Shouzhi Xia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shouzhi Xia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shouzhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Xia |
| SIGNATURE | XIA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wuhan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8201-2931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In transparent government we trust
Learning to Question Authority? Higher Education and Political Trust in China
What is the impact of higher education on political trust in China? Theoretically, college education can serve as a tool for co-optation and ideological indoctrination. However, simultaneously, it also has the potential to foster students’ critical thinking capabilities regarding government performance or cultivate them into critical citizens who uphold democratic values and oppose the incumbent. Using China’s university enrollment expansion poli…
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Although a large body of literature has demonstrated the impact of immigrant‐related media coverage in a host country on the public acceptance of immigrants, little is known about whether local media coverage of immigrants' home countries also matters for the extent to which locals include immigrants. Leveraging a pre‐registered survey experiment with an embedded list experimental design ( N = 1212) in the United States, we study American people'…
Elite cues and public climate attitudes
Are ordinary citizens’ perceptions of global warming driven by like-minded elite cues? We answer this question by examining the impact of Donald Trump, who questions global warming and opposes mitigation efforts, on Republicans’ climate change skepticism. Drawing on a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted in the United States from 2008 to 2022, we employ difference-in-differences strategies to investigate the relationship between Trump’s asce…
Digital government construction and civic policy participation
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China
The voluntary compliance of ordinary citizens is pivotal for the seamless implementation of public policy and the achievement of desired policy outcomes. Government agencies often rely on expert endorsement in policy communication to bolster public support. However, recent scholarship indicates a decline in the perceived credibility of experts, particularly in China. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), this paper investiga…
From Maoism to Maga
Right-wing populism, notably Trumpism, has presented a formidable challenge to democracy. We explore the historical roots of Trumpism among the Chinese diaspora by analyzing nearly one million tweets from approximately 200 Chinese overseas opinion leaders between 2019 and early 2021. We develop a novel measure of authoritarian imprints, drawing on the usage of high-frequency words from the political discourse of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–…
Sorrow under prosperity
While the welfare divergence between rural and urban disabled residents in China has attracted great scholarly attention, little to no research has examined the relevant disparities within the city. Due to the administrative-led resource allocation model in China, disabled individuals residing in the urban centre are expected to have a greater advantage in their daily lives compared to their counterparts in the suburbs. We use Tianjin, a Chinese …
Knowing more, worrying less? Internet use eases public concern about immigrant cultural threat
Birds of a Feather
Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda
Through computational-assisted analysis of the Weibo corpus of the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) spanning from 2013 to 2020, this paper unveils the strategic utilization of fandom culture by the CYL, the youth wing of the ruling party, in its nationalistic propaganda on the internet. Specifically, the CYL deliberately associates with the pop idols of the younger generation on Weibo, harnessing their influence to promote nationalistic conte…
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy
Framing as an Information Control Strategy in Times of Crisis
How can authoritarian regimes effectively control information to maintain regime legitimacy in times of crisis? We argue that media framing constitutes a subtle and sophisticated information control strategy in authoritarian regimes and plays a critical role in steering public opinion and cultivating an image of competent government during a tremendous crisis. Using structural topic models (STM), we conduct a textual analysis of more than 4,600 n…
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China
Is it possible to form “soft autocracy” that manages citizens by taking away their sense of resistance? This paper suggests that the rise of entertainment media in autocracies enables the rulers to maintain their resilience through a soft approach, thereby avoiding costly heavy-handed measures. Such a soft approach can work because entertainment media, like “fictitious pleasure drugs,” undo audiences’ sophistication so that people are susceptible…
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China
Is it possible to form “soft autocracy” that manages citizens by taking away their sense of resistance? This paper suggests that the rise of entertainment media in autocracies enables the rulers to maintain their resilience through a soft approach, thereby avoiding costly heavy-handed measures. Such a soft approach can work because entertainment media, like “fictitious pleasure drugs,” undo audiences’ sophistication so that people are susceptible…
Framing as an Information Control Strategy in Times of Crisis
