Yitan Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 4008027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yitan Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yitan |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2991-9761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan
Changing Taiwanese Identity and Cross-Strait Relations: A Post 2016 Taiwan Presidential Election Analysis
Generation Matters: Taiwan’s Perceptions of Mainland China and Attitudes Towards Cross-Strait Trade Talks
It has been widely assumed that perceptions about mutual relationships positively influence attitudes toward trade talks. The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan that took place in the spring of 2014 seemed to create an empirical puzzle, leading observers to believe that Taiwan’s younger generations hold conservative attitudes about trade talks with Mainland China. This study, based on an analysis of representative data collected before the movement, su…
Constructing Peace in the Taiwan Strait: A Constructivist Analysis of the Changing Dynamics of Identities and Nationalisms
Economic integration in the Taiwan Strait has become increasingly stronger recently. Economic integration should have led to stronger political convergence. Why hasn't it occurred? I argue that democracy in Taiwan and the continuation of the single-party rule in China have created two very different social experiences. These different social experiences have formed two different identities. People in Taiwan are increasingly thinking of themselves…
An Exchange On “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’”
In “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’” (Journal of East Asian Studies 9, 3: 369–398), Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury presented a newly created data set to show that Chen Shui-bian used independence rhetoric and confrontation with the mainland as a diversionary tactic in the face of domestic political difficulties. In the present exchange, Jonathan Sullivan challenges the authors' understanding of how the Democratic …
William A. Callahan, China: The Pessoptimist Nation
Pretty Prudent” or Rhetorically Responsive: The American Public’s Support for Military Action
In the United States, public support can play a crucial role in the decisions to initiate and terminate military action. Some scholars argue that the public holds “prudent” opinions regarding the use of the military—supporting efforts to stop aggression but not to engage in nation building. We argue that what seems like a “prudent” opinion may be driven more by the White House’s rhetoric. Experimental tests show that the rhetorical complexity has…
Diversionary Dragons, or “Talking Tough in Taipei”: Cross-Strait Relations in the New Millennium
Much has been written on the triangular, and increasingly high-profile, China-Taiwan-US relations. However, scholars have yet to apply Diversionary Theory to the China-Taiwan dyad. DT argues that leaders may resort to international conflict when domestic political and economic situations become troublesome, aiming at directing public attention away from problems at home. While creation of explicit military conflict in the Taiwan Strait by Taipei …
State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities
We address two issues neglected in cross-national ethnic conflict literature: the role of state religious exclusivity (SRE) in ethnic conflict and the causes of discrimination against ethnic minorities. We use data from the Minorities at Risk (MAR), Polity, and Religion and State (RAS) datasets to assess whether SRE influences the extent of discrimination and repression against ethnic minorities between 1990 and 2002. The results show that SRE is…
Religious Affinities and International Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East and Beyond
This study asks questions that are important for both theory and policy: Do ethnoreligious minorities attract more intervention than other ethnic minorities? Do Middle Eastern and Islamic ethnic minorities attract more international intervention than ethnic minorities living elsewhere, and if so, why? The Minorities at Risk database, which contains information on intervention in all ethnic conflicts between 1990 and 1995, is used to answer these …
U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights
Recent literature argues that studies of economic sanction effectiveness suffer from a selection bias by considering only those sanctions that are deployed and not just threatened. These sanction threats, it is argued, should be more successful because both sender and target have an incentive to solve their dispute before entering into a costly economic sanction episode. Testing this assertion is somewhat problematic because sanction threats are,…
Threatening Sanctions When Engagement Would Be More Effective: Attaining Better Human Rights in China
Leaders use both coercion and engagement as leverage against other nations. Recent literature suggests economic sanctions are more effective than deployed sanctions to attain intended foreign policy goals. This paper examines a case of threatened coercion—the threat to remove China's most favored nation (MFN) status following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989—where engagement would have produced better human rights in China. We show that the …
