Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center. I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford in 2022. In August 2024, I will join the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University as an Assistant Professor.
I study political communication and the political economy of development in authoritarian regimes, with a regional focus on China. My research seeks to understand how autocrats sustain their rule over societal actors (e.g., citizens, firms) and how preferences and behaviors of these societal actors are shaped as a result. I use a mixed-method approach in my works, including qualitative interviews, archival research, digital ethnography, computational methods with large-scale social media data, and survey and field experiments.
My dissertation and book project proposes to re-conceptualize accountability under autocracy as a calculated government strategy to cultivate conformity among citizens by examining the deliberative institutions and authoritarian responsiveness in China. My other work has been published in Political Science Research and Methods.
Prior to Stanford, I earned my M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. I also hold a LL.B. in International Relations and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University. My CV is available here.
I study political communication and the political economy of development in authoritarian regimes, with a regional focus on China. My research seeks to understand how autocrats sustain their rule over societal actors (e.g., citizens, firms) and how preferences and behaviors of these societal actors are shaped as a result. I use a mixed-method approach in my works, including qualitative interviews, archival research, digital ethnography, computational methods with large-scale social media data, and survey and field experiments.
My dissertation and book project proposes to re-conceptualize accountability under autocracy as a calculated government strategy to cultivate conformity among citizens by examining the deliberative institutions and authoritarian responsiveness in China. My other work has been published in Political Science Research and Methods.
Prior to Stanford, I earned my M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University. I also hold a LL.B. in International Relations and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University. My CV is available here.