Chia-Chou Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chia-Chou Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chia-Chou |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | I-Shou University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7751-753X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cross-strait exchange programs and changes in regime attitudes among Taiwanese students
Cross-border exchange programs have become an increasingly important instrument of external political influence, yet their effects on regime attitudes remain poorly understood. This study examines whether exchange programs to Mainland China affect Taiwanese students’ acceptance of the Communist Party of China regime. Using an integrated four-pathway framework encompassing affective, cognitive, instrumental, and ideological dimensions, this study …
Identity, Self-interest or Learning? What Influences the De Facto Generation’s China-friendly Attitudes
If Taiwan is to ensure peace in the Taiwan Strait, the best choice for the island is to align with the USA while sending goodwill messages to China. This study examines Taiwan’s de facto generation’s friendliness to China and the influencing factors. A scale developed on identity theory to measure the generation’s China-friendly attitude returned an average score of 2.87 out of 4. A mixed-method approach was used: Regression analysis was employed…
Exploring the Shift in Pro‐American Attitudes and Influencing Factors
How can pro‐American attitudes be measured? What factors influence shifts in these attitudes? Anchored in institutional identity theory, this study constructs a pro‐American attitude scale and posits three hypotheses concerning Taiwanese consciousness, the evaluation of interdependent benefits, and political learning to elucidate the shift in pro‐American attitudes. Targeting Taiwanese students, this study employs a quasi‐experimental design for …
Options Outside Unification through Military Force
As there is no academic consensus on the effectiveness of the cross-strait integration policy, the panel study approach was adopted to present an empirical analysis. A scale to measure willingness for cross-strait integration was created based on the theory of ethnic group assimilation. Four hypotheses were derived from the social contact, social identity, and rational choice theories. The results show that cross-strait integration policy is effe…
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy? Evidence From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
Does visiting Mainland China alter Taiwanese students’ evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy? This question greatly concerns democratic supporters globally. Therefore, 477 Taiwanese young adults participating in Mainland China exchange programmes were recruited for this study. Social contact, social identity, political socialisation and rational choice theories were introduced to formulate four hypotheses. The results indicated that, among the three d…
Do cross-polity contacts change policy preferences? Using the attitudes of Taiwanese student delegations visiting Mainland China towards unification – independence as an example
Does the experience of visiting Mainland China change the attitude of Taiwanese youth towards the unification–independence issue? What are the factors influencing such a change, if any? In this article, a panel study was conducted of 538 Taiwanese youths visiting Mainland China. Four hypotheses were proposed based on social contact theory and rational choice theory and then validated using a regression model. After visiting Mainland China, 17.57%…
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Willingness of Taiwanese Students to Work on Mainland China
In the Xi Jinping era, a key focus of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in terms of exchanges with Taiwan, is to attract young Taiwanese people to mainland China, and various policies exist to encourage their willingness to integrate. The “31 Preferential Policies for Taiwan” (“31 Measures”) is an influential guiding policy for this focus. Given that the negative impact of China's “sharp power” on liberal democracy has become an international p…
Do Social Contacts Alter the National Identity? Evidence from a Panel Study among Taiwanese Students that Visited Mainland China
Social Contact and Taiwanese Political Identity Change in Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
This study investigates whether visiting the authoritarian nation of China reduces Taiwanese youths’ identification with the democratic Taiwan. There is a significant reduction in the students’ Taiwanese political identity following their visit, namely a reduction of 0.06 on a scale from 1 to 4
Constructing an identity scale to analyze changes in One China identity
It is both academically and practically valuable to construct a multi-dimensional scale to assess the effectiveness of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) policy toward Taiwan. The author constructed a One China identity scale based on national identity theory and the CPC's political advocacy and actions toward Taiwan. Using panel data from 271 members of Taiwanese student delegations to Mainland China from 2016 to 2017, this study explored the …
Cognitive Dissonance and Changes in External Political Efficacy
Does studying in a democratic country elicit cognitive dissonance in students from communist countries and lead to changes in their political attitudes? This study recruited subjects from among Chinese students studying in Taiwan and adopted a panel study to explore the changes in the external political efficacy of these students. On the basis of cognitive dissonance theory, rational choice, social identity, and political socialization theories w…
Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Constructivism
As of 2005, the mainland Chinese government has implemented ‘favor-granting policies’, the purpose of which is to offer economic benefits in exchange for Taiwanese people’s recognition of their political identity. In 2015, this strategy reached its 10th anniversary. Questions that arise are whether such recognition has increased significantly among Taiwanese people during this time, and what factors have influenced Taiwanese people’s regime accep…
Political socialization and democratic beliefs change
Does the experience of studying in Taiwan significantly enhance the degree to which Chinese students hold democratic beliefs? What are the factors that cause the change? By adopting a political socialization approach, a panel survey with Chinese students enrolled in short-term studies in Taiwan was conducted. The results indicated that 41.44% of the students showed no change in the degree to which they hold democratic beliefs, whereas the degree …
A Panel Study of the Acceptance of Taiwanese International Participation among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
Chinese students studying in Taiwan provide a possible approach for Taiwan to overcome international position dilemmas. Regarding changes in participants’ acceptance of Taiwanese international participation, we found that 43.75% exhibited increased acceptance. The regression model employed in this research explained 26.36% of the variance
Political Socialization and Change in Political Trust among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
The changing trust that Chinese students who study in Taiwan exhibit toward the Chinese government is a critical, but rarely explored topic, which is crucial for maintaining the sovereignty of Taiwan. I conducted a panel study and adopted a political socialization approach, proposing and verifying five hypotheses based on the theories of cognitive dissonance, assimilation, social contact, and social identity. The results indicate that compared wi…
Pioneering, Bandwagoning and Resisting
This study determined the preferred strategies of provincial leaders when policies formulated by the central government jeopardized provincial interests, and investigated the extent to which these preferred strategies were reflected in actual actions. The theoretical preferred strategies were ascertained using rational choice institutionalism as a research approach, and an analytic framework was developed comprising three dimensions: (a) provinci…
Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Constructivism
As of 2005, the mainland Chinese government has implemented ‘favor-granting policies’, the purpose of which is to offer economic benefits in exchange for Taiwanese people’s recognition of their political identity. In 2015, this strategy reached its 10th anniversary. Questions that arise are whether such recognition has increased significantly among Taiwanese people during this time, and what factors have influenced Taiwanese people’s regime accep…
Constructing an identity scale to analyze changes in One China identity
It is both academically and practically valuable to construct a multi-dimensional scale to assess the effectiveness of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) policy toward Taiwan. The author constructed a One China identity scale based on national identity theory and the CPC's political advocacy and actions toward Taiwan. Using panel data from 271 members of Taiwanese student delegations to Mainland China from 2016 to 2017, this study explored the …
Political Socialization and Change in Political Trust among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
The changing trust that Chinese students who study in Taiwan exhibit toward the Chinese government is a critical, but rarely explored topic, which is crucial for maintaining the sovereignty of Taiwan. I conducted a panel study and adopted a political socialization approach, proposing and verifying five hypotheses based on the theories of cognitive dissonance, assimilation, social contact, and social identity. The results indicate that compared wi…
Political socialization and democratic beliefs change
Does the experience of studying in Taiwan significantly enhance the degree to which Chinese students hold democratic beliefs? What are the factors that cause the change? By adopting a political socialization approach, a panel survey with Chinese students enrolled in short-term studies in Taiwan was conducted. The results indicated that 41.44% of the students showed no change in the degree to which they hold democratic beliefs, whereas the degree …
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy? Evidence From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
Does visiting Mainland China alter Taiwanese students’ evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy? This question greatly concerns democratic supporters globally. Therefore, 477 Taiwanese young adults participating in Mainland China exchange programmes were recruited for this study. Social contact, social identity, political socialisation and rational choice theories were introduced to formulate four hypotheses. The results indicated that, among the three d…
Do cross-polity contacts change policy preferences? Using the attitudes of Taiwanese student delegations visiting Mainland China towards unification – independence as an example
