Mengyu Luo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mengyu Luo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mengyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Luo |
| SIGNATURE | LUO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Shanghai for Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0637-6511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When seeing is not believing
The rise of deep synthesis technology has garnered significant attention with the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Social media platforms are increasingly populated with news content featuring AI-generated images. When browsing fragmented online information, it remains uncertain whether users pay attention to the source of this content. This study examines AI self-efficacy and user cynicism, exploring users’ cognitive and perceptual a…
Soft nationalism in China
The issue of nationalism has long attracted scholarly attention, focused primarily on the relationship between nationalism and modernity, and ‘hot’ and top-down forms of nationalism. In this article, we focus on what we call ‘soft nationalism’, which is a softly spoken yet highly affective and passionate form of ‘ground up’ nationalism frequently found in online participatory practice. Soft nationalism, we argue, is especially prevalent in China,…
Introduction
Shaping old media on new media
Making Shanghai red again? Policies, practices, and problems in the rebranding of Shanghai’s red culture
This article situates itself within the broader scholarship on urban cultural branding and the reinvention of red heritage in Shanghai. Through discourse analysis of municipal policies and exhibitions at key red cultural venues, specifically the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence, this study examines how Shanghai’s red culture has been reconceptualized in the conte…
Abrus cantoniensis Hance
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Abrus cantoniensis Hance (ACH), known as Jigucao (Chinese: ) has been used in ethnopharmacology for a long history with therapeutic effects for clearing heat, soothing the liver, especially in treating acute and chronic hepatitis which was very effective. In southern China, such as Guangdong and Guangxi, people often use ACH in soup or herbal tea as dietetic therapy. AIM OF THE REVIEW: This paper aims to review ACH…
Socioeconomic Status Plays a Moderating Role in the Association Between Multimorbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Cancer Patients
This study aimed to explore the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the association between multimorbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among cancer patients in Anhui China. A total of 560 cancer patients were recruited for the cross-section study. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Tobit regression analysis was employed to investigate the relationship between mult…
From Hongkew Ghetto to Shanghai Ark
Is Gender the Priming Factor? Examining Emoji Users’ Behaviorin Wechat Among University Students in China
Nonverbal cues, such asemoji or emoticon, enjoy increasing popularity in computer mediated communication (CMC). These elements are used to compensate for the limited emotional expression lacked from face-to-face communication. Emoji, for example, has thus become a new medium to communicate and express emotions in CMC. WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, and other micro-messaging apps provide platforms for the frequent use of emoji in daily communication, esp…
Music streaming platforms and self-releasing musicians
A major development in the music industries in recent years has been the rise of ‘unsigned’ or ‘self-releasing’ musicians (sometimes problematically called ‘DIY musicians’ or ‘independent musicians’) who upload music directly to music streaming platforms (MSPs). This article examines the distinctive way in which Chinese MSPs have sought to incorporate such self-releasing musicians into their platform eco-systems and what it tells us about the way…
Nomads in a city of their own making
Special termsNomads in a city of their own making: a portrait of migrant workers in Shenzhen, 1980–2000All authorsJian Xiao & Zheng Wanhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209431Published online:23 June 2023Table Download CSVDisplay TableAdditional informationNotes on contributorsJian XiaoJian Xiao (Ph.D. Loughborough University) is the associate professor of urban esthetics at Zhejiang University. She has published in many journals specializin…
Soft nationalism and China
In this article we introduce the concept of soft nationalism through a case-study analysis of short videos by US-born rapper MC Jin (Jin Au-Yeung), who is of Chinese background. Jin's creative output, we argue, with its cross-cultural and grassroots invocations of Chinese identity, ethnicity, tradition, language and belonging, complicates existing theories of nationalism. To address these complications we develop the term ‘soft nationalism’, to d…
Curating a Continued Dream
Too depleted to control yourself? Effect of customer mistreatment on after‐work maladaptive behaviours through self‐control capacity impairment
Drawing on self‐regulation theories, the current study examined the effect of the daily experience of customer mistreatment at work on three types of maladaptive behaviours after work (impulsive buying, overeating behaviours, and mobile phone overuse) through self‐control capacity impairment. Further, we investigated the moderating roles of two recovery activities at work (taking some time for relaxation and learning something new at work) on the…
