Ran Xi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ran Xi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ran |
| FAMILY NAME | Xi |
| SIGNATURE | XI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1672-8816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interracial Marriage on Douyin
This research explores the portrayal of Chinese masculinities in the context of interracial marriages on Douyin, Chinese TikTok. It examines how their self-representations are shaped by the intersectionality of gender, race, and algorithms and contribute to the broader discourses on race, power, and identity in China. Through purposive sampling on Douyin, this study investigates how Chinese men navigate and showcase their identities in relation t…
I Have Always Seen People Who're out of My League!’
This article examines Rednote , a lifestyle and e‐commerce platform in China predominantly used by women to share personal stories, tutorials, and advice. With over 300 million monthly active users, more than 70% of whom are female, Rednote has become a vibrant space where Chinese women perform and negotiate femininities. This study focuses on a cohort of well‐educated, middle‐class women, who comprise the first generation raised under China's on…
Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in Postsocialist China
This chapter looks at the marginalised masculinities in post-socialist China, exploring their resistance to and realignment with hegemonic masculinity. Beginning with a contextualisation of hegemonic masculinity and its opposition in post-socialist China, this study investigates various forms of grassroots manhood, such as matrilocal husbands in online literature, rural men on digital platforms and ethnic masculinities on social media. These exam…
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou
Masculinities in Chinese boys' love stories
This study investigates the imagined utopia of Chinese masculinity to uncover contemporary ideals of Chinese manhood and prototypes of gender relationships. To this end, the study involves in-depth interviews with 25 danmei creators and online questionnaires collected from danmei communities in mainland China. This study contributes to previous scholarly discussions by delineating danmei’s fandom and danmei’s literary formulae. The created mascul…
Watching the romance together
This research unfolds a new form of TV viewing experience that has enjoyed increasing popularity over a decade in Asia media ecology, which is realized through a participatory commenting interface integrated into the streamlined platforms. By watching and discussing romance together through this design, audiences actively engage with the primary TV production afforded by this technology. To uncover how audiences construct gender images, articulat…
Translating emotions
Conducting a netnography of affect from a participatory interface on bilibili.com, this article explores emotion transmission in an interpreting task. A parallel corpus was transcribed from an interpreting assignment in a press conference led by a China–WHO joint expert team during COVID-19. Drawing on the appraisal model proposed by Martin and White, I compare the speaker's and the interpreter's attitudinal lexis, and conduct an ethnographic stu…
Masculinities in Chinese boys' love stories
This study investigates the imagined utopia of Chinese masculinity to uncover contemporary ideals of Chinese manhood and prototypes of gender relationships. To this end, the study involves in-depth interviews with 25 danmei creators and online questionnaires collected from danmei communities in mainland China. This study contributes to previous scholarly discussions by delineating danmei’s fandom and danmei’s literary formulae. The created mascul…
Watching the romance together
This research unfolds a new form of TV viewing experience that has enjoyed increasing popularity over a decade in Asia media ecology, which is realized through a participatory commenting interface integrated into the streamlined platforms. By watching and discussing romance together through this design, audiences actively engage with the primary TV production afforded by this technology. To uncover how audiences construct gender images, articulat…
Translating emotions
Conducting a netnography of affect from a participatory interface on bilibili.com, this article explores emotion transmission in an interpreting task. A parallel corpus was transcribed from an interpreting assignment in a press conference led by a China–WHO joint expert team during COVID-19. Drawing on the appraisal model proposed by Martin and White, I compare the speaker's and the interpreter's attitudinal lexis, and conduct an ethnographic stu…
Watching the romance together
This research unfolds a new form of TV viewing experience that has enjoyed increasing popularity over a decade in Asia media ecology, which is realized through a participatory commenting interface integrated into the streamlined platforms. By watching and discussing romance together through this design, audiences actively engage with the primary TV production afforded by this technology. To uncover how audiences construct gender images, articulat…
Translating emotions
Conducting a netnography of affect from a participatory interface on bilibili.com, this article explores emotion transmission in an interpreting task. A parallel corpus was transcribed from an interpreting assignment in a press conference led by a China–WHO joint expert team during COVID-19. Drawing on the appraisal model proposed by Martin and White, I compare the speaker's and the interpreter's attitudinal lexis, and conduct an ethnographic stu…
Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in Postsocialist China
This chapter looks at the marginalised masculinities in post-socialist China, exploring their resistance to and realignment with hegemonic masculinity. Beginning with a contextualisation of hegemonic masculinity and its opposition in post-socialist China, this study investigates various forms of grassroots manhood, such as matrilocal husbands in online literature, rural men on digital platforms and ethnic masculinities on social media. These exam…
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou
Masculinities in Chinese boys' love stories
This study investigates the imagined utopia of Chinese masculinity to uncover contemporary ideals of Chinese manhood and prototypes of gender relationships. To this end, the study involves in-depth interviews with 25 danmei creators and online questionnaires collected from danmei communities in mainland China. This study contributes to previous scholarly discussions by delineating danmei’s fandom and danmei’s literary formulae. The created mascul…
I Have Always Seen People Who're out of My League!’
This article examines Rednote , a lifestyle and e‐commerce platform in China predominantly used by women to share personal stories, tutorials, and advice. With over 300 million monthly active users, more than 70% of whom are female, Rednote has become a vibrant space where Chinese women perform and negotiate femininities. This study focuses on a cohort of well‐educated, middle‐class women, who comprise the first generation raised under China's on…
Interracial Marriage on Douyin
This research explores the portrayal of Chinese masculinities in the context of interracial marriages on Douyin, Chinese TikTok. It examines how their self-representations are shaped by the intersectionality of gender, race, and algorithms and contribute to the broader discourses on race, power, and identity in China. Through purposive sampling on Douyin, this study investigates how Chinese men navigate and showcase their identities in relation t…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · China (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Negotiation (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Masculinity (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social media (2 works)