Starting here, we’ll be diving into sentiment. Overall, we find interesting bipartisan similarity in this measure since around the start of the trade war in 2018, with negativity dominating the [...]

How do MCs discuss China in the public sphere? We find that, while issues of human rights and security dominate over discussions of trade, Republicans and Democrats tend to highlight distinct [...]

Congress Tweets Part I. We ask the question: does politicians’ tweeting stop at the water’s edge? How much do U.S. politicians tweet about foreign policy, and how much do they concern themselves [...]

U.S.-China tensions have given rise to increasingly negative feelings between the two countries’ populations. In our work, we explore the dynamics of interpersonal expression of anti-foreign [...]

Economic inequality is a hot-button issue in contemporary PRC politics. Recently, Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” initiative has sought to resolve decades of unequal growth and fix the social [...]

Most people following Chinese pop culture would remember the day Hip-Hop was banned. It was significant — not only because of Hip-Hop’s global status, but also because it fit the narrative of an [...]

What’s in a Virus’ Name? From the “Chinese Virus” to Anti-Asian Racial Animus by Sophie SHENG and Runjing LU In a news conference on March 18, 2020, a reporter questioned then-President [...]

Chinese Talent, American Enterprise Five Takeaways of How Chinese Talent Contributes to Biotech Innovation in the U.S. by Lei Guang, Ruixue Jia, Jingwen Liu, Young Yang Visualization by Jingwen [...]

by Haifeng Huang How do the Chinese public think China is viewed in the world? If information—including content critical of the government—flowed freely in China, the Chinese public might be [...]

The Makeup of the CCP Elite by Victor Shih, Young Yang In this new portal( https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/elites/ ), we allow users to visualize some of the key characteristics of roughly 1700 [...]

The Chinese leadership has cast the novel coronavirus pandemic as a win for centralized governance but do Chinese citizens agree? Despite initial anger at the government’s attempt to cover up the [...]

We find that respondents are satisfied with their happiness in life and financial situation in light of their personal well-being. In a bigger picture, they are more satisfied with China’s [...]

In terms of globalization, respondents think free trade and economic connections are very beneficial to China and the Chinese economy, but hold mixed views on global trade’s influence on their [...]

Respondents express serious concern about global warming and they support policies aimed at environmental protection.

In this post, we look at how self-reliance has been used in the text of the People’s Daily from January 2016 to 2018. We find that the word is used very infrequently in 2016, but increases [...]

Does U.S. congressional opinion about China as expressed on Twitter align more closely with opinion of an ally and partner such as Canada? Or does it instead mirror views of a country such as [...]

To what extent we can generalize findings from China’s largest online labor market. How do subjects obtained from online recruitment differ from a nationally representative sample in China?

How is Islam portrayed on social media in China? In this post, we explore the way in which negative sentiment toward Islam manifests itself on the Chinese Internet.

A growing body of research shows that authoritarian regimes can be responsive to ordinary citizens, but why is this the case?

Bai and Jia (2016) investigate one important political consequence of the change in elite recruitment: how the abolition of the exam contributed to revolution participation in the late 19th and [...]