Engaging With Objects and Feelings
Livehouse is a small venue for live music performance, a term commonly used in the Asian context. This article adopts an insider’s perspective to look at the connections between livehouse and its audiences. Instead of treating spaces and objects as silent textures of live music experiences, we regard livehouse as an active site filled with ideas and feelings. The meaning of livehouse is made by audiences through both human and non-human agents an…
De-Westernizing Punk
Punk in China suffers from the stigma of inauthenticity and the dilemma of belatedness. That is, it comes ‘after’ the original punk moment in the West and is understood as derivative and therefore inauthentic. It does not follow, however, that in places that came ‘late’ to punk, such as China, punk is merely an echo of Western practice. Recent scholarship has embraced the concept of ‘global punk’, alongside projects to decolonize punk studies, to…
Power and Identity Transition in Symphonic Music
Power transition creates distinct social discourses, forming new identities in the process. This article takes the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an epoch-making historical event and features the transformation of practices and power plays within the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia, before and after the PRC (from the 1920s to the early 1950s). This article aims to understand the transi…
Institutional policing of western heritage
Previous studies have examined how popular music is preserved and curated. However, little is known when it comes to the more ‘high-brow' and institutionalized western classical music, especially in a non-western context. In this article, we look at Shanghai Symphony Museum, built and renewed from western urban heritage owned first by an upper-class elite, and then the government, co-managed by a property company in the metropolitan city, Shangha…
The embodiment of ‘Chinese strength’
This article examines how Chinese songs have incorporated collectivism-oriented cultural values since the outbreak of COVID-19. Such songs are composed to express emotions and cultural values during the global crisis. They are also cultural symbols, sharing not only music but also cultural spirit. This article takes lyrics in Chinese songs, published from February to April 2020, as symbolic texts to analyse the cultural values behind music compos…
Art as intervention
Participation in public space is widely recognized as a means for deepening social inclusion. Recent developments in urban participation have seen an intertwining relationship between art, technology, and activism. This article presents a comparative study of two protests regarding the transformation of two public spaces: Donghu in Wuhan, China, and Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. We aim to compare and contrast how art functions in the…
Everybody’s Donghu”
This paper presents a study of an artistic resistance project in China, “Everybody’s Donghu (East Lake),” held in 2010, 2012, and 2014 with the aim of intervening in the commercial development of an urban scenic space. It aims to demonstrate the practices of resistance in public spaces, particularly in the context of an authoritarian regime such as China, as opposed to democratic societies. First, the recent development of protest and forms of re…
From Underground to Mainstream and Then What? Empowerment and Censorship in China’s Hip-Hop Music
Tensions between artistic production and state policy have attracted scholarly attention for more than half a century, especially in the subcultural field. In 2017, a hip-hop talent show—The Rap of China brought Chinese hip-hop music and rappers to the spotlight. Hip-hop was a marginal subcultural form in China where the right form of culture should positively influence the society. However, direct censorship towards hip-hop music is not ideal an…
The omnivore turn in cultural production
Previous studies on China’s cultural production have concentrated on the tension between state and individual creativity, overlooking the more dynamic and popular expression in China’s complicated cultural market, especially in this information age. This article is inspired by the omnivore–univore argument in cultural consumption and argues there is a similar omnivore turn among China’s independent cultural producers. Drawing on a case study of t…
From Cultural Revolution to cultural consumption
The formation of a Chinese identity through symphonic music is an indispensable part of the overall cultural landscape in China. This article takes the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra – the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia – as a case study to examine the formation of a contemporary identity in China’s cultural field, especially after the ten-year Cultural Revolution. Identity is a complicated and fluid concept for it concerns both individual and co…
The biographical approach in (post-) subcultural studies
While the biographical approach is widely employed in applied and theoretical social research, it is less fully developed in the specific field of (post-) subcultural studies. The article demonstrates the utility of the biographical method for (post) subcultural studies by presenting research on the punk phenomenon in an authoritarian social context within China. The discussion draws upon a qualitative study based on interviews with 34 Chinese pu…
