Gary C.S Fong

Gary C.S Fong

PhD Candidate at Penn State

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

  1. Ho, Lawrence Ka-Ki., Fong, Chi Shun., and Wan, Trevor T W. (2021). High Level of (Passive) Compliance in a Low-Trust Society: Hong Kong Citizens’ Response Towards the COVID-19 Lockdown. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(2), 1046–1061. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa090.
  2. Fung, Chi Keung Charles and Fong, Chi Shun. (2020). The 1967 Riots and Hong Kong’s Tortuous Internationalization, East Asia, 37(2), 89–105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-020-09328-9.

Book Chapter

  1. Fong, Chi Shun., and Yuen, Samson. (2021). Movement Leadership in an Era of Connective Action: A Study of Hong Kong’s Student-Led Umbrella Movement. In Cini Lorenzo, della Porta Donatella, and Guzmán-Concha Cesar (Eds.), Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism (pp. 133 – 155). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75754-0_6.

Working paper

  1. Fong, Chi Shun. Borrowing Credibility from Influencers: The Case of Chinese Foreign Propaganda (presented at MPSA 2025 and accepted by APSA 2025).
  2. Liu, Jingping., and Fong, Chi Shun. Channelling protest claims: How Chinese official newspapers responded to anti-waste incineration protests from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping (under review).
  3. Pollert, Issac., Desmarais, Bruce., Cifci, Muhammed., Fong, Chi Shun., and Gopal, Ishita. Fraud, Fairness, and Framing: How State Legislators Tweet about Elections (presented at APSA 2023 and SPPC 2025).
  4. Fong, Chi Shun., and Yuen, Samson. Disaggregating Repression: A Study on the Individual Effects of Repression in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Protests (presented at MPSA 2022).

Work-in-progress

  1. Daniel L. Tavana, Harris, Kevan., Fong, Chi Shun., and Farmanesh, Amir. Regime Support and Preference Falsification in Iran before and after the Mahsa Amini Protests.
  2. Daniel L. Tavana, Harris, Kevan., Fong, Chi Shun. and Farmanesh, Amir. Acquiescence Bias in Authoritarian Regimes.
  3. Liu, Jingping., Fong, Chi Shun., and Hu, Yuhan. Implementation Matters: Discursive Strategies of Authoritarian States to Prevent Upwards Scale-shift of Social Protests (accepted by APSA 2025).
  4. Fong, Chi Shun., and Fu, King-wa. Visual as Emotions: a (Visual) LLM Approach to Study Images and Texts of Social Media Messages from the 2019 Hong Kong Protest (accepted by PolMeth 2025 and abstract accepted by Computational Communication Research).