Publications | Yuan Zhou

Selected Publications

Yuan Zhou. Forthcoming. “Depicting Democracy as Chaos: An Analysis of International News in Chinese State Media.” Mass Communication and Society.

Yuan Zhou, Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Lungta Seki. 2026. “Evaluating the Impact of China’s ‘Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’ in East Asia: An Experimental Approach.” The International Journal of Press/Politics. [Article]
Yuan Zhou. 2026. “Deciphering China’s Central Asia Policy: Insights from State Media Narratives.” Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies. [Article]

Xiaoyu Pu, Chengli Wang, and Yuan Zhou. 2025. “Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles the US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Cyberspace.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, 30(4): 565-587. [Article]
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. [Article]
Tetsuro Kobayashi, Yuan Zhou, Lungta Seki, and Asako Miura. 2025. “Autocracies Win the Minds of the Democratic Public: How Japanese Citizens Are Persuaded by Illiberal Narratives Propagated by Authoritarian Regimes.” Democratization, 32(6): 1474-1495. [Article]
Yuan Zhou, Ghashia Kiyani, and Charles Crabtree. 2025. “Quantifying Women’s Rights Naming and Shaming: A Novel Text-as-Data Approach.” International Interactions, 51(4): 689-707. [Article]

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. [Article]

Yuan Zhou. 2022. “China’s Mediated Public Diplomacy towards Japan: A Text-as-Data Approach.” Asian Journal of Communication, 32(4): 327-345. [Article]
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. [Article]