Publications & Manuscripts

Ji, Eugene Yu (forthcoming). “Unraveling Authoritarian Reform Strategies: A Metacognitive-Subcognitive Model.” (Accepted in American Journal of Political Science AJPS; available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5143309)

Ji, Eugene Yu (2025). “A Metasemantic-Metapragmatic Framework for Taxonomizing Multimodal Communicative Alignment.” (in review; ArxivPreprint: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.01535)

Zhang, Bolun, Yang Shen, Linzhuo Li, Eugene Yu Ji*, Di Wu, Tongyu Wu, Lianghao Dai (2025). “Tinkering Against Scaling.” ArxivPreprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.16546 

Ji, Eugene Yu (2024). “Performing as Ways of Knowing: Projects of Legibility and State Simplification in Postcolonial Hong Kong.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology JLA 00 (0): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12434

Ji, Eugene Yu (2024). “Large Language Models: A Historical and Socio-cultural Perspective.” Cognitive Science, 48, e13430. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13430

Ji, Eugene Yu (2022). “A Cognitively Driven Weighted-entropy Model for Embedding Semantic Categories in Hyperbolic Geometry.” ArxivPreprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.06876.pdf

Ji, Eugene Yu. “Cognitive and Cultural Topology of Linguistic Categories: A Semantic-Pragmatic Metric Approach.” (in review)

Ji, Eugene Yu. “Bounded Rationality’s Missed Integration: Methodological Pragmatics and Normative Spillovers in Simon, Williamson, and North.” (R &R in The Journal of the History of Economic Thought JHET)

Ji, Eugene Yu. “A Motivational Theory of Principal–Agent Dynamics within China’s Bureaucratic System.” (2025 MPSA) 

Ji, Eugene Yu. “From Revolution to Development: Chronotope, Recontextualization, and Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour.” (2025 SSHA)

Ji, Eugene Yu. “A Dynamical-Systems Approach to Metapragmatic Awareness of Cross-Generational Lexical Variations.” (in preparation)

Ji, Eugene Yu*, Marieke Huysentruyt, Yuhao Zhuang. “Empowering the Margins: Aspirational Transformations of Impoverished Youth in Rural Southwest China.” (in preparation)

Ji, Eugene Yu*, Marieke Huysentruyt, Yuhao Zhuang. “Speaking the Future: Evidence from a Human–AI Field Experiment on the Effects of Motivational Framings with Children Living in Extreme Poverty in Rural China.” (In preparation)

Chen, Liu & Eugene Yu Ji*. “Modeling The Genre-Footprint of Mid-to-Late Tang Chinese Literati.” (in preparation)

Ji, Eugene Yu. “Medium Specificity and Recursive Embodiment in Shitao (1642 -1707)’s Daoist Paintings.” (in preparation)