Kaibin Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaibin Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaibin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wuhan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2687-4796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reinventing the Self in Illness
The disruption of self-identity can be distressful, and it is especially pronounced in people with mental illness. Narratives may allow them to innovate their "selves" in ways that help them adapt to the altered life. Drawing on the Dialogical Self Theory (DST), this study explores how people with eating disorders (EDs) construct and innovate the self by examining their illness vlogging on a popular Chinese video platform. While ED sufferers tend…
Caring for My Mother
Caring for my mother who was in a deep coma after a stroke was meaningful for me. It was not just a duty enacted out of the filial piety of traditional Chinese culture, but also a way to alleviate my guilt for failing to spend enough time with her during my twelve years of study and work overseas. This act of caring was also about my self-identity, as I felt that I would lose my identity as a son when Mom was no longer in this world. This autoeth…
Hygiene and the New China
The Chinese Patriotic Health Movement (PHM), launched in the early years of the People's Republic of China, was a large-scale campaign aimed at promoting public health. Drawing on Innocenti's (2011) framework of rhetorical threat appeals, this study analyzed the People's Daily and related sources to examine the PHM's mobilization strategies within an authoritarian political context. The PHM successfully mobilized public participation by consisten…
Enacting an Online Depression Community in China
The dilemma of disclosing one's illness experiences in real life has led to a proliferation of online health communities. It is worth exploring the nature of such communities. Drawing on the community of practice (CoP) theory, this article explores how members enact online health communities by studying the support group "Philosophical Treatment of Depression," one of the largest online depression communities in China. The findings show that part…
Relationship Distance as Facework Strategy
Based on observations and interviews at a comprehensive hospital in China, this study explored how family members engaged in facework to explain their nonsupport to cancer patients. The findings reveal that family members employed relationship distance as a facework strategy in two relationship contexts. In the patient-self dyad, family members used "drawing closer to the patient" (e.g. following the patient's wishes) and "pulling away from the p…
Accepting the Poem of Destiny
As online health communities become important platforms for people with depression to express themselves, digital narratives provide a lens for understanding their identity work. Drawing on the communication theory of identity (CTI), this article explored the members' identity reconstruction by analyzing their narratives posted in a Chinese online depression community. The four levels of identities constructed by the members include "laggard" and…
Metoo as communities of practice
Online disclosure of one’s own experience and the harasser’s name is a prominent way of telling #MeToo stories in China. Drawing on the theoretical perspective of community of practice (CoP), this article conducts a narrative analysis of these disclosures to explore how they are employed to form communities of practice that serve to resist sexual harassment, thereby contributing to digital feminism in China. The study finds that they shape a comm…
Effect of information encounter on concerns over healthy eating– mediated through body comparison and moderated by body mass index or body satisfaction
Exposure, even if unintentional, to food and nutrition information is an important predictor of HEC. BC, BS, and BMI are important factors that help to explain the process through which information affects behaviors
Complaining, Regret, Superiority, and Discovery
Drawing on observations of a Chinese online depression community, this article explored the members’ sense making of depression by analyzing their narrative accounts of depression. Four types of sense making were predominant among the depression sufferers: complaining, regret, superiority, and discovery. The complaining narrative is the members’ telling about the pain caused by family (parental control or neglect), school bullying, stress from st…
Disciplining the online class
In early 2020, the spread of COVID-19 resulted in the wide use of online classes in China. Drawing on Foucault’s disciplinary power and De Certeau’s strategy-tactic dialectic, this paper explores the online learning practice of students in a rural junior middle school at Yu Town in Central China during the pandemic, through interviewing the students, teachers, and parents. The findings show that the teachers and the students engaged in a power ga…
Manufacturing Digitalized Soft Propaganda
This article analyzes the practices of the Chinese party newspapers’ propaganda in the past decade. Through in-depth interviews with 30 journalists and editors of 12 party newspapers and analysis of investigative reports about 43 party newspapers’ propaganda work, this article finds that the party newspapers mainly used three propaganda strategies. Among them, mobile first is a technical strategy that gives priority to the use of mobile communica…
The Chinese female spectatorship
Through text analysis of the user-generated content in the Douban community, a popular online platform in China, this paper intends to analyze the ways Chinese women watch and interpret a Western “boys’ love” movie “Call Me by Your Name.” The findings indicate that women engage in active spectatorship, including the gaze of body, the viewing of plot and the perception of emotion based on the female identity. Women’s gaze at male image favors the …
Let feminists tell me my fault”
The spread of the #MeToo movement in China has led women to speak out about their experiences of sexual harassment through social media. However, most of these incidents have not been responded or acknowledged by the suspects, and even if they responded, their attitude was to evade accusations through various strategies. This paper analyzes the response of 15 male suspects who were revealed to the public in 2017 and 2018, and finds that the disco…
Advertising and Consumer Culture in China
In her Advertising and Consumer Culture in China, Hongmei Li analyzes advertising as an industry, a profession, and a discourse in the context of China’s economic reform and media commercialization
