Journal Articles

• Rou-lan Chen (2025). “The Provisions for Implementing the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and Foreign Investment’s Dilemma: A View from the U.S.–China Tariff War.” Exchange Magazine, 201,https://www.sef.org.tw/article-1-204-16202。
• Rou-lan Chen (2024). “China’s New Energy Industry and the Dual Challenge of Supply Chains: A New Predicament in the Trump 2.0 Era.” Exchange Magazine, 198. https://www.sef.org.tw/article-1-204-15936.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2021. “Stability and Changes in Party Identification in Taiwan:  An Examination of Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects.” Journal of East Asian Studies 21(2): 331-352.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2020. “Trends in Economic Inequality and Its Impact on Chinese Nationalism.” Journal of Contemporary China 29 (121/January): 75-91.
• Rou-lan Chen (2018). “Competition and Cooperation in U.S.–China Relations after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.” Chinese Communist Studies, 52(1), 54-60.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2014. “Reconstructed Nationalism in Taiwan: A Politicized and Economically Driven Identity,” Nations and Nationalism 20 (3): 523-545.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2013. “Taiwan’s Identity in Formation: in Reaction to a Democratizing Taiwan and a Rising China,” Asian Ethnicity 14 (2): 229-250.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2012. “Beyond National Identity in Taiwan: Multidimensional and Evolutionary Conceptualization,” Asian Survey 52(5): 845-871.
• Rou-lan Chen (2015). “Taiwan’s First Local Elections: Institutional Manipulation by the Japanese Colonial Government.” Taiwan Historical Research, 22(3), 139-75.

Book Chapters

• Rou-lan Chen and Lowell Dittmer. 2021. “Chinese Political Business Cycle Enters the New Era,” In China’s Political Economy in the Xi Jinping Epoch: Domestic and Global Dimensions, ed. Lowell Dittmer. California: Rowman & Littlefield, pp.163-188.
• Rou-lan Chen. 2017. “Chinese Youth Nationalism in a Pressure Cooker,” In China and Taiwan: Fitful Embrace, ed. Lowell Dittmer. California: University of California Press, pp.93-113.

Book Review

• Rou-lan Chen. Syaru Shirley Lin, Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy. In The China Journal 78. 2017.

