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H. Christoph Steinhardt

@hcsteinhardt.bsky.social

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Associate Prof @sinovienna, previously CUHK, NUS. Sinophone societies, protests, information, social trust, moral engineering, identities, governance. PI of @ERC_Research project ENGINEERING.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Dear @posit.co, can you please invent an update button. 🙂

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I wonder what incentivizes left-center governments, such as Vienna's, to promote gender neutral language. Public opinion is leaning heavily against it. Granted, Vienna's population is likely more accepting. But I still doubt this wins more voters than it is driving voters away.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Author affiliations in a random sample of publications in 3 top China Studies journals. The dominance of Anglo-US scholars is remarkable. A whopping 48% of knowledge on China published in these journals was produced in the US, UK, AUS and CAN. Only 33% was produced in Mainland China or Hong Kong.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Interesting initiative to highlight and critique the severe under representation of the Global South in German-speaking television news. weisses-rauschen.de/hero/202409P...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

While this is positive, it shows that the interpretation of “most people” is not stable. This is problematic for survey research. Even more problematic is that the radius widens with exposure to education and urbanization (i.e. modernization).

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We also assess the radius of trust in “most people”: the extent to which survey respondents interpret “most people” to include strangers. Previous research has shown that the radius in China is narrow. We confirm this, but also find that the radius has widened over time.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Based on 11 national probability samples from two major surveys (1990-2020), we show that there was no decline of trust. For all indicators of trust - in “most people,” general trust (in strangers) or particular trust (in neighbors) - the means were stable with a slight upward trend.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

The Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology will host Andrew MacDonald from Duke, Kunshan to enlighten us on online privacy attitudes in China. Wed October 11, 18:30-20:00. Be there or be square.

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