Ronggui Huang

Fudan University · Department of Sociology

Left-leaning social thoughts are not a unitary and coherent theoretical system, and leftists can be divided into divergent groups. Based on inductive qualitative observations, this article proposes a theoretical typology of two dimensions of theoretical resources and position orientations to describe left-wing social thoughts communicated in online...

Existing studies of protest outcomes have focused on the effects of organizational characteristics, disruptive tactics, and political opportunity structures. However, most studies, especially those situated in Western democracies, fail to adequately account for the paths to successful protests in authoritarian regimes like China because of the stru...

This study aims to investigate Weibo users’ political ideologies in China. It argues that a left-right spectrum cannot adequately depict the ideological landscape, and proposes a typological framework to guide the analysis of competing ideologies. Based on a sample of 3440 Weibo users, this article uses latent class model to identify sub-types of i...

The Weibo platform is a social space for interaction and expression. This requires scholars to examine, in a simultaneous fashion, communication patterns and the communicated content among Weibo users. Based on theories of ‘network and culture’ and relational sociology, this article contends that network fields and the communicated cultural meaning...

摘要 本文在质性观察和归纳的基础上提出一个由“思想理论资源”与“立场取向”两个维度构成的理论模型，用以建构关于网络左翼思潮的类型学。在此基础上，本文使用个案观察加大数据文本分析的混合方法对三种网络左翼思潮进行研究，从经验上辨识与类型学一致的左翼社会思潮，即“国家主义左翼思潮”“民粹主义左翼思潮”与“自由主义左翼思潮”。此外，我们利用监督性机器学习技术与社群侦测技术，辨识各个网络左翼派别的社群结构，并分析它们彼此之间的网络互动与社群结构的演进。研究发现，随着时间的推移，“自由主义左派”逐渐式微，不再构成相对独立的互动社群；“民粹主义左派”与“国家主义左派”之间存在更密切的关系，但两者间裂痕的扩大也带来网络冲突的增加。 Abstract： Leftist social thought i...

Urban space plays an important role in shaping the meaning-making process in relation to urban activism, especially for disorganized, spontaneous, and short-lived protests occurring in authoritarian regimes. Taking protests against locally unwanted land use (LULU) projects as an example, this article examines how urban space shapes the meaning-maki...

Empirical studies on Chinese homeowners’ activism regarding defending their rights focus mostly on either political opportunities or resource mobilization and often neglect the cognitive process of homeowner activists in developing their rights consciousness. This study attempts to use the perspective of framing and cognitive liberation to gain a n...

基于“网络与文化”和关系社会学的理论，本文指出网络场域与所沟通的文化内容之间存在互构关系。作者使用话题模型分析了关注劳工议题的用户所发布的51288条博文，结果显示，劳工话题大致包括四类：文化与公益、工人的困境与问题、罢工维权与工人组织、制度与劳工权。对用户间互动模式的社群侦测揭示了5个主要社群，结合社群关注的议题，作者将其称为工人家园社群、工人文化社群、工人维权社群、劳工权益关注群体、劳工制度关注社群。本文进一步指出劳工领域的两个新趋势：一、随新生代工人的壮大，工人文化与城市融入等议题受到较多的关注；二、微博促进研究者与劳工组织的互动，在一定程度上有助于后者从制度上反思工人的境况。最后，文章讨论了大数据分析在网络文化与社会心态研究中的应用。 Weibo platform is a soc...

While the literature on Chinese environmental politics tends to examine NGO actions and popular protests as two separate facets of environmental activism, such a tendency runs the risk of missing the linkages that have begun to emerge among environmental forces. This new phenomenon is highlighted with a case study of local opposition against the si...

Having incorporated the characteristics of Chinese politics, this article puts forward an exploratory analytic framework for understanding protest success and points out how political opportunities and protest frames can explain protest success. Political opportunities not only include direct intervention by the central government but also support...

This study intends to enrich the literature of comparative studies on growth machine and urban regime through contextualized analyses of growth politics in Shanghai, China. An analytical framework is developed to advance our understanding of the variation of growth politics in a different urban setting. In particular, this study contends that local...

This study explores the use of Weibo in a protest against a nuclear fuel processing plant in China. This study argues that social media play an important role in the development of protests in non-democratic societies through the mechanism of preference revelation, which blurs the boundary between offline protests and the individualized expression...

This article presents a comparative study of homeowners' organizational coalitions in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Based on the analyses of the data from documents, first-hand interviews and Internet networks, the homeowners' organizational coalition in Shanghai was found to be weaker than that in Guangzhou. This article proposes an analytical framework...

This study explores the structures of follower/identification networks among non-government environmental organizations on Sina Weibo by using social network analysis techniques, and unpacks the formation mechanisms of these networks by integrating the literature of inter-organizational networks, social movement coalitions, Internet studies and the...

本文结合中国政治的特点提出理解抗争成功的探索性分析框架，指出政治机会与框架对抗争结果具有较强的解释力，而“客观的”政治机会不仅包括中央干预，还包括央媒支持性报道和有利的制度框架。文章使用模糊集定性比较分析方法对2003-2012年40个具有社会影响力的拆迁抗争案例进行系统的比较。结果表明，中央干预与央媒支持性报道并存的“多渠道强干预”是抗争成功的充分条件，而“多渠道强干预”则取决于有利的制度环境和抗争者的多重混合框架化策略。此外，本文通过对案例的分析展示了成功抗争中的动力机制。本研究不仅丰富了抗争结果研究，还拓展了政治机会结构理论和框架化研究。

This study examines frames and framing processes in the opposition to a proposed nuclear material processing plant in Guangdong' Jiangmen city, which led to the suspension of the plan. Systematic analysis of microblog posts belonging to the hashtag of “Jiangmen nuclear crisis” on Sina Weibo revealed two important oppositional frames: risk of radioa...

Despite the anticipation that the legal system would be able to offer a civilized and institutionalized means in settling the infringement of homeowners' property and consumer rights, empirical evidence has instead indicated a decline in the employment of litigation in dispute resolution. This paper attempts to examine the complex interaction betwe...

This paper explores the structure and the mechanisms involved in the formation of a hyperlink network of Guangzhou city's 118 homeowner forums in the context of a collective action by the homeowners. It develops a contextual analytical framework contending that the structure of the hyperlink network is influenced by utility values and utilization c...

This study examines information diffusion and the follower network among a group of Sina Weibo users interested in homeowner associations. Using social network analysis techniques, this paper explores the network structure, the formation of follower relations and information diffusion. It reveals that micro-blogging is an important online platform...

As the work-unit system fell after economic reform in China, neighborhoods replaced work units as the primary provider of vital social services for the urban population and became a new social space for enhancing the quality of people's well-being. This study examined the neighborhood characteristics that influenced personal well-being of residents...

Studies on the Internet in China mainly focus on issues at the macro level, like state control, democracy or human rights. Few studies have examined the role of the Internet in collective contention from the meso- and micro-level. Guided by the theories of contentious politics and based on documentary data such as news reports, online diaries of pa...

This paper examines, from the governmentality perspective, how social work contri-butes to the recent political mission of the Chinese party state in constructing a harmo-nious society. A political rationality was constructed in response to new social and political challenges, and a new problematic of government was created, which por-trayed person...