Tianru Guan
Biographic Data
| ID | 890914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tianru Guan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tianru |
| FAMILY NAME | Guan |
| SIGNATURE | GUAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wuhan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0796-4737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Stages of Intercultural Awareness Through Music: A Case Study of Shakuhachi Localization in China
This research delves into the cultural interplay and exchange between China and Japan, viewed through the prism of the shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown bamboo flute. Recently, China has witnessed a significant increase in the number of shakuhachi players, educators, and instrument makers, establishing it as the largest market for this musical instrument outside Japan. Underlying the shakuhachi’s emerging popularity in China is a shared narrative …
Understanding ethnic minority students’ motivations to pursue higher music education over time
This longitudinal case study aimed to explore changes in ethnic minority students’ motivations to pursue higher music education during the transition from high school to university. The participants were recruited from the Yi, Mongolian and Tibetan ethnic groups in a remote mountainous region of southwest China. Data were collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study indicated that the ethnic …
Embrace the AI, but keep the journalist: Public attitudes toward AI involved fact-checking in China
While artificial intelligence poses significant challenges to journalistic authority, professional boundaries, and core functions, limited research has examined its impact on critical practices such as fact-checking, especially from the perspective of public perception. This question is particularly salient in China, where fact-checking not only upholds journalism’s role in safeguarding truth but also raises concerns over its potential use for co…
Simulated superiority and mediated geopolitics: Affective responses to AI-generated political parody in Chinese digital space
As generative AI technologies reshape the landscape of political communication, they are increasingly used to craft symbolic narratives of international rivalry. This study investigates how AI-generated political parodies circulating in Chinese digital spaces function as affective tools of “simulated superiority,” helping public process geopolitical tension and reassert national identity. Based on a between-subjects experiment ( N = 397) conducte…
Coordinating Digital Responsibility: Public Perceptions of Content Governance in Non‐Western Contexts
The global surge of harmful online content—ranging from disinformation and hate speech to incivility and cyberbullying—has raised pressing concerns about the integrity of digital information and the health of public discourse. A research primarily focuses on democratic societies, this study examines governance perceptions in tightly regulated environments. Drawing on an online survey in China, we investigate how citizens allocate responsibility a…
The “Solo of Deliberator”: Political Deliberation and Discourse Quality in China’s Cyberspace
Nuanced studies have scrutinized the facilitative role of digital media in fostering political deliberation and in contributing to the prospect of democratization in (semi-) authoritarian societies. This study illuminates a less-explored facet of non-democratic contexts’ digital politics by shedding light on discourse quality in cyberspace. Guided by Gastil and Black’s analytical–social framework of deliberation, we propose an integrated analytic…
Memes, Rivalry, and Symbolic Security: Re-Stereotyping a Geopolitical Leader in China’s Cyberspace
This study uses the stereotype content model (SCM) and multimodal content analysis to examine the re-stereotyping of Donald Trump in Chinese memes. Four recurring personas emerge – a loyal comrade, a ‘grandpa-next-door’, a sore loser, and a domestic avenger – each with a blend of warmth and competence, or their absence. The analysis also draws on incongruity theory to illuminate how humour arises from dissonance between Trump’s global image and h…
Threat Perception, Otherness and Hate Speech in China’s Cyberspace
Allocating Content Governance Responsibility in China: Heterogeneous Public Attitudes Toward Multistakeholder Involvement Strategies
While various social contexts have embraced the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, examination of its configurations and public expectations in the Global South is still rare. Through conducting a national survey ( N = 1199), this study sheds light on the Chinese public's attitudes toward assigning responsibility to various entities (e.g., governments, platforms, and users) to moderate problematic content in cyberspace. Its focus is o…
Motivational factors for sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra among primary school students: A self-determination theory perspective
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the motivational factors that contribute to primary school students’ sustained participation in a traditional Chinese orchestra in a capital city in South China. The methods included participant observation, reflective journals and semi-structured interviews. The participants were 32 primary school students and five music teachers. Underpinned by the self-determination theory (SDT), we…
In-service teacher training for Cantonese opera teaching in Hong Kong schools
