P Zhao
Biographic Data
| ID | 18041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Zhao |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhao |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6011-9148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Approaches to resisting linguistic hegemony in critical and participatory qualitative research
In this methodological paper, we explore the interplay between language shift and research practice in critical and participatory qualitative inquiry. We begin by observing that performing qualitative research frequently requires a shift to English, the hegemonic academic lingua franca–a process often rooted in extractive colonial logics. We argue that critical and participatory qualitative methodologies can play an important role in resisting li…
Accidents for Boys and Shame on Girls
Translation of Cultures and Texts
In this methodological paper, we raise the question of what a culturally responsive translational practice might look like in qualitative research. Through examining the literature on translation in culturally responsive theories and qualitative research methodology, we distinguish two approaches in addressing the issue of translation: translation as texts and translation as cultures. To enact a culturally responsive translational practice, quali…
From language to translanguaging in qualitative research
In this paper, we explore the monolingual assumptions enacted in qualitative methodological practice, which often render multilingual linguistic phenomena invisible or frame them as barriers to valid research. We discuss the conceptualization of language in qualitative methodological literature and explore how a theoretical lens of translanguaging might inform us in methodological practices. In particular, we address this question from three aspe…
Reconceptualizing the Link Between Validity and Translation in Qualitative Research
Qualitative researchers often take for granted that the process of translation involves finding in the target language an equivalent linguistic expression to the one used in the source language. The validity of translation in qualitative research is thus based on the equivalence between the original and the translated texts, and correspondingly, uncertainty and differences between the two are treated as threats to validity and trustworthiness. In…
Feminist Collective Interpretation
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews With Children Online
In this article, we engage with the concept and theories of “affordance” in the adoption of digital tools to perform qualitative inquiry. We first raise the question of what is afforded when we use online digital tools such as Zoom to interview young children (5–10 years old) and then draw on empirical examples from our multi-sited critical ethnography with transnational Chinese children to illustrate our key methodological points. We lay out thr…
China’s 21st Century Maritime Strategy
In less than three decades, the People’s Liberation Army Navy developed from a minor coastal-defence force into the largest naval force in the world. China’s rapid rise in seapower has gained significant attention from established naval circles, academia, and the public. In their efforts to explain this development, analysts have often referred to 19th-century naval history, seeking to connect China’s maritime developments to the ideas of influen…
The role of Gwadar in China’s maritime strategy
China’s rapid naval modernization has sparked global attention, as the People’s Liberation Army Navy surpassed the United States Navy in 2020 as the largest maritime force in the world. However, in this development, most attention has been directed at Chinese naval developments in its eastern maritime periphery, in relation to the South and East China Seas and the Taiwan Strait. However, concrete actions regarding China’s maritime strategy are al…
Perempuan Adat dan Kemiskinan
This article stems from my experience of conducting ethnography on indigenous Dayak Benawan women in West Kalimantan for approximately two years. Documenting the experiences and knowledge of indigenous Dayak Benawan women was a challenge for me as a researcher, a man, and part of the Dayak Benawan people. Reflection on field data reveals that indigenous women of Dayak Benawan experience multiple oppressions of poverty, starting from the family sy…
Storyworlding
In this paper, we introduce a new feminist methodology, storyworlding. Storyworlding is a feminist, participatory methodology to engage in culturally informed and ethnographically rich stories through which we establish our being together. The paper explores crucial onto-epistemological shifts in two important concepts—world and story as the basis for how we engaged storyworlding while also advancing the Marxist idea of praxis in order to propose…
Not waves but ripples
This paper presents an empirical study derived from the WomenWeLove Project (http://ofwomenwelove.org/) and inspired by the storyworlding methodology. Exploring the central questions of how we became feminists and what enabled us to encounter each other in the Feminist Research Collective, we, the two authors, shared our stories with the women we love and contextualized them within their respective socio-cultural histories of the time. The follow…
Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack
This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on K…
Propriety, empowerment and compromise
Although the past two decades have witnessed the substantial development of sex education in mainland China, Chinese society at large is both conservative and silent in addressing sex-related issues, especially with children and adolescents. Against this background, how do Chinese sex educators understand gender, sexuality and sexuality education, and how do they put their understandings into practice? In this article, we explore these questions …
Working the hyphens in contemporary China
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative fieldwork in an authoritarian state. Drawing on a long-term project conducted in China, I discuss how my interaction with the participants was mediated by the pervasive state power. This phenomenon adds a new layer to the question “can the subaltern speak,” and calls for a refined understanding of the researcher-participant relationship. Borrowing insights from r…
Reconceptualizing the Link Between Validity and Translation in Qualitative Research
Qualitative researchers often take for granted that the process of translation involves finding in the target language an equivalent linguistic expression to the one used in the source language. The validity of translation in qualitative research is thus based on the equivalence between the original and the translated texts, and correspondingly, uncertainty and differences between the two are treated as threats to validity and trustworthiness. In…
Storyworlding
In this paper, we introduce a new feminist methodology, storyworlding. Storyworlding is a feminist, participatory methodology to engage in culturally informed and ethnographically rich stories through which we establish our being together. The paper explores crucial onto-epistemological shifts in two important concepts—world and story as the basis for how we engaged storyworlding while also advancing the Marxist idea of praxis in order to propose…
Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack
This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on K…
Translation of Cultures and Texts