Conference Papers

• Rou-lan Chen, “Partisan Differentiation, Valence, and Third-Force Gains: Voter Transitions in Taiwan, 2020–2024,” paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Politics, Beijing, July 1-6, 2026 (source date: 2026 7 1-6).
• Rou-lan Chen, “Securitization of the Cross-Strait Digital Economy through the TikTok Deal,” Scholars and Experts Forum of the Mainland Affairs Council, Kaohsiung, October 30-31, 2025 (ROC 114).
• Roulan Chen. “Beyond the Rise of the TPP: Ideological Proximity, Candidate Valence, and Generational Shift in Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election.” 2025 IPSA World Congress of Political Science. Seoul, July 12-16, 2025.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Structural Crisis of China’s Economic Downturn,” paper presented at the Academic Conference on Cross-Strait Relations, Tainan, February 13-14, 2025.
• Rou-lan Chen, “Nationalism as a Coping Strategy: Assessing China’s Deployment of ‘Zero-COVID’ Amid the 2022 Downturn,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Taiwanese Political Science Association, New Taipei City, November 23-24, 2024.
• Chu-Ling Tseng, Roulan Chen, and Wen-Chin Wu. “Distributive Unfairness, Nationalism, and Preference for Redistribution.” 2023 The WAPOR Asia Pacific Sixth Annual Conference. The Australian National University. Canberra, December 2-3, 2023.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Rise and Fall of the White Paper Movement: The Contradictions of Exporting a Movement for Domestic Propaganda and of Individualized Collective Action,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Taiwanese Political Science Association, Kaohsiung, November 10-11, 2023.
• Rou-lan Chen, “From ‘Zero-COVID’ to ‘Softening’: A Pandemic-Era Turn in Chinese Nationalism,” paper presented at the 20th-Anniversary Conference of the Political Methodology Training Workshop, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 11, 2023 (source date: 2023 7 11).
• Rou-lan Chen. “Populism, Authoritarianism, and the Enhanced Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.” 2023 Asian Barometer Survey Conference on The State of Democracy in the Post Pandemic Era. National Taiwan University. Taipei, June 13, 2023.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Convergence of Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Re-consolidating the Chinese Communist Party’s Governing Legitimacy under COVID-19,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Chinese Political Science Association, Hualien County, October 28-29, 2022.
• Rou-lan Chen. “The Enhanced Legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party amid COVID-19 Pandemic.” the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. The American Political Science. Québec, September 15-18. 2022.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism and the Reversal of Hong Kong Party Politics,” paper presented in the 20th-Anniversary Series of the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taichung, June 30, 2022 (source date: 2022 6 30).
• Rou-lan Chen. “The Han-wave Populism in Taiwan: a Flash in the Pan?.” Presented at the International Conference on Populism in Asia: The Same or Different Story? Hong Kong, February 25-26. 2022.
• Rou-lan Chen, “Changes in Hong Kong’s Party-Political Landscape: The Interplay of Democratic Resistance to China, Hong Kong Identity, and Economic Rationality,” paper presented at the Taiwanese Political Science Association annual meeting, “International Order and Democratic Challenges after the Pandemic,” Taichung, December 4-5, 2021 (source date: 2021 12 4-5).
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Rise of Populism and the Turn in Nationalism: An Analysis of Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election,” paper presented at the Taiwanese Political Science Association annual meeting, “Global Democratic Backsliding? Political Science Reflections and Responses,” Taipei, December 5-6, 2020 (source date: 2020 12 5-6).
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Fluidity and Diversity of Taiwanese National Identity: An Analysis of the ‘Natural Independence’ Generation,” paper presented at the Chinese Political Science Association annual meeting, “The Challenge of Populism: Its Impacts and Opportunities for Democracy, Global Governance, and International Security,” Tainan, October 26-27, 2019.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Contradictions among National Sentiment, Economic Interests, and the Crisis of Domestic Legitimacy under Economic Globalization,” paper presented at the 2019-2020 Asia-Pacific Regional Situation and Cross-Strait Relations Conference—Young Scholars Forum, Kaohsiung, June 4-5, 2019 (source date: 2019 6 4-5).
• Rou-lan Chen. “The China Factor on the Evolution of Taiwanese Identity: Life-Cycle, Generation, and Period Effects.” Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Chicago, April 4-7. 2019.
• Rou-lan Chen, “Changing Party Identification: An Analysis of the Temporal Effects of Age, Period, and Cohort,” paper presented at the Taiwanese Political Science Association annual meeting, “Changing Great-Power Relations and Democratic Governance,” Yilan County, November 10-11, 2018.
• Rou-Lan Chen & Lowell Dittmer. “The Dynamics of the Chinese Political Business Cycle.” Presented at the International Conference of China’s Political Economy under Xi Jinping. National Chengchi University, Taipei, October 21 to October 22, 2017.
• Rou-lan Chen. “Economic Inequality and Psychological Benefits of Chinese Youth Nationalism.” Presented at the conference on The New Political Landscape in East Asia. Harvard University, Boston, October 2, 2017
• Rou-lan Chen. “Prospect of a Taiwan-U.S. FTA under US’s Party Turnovers in 2017.” Presented at the Conference of UCSD-NSYSU Bilateral Research Symposium. University of California San Diego, March 24-26, 2017.
• Rou-lan Chen, “The Interplay of Thick Data and Big Data: An Empirical Analysis of Chinese Nationalism,” paper presented at the Chinese Political Science Association annual meeting, “Internal and External Challenges and Political-Economic Governance under a New Political Situation: Regional Development, Distributive Justice, and Ethnic Politics,” Hualien County, November 25-26, 2016.
• Rou-lan Chen. “The Rise of Chinese Youth Nationalism: a Generation Imprint or a Short Lived Emotion.” Presented at the Conference of An International Conference on Youth Politics in the Greater China Region. American University. Washington, DC, September 29 to October 1, 2016.
• Rou-lan Chen. “Perspective of the TPP under the scope of Taiwan’s Party Realignment.” Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. The American Political Science. Philadelphia, September 1-4. 2016.
• Rou-lan Chen. “Chinese Nationalism in a Pressure Pot: An Analysis on China’s Raging Youth Phenomenon.” Presented at the Conference of the Contemporary Cross-Strait Relations. Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, May1, 2015.
• Rou-lan Chen, “Economic Development and Transition of Redistribution Power in China,” paper presented at the Taiwanese Political Science Association annual meeting, Taipei, November 12-13, 2011.
• Rou-lan Chen, “A Dynamic Analysis of the Political Business Cycle in China: An Error-Correction Model,” paper presented at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy conference, “Globalization, Democratization, and the Transformation of East Asian Development Models,” Taipei, October 29, 2011.
• Rou-lan Chen. “Changing National Identity in Taiwan: in Reaction to a Democratizing Taiwan and a Rising China.” Presented at the North American Taiwan Studies Association. Austin, June 26-28, 2009.
• Rou-lan Chen. “Ethnic Identity Shift in Taiwan: A Dynamic Analysis” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the East Asian Barometer. Taipei, June 24-25, 2007.
• Rou-lan Chen, “A Study of Taipei Voter Behavior: An Analysis of Taipei’s Stability,” paper presented at the Taiwanese Political Science Association annual meeting, Taichung, May 25, 2001.

Policy Reports

• Rou-lan Chen, “New Trends in China’s Food Security and Their Effects on Taiwan’s Agriculture,” Straits Exchange Foundation, March 23, 2026.
• Rou-lan Chen, “Facing the U.S.–China Tariff War: Crises and Opportunities for Taiwanese Businesses in Bilateral Trade,” Straits Exchange Foundation, 2025-7-23 (July 23, 2025).
• Rou-lan Chen, “Moving toward a ‘Developed Country’: China’s New Predicament in Its ‘Energy Transition War,’” Straits Exchange Foundation, November 10, 2023.

Doctoral Dissertation

• Rou-lan Chen. Identity Reconstruction: When Democratization Meets Globalization. 2012, Berkeley.

National Science Council Projects:

• The Fluidity and Diversity of Taiwanese National Identity: An Analysis of the ‘Natural Independence’ Generation. 107-2410-H-110-047-
• A Study of the Atypical Wave in the 2018 Kaohsiung Mayoral Election. 108-2410-H-110-045-
• Changes in Hong Kong District Council Politics: The Interplay of Democratic Resistance to China, Hong Kong Identity, and Economic Rationality. 109-2410-H-110-050-
• The Convergence of Nationalism, Populism, and Authoritarianism: Re-consolidating the Chinese Communist Party’s Governing Legitimacy under COVID-19. 110-2410-H-110-017-MY2
• Generation Anxiety under the White Paper Movement: The Tension between Lying Flat and Stepping Up, and the Contradiction between Loving Country and Loving Party. 112-2410-H-110-050-MY2

Awards

• National Sun Yat-sen University Excellence in Teaching Award, Academic Year 2020–2021 (ROC 109).