Vitae

Education and Employment

  • Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, 2025–
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, 2021–25
  • University Assistant (Postdoc), Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, 2018–21
  • Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011–17
    • Visiting Fellow, Harvard–Yenching Institute, 2016–17
    • Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 2014–15 fall semester
  • Bachelor of Public Administration, Nanjing University, 2007–11

Journal Publications

  • Forthcoming, Multidimensional Political Trust and Its Effects on Political Activism in Nondemocracies: Findings from a Concept-driven Clustering Method, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, https://bit.ly/4kgpQM8.
  • Forthcoming, Faced with Information Overload: What Citizen Input Receives Leaders’ Attention in Authoritarian China (with Christian Göbel), Problems of Post-Communism, https://bit.ly/3SOeLqs.
  • 2025, The Effectiveness of Coercive Measures in Motivating Vaccination: Evidence from China during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Public Health, Vol. 20, No. 1, https://bit.ly/4j9wIf2.
  • 2025, The Rally Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the White Paper Movement in China (with Lei Guang, Lianjiang Li, and Yanchuan Liu), Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 34, No. 151, pp. 117–128, https://bit.ly/4fdudGq.
  • 2025, How Local Leaders Respond to Citizen Input: Evidence from Open Administrative Data in a Chinese County (with Christian Göbel), China Information, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 110–125, https://bit.ly/3YOfg7H.
  • 2023, Public Preference for Strongman Rule in China: Degree, Dynamics, and Possible Drivers, Asian Survey, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 641–662, https://bit.ly/3NmFeti.
  • 2020, China’s Blood-Borne HIV Catastrophe Revisited, Modern China, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 372–399, https://bit.ly/4f8kXmF.
  • 2018, When Voluntary Donations Meet the State Monopoly: Understanding Blood Shortages in China, The China Quarterly, Vol. 236, pp. 1111–1130, https://bit.ly/3NTtMVI.
  • 2012, The Differential between Trust in Multiple Levels of Government and Its Explanation: Evidence from a Survey of University Students [Zhengzhi xinren de cengji chayi jiqi jieshi: yixiang jiyu daxuesheng qunti de yanjiu], Public Administration Review [Gonggong xingzheng pinglun], Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 67–99.
  • 2011, The Promotion Tournament Model and Its Optimization [Difang guanyuan jingzheng de zhengzhi jinbiaosai moxing jiqi youhua] (with Yonggang Li), Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute [Jiangsu xingzheng xueyuan xuebao], No. 2, pp. 73–78.

Other Writings

  • 2024, Pedagogical case: Innovating Learning with AI-generated Timelines, https://bit.ly/40wQYAG.
  • 2020, Reflection on my Ph.D. journey: How I Become a Doctor of Blood (in Chinese), https://bit.ly/4jeRmco.
  • 2019, Chinese translation: Speaking to Theory and Speaking to the China Field (by Kevin J. O’Brien), China Studies [Zhongguo yanjiu], No. 2, pp. 216–223.
  • 2017, Chinese translation: Political Science: Witchcraft or Craftsmanship? Standards for Good Research (by Asbjørn S. Nørgaard), Foreign Theoretical Trends [Guowai lilun dongtai], No. 1, pp. 8–23.
  • 2017, Book review: Documenting the Reproductive Revolution in China, 1978–1991 (by Jian Chen), https://bit.ly/40BkHIJ.
  • 2017, Book review: To Be a Soldier: How Peasants in the North China Base Area Went to the Battlefield (by Xiaolin Qi), https://bit.ly/40tVhMU.

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

  • AUFF Starting Grant, Aarhus University Research Foundation, 2022–26
  • Harvard–Yenching Fellowship, Harvard–Yenching Institute, 2016–17
  • Global Scholarship for Research Excellence, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
  • Postgraduate Studentship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011–15

Skills

  • Language: Chinese (native), Danish (intermediate), English (advanced), German (intermediate)
  • Computer: LaTeX, NVivo, Python, R, SPSS, STATA