I. Textural Corpora
- Chinese Media Campaigns on Territorial Disputes (CMCTD) Data
that contains all relevant People’s Daily articles during twenty-one Chinese territorial crises, 1946-2017;
- Chinese Media Campaigns Opponent-Referenced (CMCOR) Data
that contains only the five words before and fifteen words after terms that represent the opponent country/government
(Image of People's Daily Front Page on 2/17/1979,
The Day The Sino-Vietnamese Border War Broke out)
Sample Analysis
II. Survey Experiment Data
A survey experiment fielded in China, Vietnam, and the Philippines of 7,830 respondents between March 10 – April 4, 2021, using a hypothetical fishing dispute in the South China Sea, that tests the effect of four types of media manipulation on the public’s foreign policy preferences and their tolerance of a deviant government policy
Sample Analysis
Average Treatment Effects of Four Types of Media Manipulation on the Public's Policy Preference, Tolerance in Attitude, and Tolerance in Action
III. Chinese Diplomatic Tweets Data (w/ Stephanie Kang)
143,048 scraped tweets of 150 unique Chinese diplomatic Twitter accounts -- original, retweets, quotes, and replies -- from January 2017 to January 2021
Sample Analysis
IV. Qualitative Archival Data
- Files on the South China Sea dispute from Academia Sinica and
presidential files on the dispute from Academic Historica, 1933-1971;
- Files on the Sino-Vietnamese border conflict 1979-1991 from the
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre for China Studies at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the library of the School of
International Studies at Peking University, the Center for Cold War
International History Studies at East China Normal University,
municipal archives of Pingxiang, Guangxi Province and of Wenshan,
Yunnan Province of China, the No. 3 National Archives of Vietnam in
Hanoi, the National Library of Vietnam, and the No. 2 National
Archives of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
