Yu Tao
Biographic Data
| ID | 73936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yu Tao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yu |
| FAMILY NAME | Tao |
| SIGNATURE | TAO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6289-9969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
State entrepreneurialism under economic transition: Bounded rationality in China’s high-speed rail new town governance
Drawing on 16 high-speed rail (HSR) new towns along the Beijing–Shanghai corridor, this paper develops a middle-range explanation of how state entrepreneurialism is practiced and differentiated under conditions of economic transition in China. While the notion of state entrepreneurialism has been widely used to interpret postreform urban development, its application to HSR new town governance often under specifies how cognitive limits, uneven inf…
Xi Jinping’s Quest for a Sinocentric Asia, 2013–2024: Deciphering Chinese Strategic Thinking in a Pivotal Period
Anxiety and depression after pregnancy-related cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: Associations with functional disability at discharge
Background Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) during pregnancy and the puerperium is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. While neurological and functional outcomes have been increasingly studied, the burden of anxiety and depression after CVST in pregnant and postpartum women remains poorly characterized. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study of pregnant and postpartum women diagnosed with CVST at a tertiary referr…
Operationalizing the serviceshed concept to enhance the effectiveness and equity of flood regulation services in systematic conservation planning
Non-linear responses of ecosystem service trade-offs to landscape heterogeneity: Implications for spatially targeted landscape management in an urbanizing agricultural basin
Regulating grain production-water purification trade-offs through landscape structure in a large-scale basin: Insights from the pattern-process-service framework
From Transnational to Local Networks: Strategizing Confucius Institutes in the Promotion of China's Positive Image in Indonesia
This study examines the strategic development of Confucius Institutes (CIs) in Indonesia, highlighting their evolution from tools of China’s cultural diplomacy to integral participants in the country’s educational landscape. While much of the existing research on China’s soft power attributes significance to economic factors such as foreign aid, infrastructure investment, and trade, this paper highlights the often-neglected role of cultural diplo…
Interlacing Australian histories at the National Museum of Australia: Our Story: Aboriginal–Chinese People in Australia , Zhou Xiaoping, curator, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 10 April 2025 …
Climate-adaptive restructuring of nitrogen inputs to mitigate global trade-offs among fertilizer use, crop yield, and N2O emissions
Studies on contemporary China in Indonesia: A snapshot of the current knowledge landscape
This article examines the development of contemporary China Studies in Indonesia, a key site in the Global South where interest in China has grown alongside its global rise. We trace the field’s evolution from Cold War-era restrictions to its current focus on policy and state-centric analyses, often shaped by international relations frameworks. Despite increased research activity, the field remains fragmented, constrained by limited Chinese-langu…
How do water quality requirements and spatial flows shape the supply-demand balance of water provision ecosystem services? Evidence from the Taihu Lake Basin
How can ecosystem services trade-offs/synergies help select the optimal cultivated land restoration pattern? A study based on multi-scenario simulations
Mismatch and Detachment: Chinese International Students' Campus Electoral Participation in an Australian University
Based on in‐depth interviews with 51 Chinese international students at an Australian university, this article draws on descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis to elucidate the group's participation in Student Guild (Student Union) elections. The empirical findings demonstrate that—contrary to popular media perceptions—most Chinese international students are passive about participating in campus elections for two key factors. Firstly, many…
The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia
Small benefits and a certain risk: Media representations of novel treatments for Alzheimer's disease
The media is a key site for developing and communicating public understanding of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a leading cause of dementia, and a condition that is prominent in public perceptions of ageing and cognitive decline. Novel disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) are the first innovation in Alzheimer's disease treatment for two decades, and have the potential to change how society thinks about Alzheimer's disease. This study …
Smart Management of Sand-Breaking Systems for Taklimakan SandSea Highway: A Parallel Intelligence and Fuzzy Control Approach
The planning, construction, and maintenance of sand-breaking systems around highway in Taklimakan SandSea mainly depend on expert's empirical knowledge, and face the problems of time-consuming management, unpredictable system performance, and few available data. This work proposes a management and control method of sand-breaking systems that follows artificial system, computational experiments, and parallel execution (ACP) theory. Expert knowledg…
An experimental study on distinguishing gel pen ink stains using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectroscopy combined with the K -means algorithm
In the realm of document examination, the identification of suspicious alterations to handwritten documents is an important factor in case characterization. Investigating the differences in gel pen ink compositions has significant implications. In this study, we used desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) to analyze the ink compositions of gel pens. The methodology involved the following steps. (i) Sample selection: a tota…
Long Covid for the craft industry: Findings from China's “Porcelain Capital” pre and post Covid
