Fan Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fan Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sichuan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2978-7102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 385 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 385 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
State-Mediated Opportunities: Institutional Change and Social Origins of Entrepreneurship in Transitional China
This study develops a historical-institutional account of entrepreneurship in China’s market transition by theorizing a core-periphery inversion in the state-mediated opportunity structure. We argue that as state policies evolved, entrepreneurial opportunities oscillated between the periphery and core in the stratification system, determining which social groups had better opportunities to enter entrepreneurship. Using multi-wave national survey …
Textile-Based Pedagogical Tool in Interaction Design: A Systematic Approach to Shape-Changing Ideation and Prototyping with the Pneum-Textile Toolkit
Chinese Diaspora-Settler Gazes on Rednote: How Platforms Reinforce Colonial, Relational-feminist, and Middle-class Representations
This paper studies how contemporary Chinese diasporic settlers represent their experiences of Australia on Rednote (Xiaohongshu), a visually oriented social media platform with a predominantly young, female user base. Analysis of 248 Rednote posts by Chinese migrants in Australia reveals recurring portrayals of Australia as an empty land of leisure, a site of Chinese female liberation, and a space of upward mobility, framed through colonial imagi…
The Power of Compassion-Seeking: How Enforcement Officers’ Discursive Strategies Foster Citizens’Cooperative Responses Under Policy Ambiguity
Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) often employ compassion-seeking strategies when interacting with citizens under ambiguous policy conditions. However, citizens’ responses to these strategies remain largely unexplored. This study thus examines whether SLBs’ compassion-seeking strategies promote inspectees’ cooperative responses under policy ambiguity. We conducted survey experiments using four real-world enforcement scenarios across emergency and r…
ChatGPT Acceptance and Use in Higher Education: Evidence from a Systematic Review Using the Technology Acceptance Model
The role of party-government joint normative documents within China’s legal system
Party-Government Joint Normative Documents are regulatory texts jointly issued by organs of the Chinese Communist Party and state administrative authorities, designed to coordinate areas where Party leadership and governmental administration overlap. As a distinctive governance instrument within China’s party-state framework, they are important for understanding the interaction between Party authority, administrative regulation, and formal law, y…
Adolescents versus healthcare providers preferences for abortion services: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Jiangsu, China
BACKGROUND: Unintended pregnancies and induced abortions among Chinese adolescents have emerged as a pressing public health concern. Discrepancies in service preference between the supply and demand sides may reduce service utilization and compliance among adolescents, potentially leading to suboptimal reproductive health outcomes. METHODS: We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) incorporating seven service attributes identified through l…
GAI vs. AWE in writing feedback: A comparison from student engagement perspective
This study compared the effects of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) feedback (ChatGPT) and automated writing evaluation (AWE) feedback (Pigai) on student engagement from behavioural, affective, and cognitive perspectives. Using a quasi-experimental design with 105 Chinese EFL learners, data were collected from pre- and post-intervention questionnaires, supplemented by immediate attitudinal ratings, revision analyses, and time-on-task reco…
Decrease of L1–L2 assimilation and its prediction on L2 discrimination: Perception of English coronal fricatives by Mandarin speakers
This study examined the perceptual assimilation and discrimination of English coronal fricatives /s, z, θ, ð/ by Mandarin speakers. The focus was on the effect of L2 experience on L1–L2 assimilation and the validity between assimilation patterns and assimilation overlaps in predicting L2 discrimination. The perceptual assimilation task showed that the more experienced group demonstrated weaker L1–L2 assimilation, corroborating the Revised Speech …
Application of game-based learning of mathematics in primary school grade one——taking a primary school in Beijing as an example
In primary school mathematics teaching, game-based learning can assist teachers in enhancing classroom efficiency, diversifying classroom activities, and fostering more harmonious teacher-student interactions. This study aimed to comprehensively investigate the current status of game-based learning implementation in first-grade primary school mathematics and identify challenges encountered during its application. To achieve this objective, the st…
The Birth of Digital Pandora — The History of the Development of Digital Virtual Images
