A Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 28691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7546-4959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The impact of organizational artificial intelligence adoption on employee turnover intention: An identity-based perspective
This study used the social identity threat theory and attachment theory to empirically investigate the impact of organizational AI adoption on turnover intentions through identity threat. In addition, we examined the moderating role of organizational attachment styles. An analysis of three-wave survey data from 312 employees from China. The findings revealed that identity threat mediated the relationship between organizational AI adoption and tur…
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing
Do Test-takers imitate Examiners’ language use? What about the other way around? This paper is centred on the impact of verbal imitation in spoken L2 English language tests. We assessed this by measuring Test-takers’ and Examiners’ degrees of dialogic resonance (Du Bois, J. (2014) ‘Towards a dialogic syntax’, Cognitive Linguistics, 25: 359–410. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0024; Tantucci, V. (2023) ‘Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are imp…
Dematerialization and Digital Ink-Painting Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Animation: Redefining the ‘National Style’ in Deep Sea (2023)
This research scrutinizes the implications of the ‘national style’ in Chinese ink-painting animation, with a focus on the digital era transformation, utilizing Deep Sea (2023) as a case study. The authors employ a visual and critical analysis of the film’s innovative three-dimensional (3D) ‘particle-ink technology’, invented by director Tian Xiaopeng, which digitizes traditional elements like water and ink. They find that this shift from physical…
Cognition, willingness, and behavior towards human papillomavirus vaccination in Chinese university students: Planned behavior, health beliefs, and media influence
This study assessed Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination knowledge, willingness, and status among University of Nottingham Ningbo undergraduate students, utilizing the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Health Belief Model (HBM). Self-administered questionnaires covered demographics, sexual behavior, and factors influencing vaccination intentions. Quantitative and qualitative analyses included t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, logistic re…
Cultural overflow vs. cultural export: Black Myth: Wukong and the evolution of Chinese gaming in global creative industries
This study examines Black Myth: Wukong, China’s first AAA (Triple-A) game, as a transformative medium that bridges traditional Chinese mythology and modern digital storytelling. Drawing from Journey to the West, a cornerstone of Chinese literary heritage, the game integrates advanced gaming technologies with immersive narratives, offering an organic reinterpretation of classical mythology for a global audience. Employing Walter Benjamin’s theory …
Digital echoes of conformity: Navigating elderly fandom and intergenerational ‘creativity’ on Douyin within the shadow of the culture industry
This article examines how elderly audiences engage with internet celebrities on Douyin (TikTok’s Chinese equivalent) through the lens of the Frankfurt school – with Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse, and Habermas’s critical theories towards the cultural industry. According to them, the culture industry’s mass-produced cultural goods promote conformity, suppress critical thought, and encourage passive consumption to benefit capitalism. This study foc…
The interplay between digital platforms and user-generated content in reinterpreting and recreating mythological narratives with traditional Chinese cultural elements: The animated series Yao-Chinese …
This paper critically unpacks the reinvigoration of mythological narratives with traditional Chinese cultural elements on 哔哩哔哩Bilibili using the animated series 中国奇谭 Zhongguo Qitan ‘Yao-Chinese Folktales’, specifically focusing on the narrative 小妖怪的夏天 Xiao Yaoguai De Xiatian ‘Nobody’ (Lit. ‘A Little Monster’s Summer’) as the case study. The article explores Bilibili’s unique digital ecosystem and user-generated content, shedding light on how they…
Value-Based State-Directed Payments in Medicaid Managed Care
This cross-sectional study examined the scale and scope of value-based state-directed payments in Medicaid managed care
TGCF but lesbian?”: The dangai anime TGCF and its transnational fandom
The platformization of socially constructed gender realities: The ‘Fat Cat incident’ (2024)
Digital Vigilantism and Chinese Digital Feminisms: The Shi Hang Case and the Double-Edged Sword of Online Justice-Seeking
Can the farmers speak? The paradox of the subaltern narrative in Return to Dust
This article examines 隐入尘烟 Yinru Chenyan ‘Return to Dust’ (2022) (henchforth Dust), directed by Li Ruijun, as a powerful critique of rural marginalization and socio-economic inequities in contemporary China. The film illustrates the hardships faced by Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, representing rural individuals marginalized by prevailing urban narratives and enduring institutional neglect and exploitation. Using narrative analysis and building on th…
