Chuyu Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chuyu Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chuyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9335-5529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Segmented Globalization Undermines Democratic Prospects in China
Why has China's integration into the global economy reinforced rather than undermined the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian rule? This article advances a theory of “segmented globalization” to explain how China's distinctive form of globalization creates structural impediments to democratization. I argue that “segmented globalization”—the symbiosis between open trade and closed finance combined with elite emigration—produces a self-re…
Cooperation and Conflict Studies in Chinese IR
Although Western security scholarship often focuses disproportionally on conflict, cooperation-oriented research dominates Chinese security studies. To account for this divergence, we draw on Bourdieu’s notion of field as an analytic framework. We argue that a dual power asymmetry—the core–peripheral relations between Western and Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, and the Chinese IR community’s structural dependence on the party-state…
No more coal abroad! Unpacking the drivers of China's green shift in overseas energy finance
Over the last decade, China's development finance for coal-fired power plants has been seen as a major barrier to clean energy transition in developing countries. In September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would stop supporting new coal projects abroad. This pledge was made beyond the expectation of many observers as it seems to deviate from China's long-standing approach of non-interference in its overseas development p…
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative
This paper explains the energy mix of China’s overseas electricity investments across Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) recipient countries. We focus on Indonesia and Pakistan. Our research is based on both newly gathered project-level data and in-depth interviews with stakeholders of Chinese-backed power plants in Indonesia and Pakistan. We examine (1) why Chinese actors are involved in renewable power generation in Pakistan and not in Indonesia, a…
Money Talks: Cross-ethnic Patronage and Ethnic Conflict in China
Elites within a particular minority out-group in autocracies typically exhibit fairly heterogeneous reactions to the ethnic group in power. The usual result is intra-group variations in the propensity to participate in ethnic conflict. To explain these within-group differences, I highlight the importance of cross-ethnic patronage, which refers to patronage allocated by the ethnic group in power to minority out-group elites. The state can use cros…
Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market
Local Public Goods Expenditure and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from China
Few civil-conflict studies explore the role played by subnational-level governments, especially the impact of their providing public goods. In this paper, I argue that local governments can mitigate the risk of ethnic conflicts by increasing their provision of public goods. I situate this argument in the context of ongoing ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang, China. With a new data set of 105 ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang between 1997 and 2005, this stud…
A “New Social Class” or Old Friends? A Study of Private Entrepreneurs in the National People's Congress of China
In this research note, we introduce a new dataset on China's national legislators. It provides descriptive information on one key parameter: the nature of the business owned by private entrepreneur deputies in China's National People's Congress (NPC) from 2003 to 2017. The dataset contains information on whether the deputy once worked as a government official, whether the deputy was a former top manager of a state-owned/collective enterprise, and…
Local Religious Institutions and the Impact of Interethnic Inequality on Conflict
This article studies how local religious institutions mediate the effect of interethnic inequality on local violence. Focusing on the case of Xinjiang, China, we argue that local religious institutions decrease violence caused by local grievances. They do so in two ways: first, they provide local public goods; second, they provide an "information bridge" between the local population and the government, allowing for nonviolent management of potent…
Popular Threats and Nationalistic Propaganda: Political Logic of China’s Patriotic Campaign
Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders use nationalist propaganda as a tool to strengthen mass support. Yet few studies have provided systematic evidence to account for specific tactics underlying these information manipulations. We argue that autocrats, recognizing the material costs of propaganda, are more likely to target localities with the greatest antiregime potential. Using a unique dataset of “patriotic education sites” t…
Local Religious Institutions and the Impact of Interethnic Inequality on Conflict
This article studies how local religious institutions mediate the effect of interethnic inequality on local violence. Focusing on the case of Xinjiang, China, we argue that local religious institutions decrease violence caused by local grievances. They do so in two ways: first, they provide local public goods; second, they provide an "information bridge" between the local population and the government, allowing for nonviolent management of potent…
Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market
Popular Threats and Nationalistic Propaganda: Political Logic of China’s Patriotic Campaign
Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders use nationalist propaganda as a tool to strengthen mass support. Yet few studies have provided systematic evidence to account for specific tactics underlying these information manipulations. We argue that autocrats, recognizing the material costs of propaganda, are more likely to target localities with the greatest antiregime potential. Using a unique dataset of “patriotic education sites” t…
A “New Social Class” or Old Friends? A Study of Private Entrepreneurs in the National People's Congress of China
In this research note, we introduce a new dataset on China's national legislators. It provides descriptive information on one key parameter: the nature of the business owned by private entrepreneur deputies in China's National People's Congress (NPC) from 2003 to 2017. The dataset contains information on whether the deputy once worked as a government official, whether the deputy was a former top manager of a state-owned/collective enterprise, and…
No more coal abroad! Unpacking the drivers of China's green shift in overseas energy finance