Cultural policy and revolutionary music during China’s Cultural Revolution
This paper examines the relation between the cultural policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the music of model plays (yangbanxi 样板戏), especially music produced by Western symphony orchestras, during the ten-year Cultural Revolution in China. It takes the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as the focal point of this historical episode. Model plays of the Cultural Revolution promoted communist and revolutionary themes. All aspects of their…
From Underground to Mainstream and Then What? Empowerment and Censorship in China’s Hip-Hop Music
Tensions between artistic production and state policy have attracted scholarly attention for more than half a century, especially in the subcultural field. In 2017, a hip-hop talent show—The Rap of China brought Chinese hip-hop music and rappers to the spotlight. Hip-hop was a marginal subcultural form in China where the right form of culture should positively influence the society. However, direct censorship towards hip-hop music is not ideal an…
From Cultural Revolution to cultural consumption
The formation of a Chinese identity through symphonic music is an indispensable part of the overall cultural landscape in China. This article takes the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra – the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia – as a case study to examine the formation of a contemporary identity in China’s cultural field, especially after the ten-year Cultural Revolution. Identity is a complicated and fluid concept for it concerns both individual and co…
The effects of lecturer commitment on student perceptions of teaching quality and student satisfaction in Chinese higher education
Student satisfaction has become an important concept in higher education because students are paying higher tuition fees and increasingly seeing themselves as customers and because satisfaction is commonly used as an indicator of quality by quality assurance agencies and the compilers of rankings and league tables. In business organisations, it has been established that employee commitment has a significant impact on employee performance and cust…
From Hongkew Ghetto to Shanghai Ark
Soft nationalism and China
In this article we introduce the concept of soft nationalism through a case-study analysis of short videos by US-born rapper MC Jin (Jin Au-Yeung), who is of Chinese background. Jin's creative output, we argue, with its cross-cultural and grassroots invocations of Chinese identity, ethnicity, tradition, language and belonging, complicates existing theories of nationalism. To address these complications we develop the term ‘soft nationalism’, to d…
Power and Identity Transition in Symphonic Music
Power transition creates distinct social discourses, forming new identities in the process. This article takes the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an epoch-making historical event and features the transformation of practices and power plays within the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia, before and after the PRC (from the 1920s to the early 1950s). This article aims to understand the transi…
Everybody’s Donghu”
This paper presents a study of an artistic resistance project in China, “Everybody’s Donghu (East Lake),” held in 2010, 2012, and 2014 with the aim of intervening in the commercial development of an urban scenic space. It aims to demonstrate the practices of resistance in public spaces, particularly in the context of an authoritarian regime such as China, as opposed to democratic societies. First, the recent development of protest and forms of re…
Institutional policing of western heritage
Previous studies have examined how popular music is preserved and curated. However, little is known when it comes to the more ‘high-brow' and institutionalized western classical music, especially in a non-western context. In this article, we look at Shanghai Symphony Museum, built and renewed from western urban heritage owned first by an upper-class elite, and then the government, co-managed by a property company in the metropolitan city, Shangha…
The omnivore turn in cultural production
Previous studies on China’s cultural production have concentrated on the tension between state and individual creativity, overlooking the more dynamic and popular expression in China’s complicated cultural market, especially in this information age. This article is inspired by the omnivore–univore argument in cultural consumption and argues there is a similar omnivore turn among China’s independent cultural producers. Drawing on a case study of t…
A cross-sectional survey on the health status and the health-related quality of life of the elderly after flood disaster in Bazhong city, Sichuan, China
A marked decline in health status among elderly in Bazhong after the 2011 flood. Post-flood management targeting elderly need to be sensitive to their age, gender, married status and status of chronic diseases
The effects of lecturer commitment on student perceptions of teaching quality and student satisfaction in Chinese higher education
Student satisfaction has become an important concept in higher education because students are paying higher tuition fees and increasingly seeing themselves as customers and because satisfaction is commonly used as an indicator of quality by quality assurance agencies and the compilers of rankings and league tables. In business organisations, it has been established that employee commitment has a significant impact on employee performance and cust…