Effect of traditional Chinese medicine on metabolism disturbance in ischemic heart diseases
Gender Construction in the Chinese Fandom of Korean Pop Culture: A Case Study of BTS and BLACKPINK Fans
This research delves into the influence exerted by BTS and BLACKPINK, prominent K-pop idol groups, on Chinese K-pop fans’ perceptions of gender, gender equality, and inclusivity. Employing data collected through a comprehensive survey distributed among a diverse cohort of fans (35 young Chinese K- pop fans), the study examines the impact of these musical phenomena’s image and temperament on their Chinese followers’ conceptualization of gender con…
The Impact of China’s Biopolitical Approach to Covid-19 on Pets
Using the frameworks of biopower and uses and gratification theory, this article examines the treatment of pets in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and the role of social media in fulfilling users’ social needs by facilitating discussions on associated animal welfare issues and mobilizing animal advocates to take action. The analysis focuses on how social media comments on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, have influenced public discour…
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction
In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning predi…
Unboxing the Chinese Blind Boxes among China’s grown-up missing children: Probabilistic and elastic prosumption through mediated collection, exchange and resale of figurines
This paper situates the ‘Blind Box’ consumption, collection and prosumption practices in China within globalisation and the ‘media-mix’ fandom, which is to consume and resell media merchandise in opaque packages as probability goods. We re-centre the focus of fandom studies on the then much neglected ‘missing child’ and now the ‘emerging adult’ in a globalising world. We argue the Chinese emerging adult consumes, collects and resells Blind Boxes …
A new approach for reducing pollutants level: A longitudinal cohort study of physical exercises in young people
The present findings indicate that physical exercises can be considered as a novel approach to eliminate pollutants level in human body and can also give suggestions for choosing specific physical exercises to male and female individuals. Moreover, those who are with higher BMI need to lose weight before eliminating pollutant level through physical exercises
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Cliché-ridden Online Danmei Fiction? A Case Study of Tianguan ci fu
Popular literature online is often misconstrued as being cliché-ridden and formulaic, and has thus not attained as much critical attention as ‘serious’ literature. I propound that popular literature published in China’s cyberspace deserves more attention and hermeneutic scrutiny, and I place an emphasis on danmei (耽美) fiction that features male-male romantic and/or erotic relationships and is predominantly published on a female-oriented website c…
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural 'value' of information transmission
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
Adverbial adjuncts in Late Archaic Chinese
Inter-lingual Homophony: Neige as a Demonstrative/Filler in Mandarin Chinese
The demonstrative/filler neige in Mandarin Chinese is potentially contentious outside that language,as it bears resemblance in terms of pronunciation with a racial slur in English. Nonetheless, neigedoes not possess any racist connotation in Mandarin Chinese, and its analysis needs to take intoconsideration historical and contextual information. The form neige is a colloquialism of its formalequivalent nage, which has functioned as a demonstrativ…
‘Farming Writing’: An Innovative Subgenre of Internet Literature
As an innovative subgenre of Internet literature, ‘farming writing’ has attained popularity in contemporary China’s cyberspace, which, in a narrow sense, denotes narratives pertaining to agronomic theories and agrarian practices. Disparate from cliché-ridden web romances that deploy authorial ‘golden finger’ to equip protagonists with impeccable demeanour and prowess, ‘farming’ fiction is characterised by reality-oriented, detail-enriched depicti…
Illocutional concurrences: The case of evaluative speech acts and face-work in spoken Mandarin and American English
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural 'value' of information transmission
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny: A usage-based analysis of knowledge ascription and expected agreement
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction
Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They con…
Digital Vigilantism and Chinese Digital Feminisms: The Shi Hang Case and the Double-Edged Sword of Online Justice-Seeking
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Illocutional concurrences: The case of evaluative speech acts and face-work in spoken Mandarin and American English
Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin
