Yiran Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yiran Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yiran |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6000-1521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From awareness to control
Assessing L2 legal writing through a plain English lens
Reframing forbidden love
Shimada Masahiko’s 2003 Utsukushī Tamashī reimagines the unfulfilled love of a fictional descendant of Madame Butterfly against the backdrop of the contemporary Japanese Imperial system. While often read as a forbidden love narrative governed by ‘genetic determinism’, this article argues that such readings overlook the novel’s material context and its profound political subtext, specifically its suspension and forced revision due to accusations o…
Multidisciplinary analysis reveals the genetic and dietary structure of the seated burials from Tang Dynasty Chang’an
Identifying active compounds and revealing integrated mechanism of phytomedicines via AI-driven chemical-biological information fusion
Life history of the Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck
Shipwrecks provide invaluable insights into human society and trade. Their unique preservation conditions also mean that they can serve as exceptional biobanks, recording traces of organisms carried aboard or arriving post wreck. Yet only limited research has explored the genetic potential of onboard sediments. Here, the authors present environmental and metagenomic analyses of sediments contained in a large amphora from the 150-year-old Yangzi E…
“I dunno, as long as it proves my point”
This study leverages concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) as an innovative pedagogical approach to teaching academic citation practices and broader concepts of intertextuality in academic research writing. Participants were 34 undergraduate students, predominantly multilingual English writers, enrolled in an advanced writing course at a Hispanic‐serving US institution. The 4‐week C‐BLI workshop incorporated visualized conceptual aids to tea…
I had to learn English ‘the correct way’ so I wouldn't be seen as less”
Despite increased advocacy for translingual pedagogy, little research has explored how college students in mainstream academic writing classrooms—many of whom are multilingual, first-generation students—perceive this approach. Drawing on artifacts collected throughout one semester including surveys, metacognitive reflections, article annotations, and research papers, this study examines the perception of 38 students at a Hispanic-serving institut…
Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia
An overview of the Nemo modelling for the BaySys project
This article is intended as an introduction to discuss the development of a modelling framework to examine simulated climate change and river discharge regulation and their combined impact on marine conditions in the Hudson Bay Complex as a contribution to BaySys, a collaborative project between Manitoba Hydro, Hydro-Quebec, the University of Manitoba, the University of Alberta, Université Laval and Ouranos. In support of this work, a sea ice and…
Language play as resistance
During the COVID-19 pandemic, increased measures of information control were implemented in China to manage the flow of sensitive information that may contradict the official narrative of national sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph. Building on previous scholarship on the subversive potential of translanguaging practices, the present study analyzes key moments during the initial outbreak of the pandemic, when Chinese netizens creatively combine…
Individuals with long-term illness, disability or infirmity are more likely to smoke than healthy controls
Despite the prevalence of smoking cessation programs and public health campaigns, individuals with long-term illness, disability, or infirmity have been found to smoke more often than those without such conditions, leading to worsening health. However, the available literature has mainly focused on the association between long-term illness and smoking, which might suffer from the possible bidirectional influence, while few studies have examined t…
Navigating complexity in plain English
Since the 1960s, legal writing pedagogy in the United States has been heavily influenced by the plain English movement, which largely discourages the use of legal jargon and overly complex syntactic structures in legal documents. While these efforts to democratize legal English are laudable, it is unclear whether plain English practices can accommodate the needs of multilingual, foreign legal writers who have not yet acculturated to the U.S. lega…
Finding the right voice(s)
This longitudinal case study tracks the development of four second language (L2) writers’ skills in hypothetical legal writing in a year-long legal language program. Drawing on the system of Engagement from systemic functional linguistics, the study analyzes how L2 writers engaged different legal voices and advanced their arguments via three discursive strategies: dialogic expansion, contraction, and justification. An examination of the Engagemen…
Annual Bibliography
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An Analysis of the Colony Structure of Prokaryotes in the Jialing River Waters in Chongqing
At present, research on the influence of human activities (especially urbanization) on the microbial diversity, structural composition, and spatial distribution of rivers is limited. In this paper, to explore the prokaryotic community structure and the relationship between the community and environmental factors in the Jialing River Basin of Chongqing, so as to provide a basis for monitoring microorganisms in the watershed. The V3-V4 region of th…
Migration in Bronze Age southern China
Reconstructing the history of elite communication in ancient China benefits from additional archaeological evidence. We combine textual analysis with new human stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from two Chu burials in the Jingzhou area to reveal significant dietary differences among Chu nobles of the middle Warring States period (c. 350 BC). This research provides important new information on the close interaction between the aristocratic f…
Changes in interlanguage complexity during study abroad
