Rongbin Han

Rongbin Han is Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. His research interests cover digital politics, political participation, popular contention, and state-society relations in authoritarian settings, with an area focus on China. He is the author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience (Columbia University Press, 2018) a nd Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism (Columbia University Press, 2026). He also co-autho red Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online (Oxford University Press, 2023) and co-edited The Xi Jinping Effect (University of Washington Press, 2024). His recent articles have appeared in outlets such as Governance, Regulation & Governance, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Political Research Quarterly, among others.

Website: https://hanrongbin.com/