Academic Staff

YANG SHEN, TERRY (楊燊)

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

Yang, Shen* and Zhiyuan Ding, Accepted, “Trust in the Courts in Hong Kong: Levels, Dynamics, and Sources”. Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Yang, Shen. Online first. “Contesting Nationalism: Global Citizenship and Chinese identity in Hong Kong”. Nations and Nationalism

Huo, Derek and Shen Yang*. 2025. “The Economic Consequences of Protest Repression: the Case of Business Activism in Hong Kong.” Political Behavior 47, 1901–1923. (equal authorship)

Yang, Shen. 2025. “Attitudes toward Authority and Decentralisation of Social Movements: Evidence from Hong Kong.” China: An International Journal 23(3), 64-84.

Wang, Yu* and Shen Yang. 2025. “Chief Executive and Cabinet Member Approval in Hong Kong: A Rolling-Window Granger Causality Analysis”, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 37(2).

Wu, Jie and Shen Yang*. 2024. “The Rise of Pro-regime Intellectuals and Their Mass Persuasion Strategies on China’s Internet.” Journal of Contemporary China 33(149), 887–902.

Yang, Shen. 2024. “Decoding Mixed Identities in Hong Kong: A Clustering Analysis of Multiple Identity Indicators.” Social Indicators Research 171, 585-603.

Yang, Shen and Alfred M. Wu*. 2024. “The Political Effects of Economic Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong.” Social Indicators Research 171, 749-769.

Yang, Shen, and Fengshi Wu*. 2022. “From Online Mass Incidents to Defiant Enclaves: Political Dissent on China’s Internet.” The China Journal, 87(1) 20-39.

Yang, Shen*, Bo Miao and Alfred M. Wu. 2022. “Immigration and Public Attitudes towards Social Assistance: Evidence from Hong Kong.” Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 25(1), 28-44.

Li, Linda Chelan, Man Luo and Shen Yang. 2020. “Institutional Differentiation and Institutional Change: The Reform of the Greater Bay Area” Journal of Public Administration 19 (2): 23 – 39. (in Chinese)

Yang, Shen. 2020. “Enclave Deliberation and Social Movement Mobilization: the DDays in Occupy Central.” Social Movement Studies 19 (2): 144-159.

Yang, Shen. 2019. “In the Name of the Law: Legal Frames and the Ending of the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong.” Law & Social Inquiry 44 (2): 468–90.

Wu, Fengshi*, and Shen Yang. 2016. “Web 2.0 and Political Engagement in China.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 27 (5): 2055–76.

Book:

Yang, Shen. 2024. Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes, and Consequences. Oxon and New York: Routledge.

Book Reviews:

"The Chinese Model of Consensus Decision-making: A Case Study of Healthcare Reform" by Wang Shaoguang and Fan Peng, Harvard-Yenching New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship. 2019

"Environmental Resistance in Rural China: the Case of Huazhen" By Deng Yanhua, Harvard-Yenching New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship. 2019

"The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Sustaining Decentralized Protest" By Cai Yongshun, The China Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp.185-187, 2018.

"Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Protest, Patronage, and the Media" By Stan Wong, The China Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 171-173, 2015.

Teaching Subjects

Academic Year: 2025-2026

1st Term:	GOV3101 Empirical Political Analysis: Approaches and Methods
2nd Term:	GOV3210 Comparative Politics

	Assistant Professor BSocSc (CityU); MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
	Office:	Rm. 311, Dorothy Y L Wong Building Lingnan University Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
	TEL:	(852) 2616 7946
	FAX:	(852) 2465 1429
	Personal website:	http://yangshen.ink
	e-Mail:	[email protected]
Terry Shen Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Lingnan University. Previously, he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2018-2019) and an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019-2021). Trained as a comparative political scientist, he specializes in the politics of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. His research interests cover comparative politics, political economy, contentious politics, social identities, and public opinion. His research has been published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Contemporary China, Law & Social Inquiry, Nations and Nationalism, Political Behavior, Routledge, Social Indicators Research, Social Movement Studies, The China Journal, and others.