Professor @SPIA_UGA. Studies social activism, digital politics. Author of Contesting Cyberspace in China (2018) & Make China Great Again (2026)
Georgia, USA
Joined March 2012
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"The Party doesn’t have to do anything. Somebody is actually doing their job, writing those stories, trying to popularize them, and actually connecting the Party to the people..."
Savannah Billman interviews @HanRongbin on the internet authors rewriting China's history: buff.ly/pojlTb2
I was thrilled to speak to Savannah Billman at @thewirechina about my new book Make China Great Again! Check the interview out here: thewirechina.com/2026/07/19/…
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My new book, COMPETING FOR SOFT POWER is just out with @CambridgeUP. Through extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia and China, I decide China's "image-making," both its ambitions and inconsistencies. Please check it out: tinyurl.com/4hbxebxu
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Professor Rongbin Han's new book, "Make China Great Again," is featured in this story from @FinancialTimes!
@HanRongbin
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🚨Job Alert🚨 @umichpolisci is hiring for a junior position on China/MENA! Both CP/IR are welcome! Detailed job ad is lsa.umich.edu/polisci/curren…. Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/188808
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MAKE CHINA GREAT AGAIN underscores how aspirations for the rebirth of the nation can bolster undemocratic politics—in China and elsewhere. buff.ly/kjB91sd @HanRongbin
ALT Promotional graphic with a light blue background and Columbia University Press branding. Book cover at left: Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism by Rongbin Han. The cover resembles a web browser window with bold yellow text on a red background. At right is an endorsement quote describing the book as a groundbreaking study of digital popular culture and politics. Bottom banner includes discount code CUP20SM.
Looking forward to discuss my book on Make China Great Again web novels and China's ideational governance in the University of Minnesota China Center’s webinar series next week (May 19). More info and registration link here: chinacenter.umn.edu/events/m…
Wow, President Xi Jinping just said Make China Great Again (China's national rejuvenation) and Make America Great Again (MAGA) can go hand in hand! Indeed, my recent book argues that they are somewhat two sides of the same coin.
Peak internet nerd achievement unlocked: my @ColumbiaUP author Rongbin Han’s new book on the politics of Chinese alt-history web novels is featured over at @WIRED mag wired.com/story/made-in-chin…
Great to hear that people find my recent book relevant and enjoyable!
Modern China's collective psyche is one hell of a tension: a superpower desperately reconciling its strength with a self-inflicted shame over a "century of humiliation." So obsessed with national destiny that people love alternate history fiction to dream up a stronger ancient China. A wonderful article from @ZeyiYang. also i've been enjoying @HanRongbin's new book!
Thanks @ZeyiYang for a wonderful conversation!
This week's newsletter: Contrary to MAGA, who dream of reviving the old America, there's an online boom of time travel sci-fi in China trying to rewrite the country's unglorious past. @HanRongbin's new book call them the "Make China Great Again" fiction.
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Rongbin Han retweeted
The portal for my predoc research fellow position is now open. The program is also open to international applicants, with the ability to sponsor J-1 visas.
Please apply if you are interested: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/20…
/btw Please refrain from sending email inquiries --- I'm overwhelmed. Personally, the most effective way to show your work is through your manuscripts or GitHub repos.
Thrilled to share that my new book Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism (Columbia UP) has come out. This is the first book studying China's Internet literature, esp. alt-history fiction from the perspective of authoritarian legitimation.
Get 20% off w/ code CUP20 if you order directly from the publisher (cup.columbia.edu)
Here is a direct link to the book: cup.columbia.edu/book/make-c…
My recent open-access article provides a new perspective to understand politics and propaganda in today's China. “Propaganda State 2.0” in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4aAVoKb
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📢 New open-access article alert 📢
@HanRongbin uses ethnographic work and text analysis to examine how communism, both as an ideology and a practice, fares in post-reform, digital-age China. bit.ly/4dtbVQw #RegGov @WileyPolitics
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My colleagues, @HanRongbin, @KevinWagnerPhD, @profandrewm, and I are so pleased to finally get this out. We are all very proud to add to the collection of great works in the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics.
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