Xiaoli Tian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3713200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaoli Tian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaoli |
| FAMILY NAME | Tian |
| SIGNATURE | TIAN X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1276-3422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exclusive versus integrative professional norms: A comparative study of biomedical attitudes toward traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland
How does biomedicine interact with complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs)? Existing studies emphasize boundary work and epistemological distinctions, but give limited attention to the professional contexts shaping biomedical responses. Adopting a social space perspective, this study argues that variation in biomedical responses to CAMs arises from healthcare space structures—specifically, the social distance between biomedicine and CAMs a…
The Presence, Performance, and Publics of Online Interactions
Symbolic interactionists have long focused on how context and settings influence interaction dynamics. While developments in digital media have transformed mediated interaction, the key components of social interaction persist, and symbolic interactionism continues to have implications. This chapter discusses how symbolic interactionism elucidates three main aspects of mediated interaction: 1) perception of the presence of others, 2) online prese…
Large-scale consensus with endo-confidence under probabilistic linguistic circumstance and its application
In real decision-making problems, decision makers (DMs) usually select the most potential project from several ones. However, they unconsciously show different confidence levels in decision-making process because they come from various backgrounds and have different experiences, etc., which affects the decision results. Moreover, the probabilistic linguistic term set, which not only includes the linguistic expressions used by DMs in their daily l…
Persona: How Professional Women in China Negotiate Gender Performance Online
With the shift of social interaction to online venues, do women still conform to existing gender norms? This article examines the online performance of professional women in urban China and their interactions with workplace colleagues on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app that is an important venue for workplace interaction. As interviews showed, workplace interactions on WeChat perpetuated traditional gender norms of hegemonic masculinit…
An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility
How is social etiquette performed when offline interpersonal interactions are mediated online? Sixty semi-structured interviews with WeChat users, China's most popular social media platform, show that the app's technical designs facilitated a set of online etiquette rules which reproduced those of acquaintance communities. Three dimensions of social etiquette rules were considered and observed: respect, elegance, and tidiness. Users honored the f…
Is high-speed rail a catalyst for the fourth industrial revolution in China? Story of enhanced technology spillovers from venture capital
Geographic distance, venture capital and technological performance: Evidence from Chinese enterprises
Space and personal contacts: Cross-group interaction between mainland and local university students in Hong Kong
Despite sharing physical space that supports contact with out-group members and institutional arrangements that encourage cross-group interaction, many university students still congregate within their own groups. To explain this phenomenon, this study examines the micro-level social processes that prevent or facilitate intergroup interaction. A qualitative study of Mainland Chinese and local university students in Hong Kong reveals that students…
The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai
This paper examines how the powerful suzhi (personal quality) discourse affects the subjective understanding of Chinese migrant workers toward their situation in the city in order to elucidate the microlevel processes that the lower social class acculturate to the dominant cultural capital. Many migrants from the Chinese countryside have remained in Shanghai despite that in doing so, their children are prohibited from taking senior high school an…
Audience Design and Context Discrepancy: How Online Debates Lead to Opinion Polarization
This article examines how the technical layout of some online platforms shapes the way individuals engage in public debate online. To do so, the research studies an empirical case of how public debating on Weibo-China's equivalent to Twitter-leads to opinion polarization. The technical layout of Weibo strongly influences how users debate with others. The thread-based message structure fragments the interactional context, preventing users from gai…
Organizational Hierarchy, Deprived Masculinity, and Confrontational Practices: Men Doing Women's Jobs in a Global Factory
Based on an interactionist approach, this article examines how men workers negotiate the doing of factory jobs conventionally considered as those suited for young women and defend their masculinity in harsh and contested organizational environments. Data collected during a 15-month-long ethnography of a large global factory in South China reveal that in an oppressive institutional setting that involves coercive management, devaluation of men labo…
Immediate Context, Life Experiences, and Perception: How Do Rural Migrants in Urban China Perceive an Unfair Policy