Changes in interlanguage complexity during study abroad
Annual Bibliography
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
An Analysis of the Colony Structure of Prokaryotes in the Jialing River Waters in Chongqing
At present, research on the influence of human activities (especially urbanization) on the microbial diversity, structural composition, and spatial distribution of rivers is limited. In this paper, to explore the prokaryotic community structure and the relationship between the community and environmental factors in the Jialing River Basin of Chongqing, so as to provide a basis for monitoring microorganisms in the watershed. The V3-V4 region of th…
Migration in Bronze Age southern China
Reconstructing the history of elite communication in ancient China benefits from additional archaeological evidence. We combine textual analysis with new human stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from two Chu burials in the Jingzhou area to reveal significant dietary differences among Chu nobles of the middle Warring States period (c. 350 BC). This research provides important new information on the close interaction between the aristocratic f…
Individuals with long-term illness, disability or infirmity are more likely to smoke than healthy controls
Despite the prevalence of smoking cessation programs and public health campaigns, individuals with long-term illness, disability, or infirmity have been found to smoke more often than those without such conditions, leading to worsening health. However, the available literature has mainly focused on the association between long-term illness and smoking, which might suffer from the possible bidirectional influence, while few studies have examined t…
Navigating complexity in plain English
Since the 1960s, legal writing pedagogy in the United States has been heavily influenced by the plain English movement, which largely discourages the use of legal jargon and overly complex syntactic structures in legal documents. While these efforts to democratize legal English are laudable, it is unclear whether plain English practices can accommodate the needs of multilingual, foreign legal writers who have not yet acculturated to the U.S. lega…
Finding the right voice(s)
This longitudinal case study tracks the development of four second language (L2) writers’ skills in hypothetical legal writing in a year-long legal language program. Drawing on the system of Engagement from systemic functional linguistics, the study analyzes how L2 writers engaged different legal voices and advanced their arguments via three discursive strategies: dialogic expansion, contraction, and justification. An examination of the Engagemen…
An overview of the Nemo modelling for the BaySys project
This article is intended as an introduction to discuss the development of a modelling framework to examine simulated climate change and river discharge regulation and their combined impact on marine conditions in the Hudson Bay Complex as a contribution to BaySys, a collaborative project between Manitoba Hydro, Hydro-Quebec, the University of Manitoba, the University of Alberta, Université Laval and Ouranos. In support of this work, a sea ice and…
Language play as resistance
During the COVID-19 pandemic, increased measures of information control were implemented in China to manage the flow of sensitive information that may contradict the official narrative of national sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph. Building on previous scholarship on the subversive potential of translanguaging practices, the present study analyzes key moments during the initial outbreak of the pandemic, when Chinese netizens creatively combine…
“I dunno, as long as it proves my point”
This study leverages concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) as an innovative pedagogical approach to teaching academic citation practices and broader concepts of intertextuality in academic research writing. Participants were 34 undergraduate students, predominantly multilingual English writers, enrolled in an advanced writing course at a Hispanic‐serving US institution. The 4‐week C‐BLI workshop incorporated visualized conceptual aids to tea…
I had to learn English ‘the correct way’ so I wouldn't be seen as less”
Despite increased advocacy for translingual pedagogy, little research has explored how college students in mainstream academic writing classrooms—many of whom are multilingual, first-generation students—perceive this approach. Drawing on artifacts collected throughout one semester including surveys, metacognitive reflections, article annotations, and research papers, this study examines the perception of 38 students at a Hispanic-serving institut…
Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia
From awareness to control
Assessing L2 legal writing through a plain English lens
Reframing forbidden love
Shimada Masahiko’s 2003 Utsukushī Tamashī reimagines the unfulfilled love of a fictional descendant of Madame Butterfly against the backdrop of the contemporary Japanese Imperial system. While often read as a forbidden love narrative governed by ‘genetic determinism’, this article argues that such readings overlook the novel’s material context and its profound political subtext, specifically its suspension and forced revision due to accusations o…
Multidisciplinary analysis reveals the genetic and dietary structure of the seated burials from Tang Dynasty Chang’an
Identifying active compounds and revealing integrated mechanism of phytomedicines via AI-driven chemical-biological information fusion
Life history of the Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck
Shipwrecks provide invaluable insights into human society and trade. Their unique preservation conditions also mean that they can serve as exceptional biobanks, recording traces of organisms carried aboard or arriving post wreck. Yet only limited research has explored the genetic potential of onboard sediments. Here, the authors present environmental and metagenomic analyses of sediments contained in a large amphora from the 150-year-old Yangzi E…
Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Academic writing (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Legal writing (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)