In this methodological paper, we raise the question of what a culturally responsive translational practice might look like in qualitative research. Through examining the literature on translation in culturally responsive theories and qualitative research methodology, we distinguish two approaches in addressing the issue of translation: translation as texts and translation as cultures. To enact a culturally responsive translational practice, quali…
Feminist Collective Interpretation
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
Working the hyphens in contemporary China
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative fieldwork in an authoritarian state. Drawing on a long-term project conducted in China, I discuss how my interaction with the participants was mediated by the pervasive state power. This phenomenon adds a new layer to the question “can the subaltern speak,” and calls for a refined understanding of the researcher-participant relationship. Borrowing insights from r…
Not waves but ripples
This paper presents an empirical study derived from the WomenWeLove Project (http://ofwomenwelove.org/) and inspired by the storyworlding methodology. Exploring the central questions of how we became feminists and what enabled us to encounter each other in the Feminist Research Collective, we, the two authors, shared our stories with the women we love and contextualized them within their respective socio-cultural histories of the time. The follow…
Propriety, empowerment and compromise
Although the past two decades have witnessed the substantial development of sex education in mainland China, Chinese society at large is both conservative and silent in addressing sex-related issues, especially with children and adolescents. Against this background, how do Chinese sex educators understand gender, sexuality and sexuality education, and how do they put their understandings into practice? In this article, we explore these questions …
Working the hyphens in contemporary China
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative fieldwork in an authoritarian state. Drawing on a long-term project conducted in China, I discuss how my interaction with the participants was mediated by the pervasive state power. This phenomenon adds a new layer to the question “can the subaltern speak,” and calls for a refined understanding of the researcher-participant relationship. Borrowing insights from r…
Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack
This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on K…
Perempuan Adat dan Kemiskinan
This article stems from my experience of conducting ethnography on indigenous Dayak Benawan women in West Kalimantan for approximately two years. Documenting the experiences and knowledge of indigenous Dayak Benawan women was a challenge for me as a researcher, a man, and part of the Dayak Benawan people. Reflection on field data reveals that indigenous women of Dayak Benawan experience multiple oppressions of poverty, starting from the family sy…
Storyworlding
In this paper, we introduce a new feminist methodology, storyworlding. Storyworlding is a feminist, participatory methodology to engage in culturally informed and ethnographically rich stories through which we establish our being together. The paper explores crucial onto-epistemological shifts in two important concepts—world and story as the basis for how we engaged storyworlding while also advancing the Marxist idea of praxis in order to propose…
Not waves but ripples
This paper presents an empirical study derived from the WomenWeLove Project (http://ofwomenwelove.org/) and inspired by the storyworlding methodology. Exploring the central questions of how we became feminists and what enabled us to encounter each other in the Feminist Research Collective, we, the two authors, shared our stories with the women we love and contextualized them within their respective socio-cultural histories of the time. The follow…
The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews With Children Online
In this article, we engage with the concept and theories of “affordance” in the adoption of digital tools to perform qualitative inquiry. We first raise the question of what is afforded when we use online digital tools such as Zoom to interview young children (5–10 years old) and then draw on empirical examples from our multi-sited critical ethnography with transnational Chinese children to illustrate our key methodological points. We lay out thr…
China’s 21st Century Maritime Strategy
In less than three decades, the People’s Liberation Army Navy developed from a minor coastal-defence force into the largest naval force in the world. China’s rapid rise in seapower has gained significant attention from established naval circles, academia, and the public. In their efforts to explain this development, analysts have often referred to 19th-century naval history, seeking to connect China’s maritime developments to the ideas of influen…
The role of Gwadar in China’s maritime strategy
China’s rapid naval modernization has sparked global attention, as the People’s Liberation Army Navy surpassed the United States Navy in 2020 as the largest maritime force in the world. However, in this development, most attention has been directed at Chinese naval developments in its eastern maritime periphery, in relation to the South and East China Seas and the Taiwan Strait. However, concrete actions regarding China’s maritime strategy are al…
Reconceptualizing the Link Between Validity and Translation in Qualitative Research
Qualitative researchers often take for granted that the process of translation involves finding in the target language an equivalent linguistic expression to the one used in the source language. The validity of translation in qualitative research is thus based on the equivalence between the original and the translated texts, and correspondingly, uncertainty and differences between the two are treated as threats to validity and trustworthiness. In…
Feminist Collective Interpretation
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
Accidents for Boys and Shame on Girls
Translation of Cultures and Texts
In this methodological paper, we raise the question of what a culturally responsive translational practice might look like in qualitative research. Through examining the literature on translation in culturally responsive theories and qualitative research methodology, we distinguish two approaches in addressing the issue of translation: translation as texts and translation as cultures. To enact a culturally responsive translational practice, quali…
From language to translanguaging in qualitative research
In this paper, we explore the monolingual assumptions enacted in qualitative methodological practice, which often render multilingual linguistic phenomena invisible or frame them as barriers to valid research. We discuss the conceptualization of language in qualitative methodological literature and explore how a theoretical lens of translanguaging might inform us in methodological practices. In particular, we address this question from three aspe…
Approaches to resisting linguistic hegemony in critical and participatory qualitative research
In this methodological paper, we explore the interplay between language shift and research practice in critical and participatory qualitative inquiry. We begin by observing that performing qualitative research frequently requires a shift to English, the hegemonic academic lingua franca–a process often rooted in extractive colonial logics. We argue that critical and participatory qualitative methodologies can play an important role in resisting li…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (5 works) · China (4 works)