Since its inclusion in the Hong Kong school curriculum in 2003, Cantonese opera has remained underrepresented in music education, mainly due to insufficient teacher training. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an in-service professional development programme to equip music educators with the skills and knowledge necessary to teach Cantonese opera. Four music teachers participated in a 120-hour training programme encompassing operatic singi…
Challenges and benefits: Exploring the learning experiences of postgraduates with Western classical music backgrounds in a university–community Cantonese opera programme
The Chinese government has recently prioritised traditional opera education, promoting university–community collaborations. However, university music students are primarily trained in Western classical music, with limited exposure to traditional opera. This exploratory case study investigated the learning experiences of postgraduate students (N = 17) with backgrounds in Western classical music participating in a one-year university–community Cant…
Aging effects on control ability: An ERP study using the AX continuous performance task in middle-aged and older adults
The dual mechanisms of control model (DMC model) assumes that aging leads to decline in proactive control and reactive control abilities in various aspects of daily life. However, the methods adopted by previous ERP studies limit their capacity to provide in-depth information on the aging effects of neural processes, such as N2 (reactive control), P3b, and CNV (proactive control). This study aims to clarify the aging effects on proactive control …
Exploring the changes in cultural identity of primary school students in a Chinese orchestra
The promotion of cultural sustainability and cultural identity through the transmission of traditional music has become a prevalent theme in global music education. This instrumental case study, conducted in a capital city in south China (1) investigated the ways in which Chinese orchestra learning influences primary school students’ cultural identity; (2) explored the developmental process of students’ cultural identity in the Chinese orchestra.…
Patterns of engagement with professional development among in-service primary music teachers in China and their associations with teaching readiness, school identification, and job satisfaction: A lat…
Professional development (PD) is widely regarded as essential for enhancing the teaching quality and professional engagement of music educators. In the Chinese context, PD initiatives, including structured teacher training and research engagement, aim to align music education practices with national curriculum reforms and evolving educational demands. However, the diverse patterns of PD engagement among in-service primary music teachers and their…
Exploring Cantonese Opera Performers’ Dual Identities in Primary School Music Education: An Identity Theory Perspective
Professional Cantonese opera performers are crucial in teaching Cantonese opera within school-based extra-curricular music activities as general music teachers are typically unfamiliar with the art form. However, few studies have explored Cantonese opera performers’ experiences as schoolteachers. In this multiple-case study conducted in Guangzhou, China, four Cantonese opera artists’ identity transitions from performer to both performer and teach…
Physical exercise and subjective well-being of Chinese adults: Relationship and mechanisms based on the Chinese General Social Survey 2021
We explored the relationship between physical exercise and subjective wellbeing among Chinese adults and examined its mechanisms. Data were sourced from 2,192 respondents to the Chinese General Social Survey 2021 regarding subjective well-being, physical exercise, perceived physical health, perceived mental health, body mass index, and frequency of socialization. After controlling for relevant variables, exercisers were found to have greater subj…
From Hobbled to Flow: Reconstructing Ontological Security Scale and Anticipating China Policy Preferences in Germany, Japan, India, and the United States
Ontological security (OS) has emerged as a significant factor shaping political perception. However, existing OS models suffer from three issues: methodological incoherence, limited policy relevance, and insufficient cross‐cultural applicability. These issues are impeding a quantitative transformation of OS studies within the field of international relations. This research challenges the perception of OS as empirically fragmented, asserting inste…
Clustering Ideology-threat associations: Revisiting the multi-Dimensionality of Political Ideology and Its Effects on International threat Perceptions
This study explores how the covariance of political ideologies affects international threat perceptions in the Australian, UK, and US contexts. By synthesizing prior research, it develops multidimensional models of political ideologies, revealing four clusters: uni-valence, ambivalence, alienated ambivalence, and indifference. The results indicate that some respondents are active in simultaneously adopting multiple conflicting ideologies (ambival…
Identifying the potential of Internet use to mitigate cognitive bias of subjective socioeconomic status: A political ideology perspective in China
Socioeconomic status has long been understood as a key factor in individuals' attitudes, cognition, and well-being. However, less attention has been given to the determinants of subjective socioeconomic status with consideration for the disparity between objective socioeconomic status and subjective socioeconomic status. Drawing on a nation-wide survey in China, this study explores how authoritarianism, system justification, and subjective well-b…
Countering Ethnic Minority-Targeted Hate Speech in a Multicultural Society
