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I am a Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong, where I co-direct the Centre for Public Affairs and Law, the Advanced Methods School, and the Political Analysis Lab. My interdisciplinary research interests include comparative politics, political sociology, political communication, science of science, and research methodology, with a comparative study of East and Southeast Asia.
My work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Political Communication, Political Studies, Political Psychology, Governance, International Political Science Review, Sociological Mehtods & Research, Sociological Methodology, Mobilization, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, China Quarterly, China Journal, Journal of Contemporary Asia, among others. I also co-authored with Samson Yuen The Making of Leaderful Mobilization (Cambridge University Press, 2024), co-edited four edited volumes and special issues, and contributed to several encyclopaedias and handbooks. I received a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015. Prior to joining City University, I worked at Hong Kong Baptist University and the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China. I have held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and the Austrian National University. |
Awards |
I received several awards and recognitions from the academic community, including the Gordon White Prize from The China Quarterly in 2016, the Asia Pacific Workshop Award from the American Political Science Association in 2020, and the Top 2 % scientists in the world by the Stanford/Elsevier List from 2020 to 2024.
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Services |
I am a Co-Editor of Social Movement Studies, the incoming President of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, the Secretary of the Society for Hong Kong Studies, a Principal Investigator for the World Values Survey, Asian Barometer Survey, and V-Dem Institute, and an editorial board member of several leading journals, including The China Quarterly and Mobilization.
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Funding |
My research has been supported by the American Political Science Association, Central Policy Unit, French National Research Agency, Hong Kong University Grants Committee, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, and Hong Kong Institute for Data Science.
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Impact |
My research findings or commentaries have been widely cited in government agencies, NGOs and mass media, including ABC, APF, BBC, CNN, NPR, Reuters, RTHK, TVB, Asahi Shimbun, China Daily, Der Spiegel, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, LeMonde, Japanese Times, MingPao, Strait Times, South China Morning Post, Time Magazine, Times Higher Education, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among others.
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