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Xing CHEN

Assistant Professor
Fudan University
xingc@fudan.edu.cn

About Me

Hi! My name is Xing Chen (陈醒, meaning of my first name). I am an assistant professor at School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University. I obtained my PhD in Environmental Economics and bachelor degree in Environmental Science from Peking University. My advisor was Professor Jintao Xu from National School of Development. Additionally, I spent a year as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, supervised by Professor Peter Berck.

My experiences in Shanghai ignited my interest in politics. My current research focuses on public opinion and political economy within authoritarian systems. Drawing on real-world observations, I provide empirical insights into how information, trauma, and psychocultural factors shape political trust and decision-making. I am particularly interested in how the collective unconscious subtly distorts people’s perceptions of new information.

My research has appeared or is forthcoming in Governance, Journal of Development Economics, and World Development, among other journals.

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Teaching

At Fudan University, I have a lot of joy teaching quantitative methods and causal inference courses at various levels and sometimes received incredibly high teaching evaluation scores. At Peking University, I taught graduate-level microeconomics for international students.

Instructor at Fudan University

Teaching Assistant at Peking University

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经济学季刊(*2), Chinese Political Science Review, Global Public Policy and Governanc, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Chinese Governance, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Public Administration and Development, Public Management Review, Public Performance & Management Review, World Development

Professional Activities

PhD Program Placements of RAs

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