Cross-Strait Relations in the Aftermath of the Election of Chen Shui-bian
(2002). Cross-Strait Relations in the Aftermath of the Election of Chen Shui-bian. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 201-216
U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights
Recent literature argues that studies of economic sanction effectiveness suffer from a selection bias by considering only those sanctions that are deployed and not just threatened. These sanction threats, it is argued, should be more successful because both sender and target have an incentive to solve their dispute before entering into a costly economic sanction episode. Testing this assertion is somewhat problematic because sanction threats are,…
Pretty Prudent” or Rhetorically Responsive: The American Public’s Support for Military Action
In the United States, public support can play a crucial role in the decisions to initiate and terminate military action. Some scholars argue that the public holds “prudent” opinions regarding the use of the military—supporting efforts to stop aggression but not to engage in nation building. We argue that what seems like a “prudent” opinion may be driven more by the White House’s rhetoric. Experimental tests show that the rhetorical complexity has…
Constructing Peace in the Taiwan Strait: A Constructivist Analysis of the Changing Dynamics of Identities and Nationalisms
Economic integration in the Taiwan Strait has become increasingly stronger recently. Economic integration should have led to stronger political convergence. Why hasn't it occurred? I argue that democracy in Taiwan and the continuation of the single-party rule in China have created two very different social experiences. These different social experiences have formed two different identities. People in Taiwan are increasingly thinking of themselves…
Generation Matters: Taiwan’s Perceptions of Mainland China and Attitudes Towards Cross-Strait Trade Talks
It has been widely assumed that perceptions about mutual relationships positively influence attitudes toward trade talks. The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan that took place in the spring of 2014 seemed to create an empirical puzzle, leading observers to believe that Taiwan’s younger generations hold conservative attitudes about trade talks with Mainland China. This study, based on an analysis of representative data collected before the movement, su…
Diversionary Dragons, or “Talking Tough in Taipei”: Cross-Strait Relations in the New Millennium
Much has been written on the triangular, and increasingly high-profile, China-Taiwan-US relations. However, scholars have yet to apply Diversionary Theory to the China-Taiwan dyad. DT argues that leaders may resort to international conflict when domestic political and economic situations become troublesome, aiming at directing public attention away from problems at home. While creation of explicit military conflict in the Taiwan Strait by Taipei …
State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities
We address two issues neglected in cross-national ethnic conflict literature: the role of state religious exclusivity (SRE) in ethnic conflict and the causes of discrimination against ethnic minorities. We use data from the Minorities at Risk (MAR), Polity, and Religion and State (RAS) datasets to assess whether SRE influences the extent of discrimination and repression against ethnic minorities between 1990 and 2002. The results show that SRE is…
Threatening Sanctions When Engagement Would Be More Effective: Attaining Better Human Rights in China
Leaders use both coercion and engagement as leverage against other nations. Recent literature suggests economic sanctions are more effective than deployed sanctions to attain intended foreign policy goals. This paper examines a case of threatened coercion—the threat to remove China's most favored nation (MFN) status following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989—where engagement would have produced better human rights in China. We show that the …
Religious Affinities and International Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East and Beyond
This study asks questions that are important for both theory and policy: Do ethnoreligious minorities attract more intervention than other ethnic minorities? Do Middle Eastern and Islamic ethnic minorities attract more international intervention than ethnic minorities living elsewhere, and if so, why? The Minorities at Risk database, which contains information on intervention in all ethnic conflicts between 1990 and 1995, is used to answer these …
Changing Taiwanese Identity and Cross-Strait Relations: A Post 2016 Taiwan Presidential Election Analysis
An Exchange On “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’”
In “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’” (Journal of East Asian Studies 9, 3: 369–398), Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury presented a newly created data set to show that Chen Shui-bian used independence rhetoric and confrontation with the mainland as a diversionary tactic in the face of domestic political difficulties. In the present exchange, Jonathan Sullivan challenges the authors' understanding of how the Democratic …