This paper systematically examines how COVID has shaped an essential craft industry in Jingdezhen, China's “Porcelain Capital”, providing a typical case reflecting COVID’s structural effects on the cultural and creative sectors. Drawing upon primary data collected through four field trips between September 2018 and March 2023, this paper reveals the enormous challenges craft practitioners and businesses face amid COVID, including financial losses…
Emotions in online language learning: Exploratory findings from an ab initio Korean course
Existing studies on language learner emotions mainly focus on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). They are primarily conducted in offline learning settings. This paper reports the empirical findings of an exploratory investigation conducted in a fully synchronous online learning environment for ab initio Korean. Through an Achievement Emotions Questionnaire administered to 117 students in an Australian university,…
Covid-19, Perceived Foreign Interference, and Anti-Chinese Sentiment: Evidence from Concurrent Survey Experiments in Australia and the United States
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in anti-Chinese sentiment emerged as a pressing issue, with debates on how the pandemic exacerbated such sentiments. To explore this intricate relationship, we conducted two survey experiments, incorporating COVID-specific contextual inquiries in Australia and the United States during two phases (8–21 June 2021 and 28 July-12 August 2022). Our findings reveal that individuals’ perceptions of the Chinese diasp…
Integrating water quantity- and quality-related ecosystem services into water scarcity assessment: A multi-scenario analysis in the Taihu Basin of China
Supply and demand dynamics of hydrologic ecosystem services in the rapidly urbanizing Taihu Lake Basin of China
Protecting and constructing ecological corridors for biodiversity conservation: A framework that integrates landscape similarity assessment
Fair privacy: How college students perceive fair privacy protection in online datasets
With the wide use of social media and other online services, people are getting more concerned about online privacy. Social media platforms and other online companies are collecting users’ information for various purposes, including targeted advertising. While these data are anonymous, it is possible to identify people through publicly available information and machine learning algorithms. Members of some groups are more vulnerable to such privac…
Correcting overconfidence in online privacy: Experimenting with an educational game
Widespread use of the Internet means that online privacy, or how to protect one’s private information while engaging in online activity, has become a concern for many individuals. Research has investigated people’s online privacy experience, including online privacy attitudes, confidence, and behaviors. However, not much attention has been paid to how online privacy confidence could be misperceived and how educational tools can correct such overc…
Decoupling and decomposition analysis of residential building carbon emissions from residential income: Evidence from the provincial level in China
How to identify urban centers/subcenters in metropolises? An analytical review
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
This article documents and analyses the Chinese government’s legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). It summarises early Chinese ICH protection measures before analysing how systemic ICH legislation and policy frameworks were put into place after China joined the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2004. Since then, China has established a multilayered legisla…
A land-cover-based approach to assessing ecosystem services supply and demand dynamics in the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region
The Historical Foundations of Religious Restrictions in Contemporary China
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abolished its total ban on religious activities in 1982. However, the distrust that the CCP feels for religions remains obvious today, and the religious restrictions in contemporary China remain tight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the official atheist ideology of Marxism-Leninism is the main reason behind the CCP's distrust for, and restriction of, religion. However, taking a historical institutionali…
Unlikely Friends of the Authoritarian and Atheist Ruler: Religious Groups and Collective Contention in Rural China
This article examines the roles played by rural religious groups in China's local contentious politics. More specifically, it aims to explore whether religious groups stimulate or reduce collective contention when the ruler is both authoritarian and atheist. Drawing on national survey data and comparative case studies, this article finds that collective contention is less likely to occur in villages with religious groups that simultaneously overl…
How does urban form influence PM2.5 concentrations: Insights from 350 different-sized cities in the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region of China, 1998–2015
Impact of land use change on multiple ecosystem services in the rapidly urbanizing Kunshan City of China: Past trajectories and future projections
Measuring urban environmental sustainability performance in China: A multi-scale comparison among different cities, urban clusters, and geographic regions
Religious Affiliations of the Chinese Community in Australia: Findings from 2016 Census Data
Through a systematic investigation-the first attempt of this kind-into the recently released 2016 Australian census data, this article presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the religious identity of the Chinese Community in contemporary Australia. Based on the empirical information derived from the census, this article details and interrogates the apparent high level of secularity among the Chinese community in Australia. It also de…
Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Scientists and Engineers in the U.S. and China: Similarities and Differences
Religion-Related Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Practices and Initiatives of the Contemporary Chinese State
