolution, and provide evidence for policy optimization. A two-dimensional framework of “policy tools–policy objectives” was constructed. Content analysis, word frequency analysis, and semantic network analysis were applied to 46 central-level fertility-friendly policy texts. The number of fertility-friendly policie…
Centralized Control and Dispersed Mandates: The Multiple Institutional Logics Behind Lenient Local Discipline in China
The literature on China’s anti-corruption and disciplinary system has primarily focused on the overarching power structure and internal political struggles to explain its nature and effectiveness. We contend, however, that the complexities of frontline operations are equally crucial. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in county-level jurisdictions in Guangdong and Jiangsu Provinces from 2020 to 2022, we examine lenient disciplinary practice…
Disaster resilience in the geohazard-prone mountainous areas: Evidence from the Hengduan Mountain, southwest China
Coping with stress as a collective: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown
During Shanghai's two-month lockdown in 2022, residential community members coped with stress collectively. For many, this experience of intensive community engagement was a learning process with regard to the deliberation of community affairs and collective problem-solving. This article explores how an embryonic sense of collectivity manifested in the expression of shared and solitary sentiments in community engagement and how this collective se…
Loyalty to WeChat beyond national borders: A perspective of media system dependency theory on techno-nationalism
Using qualitative data gained through mixed methods, this study examines WeChat’s entanglement with the Chinese diaspora’s social life in liberal societies. We argue that the Chinese government’s policies and WeChat’s system apparatus intertwine with the Chinese diaspora’s socialization processes in host societies. The overarching force behind this is techno-nationalism, which enables the Chinese government’s control of the media and propaganda t…
Addressing Quantitative and Qualitative Hypotheses Using Regression Models with Equality Restrictions and Predictors Measured in Common Units
In regression, some or all of the predictors may be measured in common units: e.g. X1 = carbohydrate calories, X2 = protein calories, X3 = fat calories. Such predictors can occur in disciplines as diverse as business, economics, education, medicine, nutrition, psychology, sport science, etc. Predictors in common units can lead to unique quantitative and qualitative hypotheses that can be addressed by imposing equality restrictions on the regressi…
Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China
This is a study of a group of Hong Kong social workers who have worked in mainland China for the past decade building a social work profession. In an unfamiliar environment full of uncertainties and obstacles, the interactions of these overseas professionals with local state and societal actors have effected change in the transmission of knowledge and techniques across borders, forging of local alliances to initiate change, adaptation of professi…
What predicts adolescents’ critical thinking about real-life news? The roles of social media news consumption and news media literacy
Dispersed Domination through Patron-Clientelism: The Evolution of the Local State–NGO Relationship in Post-Disaster Sichuan
This study is based on 10 years of ethnography research in six cities in Sichuan after the Wenchuan earthquake. The author delineates local officials’ dispersed clientelist endeavours seeking stable collaboration with NGOs. In contrast to the corporatism model, in which government control of NGOs is formal and from the top down, the patron–client relationship entails considerably more subjectivity, flexibility and dispersion in the exercise of st…
What Does China’s Twin-Pillared NGO Funding Game Entail? Growing Diversity and Increasing Isomorphism
Two trends are gaining prevalence across China: (1) NGO needs for funding in order to survive and (2) the transformation of the government and private foundations into major NGO donors. This study explores grassroots NGOs’ experience with the government’s purchase-of-services contracting and private foundations’ grant schemes in Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan. The research findings show that two opposite effects of the funding game are simultaneou…
Evaluation of the influence of roadside non-walking spaces on the pedestrian environment of a Japanese urban street
The Development of Grassroots Chinese NGOs Following the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: Three Case Studies, Four Modi Vivendi
Many analysts consider 2008 to have been “NGO year zero” for China, as the relief and reconstruction process following the Wenchuan earthquake witnessed a significant surge in NGO activity. This study traces the development trajectory of three NGOs in Y City over the eight years since the area was severely struck by the Wenchuan earthquake. These NGOs actively assisted in the post-disaster recovery. By the time the reconstruction was complete, th…
