Yanru Chen received her B.A. and M.A. in communications from California State University and her Ph.D. in communication research from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She is a professor with Xiamen University and the winner of a provincial top prize for research in social sciences. Her research has been published extensively at home and abroad, including a book with Springer and articles in American, European, Australian and Asian journals. She wrote the first books on communication campaigns and the effect of patriotic education in China's market economy era.