Connecting gender role attitudes among China’s youth to perceptions of the state: A bottom-up approach
The present study examines the gender–state dynamics in the Chinese context through a bottom-up approach by adopting an online survey method. We find four indicators, which are male priority, child suffering, gender ideology, marriage and fertility, could reflect one common factor—gender egalitarianism, and we utilize this scale to measure gender role attitudes among China’s youth, as well as explore their psycho-political antecedents including s…
Current status of treatment and disease burden of a cohort of hemophilia B in China
Objective: Hemophilia B is a rare X-chromosome linked hereditary bleeding disorder. Patients require lifelong treatment and it is costly, but there is a lack of research in China on the treatment and burden for this group. Our aim was to review the actual treatment pattern of hemophilia B patients in China, and describe the financial burden and other disease burden from the patient's perspective. Methods: Using data collected by the Beijing Hemop…
The “Conditional Unbias” of Data Journalism in China’s News Industry
Within a highly restrictive media environment, data journalism provides a “fuzzy region” in which non-official Chinese media organizations can engage in news production through the selection, analysis and visualization of open data and statistics. With the decline of critical investigative journalism in China over the past decade, this emerging journalistic genre has been the subject of great hope in regard to its potential to offer impartial new…
Facilitators and barriers to the Music College Entrance Examination among Chinese ethnic minority students
The question of how to better prepare ethnic minority students to access higher music education has raised concerns around the world in terms of educational equity and cultural diversity. In China, despite similar concerns, little is known about the preparation process and experiences of ethnic minority students to take the Music College Entrance Examination (MCEE). In this qualitative case study, we investigated the facilitators and barriers fac…
Identifying the driving forces of non-grain production expansion in rural China and its implications for policies on cultivated land protection
Rights-oriented or responsibility-oriented? Two subtypes of populism in contemporary China
The present investigation engages in the debate on populism from a demand/acceptance perspective by providing examinations and explanations within the Chinese context. It clarifies the heterogeneity of China’s populism, separating rights-oriented populism, which shares the element of anti-elitism with the populism found in most European nations, from responsibility-oriented populism, which has ideological roots in China’s specific socio-political…
Facing disinformation: Five methods to counter conspiracy theories amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Among the burgeoning discussions on the argumentative styles of conspiracy theories and the related cognitive processes of their audiences, research thus far is limited in regard to developing methods and strategies that could effectively debunk conspiracy theories and reduce the harmful influences of conspiracist media exposure. The present study critically evaluates the effectiveness of five approaches to reducing conspiratorial belief, through…
Man-as-Nation: Representations of Masculinity and Nationalism in Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior II
Through an in-depth analysis of gender representation in the box office record-breaking Chinese movie Wolf Warrior II, this study interrogates how the male body is used as a site for the projection of Chinese national power. Furthermore, it illustrates a revival of patriotic pride in China through a contemporary reading of cross-genre action-military films. Developing Shuqin Cui's notion of "woman-as-nation," which understands on-screen female vi…
Polarised Security: How do Chinese Netizens Respond to the Securitisation of Terrorism
The heightened securitisation of Islamic terrorism has received significant attention in Western countries, but little is known about the extent to which netizens in centralised political systems such as China have responded to this threat. This article seeks to address this gap by examining the localisation of the globalised fear of terrorism in China. It analyses online posts about international terrorism that appeared on Sina Weibo in China be…
The ‘authoritarian determinism’ and reductionisms in China-focused political communication studies
This commentary article posits the term ‘authoritarian determinism’ to describe a persistent and general problem with the current trend of China-focused political and communication theory, which emphasizes the centrality of the ‘repression-resistance’ axis in the formation of China’s political communication sphere, and identifies three related forms of reductionism (‘event-based’, ‘conflict-focused’, and ‘internally homogeneous’ perspectives) tha…
Moving Away From Partisanship: Diversifying the Motives Behind Political Polarization
Most current academic work on political polarization treats partisanship as the dominant motivational driver behind social cleavage and mass polarization. This essay engages in the debate by moving beyond the conceptual straitjacket of partisanship-driven polarization, recasting the primary motives behind political polarization into the three situated and interrelated ideologies that drive the phenomenon of polarization at a mass level, namely, p…
The conformation and negotiation of nationalism in China’s political animations—a case study of Year Hare Affair
