Engineering a Trustworthy Society: The Evolution, Perception and Impact of China’s Social Credit System

Project Information

ENGINEERING

Grant agreement ID: 101001964

DOI

10.3030/101001964

EC signature date 26 March 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 887 444,00

EU contribution

€ 1 887 444,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Navigating Through The Fog: Reflexive Accounts on Researching China’s Digital Surveillance, Censorship, and Other Sensitive Topics

Author(s): Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Emilie Szwajnoch, Alexander Trauth-Goik, Ausma Bernot, Fan Liang, Ashley Poon
Published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1067-0564
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2025.2477200

Dreading big brother or dreading big profit? Privacy concerns toward the state and companies in China.

Author(s): H. Christoph Steinhardt, Lukas Holzschuh, Andrew W. MacDonald
Published in: First Monday, 2022, ISSN 1396-0466
Publisher: Munksgaard International Publishers
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v27i12.12679

Civilized cities or social credit? Overlap and tension between emergent governance infrastructures in China.

Author(s): Alexander Trauth-Goik
Published in: Global Media and China, 2023, ISSN 2059-4372
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd and Communication University of China
DOI: 10.1177/20594364231163444

From Financial Supervision to Morality Construction: Political Narratives of the Social Credit System Policy Process

Author(s): Pierre Sel
Published in: China Review, 2024, ISSN 1680-2012
Publisher: Chinese University Press

Chasing a phantom: a re-evaluation of China’s “trust crisis”

Author(s): H. Christoph Steinhardt, Xue Gong, Jan Delhey
Published in: Chinese Sociological Review, 2024, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 2162-0555
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/21620555.2024.2430265

The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China

Author(s): Pierre Sel
Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2025, ISSN 1080-6954
Publisher: Dept. of Political Science, University of Tennessee
DOI: 10.1007/s11366-024-09905-2

Correction: The Digital Masons: Technology Providers and Social Credit System Construction in China

Author(s): Pierre Sel
Published in: Journal of Chinese Political Science, Issue Online first, 2025, ISSN 1080-6954
Publisher: Dept. of Political Science, University of Tennessee
DOI: 10.1007/s11366-025-09910-z

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (2023) Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance. Routledge Studies in Surveillance

Author(s): Alexander Trauth-Goik
Published in: Law, Technology and Humans, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 252-256, ISSN 2652-4074
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
DOI: 10.5204/lthj.3071

Other (1)

What’s new about China’s new (draft) social credit law?

Author(s): Alexander Trauth-Goik Pierre Sel
Published in: 9dashline.com, 2022
Publisher: 9dashline