This article provides a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the present. It focuses on illocutional concurrences (IC) where the change of rapport management with the interlocutor significantly correlates with evaluative speech acts. The IC are holistic patterns that emerge at various levels of an utterance. They con…
From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny: A usage-based analysis of knowledge ascription and expected agreement
Adverbial adjuncts in Late Archaic Chinese
Inter-lingual Homophony: Neige as a Demonstrative/Filler in Mandarin Chinese
The demonstrative/filler neige in Mandarin Chinese is potentially contentious outside that language,as it bears resemblance in terms of pronunciation with a racial slur in English. Nonetheless, neigedoes not possess any racist connotation in Mandarin Chinese, and its analysis needs to take intoconsideration historical and contextual information. The form neige is a colloquialism of its formalequivalent nage, which has functioned as a demonstrativ…
‘Farming Writing’: An Innovative Subgenre of Internet Literature
As an innovative subgenre of Internet literature, ‘farming writing’ has attained popularity in contemporary China’s cyberspace, which, in a narrow sense, denotes narratives pertaining to agronomic theories and agrarian practices. Disparate from cliché-ridden web romances that deploy authorial ‘golden finger’ to equip protagonists with impeccable demeanour and prowess, ‘farming’ fiction is characterised by reality-oriented, detail-enriched depicti…
Face and politeness in fandom in China
Face and politeness in fandom in the People's Republic of China are driven by a dominating focus on rank, which entails a prodigious amount of social media interaction, primarily occurring as posts and comments on the microblogging website Weibo. When interacting with their fellows in the same fandom, fans refer to a collective identity in order to maintain or enhance rapport with their interlocutors. Fan members use deliberately opaque and alien…
Feminist Discussions on The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy
As the first Asian Hugo Award laureate, Liu Cixin is an illustrious science-fiction writer in China, whose chef-d’oeuvre is an award-winning trilogy entitled Remembrance of Earth’s Past, or more widely renowned by the title of its first volume, viz. The Three-Body Problem. The series not only features intercivilisational belligerence via a fecundity of imagination and richness of imagery-evoking representation, but also manifests humanity and ben…
Nonnormative Masculinity in Danmei Literature: ‘Maiden Seme’ and Sajiao
Masculinity in contemporary China can be embodied by myriads of works featuring male-male same-sex intimacy and eroticism, which fall into a genre dubbed as danmei ‘addicted to beauty; indulgence in beauty’, aka Boys Love (BL). As a marginalised yet increasingly visible subculture, danmei writing has attracted legions of female producers/consumers, who are (self-)referred to as ‘rotten girls’. The female-oriented fiction is overwhelmingly marked …
Contemporary Danmei Fiction and Its Similitudes with Classical and Yanqing Literature
Danmei, aka Boys Love, is a salient transgressive genre of Chinese Internet literature. Since entering China’s niche market in 1990s, the danmei subculture, predominantly in the form of original fictional creation, has established an enormous fanbase and demonstrated significance via thought-provoking works and social functions. Nonetheless, the danmei genre is not an innovation in the digital age, in that its bipartite dichotomy between seme ‘to…
Urinary levels of dimethoate, bisphenol A and benzo[a]pyrene in first-year students of Hohai University from different geographical regions
The average level of environmental chemical accumulation in freshmen is lower in Southwest China and differs in youth who live in different regions. In addition, obesity is correlated with higher toxin levels in youth
Breaking an Eagle and Pick-Up Artists in a Chinese Context
In this paper, I analyse a thought-provoking 1986 novella concerning falconry from a contemporary perspective. Breaking an Eagle depicts a process during which a recalcitrant and adamantine wild falcon is tamed into an acquiescent hunting tool through a series of manoeuvres that annihilate its willpower. I propound this is analogous to a phenomenon dubbed ‘PUA’ that is permeating every section of contemporary Chinese society. As a cultural import…
Resonance and engagement through (dis-)agreement: Evidence of persistent constructional priming from Mandarin naturalistic interaction
Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction
In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance of a prior speaker. In this study, we argue that such similarity can inform the machine learning predi…
Unboxing the Chinese Blind Boxes among China’s grown-up missing children: Probabilistic and elastic prosumption through mediated collection, exchange and resale of figurines
This paper situates the ‘Blind Box’ consumption, collection and prosumption practices in China within globalisation and the ‘media-mix’ fandom, which is to consume and resell media merchandise in opaque packages as probability goods. We re-centre the focus of fandom studies on the then much neglected ‘missing child’ and now the ‘emerging adult’ in a globalising world. We argue the Chinese emerging adult consumes, collects and resells Blind Boxes …