Nationalism is a prominent theme in China’s cultural productions. While many studies research nationalistic representations of wars, revolutions and nation-building processes in Chinese socialist cinema and dramas, this article focuses on a marginal media form: political animations. It examines the patriotic discourses in popular Chinese animated series Year Hare Affair and presents three main findings. First, that the series characters represent…
Diversifying Conspiracy Beliefs and Populist Ideologies in the Chinese Context
While previous research suggests that conspiratorial reasoning and populist ideology often walk hand‐in‐hand, this study explores their correlations by considering their internal heterogeneity in the sociopolitical context of China. Through an online survey ( N = 807), the present investigation identifies two subtypes of populism (right‐ vs. responsibility‐oriented), alongside two subtypes of conspiracy beliefs (pro‐system vs. anti‐system), and e…
Hobbled across the Road: Ontological Securities, Security Values, and the Threat Perception of China in Australian, South Korean, and US Contexts
Despite the escalating perception of China as a “threat” in some Western countries, existing cross‐national investigations lack a psychological framework that incorporates identity factors such as ontological security (OS) and diverse security value orientations to predict the threat. This study introduces a framework of self‐reported individual‐difference measures, tapping into ontological security and security value orientation, to analyze thei…
Can Debunked Conspiracy Theories Change Radicalized Views? Evidence from Racial Prejudice and Anti-China Sentiment Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
Framing the Boundary of Sino-Japanese Conflicts in China’s Communication Sphere: A Content Analysis of the News Coverage of Japan and Sino-Japanese Controversies by the People’s Daily between 2001 and…
Identifying the potential of Internet use to mitigate cognitive bias of subjective socioeconomic status: A political ideology perspective in China
Socioeconomic status has long been understood as a key factor in individuals' attitudes, cognition, and well-being. However, less attention has been given to the determinants of subjective socioeconomic status with consideration for the disparity between objective socioeconomic status and subjective socioeconomic status. Drawing on a nation-wide survey in China, this study explores how authoritarianism, system justification, and subjective well-b…
Dominant, passive, and recessive feminism: A postfeminist reading of Taiwanese cinema
This paper aims to add to the underrepresented scholarship on feminist critique in Taiwanese cinema by investigating the ways in which female power has been represented in the female-centred Taiwanese film, The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (BCB). Through a postfeminist reading, this study attempts to challenge the dichotomy of Asian versus Western values in order to engage Taiwanese films into the global debate of feminism. By revealing th…
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films
This study examines the cultural representations of Chinese military-action films which re-interpret China’s non-intervention policy and give China’s foreign engagements rationality and legitimation. It involves two narrative strategies: (1) framing the protection of nationals abroad as the key incentive behind China’s military actions; and (2) emphasizing an unquestioning commitment to sovereignty, to UN authorization, and to the consent of host…
A critical study of space in the geopolitics of terrorism
This article theorises epistemologies of ‘space’ in critical studies on terrorism, expanding the research agenda beyond the straitjacket of historicism and discourse-centrism. It traces two theoretical approaches: 1) rescaling terrorism as mundane, situated and private, and 2) treating the ‘space’ of terrorism as a liminal zone between potentiality and anticipatory space-making. This critical spatial lens offers new insights to CTS. In terms of s…
Fears, hopes and the politics of time-space: The media frames of Japan in the Chinese People's Daily
Based on a qualitative content analysis of 15 years of media coverage of Japan in the most comprehensive and influential official media, the Chinese People's Daily newspaper, this article argues that the framing of Japan by the People's Daily was produced and rearticulated by the combinations of, and changes in, different geostrategic discourses, referred to in this article as the discourses of ‘geopolitical fears’ and ‘geoeconomic hopes’. These …
Fears, hopes and the politics of time-space: The media frames of Japan in the Chinese People's Daily
Based on a qualitative content analysis of 15 years of media coverage of Japan in the most comprehensive and influential official media, the Chinese People's Daily newspaper, this article argues that the framing of Japan by the People's Daily was produced and rearticulated by the combinations of, and changes in, different geostrategic discourses, referred to in this article as the discourses of ‘geopolitical fears’ and ‘geoeconomic hopes’. These …
Framing the Boundary of Sino-Japanese Conflicts in China’s Communication Sphere: A Content Analysis of the News Coverage of Japan and Sino-Japanese Controversies by the People’s Daily between 2001 and…
Who Are the Influentials in China's Cyberspace and What Do They Say About the Issue of Sino-Japanese Relations
This research note explores an increasingly prominent, but often neglected, communication group in China's cyberspace—the online “influential” (big Vs or verified users)—who shape public perceptions, including on foreign policy issues. Examining threads on Sino-Japanese relations on Weibo reveals a diverse ecosystem that includes not only established media agencies and government agencies, but public intellectuals, whose role and presence are qui…
