Jiapei Gu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3812293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiapei Gu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiapei |
| FAMILY NAME | Gu |
| SIGNATURE | GU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0626-5387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constructing identity through digital double-swinging
While motivations for platform-swinging are widely researched, the specific linguistic and semiotic practices users mobilise remain largely underinvestigated. This study investigates how Chinese emerging adults discursively construct fragmented identities across a complex polymedia environment. Drawing on interviews and multimodal screenshots from 20 mainland student migrants in Hong Kong (Mage = 23), we conceptualise platform usage as ‘double-sw…
Divorce stigma on Weibo
Despite rising divorce rates in China, the traditional “intact family” ideal remains hegemonic, subjecting children from divorced families (CDF) to courtesy stigma. This study investigates how this stigma is discursively constructed, negotiated, and resisted on Weibo, a leading Chinese microblogging platform. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed 2989 comments on Weibo using BERTopic modeling and social media critical discourse analysis …
Reconstructing divorce on Xiaohongshu
China’s rising divorce rate has become a significant public issue, yet how everyday internet users collectively make sense of this phenomenon remains under-investigated. Drawing on a dataset of five posts and 3868 comments from Xiaohongshu, this study employed computational topic modeling and critical narrative analysis to investigate how individuals share “small stories” to discursively construct and negotiate the meaning of marital dissolution.…
Asymmetric discursive struggle
Focusing on the 2020 case of Okonkwonwoye (a Nigerian man) who attacked Wang (a Chinese nurse), this study analysed over 37,000 posts and comments from Weibo (a popular Chinese microblogging platform) to explore the representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace. Utilising a mixed-methods approach combining thematic and critical discourse analyses, the study argues that digital racial conflict in this context i…
Translanguaging as parental discourse strategies
Using a translanguaging lens, this qualitative study explored the micro-linguistic home language practices of multilingual South Asian families in Hong Kong. Our interview data revealed that all South Asian parents adopt a pragmatic view of language, recognising Chinese and English as valuable communicative and socio-economic resources, while some also uphold multilingualism, encouraging their children to maintain heritage language(s). A discours…
The Emotional Valence Paradox in Social media
This computational linguistic study analyzes 8743 Rednote posts to examine how sentiment, emotion, and content domain collectively shape social comparison dynamics on social media. We identify four key findings: (1) an emotional gradient, where upward comparison content exhibits the highest sentiment scores and downward comparison the lowest; (2) an emotional valence paradox, wherein positively valenced upward content may trigger psychological ha…
Art management in the era of digitalization. Innovative approaches to the organization of virtual exhibitions in modern museums. Experience of cooperation between China and Russia
The purpose of the study is to experimentally test, through a survey of a sample of users, an approach to organizing a virtual museum of art interaction between China and Russia in the era of digitalization. The study also included description of the development of a virtual museum Digital Horizons and experimental assessment of the museum by 36 users according to the criteria of usability (convenience), involvement, prolonged interest, technical…
Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism
Recent years have seen a surge in Chinese grassroots nationalism. Based on the public discussion on Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, this study investigated the cybernationalism (re)produced during the People’s Republic of China’s release of the Regulations on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners in early 2020. Deploying a synergy of thematic analysis and the discourse-historical approach ( Reisigl and Wodak 2…
Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong
Long an immigrant society, whether Hong Kong welcomes ethnic minorities remains debatable. Combining Wesselmann and colleagues' (2016) social exclusion framework, raciolinguistics, and interview data, this study investigates the social exclusion experience of Hong Kong's African economic and student migrants. The findings show that African immigrants who lack linguistic capacity are ostracised in different areas of life. Impolite language usage s…
Small stories of a key moment
This study examines the narratives presented on Quarantine Stories, an online platform where users posted their home-quarantine experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the recurrent themes in quarantine stories and how tellers constructed their lives in isolation. Quarantine stories submitted worldwide were examined via semantic tag and concordance analyses to identify their recurrent themes and narrative elements. The results rev…
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse
Diplomatic ties have deepened between China and Africa. However, unlike the friendly rhetoric at the State level, racist issues at the individual and societal levels, which are under-researched, are becoming increasingly salient in the Chinese context. Analysing 2766 posts and 13 477 comments from Weibo, this study deploys the 2021 Shadeed Abdulmateen murder case in Ningbo to investigate the online racial discourse that Chinese Weibo users constr…
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse
Diplomatic ties have deepened between China and Africa. However, unlike the friendly rhetoric at the State level, racist issues at the individual and societal levels, which are under-researched, are becoming increasingly salient in the Chinese context. Analysing 2766 posts and 13 477 comments from Weibo, this study deploys the 2021 Shadeed Abdulmateen murder case in Ningbo to investigate the online racial discourse that Chinese Weibo users constr…
Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism
