How Discrimination Increases Chinese Overseas Students' Support for Authoritarian Rule

Yang, Fan; Pan, Jennifer; Shao, Zijie; Xu, Yiqing

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“…It then evokes defensive mechanisms even for Chinese people who are critical of the government when communicating with other Chinese. Similar defensiveness has been observed in the pandemic, which further distanced people from Western information and generated greater support for the Chinese authority (Ma and Zhan 2020;Fan et al 2020).…”

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“…This sharp contrast significantly undermined the legitimacy of Western societies' sociopolitical system and ideological stance. Some people quickly jumped to the conclusion that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally flawed, even beyond coping with COVID-19 (Fan et al 2020). To be fair, this mirrors how many Western media outlets drew quick conclusions about China's sociopolitical system from cherrypicked cases.…”

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“…4 However, it is problematic to assume that the public opinions are downstream effects of state propaganda and ignore the spontaneity and complicated social context that produces them. For example, although international students are away from the Chinese propaganda system's direct influence and many felt angry in January at the government cover-up, studies have found that many of these students became more accepting of China's disease control, nationalism, and even authoritarianism when the pandemic became rampant in their host countries (Ma and Zhan 2020;Fan et al 2020). Public discourse before the 2010s has an "overly rosy" imagining of Western society, precipitating side effects when people realize Western societies are simply not perfect (Huang and Yeh 2019).…”

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Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West

Liu

2021

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Surveillance is never only about surveillance but is embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the surveillance practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from the perspective of the West, impacting domestic surveillance policymaking and public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ surveillance practices and discourses may impact how people in non-Western societies understand their own domestic surveillance. Combining data from varied sources, this article examines domestic surveillance during COVID-19 in China and explores how Chinese residents perceive it, with a focus on perceptions that are in relation to the West.

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Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West

Liu

2021

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“…What this research finds is the emergent discreditingdisbelieving American government and media-could allude to the internal barrier as well: the change of attitudes among Chinese international students towards American society could affect their motivation to make efforts for social integration and potentially lower trust for American people and institutions. This attitude could linger beyond this pandemic and cast a long shadow of doubt on their overall assessment of the American society (Fan et al 2020). In addition, escalating geo-political tensions between the U.S. and China and ongoing politicizing Chinese international students in America do not bode well for a positive change of attitude among Chinese students and their families any time soon.…”

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To mask or not to mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic: how Chinese students in America experience and cope with stigma

Zhan

2020

Chinese Sociological Review

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Chinese students in the U.S. are confronted with the double jeopardy of virus and stigma amid the COVID19. This study focuses on their choice and impact of mask wearing during this pandemic. How do they navigate and negotiate the troubling and contradictory directives about masks coming from their home and host countries during this pandemic? What are the impacts of their experiences on their attitudes towards the American society? Drawing from stigma theory, we argue that what Chinese students experience when it comes to mask wearing is an exemplar of how stigma is socially constructed by power. Through 30 semi-structured and in-depth phone interviews with Chinese students, we find that Chinese students cope with such stigma through various mechanisms, and most notably, through the counter-narrative of discrediting the American mainstream belief in the usage of masks. However, they harbored these thoughts privately. In addition, we conclude that escalating geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, coupled with the lack of social integration of Chinese students in America, will continue to alienate them, despite the subsequent destigmatization of mask-wearing in America.

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“…The majority of the studies are focused on Asian Americans or old generation immigrants, such as the 2012 Pew Research Center study, which exhibited the Asian American community as the fastestgrowing group in the United States, as well as the highest level of education and household income (The Rise of Asian American, 2012). Fan et al's study demonstrates the anti-China discrimination from the United States would increase Chinese international students' support toward the Chinese government (Fan et al, 2020).Currently, Chinese people in the U.S. are in a quite awkward position: they are the victims of Asian Hate. Chinese people that came to the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s showed pro-racism attitudes towards the BLM movement and other civil rights movements within the U.S. (Thanawala, 2021).…”

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Between Nationalism and Beaconism

Wang

Cheng

2021

J Stud Res

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This study investigated how Chinese people in the U.S. view racism and racial issues from the perspective of Chinese university students in the U.S.. The research is based on Critical Race Theory (CRT) to define racism and found that the majority of Chinese college students regard the situation as a problematic one, and they are supportive of civil rights movements such as Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate. Additionally, though most of the interviewees have not heard of CRT, through their responses to other questions, they show acceptance of the concepts of CRT; for example, almost all of the interviewees responded that they would consider racism as a social problem instead of a personal one.

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How Discrimination Increases Chinese Overseas Students' Support for Authoritarian Rule

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Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West

Chinese Public’s Support for COVID-19 Surveillance in Relation to the West

To mask or not to mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic: how Chinese students in America experience and cope with stigma

Between Nationalism and Beaconism

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