Zhao Alexandre Huang

@univ-eiffel.fr

Department of Competitive Intelligence, Information and Communication/Institut Francilien d'Ingénierie des Services (IFIS)
Université Gustave Eiffel



                          

https://researchid.co/zhaoalexhuang

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public diplomacy, political and public communication strategies, the strategic narrative in the process of the digitalization of public diplomacy, network communication, and China’s institutional practice studies.

669

Scholar Citations

12

Scholar h-index

14

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Storytelling and grand strategy in public diplomacy: A case study of the speeches of president Xi Jinping
    M Hobbs, M Li, ZA Huang, L Desmoulins
    Public Relations Review 51 (4), 102594 2025

  • China's public diplomacy: A historical analysis of its institutions and conceptual pathways
    ZA Huang
    Handbook on Public Diplomacy, 93-106 2025

  • China–Africa Relations: Intention, Aspiration, and a shared Future through the means of Football
    XL Li, ZA Huang
    Global China and the Global Game in Africa, 31-50 2025

  • @China vs. @ASEAN on X: Their Digital Mediated Diplomacy Involving the #SouthChinaSea
    ZA Huang
     2024

  • Terminology, AI bias, and the risks of current digital public diplomacy practices
    ZA Huang
    Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 1-7 2024

  • Ethical Challenges in the Digitalization of Public Diplomacy
    ZA Huang, P Arceneaux
    The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy, 232-249 2024

  • La diplomatie des diasporas chinoises sur WeChat
    ZA Huang
    Herms, La Revue 94 (2), 103-108 2024

  • From a Global Perspective to a Chinese Perspective: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinese Research Articles on Public Diplomacy
    R Wang, ZA Huang, J Bi, S Dong
    Journal of Public Diplomacy 4 (1), 51-72 2024

  • Public Diplomacy in French Scholarship: Exploratory Analysis of an Emerging Field
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    Journal of Public Diplomacy 4 (1), 112-128 2024

  • Do closer relationships increase content similarity? Assessing transnational agenda-setting influence of Chinese media on Twitter
    R Wang, ZA Huang
    Journalism Practice, 1-20 2023

  • Atypical Wolf Warrior Strategy in China’s Digital Public Diplomacy during the Pandemic
    ZA Huang, Y Zhang, X Wang
    Revue franaise des sciences de l’information et de la communication 2023

  • Conversations de pandas sur Twitter : un instrument adorable des mdias chinois
    ZA Huang, M Hardy, R Wang
    Le Temps des mdias, 253-273 2023

  • Theorizing Wolf Warrior Public Diplomacy: A Renewal or an Innovation of China’s Foreign Propaganda?
    ZA Huang
    2023 International Studies Association (ISA) Convention: SC48-Public 2023

  • Disinformation and Diplomacy
    JL Manfredi-Snchez, ZA Huang
    The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation, 375-396 2023

  • Enacting the organizationality in the networked public diplomacy: the case of the French cultural diplomacy
    M Hardy, ZA Huang
    Questions de communication 44 (2), 131-154 2023

  • Mise en œuvre de l’organisationalit dans la diplomatie publique en rseau
    M Hardy, ZA Huang
    Questions de communication 44 (2), 131-154 2023

  • Radio, Information, and the War
    NJ Cull, ZA Huang
    Herms, La Revue 92 (2), 192-195 2023

  • An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    Journal of Communication Management 27 (2), 309-328 2022

  • Digitalization of public diplomacy: Concepts, trends, and challenges
    I Manor, ZA Huang
    Communication and the Public 7 (4), 167-175 2022

  • L'analyse des stratgies d’influence de l’ambassade de Chine en France l’re de la pandmie de Covid-19
    ZA Huang
    Big Data: Influence, manipulation et micro-ciblage 2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Building a network to “tell China stories well”: Chinese diplomatic communication strategies on Twitter
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    International Journal of Communication 13, 2984-3007 2019
    Citations: 179

