Human Security in China

Chi Zhang is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Member of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. Her areas of research interest fall broadly within security studies, constructivism and Chinese political philosophy. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Leeds, and a master’s degree in South Asian Area Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Politics and Religion and Asian Security.

• Introduction.- (Ir)responsible Centrality? External representations of China’s COVID-19 diplomacy.- Human Security, Public Health Crisis, and Legitimacy: How the CCP Overcome the Legitimacy Crisis in the COVID-19 Pandemic through the Party-state-society Triangle?.- Securitising New Energy amidst the Global Pandemic: The Chinese State and the Politics of Climate Change.- The education for patriotism in post-pandemic China: the CCP’s approach to ‘psychological insecurity’ in focus.- Immobility: Surviving the COVID-19 outbreak.- Mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of social media.- Health Security and Public Health Emergency Management in China.