The article examines virtual images as a result of multifaceted technological and cultural development from the mid-20th century to the present. The subject of the study is the process of formation, complication and humanization of digital images introduced into mass culture ‒ from the first computer images to modern assistants created using artificial intelligence technology and capable of autonomous interaction with users. The work focuses on t…
The association between family capital and physical exercise among young and middle-aged adults: The potential mediating pathway of intergenerational transmission of education
Introduction: Against a backdrop of increasing attention to health inequities, behavioral differences in physical exercise among young and middle-aged adults should be examined through structural factors such as family capital and the intergenerational transmission of education. Methods: This study uses data from the 2023 China General Social Survey and selects a sample of 2,394 adults aged 18-60. An ordered probit model tests the statistical ass…
Fertility awareness among Chinese university students: Scale development and cross-sectional study
Background: Global fertility rates are declining. In China, the total fertility rate dropped sharply from 5.59 in 1971 to 1.15 in 2021. Chinese university students often lack adequate fertility awareness, yet no validated instrument exists to assess this construct in this population, despite its recognized importance for informed reproductive decision-making. Methods: The Fertility Awareness Scale for University Students (FASUS) was developed thr…
Developmental trajectories of visual acuity and associated determinants in Chinese primary school students: A longitudinal cohort study
Objective: This study aims to explore different visual development trajectories among Chinese elementary school students and their risk factors. Methods: A longitudinal cohort study was conducted from 2024 to 2025, involving students from four grades (2020-2023) at a primary school in Chengdu, China. Participants underwent 10 waves of visual acuity examinations over the one-year period. Latent Class Growth Modeling (LCGM) was employed to classify…
Influencing factors of reproductive concerns in reproductive-aged male patients with cancer: A systematic review
Objectives: Advancements in medical technology have significantly improved cancer treatment outcomes, enabling an increasing number of patients to survive long-term post-treatment. However, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery frequently cause varying degrees of damage to the male reproductive system, which affects fertility and leads to varying degrees of reproductive concerns in patients. This study aimed to review the current state and fact…
The effect of dietary nitrate on weight management: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Obesity has emerged as a significant global public health concern. Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, the existing evidence regarding dietary nitrate supplementation remains inconclusive. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary nitrate intake on obesity-related outcomes. Methods A comprehensive search of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating nitrate supplementation in adult…
The association between online learning and young people’s participation in sports and its mediating mechanisms
Background: Against the backdrop of the concurrent Digital China and Healthy China strategies, pervasive digital technologies are profoundly reshaping how young people accumulate human capital and form health behaviors. As a salient form of human capital investment, online learning's independent effect on sports participation remains unclear and may be obscured by the influence of formal education. Clarifying this relationship is important for un…
The evolution of traditional Chinese medicine education policies in China: Themes, characteristics, and experiences—a historical institutionalism analysis based on 197 policy texts
Background: This study examines the historical evolution of Chinese TCM education policies since 1949, analyzing the characteristics of each developmental stage, their underlying driving mechanisms, and their implications for modernizing traditional medical education. Methods: A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative content analysis (using NVivo) of 197 policy documents with qualitative analysis grounded in historical instit…
Ethical Identity Recognition and Political Choice: The Revised Editions and Reissue of the Kangzhan ertong [The Children in the War against Invasion]
This article reviews the four editions of the children's magazine Kangzhan ertong [The children in the war against invasion]. Edited and contributed by members of children's theatrical troupes across China, these magazines exemplify children's participation in mobilising the nation during the Sino-Japanese War. Applying Nie Zhenzhao's ethical literary criticism, the study interprets the magazines as reflecting shifts in children's ethical identit…
Harnessing Ubiquitin-Proteasome System-Related Genes to Identify Subtypes of Bladder Cancer and Reveal Immune Landscape
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is intricately linked to the growth and metastasis of numerous types of cancer. However, current analysis on the function and impact of UPS in bladder cancer (BLCA) is still sparse. First, univariate Cox regression analysis was applied to screen survival-associated UPS-related genes (UPSGs). Then, based on the expression of survival-related UPSGs, BLCA patients were divided into three clusters through unsuper…
