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Zhihang Ruan

@zruan.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of political science at Hunter College-CUNY, PhD from Northwestern. Development, labor, land, China, Vietnam. zhihangruan.com

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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
a pattern widely documented in studies of Chinese public opinion, may also exist in Vietnam, but in a more muted form. In the paper, we briefly discuss the potential sources and consequences of this cross-national variation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/2
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Protecting the center until it doesn’t: when blame shifting strategies are nullified in authoritarian regimes
Amid policy crises, many authoritarian regimes often deflect blame onto local authorities to protect their legitimacy. How does this strategy shape public attitudes toward different levels of gover...
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy to share Mai Truong's (Marquette) and my article on blame-shifting propaganda and public opinion in China and Vietnam. For me, one of the most interesting findings in this study is that hierarchical trust (i.e., people trust the central government more than lower-level governments), 1/2
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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Enjoyed this post by Masayuki Yanagisawa and agree with his point about asking big questions. I also like the comparative photo arrangements! newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/nl-83/yan... @cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Rural Village Study in Vietnam: Finding the Balance between Researching Specific Issues and Asking Big Questions
Masayuki Yanagisawa (Environmental History in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese Studies) In the 1990s, when
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wow…
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William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Register today to attend the biggest conference outside the region on geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific! Happening in Cambridge in three weeks: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/indo-... #cambridge #Politics #Asia
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Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2025 - Centre for Geopolitics
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
If you know or are the author of a great paper presented on a Class and Inequality panel at APSA 2024, please nominate it for the Best Paper Award by April 1! You can see the details and other awards of the C&I section here: apsanet.org/membership/o...
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Section45 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Class and Inequality (Section 45) The Section on Class and Inequality supports scholars of politics who study the political causes and consequences of
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
He offered his defense in the podcast, while many listeners were shocked by his ability to evade accountability, manipulate others, and exploit the legal system and his prestigious educational background. 5/5
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
before returning to China and suffering from severe depression. Over the past seven years, Luo has been accused of ongoing patterns of cheating, manipulation, and deception, which were only recently brought to light. 4/5
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Later, Luo reportedly spread defamatory rumors about the victim and provoked her during a gathering. Her boyfriend, angered by Luo's actions, punched him. Luo used this incident as grounds to sue the couple. In the end, the victim served two months in a California prison 3/5
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Luo is accused of sexual misconduct, emotional manipulation, and deception, including a 2017 sexual assault on someone who he met at APSA conferences in 2016 and 2017. The allegations were dismissed by local police and Stanford, citing insufficient evidence. 2/5
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Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A Chinese podcast explores disturbing allegations against "Luo," a recent Stanford PhD graduate in political science. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UhSHwMPziz... 1/5
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斯坦福罗博士风波:双方当事人对「性骚扰」的指控、回应与争议| 故事FM
双方当事人上节目自述
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