A new approach for reducing pollutants level: A longitudinal cohort study of physical exercises in young people
The present findings indicate that physical exercises can be considered as a novel approach to eliminate pollutants level in human body and can also give suggestions for choosing specific physical exercises to male and female individuals. Moreover, those who are with higher BMI need to lose weight before eliminating pollutant level through physical exercises
Dynamic Resonance and Explicit Dialogic Engagement in Mandarin First Language Acquisition
The present article aims to shed light on the relationship between priming and creativity throughout Chinese children’s ontogenetic development. It has been suggested that priming in naturalistic interaction occurs not as an exclusively implicit phenomenon. New methodological desiderata beyond traditional acceptability judgments have been proposed, including large-scale corpus-based analysis, as it is noted that priming may correlate with interlo…
Cliché-ridden Online Danmei Fiction? A Case Study of Tianguan ci fu
Popular literature online is often misconstrued as being cliché-ridden and formulaic, and has thus not attained as much critical attention as ‘serious’ literature. I propound that popular literature published in China’s cyberspace deserves more attention and hermeneutic scrutiny, and I place an emphasis on danmei (耽美) fiction that features male-male romantic and/or erotic relationships and is predominantly published on a female-oriented website c…
Reciprocity and epistemicity: On the (proto)social and cross-cultural 'value' of information transmission
Reciprocity is a (proto)social mechanism that involves (im)politeness as a balance of positive and negative actions among individuals: doing something good to someone is expected to be reciprocated in kind (cf. Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The same applies for negatively charged behaviour (Culpeper & Tantucci 2021). The present study advances the theory of reciprocity both empirically and theoretically, as it extends the model to contexts of inform…
Gender Construction in the Chinese Fandom of Korean Pop Culture: A Case Study of BTS and BLACKPINK Fans
This research delves into the influence exerted by BTS and BLACKPINK, prominent K-pop idol groups, on Chinese K-pop fans’ perceptions of gender, gender equality, and inclusivity. Employing data collected through a comprehensive survey distributed among a diverse cohort of fans (35 young Chinese K- pop fans), the study examines the impact of these musical phenomena’s image and temperament on their Chinese followers’ conceptualization of gender con…
The Impact of China’s Biopolitical Approach to Covid-19 on Pets
Using the frameworks of biopower and uses and gratification theory, this article examines the treatment of pets in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and the role of social media in fulfilling users’ social needs by facilitating discussions on associated animal welfare issues and mobilizing animal advocates to take action. The analysis focuses on how social media comments on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, have influenced public discour…
Philippine hedging strategy from the perspective of neoclassical realism
As the main diplomatic strategy of the Philippines towards China, the hedging strategy has been practiced for a long time. In recent years, with the acceleration of Sino-American Geopolitical Competition, as well as the transfer of power in the Asia Pacific region, Southeast Asian countries are facing new strategic decision-making pressure. From the perspective of neoclassical realism, systemic pressure is transmitted through internal factors wit…
Can the farmers speak? The paradox of the subaltern narrative in Return to Dust
This article examines 隐入尘烟 Yinru Chenyan ‘Return to Dust’ (2022) (henchforth Dust), directed by Li Ruijun, as a powerful critique of rural marginalization and socio-economic inequities in contemporary China. The film illustrates the hardships faced by Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying, representing rural individuals marginalized by prevailing urban narratives and enduring institutional neglect and exploitation. Using narrative analysis and building on th…
Effect of traditional Chinese medicine on metabolism disturbance in ischemic heart diseases
Do Examiners and Test-takers imitate each other? Dialogic resonance in second language testing
Do Test-takers imitate Examiners’ language use? What about the other way around? This paper is centred on the impact of verbal imitation in spoken L2 English language tests. We assessed this by measuring Test-takers’ and Examiners’ degrees of dialogic resonance (Du Bois, J. (2014) ‘Towards a dialogic syntax’, Cognitive Linguistics, 25: 359–410. doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0024; Tantucci, V. (2023) ‘Resonance and recombinant creativity: Why they are imp…
Sociology (18 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (9 works) · History (9 works)