Recent Papers

"Create an environment that protects women, rather than selling anxiety!": Participatory Threat Modeling with Chinese Young Women Living Alone

Constructing Eileen (Ailing) Gu’s Chineseness: Nationalism, Heroism and the Negotiation of National Belonging in Sport

Market–security tensions in UK–China academic engagement: perspectives from UK higher education

The Logic of Stability Maintenance in China’s NGO Governance: Balancing Weiwen Through Incorporation and Suppression

Living-alone girls’ Lives Matter”: Exploring the Security and Safety Perceptions and Practices of Young Women Living-Alone in China

Invented borders: Tension between grassroots patriotism and state-led patriotic campaigns in China

Multiculturalism, Laïcité, Unity, and Diversity: Conceptualizing Difference Management within China’s Integration Policy

The Globalisation of China’s Counter-terrorism Efforts

From One-child Policy to Three-child Initiative: A Feminist Critique of the Population Planning Policies in China

The mass line approach to countering violent extremism in China: The road from propaganda to hearts and minds

“Illegal religious activities” and counter-terrorism in China

Community engagement under the mass line for counterterrorism in China

The double-track system of terrorism proscription in China

Justifying a Privacy Guardian in Discourse and Behavior: China's Strategic Framing in Data Governance

Impaired, easy prey saved by the she-empowering state: Official narratives of ‘Xinjiang women’ in China’s ‘People’s War’ on Terror

Monograph

Legitimacy of China’s Counter-Terrorism Approach: The Mass Line Ethos

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 | Also available in German translation

Based on my doctoral research, this book explores how the Chinese party-state seeks to legitimise its counter-terrorism agenda through the mass line — a Maoist ethos of governance grounded in participation, persuasion, and emotional resonance. Rather than imposing authority from above, the state aims to cultivate consent and mobilise active involvement from below.

Bridging critical security studies and Chinese political thought, the book offers a fresh lens on how legitimacy is affectively and discursively co-produced in authoritarian settings — not as passive compliance, but as emotionally charged participation.