Dan Chen

Dan Chen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Her current research examines the versatile role of the media in authoritarian politics and governance. Focusing on China, she studies how local media participate in governance and how authoritarian rhetoric shapes political attitudes and opinions. Recently, she has been focused on political expressions in Chinese popular culture. Dan’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Public Performance & Management Review, Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Experimental Political Science, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Political Research Quarterly, The China Quarterly, Modern China, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and edited volumes.