Maria Repnikova is an expert on Chinese political communication, and an Associate Professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University. She has written widely on China’s media politics, including propaganda, critical journalism, digital nationalism, and soft power. Maria is the author of the award-winning book, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as the recent, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge Global China Element Series, 2022).