How Do Soil Properties Affect Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity? Assessment and Prediction Based on Soils With Different Salinity and Sodicity in the Semi‐Arid Region of Northeast China
Soil salinization represents a globally prevalent manifestation of soil degradation, characterized by structural deterioration and reduced saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks). These alterations critically impair crop water uptake efficiency, ultimately threatening agricultural productivity. Despite extensive recognition of sodicity impacts, knowledge gaps persist regarding the differential mechanisms governing Ks limitation across soils with va…
What does true devotion look like
Devotion is associated with showing commitment to what individuals choose. But is perceived devotion influenced by how individuals react to what they did not choose? Two experiments (N = 1,000) indicate that rejecting alternatives is a key behavioral cue for assessing devotion. Study 1 documents the basic effect: individuals who reject alternatives were seen as more devoted than individuals who accept or are ambiguous toward alternatives. The res…
Beyond the Linear Perspective: Unpacking the Inverted U-shaped Relationship between Employee-AI Collaboration and Perceptions of GenAI
Equity-sensitive pathways to science teacher identity in Western China: The mediating role of self-efficacy in reframing demands and mobilizing resources
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides alleviate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by modulating gut microbiota against TLR4/NF-κB/Mapk pathway and activating AMPK pathway
Post-feminism and chick flicks in China: Subjects, discursive origin and new gender norms
Most research on post-feminist culture has been conducted in the Western context. Within the very limited scholarship on post-feminism in China, the conception of globally transmitted and duplicable post-feminism is dominant, which is usually rationalized in the global expansion of neo-liberalism. This article, however, argues that post-feminism in China exists but encapsulates notable distinctions from its Western counterpart, in terms of the cl…
Rethinking China’s Internet censorship: The practice of recoding and the politics of visibility
This article proposes visibility as a new lens through which to examine the politics of Internet censorship in China. It focuses on the practice of recoding, that is, the use of code words and images to circulate information that is deemed “sensitive” and therefore removed from the web. While commentators in the West have often described censorship-evading practices like this as a form of “resistance” against state domination, little academic att…
From parasocial to parakin: Co-creating idols on social media
Star worship is an ever-growing phenomenon around the globe. Across various social media platforms in China, a new idol–fan relationship model has emerged, such that the fans have stepped up from merely worshipping the idols to being able to co-cultivate their idols, including their public images, the scope of their work, and even their personal lives. Based on a grounded theory approach, this study utilized text analysis and in-depth interviews …
China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
China's Twentieth Century is a new collection of Wang Hui's essays edited by Saul Thomas and translated by a diverse group of scholars. Wang is a prominent figure in "the New Left" - an intellectua
Feminist podcasting: A new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China
The recent decade has witnessed thriving discourses of feminism on social media in mainland China. Feminist podcasting rose in popularity in 2019. By analyzing 35 podcasts, I sketch a landscape of Chinese feminist podcasting in terms of discussion subjects, content, and business mode. Through close textual analysis of Surplus Value (剩余价值) and Bie Renxing (别任性), supplemented by interviews with three feminist podcasters, I will argue that feminist …
Impacts of internal migration experience on health among middle-aged and older adults-Evidence from China
Enlisting citizens: Forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China
This article examines how the Chinese government increases the effectiveness of policy implementation by resorting to citizen participation. Based on an in-depth case study of the waste classification policy implementation in county T, province Z, this article demonstrates three citizen-enlistment strategies applied in the local state: (1) local-elites enlistment, (2) social norms innovation, and (3) blurring the role boundaries between citizens …
When algorithms meet journalism: The user perception to automated news in a cross-cultural context
Does news help us become knowledgeable or think we are knowledgeable? Examining a linkage of traditional and social media use with political knowledge
This study examines traditional and social media news use in relation to political knowledge from the perspective of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Data from a two-wave panel survey show that social media use for news is positively related to knowledge miscalibration, or a mismatch between subjective and factual political knowledge. That is, respondents who use social media for news often tend to overestimate their levels of knowledge. In contrast, t…