How can authoritarian regimes effectively control information to maintain regime legitimacy in times of crisis? We argue that media framing constitutes a subtle and sophisticated information control strategy in authoritarian regimes and plays a critical role in steering public opinion and cultivating an image of competent government during a tremendous crisis. Using structural topic models (STM), we conduct a textual analysis of more than 4,600 n…
Birds of a Feather
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Although a large body of literature has demonstrated the impact of immigrant‐related media coverage in a host country on the public acceptance of immigrants, little is known about whether local media coverage of immigrants' home countries also matters for the extent to which locals include immigrants. Leveraging a pre‐registered survey experiment with an embedded list experimental design ( N = 1212) in the United States, we study American people'…
Framing as an Information Control Strategy in Times of Crisis
How can authoritarian regimes effectively control information to maintain regime legitimacy in times of crisis? We argue that media framing constitutes a subtle and sophisticated information control strategy in authoritarian regimes and plays a critical role in steering public opinion and cultivating an image of competent government during a tremendous crisis. Using structural topic models (STM), we conduct a textual analysis of more than 4,600 n…
Amusing Ourselves to Loyalty? Entertainment, Propaganda, and Regime Resilience in China
Is it possible to form “soft autocracy” that manages citizens by taking away their sense of resistance? This paper suggests that the rise of entertainment media in autocracies enables the rulers to maintain their resilience through a soft approach, thereby avoiding costly heavy-handed measures. Such a soft approach can work because entertainment media, like “fictitious pleasure drugs,” undo audiences’ sophistication so that people are susceptible…
Fandom Culture as a Catalyst for Propaganda
Through computational-assisted analysis of the Weibo corpus of the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) spanning from 2013 to 2020, this paper unveils the strategic utilization of fandom culture by the CYL, the youth wing of the ruling party, in its nationalistic propaganda on the internet. Specifically, the CYL deliberately associates with the pop idols of the younger generation on Weibo, harnessing their influence to promote nationalistic conte…
Female members of parliament, right-wing parties, and the inclusiveness of immigration policy
Sorrow under prosperity
While the welfare divergence between rural and urban disabled residents in China has attracted great scholarly attention, little to no research has examined the relevant disparities within the city. Due to the administrative-led resource allocation model in China, disabled individuals residing in the urban centre are expected to have a greater advantage in their daily lives compared to their counterparts in the suburbs. We use Tianjin, a Chinese …
Knowing more, worrying less? Internet use eases public concern about immigrant cultural threat
Birds of a Feather
Displaced Discrimination? Media Coverage of China and Public Attitudes Toward Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Although a large body of literature has demonstrated the impact of immigrant‐related media coverage in a host country on the public acceptance of immigrants, little is known about whether local media coverage of immigrants' home countries also matters for the extent to which locals include immigrants. Leveraging a pre‐registered survey experiment with an embedded list experimental design ( N = 1212) in the United States, we study American people'…
Elite cues and public climate attitudes
Are ordinary citizens’ perceptions of global warming driven by like-minded elite cues? We answer this question by examining the impact of Donald Trump, who questions global warming and opposes mitigation efforts, on Republicans’ climate change skepticism. Drawing on a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted in the United States from 2008 to 2022, we employ difference-in-differences strategies to investigate the relationship between Trump’s asce…
Digital government construction and civic policy participation
AI for Persuasion? How Policy Endorsement From Large Language Models Increases Citizens' Compliance Willingness in China
The voluntary compliance of ordinary citizens is pivotal for the seamless implementation of public policy and the achievement of desired policy outcomes. Government agencies often rely on expert endorsement in policy communication to bolster public support. However, recent scholarship indicates a decline in the perceived credibility of experts, particularly in China. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), this paper investiga…
From Maoism to Maga
Right-wing populism, notably Trumpism, has presented a formidable challenge to democracy. We explore the historical roots of Trumpism among the Chinese diaspora by analyzing nearly one million tweets from approximately 200 Chinese overseas opinion leaders between 2019 and early 2021. We develop a novel measure of authoritarian imprints, drawing on the usage of high-frequency words from the political discourse of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–…
In transparent government we trust
Learning to Question Authority? Higher Education and Political Trust in China
What is the impact of higher education on political trust in China? Theoretically, college education can serve as a tool for co-optation and ideological indoctrination. However, simultaneously, it also has the potential to foster students’ critical thinking capabilities regarding government performance or cultivate them into critical citizens who uphold democratic values and oppose the incumbent. Using China’s university enrollment expansion poli…
Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)