This article examines how rural migrants in China perceive a policy that deprives their children of the opportunity for a high school or college education. In-depth interviews with migrant families in Shanghai reveal that many remain unconvinced that the future of their children is strongly affected by this policy. Rather, they devalue the importance of formal education and emphasize individual effort and alternative pathways to success. By drawi…
Embodied versus Disembodied Information: How Online Artifacts Influence Offline Interpersonal Interactions
This article examines how the sheer volume of personal information recorded and searchable online (online artifacts) has transformed the situated activity system central to Goffman's dramaturgical theories. In-depth interviews reveal that individuals believe disembodied information based on online artifacts is a more accurate representation of others than embodied information from spatially and temporally bounded face-to-face (FTF) processes beca…
Network domains in social networking sites: Expectations, meanings, and social capital
This paper examines why the use of social networking sites (SNSs) leads to different results in cultivating bridging and bonding social capital for different groups of people. Based on in-depth interviews of 45 university students in Hong Kong, I find that Mainland Chinese students studying in Hong Kong actively use SNSs for seeking practical information about offline matters, and they obtain substantial enacted support from other Mainland studen…
On Violating One’s Own Privacy: N -adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues
Purpose To understand the phenomena of people revealing regrettable information on the Internet, we examine who people think they’re addressing, and what they say, in the process of interacting with those not physically or temporally co-present. Methodology/approach We conduct qualitative analyses of interviews with student bloggers and observations of five years’ worth of their blog posts, drawing on linguists’ concepts of indexical ground and d…
Fandom and coercive empowerment: The commissioned production of Chinese online literature
This article examines how the relationship between consumers and producers of cultural products is shaped by the proprietary nature of digital platforms. Drawing on 4 years of online observation and analysis, we examine the relationship between the producers of online Chinese fiction, amateur writers, and their consumers, that is, the fan communities of readers who respond to their work. Enabled by Chinese literary websites, readers act like spon…
Rumor and Secret Space: Organ-Snatching Tales and Medical Missions in Nineteenth-Century China
This article examines anti-missionary rumors that prevailed in nineteenth-century China and led to the Tianjin Missionary Case of 1870. Relying on archival sources, it shows that many rumors were fueled by Protestant missionaries’ medical practices in addition to political conflicts. Furthermore, the rumors were framed in spatial concepts. The rumors arose and persisted not because the missionaries deliberately hid information, but rather because…
Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
Space and personal contacts: Cross-group interaction between mainland and local university students in Hong Kong
Despite sharing physical space that supports contact with out-group members and institutional arrangements that encourage cross-group interaction, many university students still congregate within their own groups. To explain this phenomenon, this study examines the micro-level social processes that prevent or facilitate intergroup interaction. A qualitative study of Mainland Chinese and local university students in Hong Kong reveals that students…
Embodied versus Disembodied Information: How Online Artifacts Influence Offline Interpersonal Interactions
This article examines how the sheer volume of personal information recorded and searchable online (online artifacts) has transformed the situated activity system central to Goffman's dramaturgical theories. In-depth interviews reveal that individuals believe disembodied information based on online artifacts is a more accurate representation of others than embodied information from spatially and temporally bounded face-to-face (FTF) processes beca…
Immediate Context, Life Experiences, and Perception: How Do Rural Migrants in Urban China Perceive an Unfair Policy
This article examines how rural migrants in China perceive a policy that deprives their children of the opportunity for a high school or college education. In-depth interviews with migrant families in Shanghai reveal that many remain unconvinced that the future of their children is strongly affected by this policy. Rather, they devalue the importance of formal education and emphasize individual effort and alternative pathways to success. By drawi…
Audience Design and Context Discrepancy: How Online Debates Lead to Opinion Polarization
This article examines how the technical layout of some online platforms shapes the way individuals engage in public debate online. To do so, the research studies an empirical case of how public debating on Weibo-China's equivalent to Twitter-leads to opinion polarization. The technical layout of Weibo strongly influences how users debate with others. The thread-based message structure fragments the interactional context, preventing users from gai…
An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility
How is social etiquette performed when offline interpersonal interactions are mediated online? Sixty semi-structured interviews with WeChat users, China's most popular social media platform, show that the app's technical designs facilitated a set of online etiquette rules which reproduced those of acquaintance communities. Three dimensions of social etiquette rules were considered and observed: respect, elegance, and tidiness. Users honored the f…
