Welcome! I am Professor of International Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia. I received my Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Berkeley in December 2012. Before Berkeley, I studied at Peking University, China and National University of Singapore. My research interests are social activism, media politics, political participation, and democratization. My area focus is China.
大家好，我是韩荣斌，在佐治亚大学公共与国际事务学院国际事务系任教授。我于2012年从加州大学伯克利分校获得政治学博士学位。之前我曾在北京大学国际关系学院和新加坡国立大学政治学系学习。我的研究兴趣主要在社会活动、媒体政治、政治参与以及民主化，关注的地区主要是中国。
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My book, Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism is coming out!
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My previous books
Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience. To get the book from Amazon, click here.
Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online (Oxford University Press, 2023) with Jason Gainous, Andrew MacDonald, and Kevin Wagner. To get it from Amazon, click here.
The Xi Jinping Effect (University of Washington Press, 2024), coedited with Ashley Esary. To get it from Amazon, click here.
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Media coverage & public exposure:
Yi-ling Liu, Waving goodbye to Weibo, Rest of World, December 21, 2020.
The Economist, The year of the rat-fink Some people in China help the party police the internet, January 18, 2020.
Washington Post, The Cybersecurity 202: U.S. officials: It’s China hacking that keeps us up at night, March 6, 2019.
Rongbin Han 