Polarised Security: How do Chinese Netizens Respond to the Securitisation of Terrorism
The heightened securitisation of Islamic terrorism has received significant attention in Western countries, but little is known about the extent to which netizens in centralised political systems such as China have responded to this threat. This article seeks to address this gap by examining the localisation of the globalised fear of terrorism in China. It analyses online posts about international terrorism that appeared on Sina Weibo in China be…
Globalized fears, localized securities: ‘Terrorism’ in political polarization in a one-party state
Partisanship has become the dominant ideological incentive to political polarization. Likewise, the analytical association between polarization and the party system in electoral democracies has focused, in most of the existing literature, on political polarization, leaving aside authoritarian or semi-authoritarian contexts where a fair multi-party election is absent or dysfunctional. By collecting and analyzing online posts about international te…
The ‘authoritarian determinism’ and reductionisms in China-focused political communication studies
This commentary article posits the term ‘authoritarian determinism’ to describe a persistent and general problem with the current trend of China-focused political and communication theory, which emphasizes the centrality of the ‘repression-resistance’ axis in the formation of China’s political communication sphere, and identifies three related forms of reductionism (‘event-based’, ‘conflict-focused’, and ‘internally homogeneous’ perspectives) tha…
The conformation and negotiation of nationalism in China’s political animations—a case study of Year Hare Affair
Nationalism is a prominent theme in China’s cultural productions. While many studies research nationalistic representations of wars, revolutions and nation-building processes in Chinese socialist cinema and dramas, this article focuses on a marginal media form: political animations. It examines the patriotic discourses in popular Chinese animated series Year Hare Affair and presents three main findings. First, that the series characters represent…
Identifying the driving forces of non-grain production expansion in rural China and its implications for policies on cultivated land protection
Diversifying Conspiracy Beliefs and Populist Ideologies in the Chinese Context
While previous research suggests that conspiratorial reasoning and populist ideology often walk hand‐in‐hand, this study explores their correlations by considering their internal heterogeneity in the sociopolitical context of China. Through an online survey ( N = 807), the present investigation identifies two subtypes of populism (right‐ vs. responsibility‐oriented), alongside two subtypes of conspiracy beliefs (pro‐system vs. anti‐system), and e…
Mapping music education research in Mainland China (2007–2019): A metadata-based literature analysis
This metadata-based literature study provides a comprehensive mapping of China’s music education by analysing 3,257 Chinese research articles published during 2007–2019. The selection of the articles is based on careful inspections of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database and rigorous coding of literature attributes. The analysis of descriptive and analytical attributes showed (a) dominance of qualitative over quantitative/m…
Dominant, passive, and recessive feminism: A postfeminist reading of Taiwanese cinema
This paper aims to add to the underrepresented scholarship on feminist critique in Taiwanese cinema by investigating the ways in which female power has been represented in the female-centred Taiwanese film, The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (BCB). Through a postfeminist reading, this study attempts to challenge the dichotomy of Asian versus Western values in order to engage Taiwanese films into the global debate of feminism. By revealing th…
Facing disinformation: Five methods to counter conspiracy theories amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Among the burgeoning discussions on the argumentative styles of conspiracy theories and the related cognitive processes of their audiences, research thus far is limited in regard to developing methods and strategies that could effectively debunk conspiracy theories and reduce the harmful influences of conspiracist media exposure. The present study critically evaluates the effectiveness of five approaches to reducing conspiratorial belief, through…
Re-narrating Non-intervention Policy in China’s Military-action Genre Films
This study examines the cultural representations of Chinese military-action films which re-interpret China’s non-intervention policy and give China’s foreign engagements rationality and legitimation. It involves two narrative strategies: (1) framing the protection of nationals abroad as the key incentive behind China’s military actions; and (2) emphasizing an unquestioning commitment to sovereignty, to UN authorization, and to the consent of host…
Moving Away From Partisanship: Diversifying the Motives Behind Political Polarization
Most current academic work on political polarization treats partisanship as the dominant motivational driver behind social cleavage and mass polarization. This essay engages in the debate by moving beyond the conceptual straitjacket of partisanship-driven polarization, recasting the primary motives behind political polarization into the three situated and interrelated ideologies that drive the phenomenon of polarization at a mass level, namely, p…