Cross-Strait Relations in the Aftermath of the Election of Chen Shui-bian
(2002). Cross-Strait Relations in the Aftermath of the Election of Chen Shui-bian. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 201-216
Threatening Sanctions When Engagement Would Be More Effective: Attaining Better Human Rights in China
Leaders use both coercion and engagement as leverage against other nations. Recent literature suggests economic sanctions are more effective than deployed sanctions to attain intended foreign policy goals. This paper examines a case of threatened coercion—the threat to remove China's most favored nation (MFN) status following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989—where engagement would have produced better human rights in China. We show that the …
U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights
Recent literature argues that studies of economic sanction effectiveness suffer from a selection bias by considering only those sanctions that are deployed and not just threatened. These sanction threats, it is argued, should be more successful because both sender and target have an incentive to solve their dispute before entering into a costly economic sanction episode. Testing this assertion is somewhat problematic because sanction threats are,…
Diversionary Dragons, or “Talking Tough in Taipei”: Cross-Strait Relations in the New Millennium
Much has been written on the triangular, and increasingly high-profile, China-Taiwan-US relations. However, scholars have yet to apply Diversionary Theory to the China-Taiwan dyad. DT argues that leaders may resort to international conflict when domestic political and economic situations become troublesome, aiming at directing public attention away from problems at home. While creation of explicit military conflict in the Taiwan Strait by Taipei …
State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities
We address two issues neglected in cross-national ethnic conflict literature: the role of state religious exclusivity (SRE) in ethnic conflict and the causes of discrimination against ethnic minorities. We use data from the Minorities at Risk (MAR), Polity, and Religion and State (RAS) datasets to assess whether SRE influences the extent of discrimination and repression against ethnic minorities between 1990 and 2002. The results show that SRE is…
Religious Affinities and International Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East and Beyond
This study asks questions that are important for both theory and policy: Do ethnoreligious minorities attract more intervention than other ethnic minorities? Do Middle Eastern and Islamic ethnic minorities attract more international intervention than ethnic minorities living elsewhere, and if so, why? The Minorities at Risk database, which contains information on intervention in all ethnic conflicts between 1990 and 1995, is used to answer these …
Pretty Prudent” or Rhetorically Responsive: The American Public’s Support for Military Action
In the United States, public support can play a crucial role in the decisions to initiate and terminate military action. Some scholars argue that the public holds “prudent” opinions regarding the use of the military—supporting efforts to stop aggression but not to engage in nation building. We argue that what seems like a “prudent” opinion may be driven more by the White House’s rhetoric. Experimental tests show that the rhetorical complexity has…
An Exchange On “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’”
In “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’” (Journal of East Asian Studies 9, 3: 369–398), Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury presented a newly created data set to show that Chen Shui-bian used independence rhetoric and confrontation with the mainland as a diversionary tactic in the face of domestic political difficulties. In the present exchange, Jonathan Sullivan challenges the authors' understanding of how the Democratic …
William A. Callahan, China: The Pessoptimist Nation
Constructing Peace in the Taiwan Strait: A Constructivist Analysis of the Changing Dynamics of Identities and Nationalisms
Economic integration in the Taiwan Strait has become increasingly stronger recently. Economic integration should have led to stronger political convergence. Why hasn't it occurred? I argue that democracy in Taiwan and the continuation of the single-party rule in China have created two very different social experiences. These different social experiences have formed two different identities. People in Taiwan are increasingly thinking of themselves…
Generation Matters: Taiwan’s Perceptions of Mainland China and Attitudes Towards Cross-Strait Trade Talks
It has been widely assumed that perceptions about mutual relationships positively influence attitudes toward trade talks. The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan that took place in the spring of 2014 seemed to create an empirical puzzle, leading observers to believe that Taiwan’s younger generations hold conservative attitudes about trade talks with Mainland China. This study, based on an analysis of representative data collected before the movement, su…
Changing Taiwanese Identity and Cross-Strait Relations: A Post 2016 Taiwan Presidential Election Analysis
Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)