This paper reveals the contemporary Chinese state's active role in shaping the country's religion-related intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding, through a systematic review of China's official inventories of national representative ICH projects and extensive investigations of relevant local practices and initiatives. Although China is ruled by a political party officially embracing an atheist ideology, various elements of the contempora…
Emotions in online language learning: Exploratory findings from an ab initio Korean course
Existing studies on language learner emotions mainly focus on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). They are primarily conducted in offline learning settings. This paper reports the empirical findings of an exploratory investigation conducted in a fully synchronous online learning environment for ab initio Korean. Through an Achievement Emotions Questionnaire administered to 117 students in an Australian university,…
Agitators, Tranquilizers, or Something Else: Do Religious Groups Increase or Decrease Contentious Collective Action
This article critically assesses existing scholarship on the roles that religious groups play in collective contention. Researchers disagree on three main issues: (a) whether religious doctrines and values make religious groups more or less likely to launch collective contention; (b) whether religious groups reflect and reinforce politically relevant schisms and bring about regime change; and (c) whether the organizational structure of religious …
How Does Workplace Affect Employee Political Efficacy in China
Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey
This article reflects on a joint journey during which three academics, a community historian, and a family historian collaborated in searching for Moon Chow, who is widely narrated as the first documented Chinese immigrant to Western Australia. This experience demonstrates how researchers from various traditions and backgrounds can work together productively despite different initial motivations and agendas. This article presents various Moon Cho…
The Emergence of Transcultural Humanistic Buddhism through the Lens of Religious Entrepreneurship
This article investigates the innovative strategies that have allowed a young, transcultural Humanistic Buddhist organisation in China and elsewhere to emerge, endure and expand in challenging environments. Developing religious entrepreneurship as an analytic tool, we explain how this organisation survives and thrives in a diverse range of geographical, cultural and political settings. This in-depth case study draws on original data from extensiv…
Earnings of foreign-born doctoral engineers in the United States: Intersectionality of citizenship status and gender
Foreign-born scientists and engineers in the United States make significant contributions to their fields. While some studies of their career outcomes investigate the internal differences among immigrant scientists and engineers, there is little scholarly attention to how immigration status and gender work together in shaping their career outcomes. This study employs the intersectionality framework and uses National Science Foundation’s Survey of…
Sustainability assessment of the water-energy-food nexus in Jiangsu Province, China
Making Critical Thinking Skills Training Explicit, Engaging, and Effective through Live Debates on Current Political Issues: A Pilot Pedagogical Experiment
We piloted a pedagogical experiment to find out whether students can benefit from explicit demonstrations on critical thinking skills through live debates between two instructors on current political issues that are relevant to but not necessarily a specific part of the curriculum. The empirical results show that, through a series of interventions in the form of explicit demonstrations and debriefs on critical thinking skills in these issue-based…
The State and 'Religious Diversity' in Chinese Dissertations
Religious diversity in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention in both Anglophone and Sino-phone academia. Based on the quantitative and qualitative evidence in a representative sample of doctoral and master's dissertations successfully defended in reputable Chinese academic institutions, this article identifies two characteristics associated with the usage of 'religious diversity' in contemporary Chinese scholarship. Firstly, 'relig…
Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
Applied orthogonal experiment design for the optimum microwave-assisted extraction conditions of polysaccharides from Rhodiolae radix
An experiment on polysaccharides from Rhodiolae Radix (PRR) extraction was carried out using microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) method with an objective to establishing the optimum MAE conditions of PRR. Single factor experiments were performed to determine the appropriate range of extraction conditions, and the optimum conditions were obtained using orthogonal experiment design. The results showed that the optimum MAE conditions of PRR were as …
Building Resilient Regions: Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4, Edited by Margaret Wier, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman
Elizabeth Van Wie Davis. Ruling, Resources and Religion in China: Managing the Multiethinic State in the 21st Century
Contrary to the once popular claim that the Communist regime in China would soon inevitably collapse, the most populous authoritarian state in the world remains vigorous. Perhaps not entirely coinc
Unlikely Friends of the Authoritarian and Atheist Ruler: Religious Groups and Collective Contention in Rural China
This article examines the roles played by rural religious groups in China's local contentious politics. More specifically, it aims to explore whether religious groups stimulate or reduce collective contention when the ruler is both authoritarian and atheist. Drawing on national survey data and comparative case studies, this article finds that collective contention is less likely to occur in villages with religious groups that simultaneously overl…
Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Scientists and Engineers in the U.S. and China: Similarities and Differences
The Historical Foundations of Religious Restrictions in Contemporary China
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abolished its total ban on religious activities in 1982. However, the distrust that the CCP feels for religions remains obvious today, and the religious restrictions in contemporary China remain tight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the official atheist ideology of Marxism-Leninism is the main reason behind the CCP's distrust for, and restriction of, religion. However, taking a historical institutionali…