Anti-muslim sentiment on social media in China and Chinese Muslims’ reactions to hatred and misunderstanding
This study documents the extensive online anti-Muslim sentiment in China as well as the use of social media by Chinese Muslims from various backgrounds to engage with the online public sphere and respond to this hostile discourse. We analyzed more than 10,000 social media posts on Weibo relating to Muslims and Islam and conducted in-depth interviews with 34 Chinese Muslims who were active users of social media. Our findings reveal an anti-Muslim …
Weibo diplomacy: Foreign embassies communicating on Chinese social media
Under the Dome: Chinese” smog as a viral media event
Under the Dome, a video about smog in China produced by author and former television anchor Chai Jing, garnered 200 million views within 48 hours before disappearing from major Chinese websites. This essay examines the video’s aesthetics, distribution and reception with a particular attention to its relation to time. I argue that a focus on temporality allows us to discern the ideological conditions that delimit how we talk about Under the Dome a…
Total-factor CO2 performance in China's construction sector: Spatiotemporal trend, driver and future pathway
The power of culture: The gendered impact of family structures and living arrangements on social networks of Chinese older adults
Most of the extant literature on the fertility history and social networks of older adults has focused on advanced societies. Nevertheless, a limited number of studies have explored how culturally preferred family structures or living arrangements are related to older adults’ social networks in developing societies. This study examined these issues in the Chinese context and paid particular attention to the filial piety and preference for sons do…
An SLCA method based framework of large-scale transportation infrastructure in China
Does fintech innovation promote enterprise transformation? Evidence from China
In the context of China's slowing economic growth and the rapid development of fintech, it is of practical significance to study the impact of fintech on the transformation of Chinese enterprises and economic sustainable development. We use the data of 2064 listed enterprises in China from 2012 to 2018 and based on the DEA Malmquist model to calculate the total factor productivity of the entities. The fintech development index was constructed by …
Managerial Communication and Frontline Workers’ Willingness to Abide by Rules: Evidence From Local Security Agencies in China
Previous research has studied both rule- and individual-level determinants of rule abidance of frontline workers, but the effect of managerial communication has not been adequately explored. Based on extant literature on street-level bureaucracy, managerial communication, and behavioral public administration, this study develops a novel framework to theorize the relationship between managerial communication and frontline workers’ willingness to a…
Grandparenting styles, childhood food insecurity, and depression among Chinese rural left-behind children: A structural equation model
From intimidation to love: Taoist philosophy and love-based environmental education
For decades, a review of environmental education initiatives in and beyond schools indicates that many of them were implemented from an anthropocentric perspective. The rationale behind them is often that we must not destroy the environment because doing so is harmful for ourselves, human beings. One striking feature of the various forms of environmental education is the use of fear as a motivator, as people are warned about the frightening conse…
Privacy concerns in China's smart city campaign: The deficit of China's Cybersecurity Law
Many cities around the world are increasingly embedding technological infrastructure in urban spaces. These infrastructures aim to collect vast amounts of data from citizens with an apparent purpose of improving public services. This article discusses privacy concerns generated by China's nationwide smart city campaign and further investigates why China's latest Cybersecurity Law is not adequate to address the risks to citizens' privacy. We argue…
Community Restructuring and Depressive Symptoms of Rural Mature and Elderly Adults: A Multilevel Analysis Based on a National Dataset in China
Storytelling in the Age of Big Data: Hong Kong Students’ Readiness and Attitude towards Data Journalism
This exploratory study identifies journalism students’ attitudes, level of cognition and proficiency in data journalism (DJ). A survey of 121 college journalism students in Hong Kong, combined with in-depth interviews, found that: (a) while journalism students are eager to understand what is DJ and its practice, they do not have comprehensive knowledge of data collection, data analysis and interpretation; (b) computational tools are absent from c…
The glowing fireflies: Invisible activism under China’s queer necropolitics
