Journal Articles
Yuan Zhou, Ghashia Kiyani, and Charles Crabtree. Forthcoming. “Quantifying Women’s Rights Naming and Shaming: A Novel Text-as-Data Approach.” International Interactions. Link
Tetsuro Kobayashi, Yuan Zhou, Lungta Seki, and Asako Miura. Forthcoming. “Autocracies Win the Hearts of the Democratic Public: How Japanese Citizens Are Persuaded by Illiberal Narratives Propagated by Authoritarian Regimes.” Democratization. Link
Xiaoyu Pu, Chengli Wang, and Yuan Zhou. Forthcoming. “Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles the US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Cyberspace.” Journal of Chinese Political Science. Link
Duancheng Yang, Yuan Zhou, and Yun-han Chu. 2025. “Voices from within: Tracing Chinese Public Perceptions of Democracy in the New Era.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 30(2): 169-193. Link
Yuan Zhou, Ghashia Kiyani, and Charles Crabtree. 2023. “New Evidence that Naming and Shaming Influences State Human Rights Practices.” Journal of Human Rights, 22(4): 451-468. Link
Yuan Zhou. 2022. “China’s Mediated Public Diplomacy towards Japan: A Text-as-Data Approach.” Asian Journal of Communication, 32(4): 327-345. Link
Kohei Watanabe and Yuan Zhou. 2022. “Theory-Driven Analysis of Large Corpora: Semi- Supervised Topic Classification of the UN Speeches.” Social Science Computer Review, 40(2): 346-366. Link
Yuan Zhou and Kaoru Kurusu. 2021. “How Major Powers Diverge on Global Governance? Evidence from the UN General Debate.” Kobe University Law Review, 54: 63-80. Link
Naoko Matsumura and Yuan Zhou. 2020. “Googling the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 Crisis.” Kobe University Law Review, 53: 51-71. Link
Yuan Zhou and Jing Shi. 2016. “Japan’s Official Development Assistance towards Central Asian States” (in Chinese). Journal of International Economic Cooperation, 371(11): 86-91. Link
Yuan Zhou and Jing Shi. 2015. “The Evaluation System of Japan’s Official Development Assistance and Its Implications” (in Chinese). Journal of International Economic Cooperation, 358(10): 86-91. Link
Book Chapters
Yuan Zhou, Sandrine Boudana, and Elad Segev. 2021. “Provocation Narratives in Chinese and US Newspapers.” In Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences, ed. Elad Segev (Routledge), 53-71. Link