Critical factors for implementing sustainable construction practice in HOPSCA projects: A case study in China
A land-cover-based approach to assessing ecosystem services supply and demand dynamics in the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region
Religious Affiliations of the Chinese Community in Australia: Findings from 2016 Census Data
Through a systematic investigation-the first attempt of this kind-into the recently released 2016 Australian census data, this article presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the religious identity of the Chinese Community in contemporary Australia. Based on the empirical information derived from the census, this article details and interrogates the apparent high level of secularity among the Chinese community in Australia. It also de…
Earnings of Academic Scientists and Engineers: Intersectionality of Gender and Race/Ethnicity Effects
While research increasingly examines the intersection of gender and race/ethnicity in science and engineering, not much is known regarding how they work together to affect career outcomes. This article examines gender earnings gaps among academic scientists and engineers by race/ethnicity. Using data from National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctorate Recipients (2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2013), I find that White women earned less than their…
The State and 'Religious Diversity' in Chinese Dissertations
Religious diversity in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention in both Anglophone and Sino-phone academia. Based on the quantitative and qualitative evidence in a representative sample of doctoral and master's dissertations successfully defended in reputable Chinese academic institutions, this article identifies two characteristics associated with the usage of 'religious diversity' in contemporary Chinese scholarship. Firstly, 'relig…
Agitators, Tranquilizers, or Something Else: Do Religious Groups Increase or Decrease Contentious Collective Action
This article critically assesses existing scholarship on the roles that religious groups play in collective contention. Researchers disagree on three main issues: (a) whether religious doctrines and values make religious groups more or less likely to launch collective contention; (b) whether religious groups reflect and reinforce politically relevant schisms and bring about regime change; and (c) whether the organizational structure of religious …
Water-energy nexus and its efficiency in China’s construction industry: Evidence from province-level data
Exploring Variability in Landscape Ecological Risk and Quantifying Its Driving Factors in the Amu Darya Delta
Examining the drivers of landscape ecological risk can provide scientific information for planning and landscape optimization. The landscapes of the Amu Darya Delta (ADD) have recently undergone great changes, leading to increases in landscape ecological risks. However, the relationships between landscape ecological risk and its driving factors are poorly understood. In this study, the ADD was selected to construct landscape ecological risk index…
The establishment of the Absichtsdelikte model of criminal law for controlling terrorist crimes: The case of China
Making Critical Thinking Skills Training Explicit, Engaging, and Effective through Live Debates on Current Political Issues: A Pilot Pedagogical Experiment
We piloted a pedagogical experiment to find out whether students can benefit from explicit demonstrations on critical thinking skills through live debates between two instructors on current political issues that are relevant to but not necessarily a specific part of the curriculum. The empirical results show that, through a series of interventions in the form of explicit demonstrations and debriefs on critical thinking skills in these issue-based…
Impact of land use change on multiple ecosystem services in the rapidly urbanizing Kunshan City of China: Past trajectories and future projections
Measuring urban environmental sustainability performance in China: A multi-scale comparison among different cities, urban clusters, and geographic regions
Earnings of foreign-born doctoral engineers in the United States: Intersectionality of citizenship status and gender
Foreign-born scientists and engineers in the United States make significant contributions to their fields. While some studies of their career outcomes investigate the internal differences among immigrant scientists and engineers, there is little scholarly attention to how immigration status and gender work together in shaping their career outcomes. This study employs the intersectionality framework and uses National Science Foundation’s Survey of…
How does urban form influence PM2.5 concentrations: Insights from 350 different-sized cities in the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta region of China, 1998–2015
Sustainability assessment of the water-energy-food nexus in Jiangsu Province, China
The Emergence of Transcultural Humanistic Buddhism through the Lens of Religious Entrepreneurship
This article investigates the innovative strategies that have allowed a young, transcultural Humanistic Buddhist organisation in China and elsewhere to emerge, endure and expand in challenging environments. Developing religious entrepreneurship as an analytic tool, we explain how this organisation survives and thrives in a diverse range of geographical, cultural and political settings. This in-depth case study draws on original data from extensiv…
China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
This article documents and analyses the Chinese government’s legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). It summarises early Chinese ICH protection measures before analysing how systemic ICH legislation and policy frameworks were put into place after China joined the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2004. Since then, China has established a multilayered legisla…
How to identify urban centers/subcenters in metropolises? An analytical review
Political science (22 works) · China (20 works) · Geography (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Environmental Science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Politics (10 works)