  • ‘Panda engagement’in China’s digital public diplomacy
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    Asian Journal of Communication 30 (2), 118-140 2020
    Citations: 94

  • Exploring China’s Digitalization of Public Diplomacy on Weibo and Twitter: A Case Study of the U.S.–China Trade War
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    International Journal of Communication 15 (2021), 1912-1939 2021
    Citations: 74

  • “Wolf Warrior” and China’s digital public diplomacy during the COVID-19 crisis
    ZA Huang
    Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18 (1), 37-40 2022
    Citations: 61

  • Comparing Chinese and European discourses regarding the “Belt and Road initiative”
    O Arifon, ZA Huang, Y Zheng, A Zyw Melo
    Revue franaise des sciences de l’information et de la communication 2019
    Citations: 34

  • La diplomatie publique chinoise sur Twitter: la fabrique d’une polyphonie harmonieuse
    ZA Huang, O Arifon
    Herms, La Revue 81 (2), 45-53 2018
    Citations: 31

  • The New ‘Cat’of the Internet: China’s Panda Diplomacy on Twitter☆
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    Big ideas in public relations research and practice, 69-85 2019
    Citations: 29

  • The Confucius Institute and Relationship Management: Uncertainty Management of Chinese Public Diplomacy in Africa
    ZA Huang
    Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty, 197-223 2021
    Citations: 28

  • #Guanxi @ChineAfrique: La mobilisation des relations interpersonnelles dans la diplomatie publique chinoise l’heure de numrique
    ZA Huang, M Hardy
    MEI-Mdiation et information, 75-86 2019
    Citations: 19

  • An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages
    ZA Huang, R Wang
    Journal of Communication Management 27 (2), 309-328 2022
    Citations: 14

  • Revisiting public diplomacy in a postpandemic world: The need for a humanity-centered communication logic
    RS Zaharna, ZA Huang
    Communication and the Public 7 (1), 7-14 2022
    Citations: 12

  • tudier le chinois et fter le Chun Jie Nairobi: Les Instituts Confucius au service de la diplomatie publique et du soft power chinois
    ZA Huang
    Communiquer. Revue de communication sociale et publique, 39-59 2019
    Citations: 12

  • Digitalization of public diplomacy: Concepts, trends, and challenges
    I Manor, ZA Huang
    Communication and the Public 7 (4), 167-175 2022
    Citations: 11

  • A historical–discursive analytical method for studying the formulation of public diplomacy institutions
    ZA Huang
    Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18 (3), 204 2021
    Citations: 11

  • Vers une diplomatie publique franaise des muses en Chine? La sinisation numrique des stratgies communicationnelles du Louvre
    ZA Huang, M Hardy
    Les Enjeux de l'information et de la communication 213 (S1), 71-87 2021
    Citations: 8

  • La communication publique et d'intrt gnral
    D Bessires, ZA Huang
    Les fondamentaux de la communication: Pratiques et mtiers en volution, 201-220 2021
    Citations: 6

  • Chinese public diplomacy on Twitter: Creating a harmonious polyphony
    ZA Huang, O Arifon
    Hermes, La Revue 81 (2), 45-53 2018
    Citations: 5

  • #Guanxi @ChinaAfrica: mobilizing interpersonal relations in Chinese public diplomacy at the digital age
    ZA Huang, H Mylne
    MEI. Mediation et Information, 75–86 2019
    Citations: 4

  • Do closer relationships increase content similarity? Assessing transnational agenda-setting influence of Chinese media on Twitter
    R Wang, ZA Huang
    Journalism Practice, 1-20 2023
    Citations: 3

  • Atypical Wolf Warrior Strategy in China’s Digital Public Diplomacy during the Pandemic
    ZA Huang, Y Zhang, X Wang
    Revue franaise des sciences de l’information et de la communication 2023
    Citations: 3