The rejection of science frames in the news coverage of the golden rice experiment in Hunan, China
In this article, we examine the ways in which media frames and rhetorical devices in the Chinese media shaped the representation of the genetically modified (GM) golden rice. We draw on a study of Chinese media representations of an experiment designed to test the efficacy of golden rice as a source of Vitamin A using school children in China’s Hunan province as subjects. The study analysed Chinese web news stories about the Hunan experiment post…
Exploring guanxi from a gender perspective
This study explored guanxi from a gender perspective. It investigated how urban Chinese women build and exercise guanxi in their professional life and the related tensions involved in the process. Three main paradoxes were found to be predominant among the participants: (1) guanxi is believed to be important, yet controversial to them; (2) they tend to hold negative views toward social events, while acknowledging participating in such events is v…
Theorizing Difference in Intercultural Communication
Difference between cultures is one of the foci of cross-cultural and intercultural communication research. Difference is often viewed as a problematic source of misunderstanding and conflict. Dialogic scholarship is extensive in interpersonal, organizational, and public communication. However, in the field of intercultural communication, the dialogic approach has not yet been explicitly explored. Based on the dialogic theories of Buber, Levinas, …
Causal Attributions for Corporate Performance
At the individual level, the self-enhancing attributional tendency has been shown to be more prevalent in North American cultures than in East Asian cultures. However, cross-cultural studies of attribution at the organizational level are scarce. To fill this gap, this study performs a content analysis of 200 corporate annual reports from Chinese and U.S. American companies. The findings suggest that both Chinese and U.S. American companies attrib…
Theorizing Difference in Intercultural Communication
Difference between cultures is one of the foci of cross-cultural and intercultural communication research. Difference is often viewed as a problematic source of misunderstanding and conflict. Dialogic scholarship is extensive in interpersonal, organizational, and public communication. However, in the field of intercultural communication, the dialogic approach has not yet been explicitly explored. Based on the dialogic theories of Buber, Levinas, …
The Chinese female spectatorship
Through text analysis of the user-generated content in the Douban community, a popular online platform in China, this paper intends to analyze the ways Chinese women watch and interpret a Western “boys’ love” movie “Call Me by Your Name.” The findings indicate that women engage in active spectatorship, including the gaze of body, the viewing of plot and the perception of emotion based on the female identity. Women’s gaze at male image favors the …
Let feminists tell me my fault”
The spread of the #MeToo movement in China has led women to speak out about their experiences of sexual harassment through social media. However, most of these incidents have not been responded or acknowledged by the suspects, and even if they responded, their attitude was to evade accusations through various strategies. This paper analyzes the response of 15 male suspects who were revealed to the public in 2017 and 2018, and finds that the disco…
Exploring guanxi from a gender perspective
This study explored guanxi from a gender perspective. It investigated how urban Chinese women build and exercise guanxi in their professional life and the related tensions involved in the process. Three main paradoxes were found to be predominant among the participants: (1) guanxi is believed to be important, yet controversial to them; (2) they tend to hold negative views toward social events, while acknowledging participating in such events is v…
Advertising and Consumer Culture in China
In her Advertising and Consumer Culture in China, Hongmei Li analyzes advertising as an industry, a profession, and a discourse in the context of China’s economic reform and media commercialization
Manufacturing Digitalized Soft Propaganda
This article analyzes the practices of the Chinese party newspapers’ propaganda in the past decade. Through in-depth interviews with 30 journalists and editors of 12 party newspapers and analysis of investigative reports about 43 party newspapers’ propaganda work, this article finds that the party newspapers mainly used three propaganda strategies. Among them, mobile first is a technical strategy that gives priority to the use of mobile communica…
Causal Attributions for Corporate Performance
At the individual level, the self-enhancing attributional tendency has been shown to be more prevalent in North American cultures than in East Asian cultures. However, cross-cultural studies of attribution at the organizational level are scarce. To fill this gap, this study performs a content analysis of 200 corporate annual reports from Chinese and U.S. American companies. The findings suggest that both Chinese and U.S. American companies attrib…
Theorizing Difference in Intercultural Communication
Difference between cultures is one of the foci of cross-cultural and intercultural communication research. Difference is often viewed as a problematic source of misunderstanding and conflict. Dialogic scholarship is extensive in interpersonal, organizational, and public communication. However, in the field of intercultural communication, the dialogic approach has not yet been explicitly explored. Based on the dialogic theories of Buber, Levinas, …
The rejection of science frames in the news coverage of the golden rice experiment in Hunan, China
In this article, we examine the ways in which media frames and rhetorical devices in the Chinese media shaped the representation of the genetically modified (GM) golden rice. We draw on a study of Chinese media representations of an experiment designed to test the efficacy of golden rice as a source of Vitamin A using school children in China’s Hunan province as subjects. The study analysed Chinese web news stories about the Hunan experiment post…
Exploring guanxi from a gender perspective
This study explored guanxi from a gender perspective. It investigated how urban Chinese women build and exercise guanxi in their professional life and the related tensions involved in the process. Three main paradoxes were found to be predominant among the participants: (1) guanxi is believed to be important, yet controversial to them; (2) they tend to hold negative views toward social events, while acknowledging participating in such events is v…
