Ideas Mobilize People: The Di\ufb00usion of Communist Ideology in China<\/strong><\/p>\n Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Ying Bai of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his co-authors investigate this question by analyzing how exposure to Communist ideology shaped an individual\u2019s decision to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during its formative stage. Their study focuses on cadets at the Whampoa Military Academy, who played crucial roles in China\u2019s major 20th-century con\ufb02icts. Their identi\ufb01cation strategy leverages the locality-time-content variation in the circulation of the New Youth magazine\u2014the primary platform promoting Communism following the Treaty of Versailles in 1919\u2014and the variation in an individual\u2019s location over time. Comparing Whampoa cadets living in a locality with access to post-1919 New Youth against those who lived in the same locality but missed this channel, they \ufb01nd that the former were signi\ufb01cantly more likely to join the CCP, and that this party choice was consequential in subsequent con\ufb02icts. They also \ufb01nd that family background did not predict party choice, but that social networks complemented ideology exposure. In this Quantitative History Webinar, Ying Bai will present their analyses of other periodicals and organizations that support post-1919 New Youth\u2019s role as a proxy for Communism penetration in a locality.<\/p>\n Ying’s co-authors: Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego) and Runnan Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)<\/p>\n Discussant: Debin Ma (Oxford)<\/p>\n Live on Zoom on April 27, 2023 <\/p>\n The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series, now entering its fourth year, is co-organized by Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. [AoE\/B-704\/22-R]). \u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7db2\u4e0a\u8b1b\u5ea7\u7cfb\u5217\u7531\u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78\u9673\u5fd7\u6b66\u548c\u99ac\u99b3\u9a01\u6559\u6388\u806f\u5408\u767c\u8d77\uff0c\u65e8\u5728\u4ecb\u7d39\u524d\u6cbf\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u6210\u679c\u3001\u4fc3\u9032\u540c\u4ec1\u4ea4\u6d41\uff0c\u63a8\u5ee3\u91cf\u5316\u65b9\u6cd5\u5728\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u7684\u61c9\u7528\u3002\u672c\u7cfb\u5217\u8b1b\u5ea7\u7531\u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78\u7d93\u7ba1\u5b78\u9662\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3\u548c\u570b\u969b\u91cf\u5316\u6b77\u53f2\u5b78\u6703\u627f\u8fa6\uff0c\u53ca\u9999\u6e2f\u4eba\u6587\u793e\u6703\u7814\u7a76\u6240\u5168\u529b\u652f\u6301\u3002\u5f9e2023\u5e74\u958b\u59cb\uff0c\u7cfb\u5217\u5f97\u5230\u4e2d\u570b\u9999\u6e2f\u7279\u5225\u884c\u653f\u5340\u7814\u7a76\u8cc7\u52a9\u5c40\u5353\u8d8a\u5b78\u79d1\u9818\u57df\u8a08\u5283\u7684\u91cd\u8981\u8cc7\u52a9 (\u9805\u76ee\u7de8\u865f[AoE\/B-704\/22-R])\u3002<\/p>\n Conveners:
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\n09:00 London | 17:00 Tokyo | 18:00 Sydney <\/p>\nAbout the Quantitative History Webinar Series<\/h5>\n
\nProfessor Zhiwu Chen<\/a>
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