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Benevolent authority beliefs, democratic values, and public support: A comparative study of China and Japan

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Emergencies and crises, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, pose significant challenges to a country's governance, and public approval is crucial for effectively managing such crises. China and Japan are two East Asian countries that share Confucian cultural legacies but have undergone distinct political transformations since World War II. In light
Yida Zhai
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XI Jinping's authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy and India [PDF]

Megatrend Revija, 2019
China's President Xi Jinping has placed great emphasis on power consolidation, focusing on domestic restructuring to enhance the centrality of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its communist ideology. This has compelled political pundits to mull over
Gohain Baruah Atmaja, Panda Jagannath P.
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Does digital surveillance boost citizen compliance? Evidence from China

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Authoritarian regimes increasingly deploy digital surveillance to monitor citizens, but how this affects citizen compliance remains understudied. We argue that, beyond repressing or deterring regime opponents, digital surveillance serves as an instrument of everyday governance that operates through psychological mechanisms rather than direct ...
Dakeng Chen, Jing Vivian Zhan
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The Senkaku Islands Dispute: Four Reasons of the Chinese Offensive - A Japanese View

Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 2019
This article introduced China’s four reasons of offensive to the Senkaku Islands: the first reason China’s natural resources demand; the second reason historical issues with Japan that have some relationship to Chinese people’s wartime memories; the ...
Koichi Sato
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Sinophobia was popular in Chinese language communities on Twitter during the early COVID-19 pandemic

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global surge in Sinophobia. We examine how Chinese language users responded to COVID-19 on Western social media by compiling a unique database (CNTweets) with over 25 million Chinese tweets mentioning any Chinese ...
Yongjun Zhang, Hao Lin, Yi Wang, Xinguang Fan   +3 more
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 637-646, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 990-1006, July 2026.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
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The 'Shequ Construction' Programme and the Chinese Communist Party

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2002
In recent years, the community development programme called 'Shequ Construction' has been making rapid progress in China. The discussion surrounding the programme focuses on how to adjust the relationship between the street offices (which fall under ...
Kazuko Kojima, Ryosei Kokubun
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Policy Windows in an Authoritarian System: How Alignment, Leadership Signals, and Disasters Enabled Policy Entrepreneurship in China's Poverty Alleviation

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT China's poverty alleviation campaign is significant. Over the past four decades, the number of people in China living below the international extreme‐poverty line fell by close to 800 million, accounting for nearly three‐quarters of the global reduction in extreme poverty.
Zhiqi Xu, Wil Hout
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Party Strength in New Fields: The Chinese Communist Party’s Tactics for Penetrating “Two New” Organizations in the Non-Public Sector

Journal of East Asian Studies
Party-based authoritarian regimes have often demonstrated remarkable resilience throughout wars, revolutions, and state-building processes. Yet how they consolidate authority in newly emerging socioeconomic fields that arise from the (partial ...
Han Zhang, Huirong Chen, Shengxiang Ji
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