Does the experience of visiting Mainland China change the attitude of Taiwanese youth towards the unification–independence issue? What are the factors influencing such a change, if any? In this article, a panel study was conducted of 538 Taiwanese youths visiting Mainland China. Four hypotheses were proposed based on social contact theory and rational choice theory and then validated using a regression model. After visiting Mainland China, 17.57%…
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Willingness of Taiwanese Students to Work on Mainland China
In the Xi Jinping era, a key focus of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in terms of exchanges with Taiwan, is to attract young Taiwanese people to mainland China, and various policies exist to encourage their willingness to integrate. The “31 Preferential Policies for Taiwan” (“31 Measures”) is an influential guiding policy for this focus. Given that the negative impact of China's “sharp power” on liberal democracy has become an international p…
Do Social Contacts Alter the National Identity? Evidence from a Panel Study among Taiwanese Students that Visited Mainland China
Social Contact and Taiwanese Political Identity Change in Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
This study investigates whether visiting the authoritarian nation of China reduces Taiwanese youths’ identification with the democratic Taiwan. There is a significant reduction in the students’ Taiwanese political identity following their visit, namely a reduction of 0.06 on a scale from 1 to 4
Cognitive Dissonance and Changes in External Political Efficacy
Does studying in a democratic country elicit cognitive dissonance in students from communist countries and lead to changes in their political attitudes? This study recruited subjects from among Chinese students studying in Taiwan and adopted a panel study to explore the changes in the external political efficacy of these students. On the basis of cognitive dissonance theory, rational choice, social identity, and political socialization theories w…
A Panel Study of the Acceptance of Taiwanese International Participation among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
Chinese students studying in Taiwan provide a possible approach for Taiwan to overcome international position dilemmas. Regarding changes in participants’ acceptance of Taiwanese international participation, we found that 43.75% exhibited increased acceptance. The regression model employed in this research explained 26.36% of the variance
Pioneering, Bandwagoning and Resisting
This study determined the preferred strategies of provincial leaders when policies formulated by the central government jeopardized provincial interests, and investigated the extent to which these preferred strategies were reflected in actual actions. The theoretical preferred strategies were ascertained using rational choice institutionalism as a research approach, and an analytic framework was developed comprising three dimensions: (a) provinci…
Pioneering, Bandwagoning and Resisting
This study determined the preferred strategies of provincial leaders when policies formulated by the central government jeopardized provincial interests, and investigated the extent to which these preferred strategies were reflected in actual actions. The theoretical preferred strategies were ascertained using rational choice institutionalism as a research approach, and an analytic framework was developed comprising three dimensions: (a) provinci…
A Panel Study of the Acceptance of Taiwanese International Participation among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
Chinese students studying in Taiwan provide a possible approach for Taiwan to overcome international position dilemmas. Regarding changes in participants’ acceptance of Taiwanese international participation, we found that 43.75% exhibited increased acceptance. The regression model employed in this research explained 26.36% of the variance
Political Socialization and Change in Political Trust among Mainland Chinese Students Studying in Taiwan
The changing trust that Chinese students who study in Taiwan exhibit toward the Chinese government is a critical, but rarely explored topic, which is crucial for maintaining the sovereignty of Taiwan. I conducted a panel study and adopted a political socialization approach, proposing and verifying five hypotheses based on the theories of cognitive dissonance, assimilation, social contact, and social identity. The results indicate that compared wi…
Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Constructivism
As of 2005, the mainland Chinese government has implemented ‘favor-granting policies’, the purpose of which is to offer economic benefits in exchange for Taiwanese people’s recognition of their political identity. In 2015, this strategy reached its 10th anniversary. Questions that arise are whether such recognition has increased significantly among Taiwanese people during this time, and what factors have influenced Taiwanese people’s regime accep…
Political socialization and democratic beliefs change
Does the experience of studying in Taiwan significantly enhance the degree to which Chinese students hold democratic beliefs? What are the factors that cause the change? By adopting a political socialization approach, a panel survey with Chinese students enrolled in short-term studies in Taiwan was conducted. The results indicated that 41.44% of the students showed no change in the degree to which they hold democratic beliefs, whereas the degree …
Cognitive Dissonance and Changes in External Political Efficacy
