Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (* Corresponding Author)

• Zhou, Hui and Genia Kostka*. Forthcoming. “When Politics Shapes Technology Adoption: A Cross-National Study of Chatbot Acceptance.”Information, Communication & Society.
• Kostka, Genia and Hui Zhou*. 2026. “Emotional Attachment to AI Chatbots: Evidence from Germany, China, South Africa, and the United States.” Technology in Society 87:103379.
• Yang, Jianchuang and Hui Zhou*. 2024. “The Rhythm of Government: Attention in China's Central- and Provincial-Level Executive Meetings.” China Review 24(1):83–114.
• Zhou, Hui, Junqiang Liu*, Jiang He, and Jianxin Cheng. 2021. “Conditional Justice: Evaluating the Judicial Centralization Reform in China.” Journal of Contemporary China 30(129):434–450.
• Liang, Fengbo, Junqiang Liu*, Hui Zhou, and Paicheng Liu. 2021. “Inequality in the Last Resort: How Medical Appraisal Affects Malpractice Litigations in China.” International Journal of Legal Medicine 135(3):1047–1054.
• Liu, Junqiang, Hui Zhou*, Lingrui Liu, and Chunxiao Wang. 2020. “The Weakness of the Strong: Examining the Squeaky-Wheel Effect of Hospital Violence in China.” Social Science and Medicine 245:112717.

Book Chapters (* Corresponding Author)

• Kostka, Genia* and Hui Zhou. 2026. “Selective Privacy: Why and How Authoritarian States Approach Data Protection in the Digital Era.” In The Oxford Handbook of Human Security, eds. Derek S. Reveron, David P. Polatty, and Summer Marion. New York: Oxford University Press, 561–576.
• Zhou, Hui and Ling Zhu*. 2019. “‘Two Chinas’: Social Equity, Social Policies, and the Urban-rural Divide in China.” In Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region: Conceptualizations and Realities, ed. Morgen Johansen. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 109–136.

Working Papers

• “The Politics of Disasters: How Decentralization Weakens Authoritarian Government Accountability”
• “How Disasters Affect Political Support: Experimental Evidence from an Air Crash Accident”
• “How Economic Globalization Advances Government Accountability: Evidence from Government Websites”

Work in Progress

• “Who Is to Blame and How? Responsibility Attribution in Cases of Technological Disasters”
• “From Profit-Sharing to Residual-Chasing: A Study of Grand Theft in an Era of Economic Slowdown”
• “Rules for Thee but Not for Me: Selective Privacy Enforcement in Chinese Court Judgments”