Media
Jan 2025
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users (Rest of World)
Sept 2024
Sept 2024
China plays a winning move: Developer sells 15.4m copies of game in a week (Al Jazeera English)
August 2024
Will Black Myth: Wukong gaming mania mark a turning point for China’s soft power fortunes? (South China Morning Post)
August 2024
Is China’s Monkey King set for global game glory, despite cultural differences? (South China Morning Post)
April 2024
On ‘China’s Instagram’, women find a space to discuss the routine and taboo (Al Jazeera English)
April 2024
Chinese nationalists take aim at Japanese animation master Miyazaki’s WWII film (South China Morning Post)
October 2023
August 2023
‘For us, by us’: the Tang dynasty-inspired animated film putting Chinese audiences first (South China Morning Post)
July 2023
How late singer Coco Lee crossed cultural divides to bring together Chinese communities around the world (South China Morning Post)
June 2023
Researching Digitalisation of the Chinese State Media (Hong Kong Baptist University)
June 2023
May 2023
Welcome to our Early Career International Fellows (University of Sheffield)
May 2023
May 2023
May 2023
No Joke: China Fines a Comedy Firm $2 Million for ‘Insulting’ the Military (New York Times)
March 2023
Xiaohongshu is teaching young Chinese women how to buy the perfect life (Rest of World)
Feb 2023
Jokes or stereotypes? When ‘made in China’ comedy is no laughing matter (South China Morning Post)
Feb 2023
'Rat rat, I': Chinese youth claim the rat as spirit animal in latest internet subculture (The China Project, previously SupChina)
Oct 2022
The mysterious reappearance of China's missing mega-influencer (Rest of World)
August 2022
Racist videos of Africans fuel a million-dollar industry in China (Euronews)
July 2022
Racist videos about Africans fuel a multimillion-dollar e-commerce industry on China's TikTok (Rest of World)
February 2022
Seattle Paper Fills Gap For Chinese Diaspora Seeking Local News (VOA News)
February 2022
Commentary on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (University of Michigan via Twitter and Youtube)
November 2021
MCC Lecture Series Explores State-run Propaganda in China (Grand Haven Tribune)
October 2021
Panel discussion with Director Hao Wu on People's Republic of Desire, "China Ongoing Perspectives" Film Series (U-M LRCCS)
September 2021
Chinese State Media Want People to Stop Using Internet Slang (VICE World News)
August 2021
UM/UPR Summer 2021 Program Participant Spotlight (U-M/UPR Outreach Collaboration Program Blog)
June 2021
100 Chinese Rappers Team up For Patriotic Track Praising Communist Party (VICE World News)
December 2020
Interview with the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
(U-M LRCCS Blog)
December 2019
How a Chinese Hip Hop Group Fuses Nationalism and Propaganda
(National Communication Association's Communication Currents)
August 2016
Classy Classes: COMM 114S: "Media and Identities in the Globalizing Era"
(Stanford Daily)