Outputs (10)

Strategic Profiles and Tactical Shifts: Rethinking China’s Digital Diplomacy (2025)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Struve, B., & Wang, W. (2025). Strategic Profiles and Tactical Shifts: Rethinking China’s Digital Diplomacy. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251341686

This article revisits assumptions about China's "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy by analysing patterns in official digital communication. Drawing on a manually coded sample of 3,846 tweets from verified Chinese diplomatic accounts (2017-2022), we identify fi... Read More about Strategic Profiles and Tactical Shifts: Rethinking China’s Digital Diplomacy.

Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future (2024)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J. (2024). Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future. China Quarterly, 259, 629-644. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023001649

In this article, I examine the ROC president's discursive response to PRC efforts to limit Taiwan's future possibilities and undermine confidence in Taiwan's future. I argue that the capacity to imagine the future, and perceiving agency to affect fut... Read More about Time Matters in Cross-Strait Relations: Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan’s Future.

Private Investment in Chinese Football Clubs: Political Capital and State-Business Exchanges (2023)
Journal Article
Ross, T., Sullivan, J., & Lai, H. (2023). Private Investment in Chinese Football Clubs: Political Capital and State-Business Exchanges. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52(3), 518 - 541. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026231188142

Business-government relations play a crucial role in China's economic development and policy implementation. Situated in an asymmetric dependency nexus, local officials court business investments to facilitate policy and boost their political careers... Read More about Private Investment in Chinese Football Clubs: Political Capital and State-Business Exchanges.

China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications (2023)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Zhao, Y., & Wang, W. (2023). China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications. China Quarterly, 256, 1036-1052. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574102300070X

In 2020, hundreds of sub-national government officials and Chinese Communist Party cadres undertook a months-long experiment in livestreaming and social commerce. These sectors are among the most dynamic in the Chinese internet economy and culture, y... Read More about China's Livestreaming Local Officials: An Experiment in Popular Digital Communications.

China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism (2022)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Wang, W. (2023). China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 52(1), 68-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026221079841

For all the popular interest in “wolf warrior diplomacy,” scant attention has been paid to the internal logics and mechanics of representative communications, notably the intersection with grassroots cyber-nationalism. Centring the connections betwee... Read More about China's "wolf warrior diplomacy:" The interaction of formal diplomacy and cyber-nationalism.

China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces (2019)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., Chadwick, S., & Gow, M. (2019). China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 43(6), 493-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723519867588

This article examines the mobilization of football in relation to Chinese state-building projects. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “symbolic power” is applied to frame policy analysis of China’s 2016-2050 National Football Plan and narrative analysis of... Read More about China’s Football Dream: Sport, Citizenship, Symbolic Power, and Civic Spaces.

Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China (2018)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Kehoe, S. (2019). Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China. China Quarterly, 237, 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018001285

A visit to a Chinese city of any size—looking up at downtown billboards, riding public transport, shopping at a mall—is to be in the presence of a Chinese celebrity endorsing a product, lifestyle or other symbols of “the good life”. Celebrity in Chin... Read More about Truth, Good and Beauty: The Politics of Celebrity in China.

Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan (2018)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018). Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1(2), 273-300. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00102003

How does the Western media frame Taiwan? Analysing a large set of Western newspaper reports over the past two decades, this article provides the first systematic assessment of global coverage of Taiwan. Seeking to explain why Taiwan has been framed i... Read More about Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan.

The KMT’s China policy: gains and failures (2018)
Book Chapter
Sullivan, J., & Smyth, J. (2018). The KMT’s China policy: gains and failures. In A. Beckershoff, & G. Schubert (Eds.), Assessing the presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan : hopeful beginning, hopeless end?. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Sullivan, J., & Cheng, J. (2018). Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53(8), 1173-1187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909618776443

Who are ‘the Chinese’ in Africa? Why are they there? As China’s engagement with African countries intensifies, and the size of the Chinese population in Africa increases, these questions have elicited substantial attention. Many attempts to provide a... Read More about Contextualizing Chinese migrations to Africa.