Invited Talks

Beyond Adoption: Generative AI, Verification, and Human Responsibility in China’s Local Government.

• Fudan University–SCRIPTS Workshop “Connectivity and the Contestation of Global Order: Technology, Finance, and Geopolitics,” Fudan University, Shanghai, September 17–18, 2026.

Policy Agenda-Setting in Comparative Perspective: Theoretical Evolution and Research Frontiers.

• Public Lecture Series “Policy Researchers’ Forum” (#14), School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, June 2025.

Who Goes Digital and Why? Explaining Variations in Provincial Digitalization Agendas in China.

• International Conference on China Policy Studies (ICCPS), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, June 6–8, 2025.

Power Structure, Factional Competition, and Loyalty Signaling in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from China.

• Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association(PSA), University of Birmingham and Aston University, UK, April 2025.

How the Chinese Government Creates and Propagates Digital Surveillance Narratives.

• PRIVACY-China Workshop, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, 3 and 4 July 2025.
• The annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung (ASC), University of Bonn, Germany, November 2024.
• SCRIPTS Workshop Sharpening: Analytic Instruments of Narrative Contestation During Conflicts, Freie Universität Berlin,Germany, November 2024.

Unveiling Diverse Narratives in the Public Image of Political Elites in China.

• American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, September 2024.
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, August 2024.

State-led Digital Transformation and Policy Narratives of Chinese Local Governments.

• American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, September 2024.

Policy Agendas and Environmental Protection: How Agenda-Setting Matters.

• American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, September 2023.

Political Attention in a Single-Party State: Evidence from China.

• The annual conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS), Virtual Meetings, October 2021.