Cultural policy and revolutionary music during China’s Cultural Revolution
This paper examines the relation between the cultural policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the music of model plays (yangbanxi 样板戏), especially music produced by Western symphony orchestras, during the ten-year Cultural Revolution in China. It takes the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as the focal point of this historical episode. Model plays of the Cultural Revolution promoted communist and revolutionary themes. All aspects of their…
The biographical approach in (post-) subcultural studies
While the biographical approach is widely employed in applied and theoretical social research, it is less fully developed in the specific field of (post-) subcultural studies. The article demonstrates the utility of the biographical method for (post) subcultural studies by presenting research on the punk phenomenon in an authoritarian social context within China. The discussion draws upon a qualitative study based on interviews with 34 Chinese pu…
The omnivore turn in cultural production
Previous studies on China’s cultural production have concentrated on the tension between state and individual creativity, overlooking the more dynamic and popular expression in China’s complicated cultural market, especially in this information age. This article is inspired by the omnivore–univore argument in cultural consumption and argues there is a similar omnivore turn among China’s independent cultural producers. Drawing on a case study of t…
From Cultural Revolution to cultural consumption
The formation of a Chinese identity through symphonic music is an indispensable part of the overall cultural landscape in China. This article takes the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra – the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia – as a case study to examine the formation of a contemporary identity in China’s cultural field, especially after the ten-year Cultural Revolution. Identity is a complicated and fluid concept for it concerns both individual and co…
Everybody’s Donghu”
This paper presents a study of an artistic resistance project in China, “Everybody’s Donghu (East Lake),” held in 2010, 2012, and 2014 with the aim of intervening in the commercial development of an urban scenic space. It aims to demonstrate the practices of resistance in public spaces, particularly in the context of an authoritarian regime such as China, as opposed to democratic societies. First, the recent development of protest and forms of re…
From Underground to Mainstream and Then What? Empowerment and Censorship in China’s Hip-Hop Music
Tensions between artistic production and state policy have attracted scholarly attention for more than half a century, especially in the subcultural field. In 2017, a hip-hop talent show—The Rap of China brought Chinese hip-hop music and rappers to the spotlight. Hip-hop was a marginal subcultural form in China where the right form of culture should positively influence the society. However, direct censorship towards hip-hop music is not ideal an…
The embodiment of ‘Chinese strength’
This article examines how Chinese songs have incorporated collectivism-oriented cultural values since the outbreak of COVID-19. Such songs are composed to express emotions and cultural values during the global crisis. They are also cultural symbols, sharing not only music but also cultural spirit. This article takes lyrics in Chinese songs, published from February to April 2020, as symbolic texts to analyse the cultural values behind music compos…
Art as intervention
Participation in public space is widely recognized as a means for deepening social inclusion. Recent developments in urban participation have seen an intertwining relationship between art, technology, and activism. This article presents a comparative study of two protests regarding the transformation of two public spaces: Donghu in Wuhan, China, and Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. We aim to compare and contrast how art functions in the…
Too depleted to control yourself? Effect of customer mistreatment on after‐work maladaptive behaviours through self‐control capacity impairment
Drawing on self‐regulation theories, the current study examined the effect of the daily experience of customer mistreatment at work on three types of maladaptive behaviours after work (impulsive buying, overeating behaviours, and mobile phone overuse) through self‐control capacity impairment. Further, we investigated the moderating roles of two recovery activities at work (taking some time for relaxation and learning something new at work) on the…
Engaging With Objects and Feelings
Livehouse is a small venue for live music performance, a term commonly used in the Asian context. This article adopts an insider’s perspective to look at the connections between livehouse and its audiences. Instead of treating spaces and objects as silent textures of live music experiences, we regard livehouse as an active site filled with ideas and feelings. The meaning of livehouse is made by audiences through both human and non-human agents an…
De-Westernizing Punk
Punk in China suffers from the stigma of inauthenticity and the dilemma of belatedness. That is, it comes ‘after’ the original punk moment in the West and is understood as derivative and therefore inauthentic. It does not follow, however, that in places that came ‘late’ to punk, such as China, punk is merely an echo of Western practice. Recent scholarship has embraced the concept of ‘global punk’, alongside projects to decolonize punk studies, to…
