Titus C Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6624440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Titus C Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Titus C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8655-1927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China’s Security Signaling in the Taiwan Strait
This paper examines patterns in geo-strategic narratives associated with China's security signaling in the Taiwan Strait since 2020, showing that variations in China’s pressure-oriented diplomatic messaging are associated not only with reactions to U.S. or Taiwanese actions, but also with Beijing’s reassessment of global power dynamics—framed as the “great changes unseen in a century”—and growing confidence in its national capabilities. To test t…
Illiberal Media in a Liberal Democracy
The regime of censorship in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) extends beyond its borders through the extraterritorial application of its media regulations to popular social media platforms like WeChat. This research investigates the effects of the PRC’s extraterritorial control of online content on the identity narratives and norms communicated by comparing Australia’s Special Broadcast Service (SBS) Mandarin language news and the news targeti…
China’s human rights foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era
This article applies mixed methods to examine if PRC leadership change in 2012 – from the Hu Jintao government to the Xi Jinping administration – has led to significant changes in China’s international human rights policy. Empirical analyses characterise a discursively moderate China whose international human rights statements in the Xi-era are no more contentious than during Hu Jintao’s time. Despite its communicative moderation, Xi’s China is f…
Double-Speaking Human Rights
What does human rights mean to the Chinese government in the post-Tiananmen era? Has the way by which Beijing conceptualizes human rights changed over time? What policies and practices have Beijing’s human rights conception privileged or delegitimized? The article takes on these intriguing questions by analyzing human rights stories in the People’s Daily. The research applies the methods of text analytics and discourse analysis to shed light on t…
Counterterrorist Legislation and Respect for Civil Liberties
The literature on counterterrorist measures often emphasizes the potential harmful effects of such measures on human rights and civil liberties. While recent research has examined the effects of counterterrorist legislation on the violation of physical integrity rights (e.g., torture and extrajudicial killings), no quantitative cross-national study has looked at the consequences for civil liberties. Still, case studies in a variety of countries s…
Recalibrating the Measure of Justice
This article seeks to explain contradictions that have abounded in China's judicial reform, i.e. the juxtaposition of liberal and authoritarian characteristics. Incompatible phenomena came about because the post-1999 judicial reform has failed to rein in local and departmental resistance in key issue areas. China's national principals accepted the judicial system's policy prescription of administering the country by law, with an aim to reclaim ce…
Double-Speaking Human Rights
What does human rights mean to the Chinese government in the post-Tiananmen era? Has the way by which Beijing conceptualizes human rights changed over time? What policies and practices have Beijing’s human rights conception privileged or delegitimized? The article takes on these intriguing questions by analyzing human rights stories in the People’s Daily. The research applies the methods of text analytics and discourse analysis to shed light on t…
China’s human rights foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era
This article applies mixed methods to examine if PRC leadership change in 2012 – from the Hu Jintao government to the Xi Jinping administration – has led to significant changes in China’s international human rights policy. Empirical analyses characterise a discursively moderate China whose international human rights statements in the Xi-era are no more contentious than during Hu Jintao’s time. Despite its communicative moderation, Xi’s China is f…
Counterterrorist Legislation and Respect for Civil Liberties
The literature on counterterrorist measures often emphasizes the potential harmful effects of such measures on human rights and civil liberties. While recent research has examined the effects of counterterrorist legislation on the violation of physical integrity rights (e.g., torture and extrajudicial killings), no quantitative cross-national study has looked at the consequences for civil liberties. Still, case studies in a variety of countries s…
Recalibrating the Measure of Justice
This article seeks to explain contradictions that have abounded in China's judicial reform, i.e. the juxtaposition of liberal and authoritarian characteristics. Incompatible phenomena came about because the post-1999 judicial reform has failed to rein in local and departmental resistance in key issue areas. China's national principals accepted the judicial system's policy prescription of administering the country by law, with an aim to reclaim ce…
Counterterrorist Legislation and Respect for Civil Liberties
The literature on counterterrorist measures often emphasizes the potential harmful effects of such measures on human rights and civil liberties. While recent research has examined the effects of counterterrorist legislation on the violation of physical integrity rights (e.g., torture and extrajudicial killings), no quantitative cross-national study has looked at the consequences for civil liberties. Still, case studies in a variety of countries s…
Double-Speaking Human Rights
What does human rights mean to the Chinese government in the post-Tiananmen era? Has the way by which Beijing conceptualizes human rights changed over time? What policies and practices have Beijing’s human rights conception privileged or delegitimized? The article takes on these intriguing questions by analyzing human rights stories in the People’s Daily. The research applies the methods of text analytics and discourse analysis to shed light on t…
China’s human rights foreign policy in the Xi Jinping era
This article applies mixed methods to examine if PRC leadership change in 2012 – from the Hu Jintao government to the Xi Jinping administration – has led to significant changes in China’s international human rights policy. Empirical analyses characterise a discursively moderate China whose international human rights statements in the Xi-era are no more contentious than during Hu Jintao’s time. Despite its communicative moderation, Xi’s China is f…
Illiberal Media in a Liberal Democracy
The regime of censorship in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) extends beyond its borders through the extraterritorial application of its media regulations to popular social media platforms like WeChat. This research investigates the effects of the PRC’s extraterritorial control of online content on the identity narratives and norms communicated by comparing Australia’s Special Broadcast Service (SBS) Mandarin language news and the news targeti…
China’s Security Signaling in the Taiwan Strait
This paper examines patterns in geo-strategic narratives associated with China's security signaling in the Taiwan Strait since 2020, showing that variations in China’s pressure-oriented diplomatic messaging are associated not only with reactions to U.S. or Taiwanese actions, but also with Beijing’s reassessment of global power dynamics—framed as the “great changes unseen in a century”—and growing confidence in its national capabilities. To test t…
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Beijing (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)