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Academic articles about China written by MCI’s faculty research affiliates.

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Bruce Bao & Peter Gries on intersectional race-gender stereotypes

How are Asian and Black men and women seen in the Anglophone world?

As a postdoctoral research fellow at MCI, Bruce Bao, now Assistant Professor at East China University in Shanghai, put to use a new AI tool he developed to study large bodies of English language text. Working with MCI Director Gries, they explored both intersectional race-gender stereotypes in general, and bias towards Chinese in particular.

In this video, Bruce and Pete discuss what they learned about how Asian and Black men and women are stereotyped.


Amy Zhang and Carwyn Morris on Wanghong (网红) urbanism

What happens when a place achieves celebrity status on social media?

In this article, Amy Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris introduce the term “wanghong urbanism” to theorize the construction of urban-digital spectacle and discuss the implications of the phenomenon for cities in China and beyond.

  • Article link: Amy Zhang, Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris: “Wanghong urbanism: towards a new urban-digital spectacle.” Mediapolis 7, 4 (2022).


Peter Gries on how negativity towards the CCP cools feelings toward Chinese in Europe

Does antipathy towards the CCP shape prejudice towards local Chinese communities in the West?

The Chinese government’s cover-up of the origins of the new coronavirus, and its more openly prideful and aggressive foreign and human rights policies, triggered a dramatic deterioration of foreign views of China in 2020. That year also witnessed a significant increase in anti-Chinese/Asian prejudice around the world. Could the former have shaped the latter?

Drawing on theories of prejudice and ideology, and using an Autumn 2020 13-nation European survey about China, this paper explores whether increasingly negative attitudes toward Chinese government policies prejudiced European views of local Chinese students, tourists, and communities. It finds substantial evidence of a spillover effect, an effect which is stronger among conservative Europeans than among progressive Europeans more motivated to avoid prejudice. The paper concludes with thoughts on the danger that China’s prideful “wolf warriors” pose for Chinese students, tourists, and local Chinese communities confronting prejudice in Europe today.

  • Article link: Peter Gries & Richard Turcsányi. “Chinese Pride and European Prejudice: How Growing Resentment of China Cools Feelings toward Chinese in Europe,” Asian Survey (2021), 61(5): 742–766.

In this video, Pete discusses their survey findings.