Outputs (9)

Coping with international politics: A case study of Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article

The way that leaders and citizens cope with stress is under-theorised in the study of International Relations (IR). This article anchors psychological studies on coping to the literature theorising emotions in IR to clarify two unaddressed questions:... Read More about Coping with international politics: A case study of Hong Kong.

Don’t let a good crisis go to waste: China’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines Beijing’s reactions to, and perceptions of, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and it draws on Neoclassical Realism to explain the motives and objectives underlying the Chinese response. It argues that Beijing has adopted somewhat am... Read More about Don’t let a good crisis go to waste: China’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war.

Mediating hegemony through political humour: A discourse analysis of Spring Festival Gala sketches in China (2023)
Journal Article

What does humour do to us and our relationship with the society? This article examines political humour in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and asks how hegemony is mediated through political humour in China. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) of... Read More about Mediating hegemony through political humour: A discourse analysis of Spring Festival Gala sketches in China.

China's Environmental Foreign Relations (2022)
Book

Over recent decades, China has moved from being a follower towards taking on a leadership role in global environmental governance. This book discusses this important development. It examines the key role of Chinese interest groups, showing how throug... Read More about China's Environmental Foreign Relations.

China goes green: coercive environmentalism for a troubled planet: by Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, vii + 240 pp., index. $64.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781509543113; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781509543120 (2021)
Journal Article

Red capital in Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to recount the scale, composition and agents of red capital in Hong Kong; second, to conceptualise the peculiarity of red capital; and third, to explore the impact of red capital on the politica... Read More about Red capital in Hong Kong.

What Does Xi Jinping’s New Phrase ‘Ecological Civilization’ Mean? (2018)
Digital Artefact

NGOs in the EU–China Environmental Diplomacy (2014)
Book Chapter

Book Review: Occupy Central with Love and Peace by Tai Yiu Ting (2014)
Journal Article