Charles Chang

Monograph Manuscript

  • Charles Chang. “Places are the Media: Political Communication in Contemporary China.” (in progress)

Work under Review

  • Charles Chang and Michael Masterson. “Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Expressions of Chinese Nationalist Sentiments Are Not Just Cheap Talk.” [PDF]
  • Sun, Bolun, Charles Chang, Yuen Yuen Ang, Pingxu Hao, Ruotong Mu, Yuchen Xu, and Zhengxin Zhang. “Creation of the Chinese Adaptive Policy Communication Corpus.” [ PDF (author version) ]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Chen, Juan, Mengyu Liu, Lin Gong, and Charles Chang. 2025. “The Physical and Virtual Presence of the Local State and Citizens’ Life Satisfaction in Urbanising China.” Urban Studies, 62(7): 1334–1357. [PDF]
  • Chen, Juan, Mengyu Liu, Charles Chang, and Yuhua Wang. 2025. “State Infrastructure and Neighborhood Well-Being in Urbanizing China.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 47(1): 142–158. [ PDF ]
  • Chang, Charles, and Yuhua Wang. 2024. “The Reach of the State.” Comparative Political Studies, 57(8): 1243–1275. [ PDF ]
    Winner of the James Caporaso Best Paper Award (Comparative Political Studies, 2024)
  • Chang, Charles. 2024. “The Art of Self-Criticism: How Autocrats Propagate Their Own Political Scandals.” Political Communication, 41(3): 461–481. [ PDF ]
  • Zhao, Shuo, Zhaozhi Li, Zikun Zhu, Charles Chang, Xin Li, Ying-Chi Chen, and Bo Yang. 2024. “An Integrated Framework for Accurate Trajectory Prediction Based on Deep Learning.” Applied Intelligence, 54(20): 10161–10175.
  • Charles Chang. 2021. “Information Credibility under Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from China.” Political Communication, 38(6): 793–813. [PDF]
  • Adam Y. Liu and Charles Chang. 2021. “Standing By: The Spatial Organization of Coercive Institutions in China.” Social Science Research, 94: 102517. [PDF]
  • Chang, C. and Manion, M., 2021. Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble. Comparative Political Studies, 54(8), 1362-1392. [PDF]
  • Charles Chang. 2020. A Data Driven Approach to Study the Social and Political Statuses of Urban Communities in Kunming. Journal of Chinese History 4(2), 461-481 [ PDF ]
  • Charles Chang and Michael Masterson. 2020. Using Word Order to Political Text Classification with Long Short-Term Memory Models. Political Analysis 28(3), 395-411 [JSTOR]
  • Wang, C., Pavlowsky, R.T., Huang, Q. and Chang, C. 2016. Channel Bar Feature Extraction for a Mining-Contaminated River Using High-Spatial Multispectral Remote-Sensing Imagery. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 53(3), pp.283-302.
  • Wardropper, C. B., C. Chang, and A. R. Rissman. 2015. Fragmented Water Quality Governance: Constraints to Spatial Targeting for Nutrient Reduction in a Midwestern USA Watershed. Landscape and Urban Planning, 137, 64–75.
  • Schneider, A., C. Chang, and K. Paulsen. 2015. The Changing Spatial Form of Cities in Western China. Landscape and Urban Planning, 135, 40–61.
  • Chang, C., C. Cao, Q. Wang, Y. Chen, Z. Cao, H. Zhang, L. Dong, J. Zhao, M. Xu, M. Gao, S. Zhong, Q. He, J. Wang, and X. Li. 2010. The Novel H1N1 Influenza A Global Airline Transmission and Early Warning without Travel Containment. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(26), pp.3030–3036.
  • Cao, C., C. Chang, M. Xu, J. Zhao, M. Gao, H. Zhang, J. Guo, J. Guo, L. Dong, Q. He, L. Bai, Y. Bao, W. Chen, S. Zheng, Y. Tian, W. Li, and X. Li. 2010. Epidemic Risk Analysis after the Wenchuan Earthquake Using the Technology of Remote Sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(13), pp.3631–3642.
  • Cao, C., M. Xu, C. Chang, Y. Xue, S. Zhong, L. Fang, W. Cao, H. Zhang, M. Gao, Q. He, and J. Zhao, 2010. Risk Analysis for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Mainland China using Meta-Modeling. Chinese Science Bulletin 55(36): 4pp.168-4178.
  • Xu, M., C. Cao, H. Zhang, J. Guo, K. Nakane, Q. He, J. Guo, C. Chang, Y. Bao, M. Gao, and X. Li. 2010. Change Detection of an Earthquake-Induced Barrier Lake Based on Remote Sensing Image Classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31(13), pp.3521-3534.
  • Bao, Y., G. Li, C. Cao, X. Li, H. Zhang, Q. He, L. Bai, and C. Chang, 2008. Classification of LIDAR Point Cloud and Generation of DTM from LIDAR Height and Intensity Data in Forested Area. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 37(7), pp.313-318.
  • Zhang, Y., Z. Niu, L. Wang, and C. Chang, 2008. Study on Tropospheric NO 2 Change Trend in Cities Using OMI Satellite Data, Geography and Geo-Information Science, 24(3): 96-99 (in Chinese).
  • Li, X.W., C. Cao, and C. Chang. 2007. The First Law of Geography and Spatial-Temporal Proximity. Chinese Journal of Nature, 29(2), pp.69-71 (in Chinese).

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • Huang, Q., Z. Li, J. Li, and C. Chang. 2016. Mining Frequent Trajectory Patterns from Online Footprints. Proceedings of 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS) 2016. San Francisco, October, 2016
  • Chang, C., Z. Ye, Q. Huang, and C. Wang. 2015. An Integrative Method for Mapping Urban Land Use Change Using Geo-sensor Data. UrbanGIS’15: Proceedings of 1st International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics. Seattle, November 2015.
  • Huang, Q., G. Cervone, D. Jiang, and C. Chang. 2015. DisasterMapper: A CyberGIS Framework for Disaster Management Using Social Media Data. BigSpatial’15: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. Seattle, November 2015
  • Xu, M., C. Cao, H. Zhang, Y. Xue, Y. Li, J. Guo, C. Chang, Q. He, M. Gao, and X. Li. Change Detection of the Tangjiashan Barrier Lake Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009 IEEE International, IGARSS 2009", 4, IV-303-IV-306, 2009, IEEE
  • He, Q., G. Li, C. Cao, H. Zhang, Y. Bao, C. Chang, and X. Li, Quantitative Estimation of Desertification Degree Based on PCA Fusion and SVM Using CBERS-02B. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XXXVII, Part B6b, Beijing 2008, 297-300
  • Bao, Y., C. Cao, C. Chang, X. Li, E. Chen, and Z. Li. 2007 "Segmentation to the point clouds of LIDAR data based on change of Kurtosis." International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging: Technology and Applications 2007, pp. 66231N-66231N. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2007.

Book Review

  • Charles Chang. 2019. Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy. By Yu Hong. Journal of Asian Studies. Volume 78, Number 3, Pages 650-652.
  • Fenggang Yang and Charles Chang. 2019. The Law and Religious Market Theory: China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. By Jianlin Chen. Journal of Church and State. Volume 61, Issue 2, Pages 324–326.

Working Papers

  • Charles Chang and Fenggang Yang. “Green Infrastructure, Religious Diversity, and the Logic of Authoritarian Coercion.”
  • Charles Chang and Michael Masterson. “Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Do Expressions of Nationalist Sentiments Signal Loyalty or Genuine Nationalist Feelings?”