乐鱼体育

Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan

Expert Bio

Hsin-Hsin Pan is assistant professor of Sociology at Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. Her research interests focus on political sociology, social psychology, survey methods, and social foundation for political transformation in contemporary China. She has published in Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Democratization, and Global Asia. Pan holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She has a master鈥檚 degree and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. She can be reached via hhp@scu.edu.tw

Expertise

• Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
• Democracy
• Security and Defense
• Public Opinion
• Asia

• Taiwan, China

乐鱼 体育 Project

China鈥檚 Economic Statecraft in Buying Hearts and Minds in Taiwan

Project Summary

The relationship across the Taiwan Strait has long been characterized by extensive economic integration and a hostile political relationship. This outcome is puzzling, particularly because the PRC has for decades encouraged deeper economic integration with Taiwan, suggesting that such integration would help to facilitate national unification by 鈥渨inning hearts and minds鈥� on the island. Yet the prospects for peaceful political integration between China and Taiwan appear as remote as ever: only a small percentage of Taiwan鈥檚 citizens view unification with the PRC as an attractive possibility. It seems, then, that economic integration has not facilitated political convergence as hoped by Beijing. In this project, we propose to use experimental surveys to comprehensively evaluate how China鈥檚 sharp power penetrates people鈥檚 political perceptions. Specifically, we empirically test how individuals in Taiwan view cross-Strait economic exchange and how economic exchange affects their views on cross-Strait political issues.

Major Publications

• Pan, Hsin-Hsin. 2020. 鈥淚s the US the Only Role Model in Town?- Empirical Evidence from the Asian Barometer Survey.鈥� Journal of Asian and African Studies 55(5): 733-749.
• Pan, Hsin-Hsin, Wen-Chin Wu, and Yu-tzung Chang. 2017. 鈥淗ow Chinese Citizens Perceive Cross-Strait Relations: Survey Results from Ten Major Cities in China.鈥� Journal of Contemporary China 26(106): 616-631.
• Wu, Wen-Chin, Yu-tzung Chang, and Hsin-Hsin Pan. 2017. 鈥淒oes China鈥檚 Middle Class Prefer (Liberal) Democracy?鈥� Democratization 24(2): 347-366.