Disorganized Popular Contention and Local Institutional Building in China: A case study in Guangdong
Concurring with the approach stressing the role of contentious politics in (re)shaping state institutions, this study explores how disorganized popular contentions configure local institutional building in China. As Chinese citizens are not legally allowed to take organized collective action to express their grievances and demands, popular contentions, despite their common origins, similar claims and identical targets, break out here and there in…
Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they are confronted with in the process. The book examines…
What Does China’s Twin-Pillared NGO Funding Game Entail? Growing Diversity and Increasing Isomorphism
Two trends are gaining prevalence across China: (1) NGO needs for funding in order to survive and (2) the transformation of the government and private foundations into major NGO donors. This study explores grassroots NGOs’ experience with the government’s purchase-of-services contracting and private foundations’ grant schemes in Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan. The research findings show that two opposite effects of the funding game are simultaneou…
Disorganized Popular Contention and Local Institutional Building in China: A case study in Guangdong
Concurring with the approach stressing the role of contentious politics in (re)shaping state institutions, this study explores how disorganized popular contentions configure local institutional building in China. As Chinese citizens are not legally allowed to take organized collective action to express their grievances and demands, popular contentions, despite their common origins, similar claims and identical targets, break out here and there in…
The Development of Grassroots Chinese NGOs Following the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: Three Case Studies, Four Modi Vivendi
Many analysts consider 2008 to have been “NGO year zero” for China, as the relief and reconstruction process following the Wenchuan earthquake witnessed a significant surge in NGO activity. This study traces the development trajectory of three NGOs in Y City over the eight years since the area was severely struck by the Wenchuan earthquake. These NGOs actively assisted in the post-disaster recovery. By the time the reconstruction was complete, th…
Coping with stress as a collective: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown
During Shanghai's two-month lockdown in 2022, residential community members coped with stress collectively. For many, this experience of intensive community engagement was a learning process with regard to the deliberation of community affairs and collective problem-solving. This article explores how an embryonic sense of collectivity manifested in the expression of shared and solitary sentiments in community engagement and how this collective se…
Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China
This is a study of a group of Hong Kong social workers who have worked in mainland China for the past decade building a social work profession. In an unfamiliar environment full of uncertainties and obstacles, the interactions of these overseas professionals with local state and societal actors have effected change in the transmission of knowledge and techniques across borders, forging of local alliances to initiate change, adaptation of professi…
Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they are confronted with in the process. The book examines…
Disorganized Popular Contention and Local Institutional Building in China: A case study in Guangdong
Concurring with the approach stressing the role of contentious politics in (re)shaping state institutions, this study explores how disorganized popular contentions configure local institutional building in China. As Chinese citizens are not legally allowed to take organized collective action to express their grievances and demands, popular contentions, despite their common origins, similar claims and identical targets, break out here and there in…
The Development of Grassroots Chinese NGOs Following the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: Three Case Studies, Four Modi Vivendi
Many analysts consider 2008 to have been “NGO year zero” for China, as the relief and reconstruction process following the Wenchuan earthquake witnessed a significant surge in NGO activity. This study traces the development trajectory of three NGOs in Y City over the eight years since the area was severely struck by the Wenchuan earthquake. These NGOs actively assisted in the post-disaster recovery. By the time the reconstruction was complete, th…
Evaluation of the influence of roadside non-walking spaces on the pedestrian environment of a Japanese urban street
What predicts adolescents’ critical thinking about real-life news? The roles of social media news consumption and news media literacy
Dispersed Domination through Patron-Clientelism: The Evolution of the Local State–NGO Relationship in Post-Disaster Sichuan