Recent years have seen a surge in Chinese grassroots nationalism. Based on the public discussion on Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, this study investigated the cybernationalism (re)produced during the People’s Republic of China’s release of the Regulations on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners in early 2020. Deploying a synergy of thematic analysis and the discourse-historical approach ( Reisigl and Wodak 2…
Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong
Long an immigrant society, whether Hong Kong welcomes ethnic minorities remains debatable. Combining Wesselmann and colleagues' (2016) social exclusion framework, raciolinguistics, and interview data, this study investigates the social exclusion experience of Hong Kong's African economic and student migrants. The findings show that African immigrants who lack linguistic capacity are ostracised in different areas of life. Impolite language usage s…
Anti-Black sentiments in Chinese Weibo discourse
Diplomatic ties have deepened between China and Africa. However, unlike the friendly rhetoric at the State level, racist issues at the individual and societal levels, which are under-researched, are becoming increasingly salient in the Chinese context. Analysing 2766 posts and 13 477 comments from Weibo, this study deploys the 2021 Shadeed Abdulmateen murder case in Ningbo to investigate the online racial discourse that Chinese Weibo users constr…
Small stories of a key moment
This study examines the narratives presented on Quarantine Stories, an online platform where users posted their home-quarantine experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the recurrent themes in quarantine stories and how tellers constructed their lives in isolation. Quarantine stories submitted worldwide were examined via semantic tag and concordance analyses to identify their recurrent themes and narrative elements. The results rev…
Art management in the era of digitalization. Innovative approaches to the organization of virtual exhibitions in modern museums. Experience of cooperation between China and Russia
The purpose of the study is to experimentally test, through a survey of a sample of users, an approach to organizing a virtual museum of art interaction between China and Russia in the era of digitalization. The study also included description of the development of a virtual museum Digital Horizons and experimental assessment of the museum by 36 users according to the criteria of usability (convenience), involvement, prolonged interest, technical…
Examining the discursive construction of Chinese grassroots cybernationalism
Recent years have seen a surge in Chinese grassroots nationalism. Based on the public discussion on Weibo, the largest social media platform in China, this study investigated the cybernationalism (re)produced during the People’s Republic of China’s release of the Regulations on the Administration of Permanent Residence of Foreigners in early 2020. Deploying a synergy of thematic analysis and the discourse-historical approach ( Reisigl and Wodak 2…
Linguistic hostility, social exclusion, and the agency of African migrants in Hong Kong
Long an immigrant society, whether Hong Kong welcomes ethnic minorities remains debatable. Combining Wesselmann and colleagues' (2016) social exclusion framework, raciolinguistics, and interview data, this study investigates the social exclusion experience of Hong Kong's African economic and student migrants. The findings show that African immigrants who lack linguistic capacity are ostracised in different areas of life. Impolite language usage s…
Constructing identity through digital double-swinging
While motivations for platform-swinging are widely researched, the specific linguistic and semiotic practices users mobilise remain largely underinvestigated. This study investigates how Chinese emerging adults discursively construct fragmented identities across a complex polymedia environment. Drawing on interviews and multimodal screenshots from 20 mainland student migrants in Hong Kong (Mage = 23), we conceptualise platform usage as ‘double-sw…
Divorce stigma on Weibo
Despite rising divorce rates in China, the traditional “intact family” ideal remains hegemonic, subjecting children from divorced families (CDF) to courtesy stigma. This study investigates how this stigma is discursively constructed, negotiated, and resisted on Weibo, a leading Chinese microblogging platform. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed 2989 comments on Weibo using BERTopic modeling and social media critical discourse analysis …
Reconstructing divorce on Xiaohongshu
China’s rising divorce rate has become a significant public issue, yet how everyday internet users collectively make sense of this phenomenon remains under-investigated. Drawing on a dataset of five posts and 3868 comments from Xiaohongshu, this study employed computational topic modeling and critical narrative analysis to investigate how individuals share “small stories” to discursively construct and negotiate the meaning of marital dissolution.…
Asymmetric discursive struggle
Focusing on the 2020 case of Okonkwonwoye (a Nigerian man) who attacked Wang (a Chinese nurse), this study analysed over 37,000 posts and comments from Weibo (a popular Chinese microblogging platform) to explore the representation and contestation of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese cyberspace. Utilising a mixed-methods approach combining thematic and critical discourse analyses, the study argues that digital racial conflict in this context i…
Translanguaging as parental discourse strategies
Using a translanguaging lens, this qualitative study explored the micro-linguistic home language practices of multilingual South Asian families in Hong Kong. Our interview data revealed that all South Asian parents adopt a pragmatic view of language, recognising Chinese and English as valuable communicative and socio-economic resources, while some also uphold multilingualism, encouraging their children to maintain heritage language(s). A discours…
The Emotional Valence Paradox in Social media
This computational linguistic study analyzes 8743 Rednote posts to examine how sentiment, emotion, and content domain collectively shape social comparison dynamics on social media. We identify four key findings: (1) an emotional gradient, where upward comparison content exhibits the highest sentiment scores and downward comparison the lowest; (2) an emotional valence paradox, wherein positively valenced upward content may trigger psychological ha…
Discourse analysis (7 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (4 works) · Critical discourse analysis (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)