Does studying in a democratic country elicit cognitive dissonance in students from communist countries and lead to changes in their political attitudes? This study recruited subjects from among Chinese students studying in Taiwan and adopted a panel study to explore the changes in the external political efficacy of these students. On the basis of cognitive dissonance theory, rational choice, social identity, and political socialization theories w…
Social Contact and Taiwanese Political Identity Change in Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
This study investigates whether visiting the authoritarian nation of China reduces Taiwanese youths’ identification with the democratic Taiwan. There is a significant reduction in the students’ Taiwanese political identity following their visit, namely a reduction of 0.06 on a scale from 1 to 4
Constructing an identity scale to analyze changes in One China identity
It is both academically and practically valuable to construct a multi-dimensional scale to assess the effectiveness of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) policy toward Taiwan. The author constructed a One China identity scale based on national identity theory and the CPC's political advocacy and actions toward Taiwan. Using panel data from 271 members of Taiwanese student delegations to Mainland China from 2016 to 2017, this study explored the …
Analysis of Factors Influencing the Willingness of Taiwanese Students to Work on Mainland China
In the Xi Jinping era, a key focus of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in terms of exchanges with Taiwan, is to attract young Taiwanese people to mainland China, and various policies exist to encourage their willingness to integrate. The “31 Preferential Policies for Taiwan” (“31 Measures”) is an influential guiding policy for this focus. Given that the negative impact of China's “sharp power” on liberal democracy has become an international p…
Do Social Contacts Alter the National Identity? Evidence from a Panel Study among Taiwanese Students that Visited Mainland China
Do cross-polity contacts change policy preferences? Using the attitudes of Taiwanese student delegations visiting Mainland China towards unification – independence as an example
Does the experience of visiting Mainland China change the attitude of Taiwanese youth towards the unification–independence issue? What are the factors influencing such a change, if any? In this article, a panel study was conducted of 538 Taiwanese youths visiting Mainland China. Four hypotheses were proposed based on social contact theory and rational choice theory and then validated using a regression model. After visiting Mainland China, 17.57%…
Does Cross-Regime Contact Change the Evaluation of Democracy? Evidence From Taiwanese Student Delegations Visiting Mainland China
Does visiting Mainland China alter Taiwanese students’ evaluation of Taiwan’s democracy? This question greatly concerns democratic supporters globally. Therefore, 477 Taiwanese young adults participating in Mainland China exchange programmes were recruited for this study. Social contact, social identity, political socialisation and rational choice theories were introduced to formulate four hypotheses. The results indicated that, among the three d…
Exploring the Shift in Pro‐American Attitudes and Influencing Factors
How can pro‐American attitudes be measured? What factors influence shifts in these attitudes? Anchored in institutional identity theory, this study constructs a pro‐American attitude scale and posits three hypotheses concerning Taiwanese consciousness, the evaluation of interdependent benefits, and political learning to elucidate the shift in pro‐American attitudes. Targeting Taiwanese students, this study employs a quasi‐experimental design for …
Options Outside Unification through Military Force
As there is no academic consensus on the effectiveness of the cross-strait integration policy, the panel study approach was adopted to present an empirical analysis. A scale to measure willingness for cross-strait integration was created based on the theory of ethnic group assimilation. Four hypotheses were derived from the social contact, social identity, and rational choice theories. The results show that cross-strait integration policy is effe…
Cross-strait exchange programs and changes in regime attitudes among Taiwanese students
Cross-border exchange programs have become an increasingly important instrument of external political influence, yet their effects on regime attitudes remain poorly understood. This study examines whether exchange programs to Mainland China affect Taiwanese students’ acceptance of the Communist Party of China regime. Using an integrated four-pathway framework encompassing affective, cognitive, instrumental, and ideological dimensions, this study …
Identity, Self-interest or Learning? What Influences the De Facto Generation’s China-friendly Attitudes
If Taiwan is to ensure peace in the Taiwan Strait, the best choice for the island is to align with the USA while sending goodwill messages to China. This study examines Taiwan’s de facto generation’s friendliness to China and the influencing factors. A scale developed on identity theory to measure the generation’s China-friendly attitude returned an average score of 2.87 out of 4. A mixed-method approach was used: Regression analysis was employed…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · China (9 works) · Mainland China (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Mainland (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)