This study is based on 10 years of ethnography research in six cities in Sichuan after the Wenchuan earthquake. The author delineates local officials’ dispersed clientelist endeavours seeking stable collaboration with NGOs. In contrast to the corporatism model, in which government control of NGOs is formal and from the top down, the patron–client relationship entails considerably more subjectivity, flexibility and dispersion in the exercise of st…
What Does China’s Twin-Pillared NGO Funding Game Entail? Growing Diversity and Increasing Isomorphism
Two trends are gaining prevalence across China: (1) NGO needs for funding in order to survive and (2) the transformation of the government and private foundations into major NGO donors. This study explores grassroots NGOs’ experience with the government’s purchase-of-services contracting and private foundations’ grant schemes in Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan. The research findings show that two opposite effects of the funding game are simultaneou…
Loyalty to WeChat beyond national borders: A perspective of media system dependency theory on techno-nationalism
Using qualitative data gained through mixed methods, this study examines WeChat’s entanglement with the Chinese diaspora’s social life in liberal societies. We argue that the Chinese government’s policies and WeChat’s system apparatus intertwine with the Chinese diaspora’s socialization processes in host societies. The overarching force behind this is techno-nationalism, which enables the Chinese government’s control of the media and propaganda t…
Addressing Quantitative and Qualitative Hypotheses Using Regression Models with Equality Restrictions and Predictors Measured in Common Units
In regression, some or all of the predictors may be measured in common units: e.g. X1 = carbohydrate calories, X2 = protein calories, X3 = fat calories. Such predictors can occur in disciplines as diverse as business, economics, education, medicine, nutrition, psychology, sport science, etc. Predictors in common units can lead to unique quantitative and qualitative hypotheses that can be addressed by imposing equality restrictions on the regressi…
Social empowerment through knowledge transfer: Transborder actions of Hong Kong social workers in mainland China
This is a study of a group of Hong Kong social workers who have worked in mainland China for the past decade building a social work profession. In an unfamiliar environment full of uncertainties and obstacles, the interactions of these overseas professionals with local state and societal actors have effected change in the transmission of knowledge and techniques across borders, forging of local alliances to initiate change, adaptation of professi…
Coping with stress as a collective: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown
During Shanghai's two-month lockdown in 2022, residential community members coped with stress collectively. For many, this experience of intensive community engagement was a learning process with regard to the deliberation of community affairs and collective problem-solving. This article explores how an embryonic sense of collectivity manifested in the expression of shared and solitary sentiments in community engagement and how this collective se…
Disaster resilience in the geohazard-prone mountainous areas: Evidence from the Hengduan Mountain, southwest China
Spontaneous action coalescence: Rethinking collective contention under high surveillance
This article develops the concept of spontaneous action coalescence (SAC) to explain protest participation under conditions of high surveillance. Drawing on 26 in-depth interviews that combine media-published and researcher-conducted accounts, we explore how individuals engage in contention without prior coordination, organizational ties, or shared strategic intent. We argue that SAC captures a distinct logic of action where independent, atomized…
Textual quantitative analysis of China’s fertility-friendly policies——based on a two dimensional analytical framework of policy tools and policy objectives
To quantitatively analyze China’s fertility-friendly policies issued from 2016 to 2025, examine their structural characteristics and evolution, and provide evidence for policy optimization. A two-dimensional framework of “policy tools–policy objectives” was constructed. Content analysis, word frequency analysis, and semantic network analysis were applied to 46 central-level fertility-friendly policy texts. The number of fertility-friendly policie…
Centralized Control and Dispersed Mandates: The Multiple Institutional Logics Behind Lenient Local Discipline in China
The literature on China’s anti-corruption and disciplinary system has primarily focused on the overarching power structure and internal political struggles to explain its nature and effectiveness. We contend, however, that the complexities of frontline operations are equally crucial. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in county-level jurisdictions in Guangdong and Jiangsu Provinces from 2020 to 2022, we examine lenient disciplinary practice…
Political science (8 works) · China (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works)