Rights-oriented or responsibility-oriented? Two subtypes of populism in contemporary China
The present investigation engages in the debate on populism from a demand/acceptance perspective by providing examinations and explanations within the Chinese context. It clarifies the heterogeneity of China’s populism, separating rights-oriented populism, which shares the element of anti-elitism with the populism found in most European nations, from responsibility-oriented populism, which has ideological roots in China’s specific socio-political…
A critical study of space in the geopolitics of terrorism
This article theorises epistemologies of ‘space’ in critical studies on terrorism, expanding the research agenda beyond the straitjacket of historicism and discourse-centrism. It traces two theoretical approaches: 1) rescaling terrorism as mundane, situated and private, and 2) treating the ‘space’ of terrorism as a liminal zone between potentiality and anticipatory space-making. This critical spatial lens offers new insights to CTS. In terms of s…
Man-as-Nation: Representations of Masculinity and Nationalism in Wu Jing's Wolf Warrior II
Through an in-depth analysis of gender representation in the box office record-breaking Chinese movie Wolf Warrior II, this study interrogates how the male body is used as a site for the projection of Chinese national power. Furthermore, it illustrates a revival of patriotic pride in China through a contemporary reading of cross-genre action-military films. Developing Shuqin Cui's notion of "woman-as-nation," which understands on-screen female vi…
Effects of an intercultural music course on adolescents’ intergroup attitudes in southwest China
The value of intercultural music learning on intergroup attitudes has been demonstrated in the literature, such as enhancing intercultural sensitivity and building interethnic friendships. However, the process by which intercultural music learning influences intergroup attitudes has not yet been illuminated. This study investigated the impact of an intercultural music course on intergroup attitudes among middle school students (N = 277) from Yi, …
Ethnic Identity, Chinese National Identity, and Intergroup Attitudes of Adolescents from an Ethnic Autonomous Region in China
We compared the differences and explored the associations between ethnic identity and Chinese national identity, and the intergroup attitudes of adolescents from the Yi, Han, and Mongolian ethnicities in a Yi ethnic autonomous region in China. The participants (N = 1830, 50% female) were middle school students (n = 910, Mage = 13.51) and high school students (n = 920, Mage = 17.71). We found (a) significant ethnic differences between the high sch…
Examining the Democratic Potential of Data Journalism in Curing Misinformation
Investigating the potential of civil disagreement to decrease issue polarization in China
With mass polarization becoming an increasingly urgent sociopolitical agenda in both established and emerging democracies, academics and policy‐makers have been racing to develop effective depolarizing approaches. While (semi‐)authoritarian nations have also been afflicted by social cleavage and a negative, incompatible and even radicalized discussion climate towards public policy and sociopolitical issues, polarization and related countermeasure…
Moving away from the “Repression-Resistance” Paradigm: The Effects of Civil/Uncivil Disagreements on Political Deliberation in China
This study engages in the academic effort of moving beyond the “repression-resistance” lens by shedding light on the civic function of exposure to cross-cutting arguments and their (in-) civility on individual’s expression willingness and discursive quality in China’s cyberspace. While civility and dissonant-viewpoint exposure are viewed as the hallmark of political deliberation and public sphere in most Western societies, whether their potential…
Nurturing student ethnic identity through culturally responsive music teaching in China
A multicultural approach has been advocated in school music education in China to heighten the sense of ethnic identity among students from diverse backgrounds, but research has shown that inadequate teaching approaches have been a major challenge in implementing multiculturalism. To facilitate students’ development of their sense of ethnic and cultural identity, international educators have advocated the use of culturally responsive teaching (CR…
The emerging scientific public sphere in China’s digital economy: Weibo discussions on facial recognition technology
The present study investigates the Chinese public’s perception toward the widely adopted (and often accused of misuse) technology of face recognition. Through topic modeling and a social network analysis of 151,654 Weibo posts, we examine the “content dimension” and the “actor dimension” of civic discussions on facial recognition technology. Our results demonstrate that there is rising social concern and skepticism directed at the commercial use …
How does pro-attitudinal information improve intergroup relations? Unraveling the underlying mechanism of American and Chinese people’s mutual attitudes
Though media exposure research typically links pro-attitudinal information with ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation, the empirical evidence to date is inconclusive. Can attitude-consistent media diminish prepositions and ease intergroup tensions? If so, what type of like-minded media content should ingroups be exposed to? Rather than approaching from the perspective of the morality dimension, which has been well-researched, this study took…
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