Power and Identity Transition in Symphonic Music
Power transition creates distinct social discourses, forming new identities in the process. This article takes the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an epoch-making historical event and features the transformation of practices and power plays within the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), the oldest symphony orchestra in Asia, before and after the PRC (from the 1920s to the early 1950s). This article aims to understand the transi…
Institutional policing of western heritage
Previous studies have examined how popular music is preserved and curated. However, little is known when it comes to the more ‘high-brow' and institutionalized western classical music, especially in a non-western context. In this article, we look at Shanghai Symphony Museum, built and renewed from western urban heritage owned first by an upper-class elite, and then the government, co-managed by a property company in the metropolitan city, Shangha…
Is Gender the Priming Factor? Examining Emoji Users’ Behaviorin Wechat Among University Students in China
Nonverbal cues, such asemoji or emoticon, enjoy increasing popularity in computer mediated communication (CMC). These elements are used to compensate for the limited emotional expression lacked from face-to-face communication. Emoji, for example, has thus become a new medium to communicate and express emotions in CMC. WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, and other micro-messaging apps provide platforms for the frequent use of emoji in daily communication, esp…
Music streaming platforms and self-releasing musicians
A major development in the music industries in recent years has been the rise of ‘unsigned’ or ‘self-releasing’ musicians (sometimes problematically called ‘DIY musicians’ or ‘independent musicians’) who upload music directly to music streaming platforms (MSPs). This article examines the distinctive way in which Chinese MSPs have sought to incorporate such self-releasing musicians into their platform eco-systems and what it tells us about the way…
Nomads in a city of their own making
Special termsNomads in a city of their own making: a portrait of migrant workers in Shenzhen, 1980–2000All authorsJian Xiao & Zheng Wanhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2209431Published online:23 June 2023Table Download CSVDisplay TableAdditional informationNotes on contributorsJian XiaoJian Xiao (Ph.D. Loughborough University) is the associate professor of urban esthetics at Zhejiang University. She has published in many journals specializin…
Soft nationalism and China
In this article we introduce the concept of soft nationalism through a case-study analysis of short videos by US-born rapper MC Jin (Jin Au-Yeung), who is of Chinese background. Jin's creative output, we argue, with its cross-cultural and grassroots invocations of Chinese identity, ethnicity, tradition, language and belonging, complicates existing theories of nationalism. To address these complications we develop the term ‘soft nationalism’, to d…
Curating a Continued Dream
Abrus cantoniensis Hance
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Abrus cantoniensis Hance (ACH), known as Jigucao (Chinese: ) has been used in ethnopharmacology for a long history with therapeutic effects for clearing heat, soothing the liver, especially in treating acute and chronic hepatitis which was very effective. In southern China, such as Guangdong and Guangxi, people often use ACH in soup or herbal tea as dietetic therapy. AIM OF THE REVIEW: This paper aims to review ACH…
Socioeconomic Status Plays a Moderating Role in the Association Between Multimorbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Cancer Patients
This study aimed to explore the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the association between multimorbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among cancer patients in Anhui China. A total of 560 cancer patients were recruited for the cross-section study. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Tobit regression analysis was employed to investigate the relationship between mult…
From Hongkew Ghetto to Shanghai Ark
When seeing is not believing
The rise of deep synthesis technology has garnered significant attention with the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Social media platforms are increasingly populated with news content featuring AI-generated images. When browsing fragmented online information, it remains uncertain whether users pay attention to the source of this content. This study examines AI self-efficacy and user cynicism, exploring users’ cognitive and perceptual a…
Soft nationalism in China
The issue of nationalism has long attracted scholarly attention, focused primarily on the relationship between nationalism and modernity, and ‘hot’ and top-down forms of nationalism. In this article, we focus on what we call ‘soft nationalism’, which is a softly spoken yet highly affective and passionate form of ‘ground up’ nationalism frequently found in online participatory practice. Soft nationalism, we argue, is especially prevalent in China,…
Political science (18 works) · China (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Art (15 works) · Law (13 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Music History and Culture (10 works)