Advertising and Consumer Culture in China
In her Advertising and Consumer Culture in China, Hongmei Li analyzes advertising as an industry, a profession, and a discourse in the context of China’s economic reform and media commercialization
The Chinese female spectatorship
Through text analysis of the user-generated content in the Douban community, a popular online platform in China, this paper intends to analyze the ways Chinese women watch and interpret a Western “boys’ love” movie “Call Me by Your Name.” The findings indicate that women engage in active spectatorship, including the gaze of body, the viewing of plot and the perception of emotion based on the female identity. Women’s gaze at male image favors the …
Let feminists tell me my fault”
The spread of the #MeToo movement in China has led women to speak out about their experiences of sexual harassment through social media. However, most of these incidents have not been responded or acknowledged by the suspects, and even if they responded, their attitude was to evade accusations through various strategies. This paper analyzes the response of 15 male suspects who were revealed to the public in 2017 and 2018, and finds that the disco…
Manufacturing Digitalized Soft Propaganda
This article analyzes the practices of the Chinese party newspapers’ propaganda in the past decade. Through in-depth interviews with 30 journalists and editors of 12 party newspapers and analysis of investigative reports about 43 party newspapers’ propaganda work, this article finds that the party newspapers mainly used three propaganda strategies. Among them, mobile first is a technical strategy that gives priority to the use of mobile communica…
Metoo as communities of practice
Online disclosure of one’s own experience and the harasser’s name is a prominent way of telling #MeToo stories in China. Drawing on the theoretical perspective of community of practice (CoP), this article conducts a narrative analysis of these disclosures to explore how they are employed to form communities of practice that serve to resist sexual harassment, thereby contributing to digital feminism in China. The study finds that they shape a comm…
Effect of information encounter on concerns over healthy eating– mediated through body comparison and moderated by body mass index or body satisfaction
Exposure, even if unintentional, to food and nutrition information is an important predictor of HEC. BC, BS, and BMI are important factors that help to explain the process through which information affects behaviors
Complaining, Regret, Superiority, and Discovery
Drawing on observations of a Chinese online depression community, this article explored the members’ sense making of depression by analyzing their narrative accounts of depression. Four types of sense making were predominant among the depression sufferers: complaining, regret, superiority, and discovery. The complaining narrative is the members’ telling about the pain caused by family (parental control or neglect), school bullying, stress from st…
Disciplining the online class
In early 2020, the spread of COVID-19 resulted in the wide use of online classes in China. Drawing on Foucault’s disciplinary power and De Certeau’s strategy-tactic dialectic, this paper explores the online learning practice of students in a rural junior middle school at Yu Town in Central China during the pandemic, through interviewing the students, teachers, and parents. The findings show that the teachers and the students engaged in a power ga…
Hygiene and the New China
The Chinese Patriotic Health Movement (PHM), launched in the early years of the People's Republic of China, was a large-scale campaign aimed at promoting public health. Drawing on Innocenti's (2011) framework of rhetorical threat appeals, this study analyzed the People's Daily and related sources to examine the PHM's mobilization strategies within an authoritarian political context. The PHM successfully mobilized public participation by consisten…
Enacting an Online Depression Community in China
The dilemma of disclosing one's illness experiences in real life has led to a proliferation of online health communities. It is worth exploring the nature of such communities. Drawing on the community of practice (CoP) theory, this article explores how members enact online health communities by studying the support group "Philosophical Treatment of Depression," one of the largest online depression communities in China. The findings show that part…
Relationship Distance as Facework Strategy
Based on observations and interviews at a comprehensive hospital in China, this study explored how family members engaged in facework to explain their nonsupport to cancer patients. The findings reveal that family members employed relationship distance as a facework strategy in two relationship contexts. In the patient-self dyad, family members used "drawing closer to the patient" (e.g. following the patient's wishes) and "pulling away from the p…
Accepting the Poem of Destiny
As online health communities become important platforms for people with depression to express themselves, digital narratives provide a lens for understanding their identity work. Drawing on the communication theory of identity (CTI), this article explored the members' identity reconstruction by analyzing their narratives posted in a Chinese online depression community. The four levels of identities constructed by the members include "laggard" and…
Reinventing the Self in Illness
The disruption of self-identity can be distressful, and it is especially pronounced in people with mental illness. Narratives may allow them to innovate their "selves" in ways that help them adapt to the altered life. Drawing on the Dialogical Self Theory (DST), this study explores how people with eating disorders (EDs) construct and innovate the self by examining their illness vlogging on a popular Chinese video platform. While ED sufferers tend…
Caring for My Mother
Caring for my mother who was in a deep coma after a stroke was meaningful for me. It was not just a duty enacted out of the filial piety of traditional Chinese culture, but also a way to alleviate my guilt for failing to spend enough time with her during my twelve years of study and work overseas. This act of caring was also about my self-identity, as I felt that I would lose my identity as a son when Mom was no longer in this world. This autoeth…
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · China (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Advertising (3 works)