Vincent Brussee
PhD candidate
- Name
- V.W.D. Brussee MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2542
- v.w.d.brussee@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4352-8596
Vincent Brussee’s research focus is on the application of data science for contemporary China Studies, looking specifically at domestic policy and governance. In addition, he is interested in surveillance and censorship in China and worldwide. He has been a regular media commentator, having appeared on BBC World News, in Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, and multiple national outlets in Europe.
More information about Vincent Brussee
Fields of interest
Domestic governance and policy of contemporary China; Social Credit System, surveillance and censorship; text as data and data science.
Research
My current research is titled “New challenges, new tools, new opportunities: A data-smart methodological framework to study China’s changing policy-making process under Xi Jinping in the 14th Five-Year Plan”, and focuses on web scraping and text-as-data techniques for the analysis of PRC policy. For this project I have received the NWO PhD in the Humanities grant.
CV
2023-present: PhD Candidate, Leiden University
2020-2023: Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS, Berlin)
2018-2020: MA in Asian Studies (Research), Leiden University, summa cum laude
2015-2018: BA in International Studies, Leiden University, cum laude
Selected publications
My new book, "Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) presents one of the first comprehensive, empirical assessments of China's Social Credit System.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Brussee V.W.D. (20 March 2024), Een Europees verbod gaat de problemen met TikTok niet oplossen. De Volkskrant, Opinie.
- Brussee V.W.D. (2024), Mitigating Missingness in Analysing Chinese Policy and Implications for the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base, The China Quarterly : 1-15.
- Brussee V.W.D. (2023), Social credit: the warring states of China’s emerging data empire. Singapore: Springer Nature.
- Arcesati R. & Brussee V.W.D. (2023), China’s censors back down on generative AI, The Diplomat : .
- Brussee V.W.D. (2022), Authoritarian design: how the digital architecture on China’s Sina Weibo facilitate information control, Asiascape: Digital Asia 9(3): 207-241.
- Grünberg N. & Brussee V.W.D. (2022), The central commission for deepening reform as policy accelerator. In: Pieke F.N. & Hofman B. (Eds.), CPC Futures: the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. 71-77.
- Brussee V.W.D. (12 April 2022), Shanghai in lockdown: China at a crossroads. Deutsche Welle (DW).
- Brussee V.W.D. & Kefferpütz R. (16 June 2022), China and Russia: united in opposition. Berlin: Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). [web article].
- Drinhausen K. & Brussee V.W.D. (2021), China’s Social Credit System in 2021: from fragmentation towards integration. Berlin: Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS).
- Brussee V.W.D. (15 September 2021), China’s social credit system is actually quite boring. Foreign Policy, Argument.
- Grünberg N. & Brussee V.W.D. (9 April 2021), China’s 14th five-year plan: strengthening the domestic base to become a superpower. Berlin: Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). [web article].