In China, the escalating repression of gender and sexual diversity has given rise to ‘queer necropolitics’. ‘Queer necropolitics’ – a concept we build on – refers to the hegemonic ability to determine who is allowed to suffer, survive, or thrive. We examine China’s sustained re-enforcement of traditional gender norms, which has rendered queer communities non-existent from official recognition. In this context, we aim to understand how China’s sta…
Empathy Not Quarantined: Social Support via Social Media Helps Maintain Empathy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid pandemic had turned the world upside down, but not much is known about how people's empathy toward others in difficult situations might be affected by the pandemic. Based on a nationally representative sample ( N = 943) from China, this study first let participants read three real scenarios and then measured: (1) how empathy toward others might be influenced by the perceived social support people obtained by using social media (i.e., We…
Health communication and trust in institutions during the Covid-19 lockdown in China's urban communities
Communicating health knowledge effectively at the community level is essential for shaping resilient urban governance in a pandemic period. This paper examines how three styles of community health communication, namely traditional authoritative communication (TAC), authoritative communication via social media (ACSM), and interactive communication via social media (ICSM), were associated with public trust in different types of “institutions”, name…
Firm-Specific Variation and Openness in Emerging Markets
This paper compares the comovement of individual stock returns across emerging markets. Campbell et al. and Morck et al. have shown that the United States saw rising firm-specific stock return variations, and thus declining comovement, over the second half of the twentieth century. We detect a similar, albeit weaker, pattern in most, but not all, emerging markets. We further find that higher firm-specific variation is associated with greater capi…
Possible mode of action of antiherpetic activities of a proteoglycan isolated from the mycelia of Ganoderma lucidum in vitro
The Chinese performance in climate change
The Chinese performance in climate change is considered by some to have fallen short of the standard of performances of the world’s other large developing countries. This paper presents a ranking methodology and a case study to evaluate Chinese performance in climate change. Eight economic, social and environment indicators were collected for China and an additional 17 for the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in non‐Annex I countries. An MS‐…
Field-Scale Spatial Variation of Saline-Sodic Soil and Its Relation with Environmental Factors in Western Songnen Plain of China
The objectives of this study were to investigate the degree of spatial variability and variance structure of salinization parameters using classical and geostatistical method in Songnen Plain of China, which is one of largest saline-sodic areas in the World, and to analyze the relationship between salinization parameters, including soil salinity content (SC), electrical conductivity (EC), sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), and pH, and seven environme…
An Assessment of Psychological Noise Reduction by Landscape Plants
The emphasis in the term 'Green Transportation' is on the word 'green'. Green transportation focuses on the construction of a slow transport system with a visually pleasing, easy and secure trip environment composed of urban parks, green roadside spaces and some other space that is full of landscape plants. This trip environment encourages residents to make trip choices that reduce fuel consumption and pollution and is one of the most important w…
An Investigation of Interruptions and Resumptions in Multi-Tasking Dialogues
In this article we focus on human–human multi-tasking dialogues, in which pairs of conversants, using speech, work on an ongoing task while occasionally completing real-time tasks. The ongoing task is a poker game in which conversants need to assemble a poker hand, and the real-time task is a picture game in which conversants need to find out whether they have a certain picture on their displays. We employ empirical corpus studies and machine lea…
Bathymetry and Sediment Geochemistry of Lake Hazen (Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut)
Arctic lakes can provide a long-term perspective on environmental change, including trends in long-range atmospheric transport and deposition of contaminants, inferred from studies of sediment cores. In this study, we conducted the first detailed bathymetric survey of Lake Hazen (Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut), the world’s largest lake north of 74 ̊ latitude. With these data we were able to determine optimal locations for …
Nutritional status and risk factors of overweight and obesity for children aged 9–15 years in Chengdu, Southwest China
While overweight and obesity was dramatically spreading, malnutrition still remained a serious problem. This unmatched nutritional status should be emphasized in backward cities of China. Children born of both preterm and LGA, whose parents particularly mothers had a history of obesity related disease, should be emphatically intervened as early as possible
Evaluation of the protective effect of Rhei Radix et Rhizoma against α-naphthylisothiocyanate induced liver injury based on metabolic profile of bile acids
