MCI researcher Dr Tao Wang awarded 3-year Hallsworth funding
The ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp China Institute is delighted to announce that former MCI postdoc, Tao Wang, has been awarded the prestigious funding award for a period of three years.
Dr Wang obtained his Ph.D. in Politics from the ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp in 2021 with his doctoral research focusing on how the informal rule of guanxi affects political representation in Taiwan. After completing his Ph.D. in the 2021-2022 academic year, Dr Wang worked at the MCI as a Research Associate on several projects about both Taiwanese and Chinese public opinion, where he collaborated widely with a global network of scholars. Dr. Wang also initiated the highly successful talks series at the MCI, enabling many young scholars to present their research to a multidisciplinary group of peers.
It was my great honour to receive the Hallsworth Research Fellowship. It offers me a timely and unique opportunity to explore the exciting field of authoritarian public opinion. I am looking forward to working alongside my colleagues at MCI and beyond
As a Hallsworth Research Fellow, Dr. Wang is formulating a new project about Chinese views of cross-strait relations. The study will examine the increasingly bellicose rhetoric about cross-strait relations in Chinese public opinion and explore the driving forces behind it.