The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai
This paper examines how the powerful suzhi (personal quality) discourse affects the subjective understanding of Chinese migrant workers toward their situation in the city in order to elucidate the microlevel processes that the lower social class acculturate to the dominant cultural capital. Many migrants from the Chinese countryside have remained in Shanghai despite that in doing so, their children are prohibited from taking senior high school an…
Organizational Hierarchy, Deprived Masculinity, and Confrontational Practices: Men Doing Women's Jobs in a Global Factory
Based on an interactionist approach, this article examines how men workers negotiate the doing of factory jobs conventionally considered as those suited for young women and defend their masculinity in harsh and contested organizational environments. Data collected during a 15-month-long ethnography of a large global factory in South China reveal that in an oppressive institutional setting that involves coercive management, devaluation of men labo…
Fandom and coercive empowerment: The commissioned production of Chinese online literature
This article examines how the relationship between consumers and producers of cultural products is shaped by the proprietary nature of digital platforms. Drawing on 4 years of online observation and analysis, we examine the relationship between the producers of online Chinese fiction, amateur writers, and their consumers, that is, the fan communities of readers who respond to their work. Enabled by Chinese literary websites, readers act like spon…
Rumor and Secret Space: Organ-Snatching Tales and Medical Missions in Nineteenth-Century China
This article examines anti-missionary rumors that prevailed in nineteenth-century China and led to the Tianjin Missionary Case of 1870. Relying on archival sources, it shows that many rumors were fueled by Protestant missionaries’ medical practices in addition to political conflicts. Furthermore, the rumors were framed in spatial concepts. The rumors arose and persisted not because the missionaries deliberately hid information, but rather because…
Persona: How Professional Women in China Negotiate Gender Performance Online
With the shift of social interaction to online venues, do women still conform to existing gender norms? This article examines the online performance of professional women in urban China and their interactions with workplace colleagues on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app that is an important venue for workplace interaction. As interviews showed, workplace interactions on WeChat perpetuated traditional gender norms of hegemonic masculinit…
Putting Social Context into Text: The Semiotics of E-mail Interaction
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
Rumor and Secret Space: Organ-Snatching Tales and Medical Missions in Nineteenth-Century China
This article examines anti-missionary rumors that prevailed in nineteenth-century China and led to the Tianjin Missionary Case of 1870. Relying on archival sources, it shows that many rumors were fueled by Protestant missionaries’ medical practices in addition to political conflicts. Furthermore, the rumors were framed in spatial concepts. The rumors arose and persisted not because the missionaries deliberately hid information, but rather because…
Network domains in social networking sites: Expectations, meanings, and social capital
This paper examines why the use of social networking sites (SNSs) leads to different results in cultivating bridging and bonding social capital for different groups of people. Based on in-depth interviews of 45 university students in Hong Kong, I find that Mainland Chinese students studying in Hong Kong actively use SNSs for seeking practical information about offline matters, and they obtain substantial enacted support from other Mainland studen…
On Violating One’s Own Privacy: N -adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues
Purpose To understand the phenomena of people revealing regrettable information on the Internet, we examine who people think they’re addressing, and what they say, in the process of interacting with those not physically or temporally co-present. Methodology/approach We conduct qualitative analyses of interviews with student bloggers and observations of five years’ worth of their blog posts, drawing on linguists’ concepts of indexical ground and d…
Fandom and coercive empowerment: The commissioned production of Chinese online literature
This article examines how the relationship between consumers and producers of cultural products is shaped by the proprietary nature of digital platforms. Drawing on 4 years of online observation and analysis, we examine the relationship between the producers of online Chinese fiction, amateur writers, and their consumers, that is, the fan communities of readers who respond to their work. Enabled by Chinese literary websites, readers act like spon…
Organizational Hierarchy, Deprived Masculinity, and Confrontational Practices: Men Doing Women's Jobs in a Global Factory
Based on an interactionist approach, this article examines how men workers negotiate the doing of factory jobs conventionally considered as those suited for young women and defend their masculinity in harsh and contested organizational environments. Data collected during a 15-month-long ethnography of a large global factory in South China reveal that in an oppressive institutional setting that involves coercive management, devaluation of men labo…
Immediate Context, Life Experiences, and Perception: How Do Rural Migrants in Urban China Perceive an Unfair Policy