In vivo distribution and pharmacokinetics of multiple active components from Danshen and Sanqi and their combination via inner ear administration
Rethinking China’s Internet censorship: The practice of recoding and the politics of visibility
This article proposes visibility as a new lens through which to examine the politics of Internet censorship in China. It focuses on the practice of recoding, that is, the use of code words and images to circulate information that is deemed “sensitive” and therefore removed from the web. While commentators in the West have often described censorship-evading practices like this as a form of “resistance” against state domination, little academic att…
Applicable Laws to Arbitration Agreements Under Current Arbitration Law and Practice in Mainland China
This article examines the recent development of mainland Chinese law and judicial practice regarding the law applicable to arbitration agreements. It identifies potential changes to mainland Chinese law and practice that may help to further develop the People's Republic of China (PRC) into a truly international-arbitration-friendly jurisdiction. It argues that in the absence of explicit statutory provisions and a consistent approach in the People…
China's 'Fake' Apple Store: Branded Space, Intellectual Property and the Global Culture Industry
This essay deploys the joint lenses of branding and space to examine the hegemonic operation of the Apple brand in the global culture industry. It does so by analyzing China's 'fake Apple Store' event in 2011, which began with an American expat blogger's discovery and subsequently caught the attention of global news media. While copying the look of an official Apple Store, these retailers displayed and sold genuine products originally assembled i…
A Bite of China: Food, Media, and the Televisual Negotiation of National Difference
On May 14, 2012, China Central Television (CCTV) began airing A Bite of China (舌尖上的中国,Shejianshang de Zhongguo), a seven-episode documentary about food, nature, and culture. Despite its late-night
Health-related quality of life of Asian patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Singapore
Temporal discounting in life cycle assessment: A critical review and theoretical framework
Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China
"Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China." Twentieth-Century China, 41(1), pp. 104–105
Structure and Levels of Meaning in Life and Its Relationship With Mental Health in Chinese Students Aged 10 to 25
This study examines the usage of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire in Chinese students aged from 10 to 25 within four age groups ( N = 5,510): early adolescence (10–13 years old, n = 1,258), middle adolescence (14–17 years old, n = 1,987), late adolescence (18–21 years old, n = 1,950) and early adulthood (22–25 years old, n = 315); and analyses the structure and levels of meaning in life, as well as the relationship between meaning in life and me…
The Cumulative Effect of Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions on the Risk of Prostate Cancer in Chinese Men
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a multifactorial disease involving complex genetic and environmental factors interactions. Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions associated with PCa in Chinese men are less studied. We explored the association between 36 SNPs and PCa in 574 subjects from northern China. Body mass index (BMI), smoking, and alcohol consumption were determined through self-administered questionnaires in 134 PCa patients. Then gene-gene…
Association of Household Savings and Expected Future Means with Delivery Using a Skilled Birth Attendant in Ghana and Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula “Xiaofeng granules” suppressed gouty arthritis animal models and inhibited the proteoglycan degradation on chondrocytes induced by monosodium urate
Target profiling analyses of bile acids in the evaluation of hepatoprotective effect of gentiopicroside on Anit-induced cholestatic liver injury in mice
GPS can change bile acids metabolism which highlights its importance in mitigating cholestasis, resulting in the marked decrease of intracellular bile acid pool back toward basal levels. And the protective mechanism was associated with regulation of bile acids-related transporters, but the potential mechanism warrants further investigation
Reconciliation and Peace Building in International Relations: An Empirical Analysis of Five Cases
Fiscal Orientalism: China Panic, the Indebted Citizen, and the Spectacle of National Debt
This essay critically examines the proliferating media artifacts and political discourses that dramatize China's ownership of U.S. national debt in contemporary America. It argues that this new mode of representing China is best captured by the term "fiscal orientalism." Complementing techno-orientalism, a configuration prompted by Japan's (technological) rise in the 1980s, fiscal orientalism draws attention to the ideological work performed by a…
From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai in WTO-era China
This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like righteousness, it connotes a sense of defiance against the globalizing intellectual property rights regime. My account traces shanzhai's rise in the informal mobile …
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