Over the last decade, China's development finance for coal-fired power plants has been seen as a major barrier to clean energy transition in developing countries. In September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would stop supporting new coal projects abroad. This pledge was made beyond the expectation of many observers as it seems to deviate from China's long-standing approach of non-interference in its overseas development p…
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative
This paper explains the energy mix of China’s overseas electricity investments across Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) recipient countries. We focus on Indonesia and Pakistan. Our research is based on both newly gathered project-level data and in-depth interviews with stakeholders of Chinese-backed power plants in Indonesia and Pakistan. We examine (1) why Chinese actors are involved in renewable power generation in Pakistan and not in Indonesia, a…
Money Talks: Cross-ethnic Patronage and Ethnic Conflict in China
Elites within a particular minority out-group in autocracies typically exhibit fairly heterogeneous reactions to the ethnic group in power. The usual result is intra-group variations in the propensity to participate in ethnic conflict. To explain these within-group differences, I highlight the importance of cross-ethnic patronage, which refers to patronage allocated by the ethnic group in power to minority out-group elites. The state can use cros…
Local Public Goods Expenditure and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from China
Few civil-conflict studies explore the role played by subnational-level governments, especially the impact of their providing public goods. In this paper, I argue that local governments can mitigate the risk of ethnic conflicts by increasing their provision of public goods. I situate this argument in the context of ongoing ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang, China. With a new data set of 105 ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang between 1997 and 2005, this stud…
A “New Social Class” or Old Friends? A Study of Private Entrepreneurs in the National People's Congress of China
In this research note, we introduce a new dataset on China's national legislators. It provides descriptive information on one key parameter: the nature of the business owned by private entrepreneur deputies in China's National People's Congress (NPC) from 2003 to 2017. The dataset contains information on whether the deputy once worked as a government official, whether the deputy was a former top manager of a state-owned/collective enterprise, and…
Local Religious Institutions and the Impact of Interethnic Inequality on Conflict
This article studies how local religious institutions mediate the effect of interethnic inequality on local violence. Focusing on the case of Xinjiang, China, we argue that local religious institutions decrease violence caused by local grievances. They do so in two ways: first, they provide local public goods; second, they provide an "information bridge" between the local population and the government, allowing for nonviolent management of potent…
Popular Threats and Nationalistic Propaganda: Political Logic of China’s Patriotic Campaign
Conventional wisdom suggests that authoritarian leaders use nationalist propaganda as a tool to strengthen mass support. Yet few studies have provided systematic evidence to account for specific tactics underlying these information manipulations. We argue that autocrats, recognizing the material costs of propaganda, are more likely to target localities with the greatest antiregime potential. Using a unique dataset of “patriotic education sites” t…
Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market
Local Public Goods Expenditure and Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from China
Few civil-conflict studies explore the role played by subnational-level governments, especially the impact of their providing public goods. In this paper, I argue that local governments can mitigate the risk of ethnic conflicts by increasing their provision of public goods. I situate this argument in the context of ongoing ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang, China. With a new data set of 105 ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang between 1997 and 2005, this stud…
Money Talks: Cross-ethnic Patronage and Ethnic Conflict in China
Elites within a particular minority out-group in autocracies typically exhibit fairly heterogeneous reactions to the ethnic group in power. The usual result is intra-group variations in the propensity to participate in ethnic conflict. To explain these within-group differences, I highlight the importance of cross-ethnic patronage, which refers to patronage allocated by the ethnic group in power to minority out-group elites. The state can use cros…
Explaining the energy mix in China’s electricity projects under the belt and road initiative
This paper explains the energy mix of China’s overseas electricity investments across Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) recipient countries. We focus on Indonesia and Pakistan. Our research is based on both newly gathered project-level data and in-depth interviews with stakeholders of Chinese-backed power plants in Indonesia and Pakistan. We examine (1) why Chinese actors are involved in renewable power generation in Pakistan and not in Indonesia, a…
No more coal abroad! Unpacking the drivers of China's green shift in overseas energy finance
Over the last decade, China's development finance for coal-fired power plants has been seen as a major barrier to clean energy transition in developing countries. In September 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would stop supporting new coal projects abroad. This pledge was made beyond the expectation of many observers as it seems to deviate from China's long-standing approach of non-interference in its overseas development p…
Cooperation and Conflict Studies in Chinese IR
Although Western security scholarship often focuses disproportionally on conflict, cooperation-oriented research dominates Chinese security studies. To account for this divergence, we draw on Bourdieu’s notion of field as an analytic framework. We argue that a dual power asymmetry—the core–peripheral relations between Western and Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, and the Chinese IR community’s structural dependence on the party-state…
How Segmented Globalization Undermines Democratic Prospects in China
Why has China's integration into the global economy reinforced rather than undermined the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) authoritarian rule? This article advances a theory of “segmented globalization” to explain how China's distinctive form of globalization creates structural impediments to democratization. I argue that “segmented globalization”—the symbiosis between open trade and closed finance combined with elite emigration—produces a self-re…
Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works)