This article examines how rural migrants in China perceive a policy that deprives their children of the opportunity for a high school or college education. In-depth interviews with migrant families in Shanghai reveal that many remain unconvinced that the future of their children is strongly affected by this policy. Rather, they devalue the importance of formal education and emphasize individual effort and alternative pathways to success. By drawi…
Embodied versus Disembodied Information: How Online Artifacts Influence Offline Interpersonal Interactions
This article examines how the sheer volume of personal information recorded and searchable online (online artifacts) has transformed the situated activity system central to Goffman's dramaturgical theories. In-depth interviews reveal that individuals believe disembodied information based on online artifacts is a more accurate representation of others than embodied information from spatially and temporally bounded face-to-face (FTF) processes beca…
Space and personal contacts: Cross-group interaction between mainland and local university students in Hong Kong
Despite sharing physical space that supports contact with out-group members and institutional arrangements that encourage cross-group interaction, many university students still congregate within their own groups. To explain this phenomenon, this study examines the micro-level social processes that prevent or facilitate intergroup interaction. A qualitative study of Mainland Chinese and local university students in Hong Kong reveals that students…
The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai
This paper examines how the powerful suzhi (personal quality) discourse affects the subjective understanding of Chinese migrant workers toward their situation in the city in order to elucidate the microlevel processes that the lower social class acculturate to the dominant cultural capital. Many migrants from the Chinese countryside have remained in Shanghai despite that in doing so, their children are prohibited from taking senior high school an…
Audience Design and Context Discrepancy: How Online Debates Lead to Opinion Polarization
This article examines how the technical layout of some online platforms shapes the way individuals engage in public debate online. To do so, the research studies an empirical case of how public debating on Weibo-China's equivalent to Twitter-leads to opinion polarization. The technical layout of Weibo strongly influences how users debate with others. The thread-based message structure fragments the interactional context, preventing users from gai…
Is high-speed rail a catalyst for the fourth industrial revolution in China? Story of enhanced technology spillovers from venture capital
Geographic distance, venture capital and technological performance: Evidence from Chinese enterprises
An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility
How is social etiquette performed when offline interpersonal interactions are mediated online? Sixty semi-structured interviews with WeChat users, China's most popular social media platform, show that the app's technical designs facilitated a set of online etiquette rules which reproduced those of acquaintance communities. Three dimensions of social etiquette rules were considered and observed: respect, elegance, and tidiness. Users honored the f…
The Presence, Performance, and Publics of Online Interactions
Symbolic interactionists have long focused on how context and settings influence interaction dynamics. While developments in digital media have transformed mediated interaction, the key components of social interaction persist, and symbolic interactionism continues to have implications. This chapter discusses how symbolic interactionism elucidates three main aspects of mediated interaction: 1) perception of the presence of others, 2) online prese…
Large-scale consensus with endo-confidence under probabilistic linguistic circumstance and its application
In real decision-making problems, decision makers (DMs) usually select the most potential project from several ones. However, they unconsciously show different confidence levels in decision-making process because they come from various backgrounds and have different experiences, etc., which affects the decision results. Moreover, the probabilistic linguistic term set, which not only includes the linguistic expressions used by DMs in their daily l…
Persona: How Professional Women in China Negotiate Gender Performance Online
With the shift of social interaction to online venues, do women still conform to existing gender norms? This article examines the online performance of professional women in urban China and their interactions with workplace colleagues on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app that is an important venue for workplace interaction. As interviews showed, workplace interactions on WeChat perpetuated traditional gender norms of hegemonic masculinit…
Exclusive versus integrative professional norms: A comparative study of biomedical attitudes toward traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland
How does biomedicine interact with complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs)? Existing studies emphasize boundary work and epistemological distinctions, but give limited attention to the professional contexts shaping biomedical responses. Adopting a social space perspective, this study argues that variation in biomedical responses to CAMs arises from healthcare space structures—specifically, the social distance between biomedicine and CAMs a…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · China (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works)