Hanhan Xue
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanhan Xue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Xue |
| SIGNATURE | XUE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3546-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prada’s Use of China Women’s National Football Team Athletes as Brand Embodiments
In this study, we examine Prada’s 2024 social media advertising campaign featuring the Chinese women’s national soccer team, analyzing the intersection of popular nationalism, consumer culture, and sportsbased luxury branding in China’s evolving marketplace. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate how this global luxury brand utilized specific communication strategies to adapt to local markets through sport figures within China’s post-c…
Exclusion in the Name of Dissuasion: Framing Moral Panic, Disposable Gamers, and Esport Regulation in China
In early 2021, “esport dissuasion” emerged as a popular, yet contested, phenomenon in Chinese online media. This service simulates professional esport training’s demanding regimens to discourage gaming addiction, with discourses thereabout reflecting broader social anxieties about youth gaming practices. This study examines these competing discourses through content analysis of Chinese online media sources, including news articles, social media p…
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China
The integration of conventional Western styles and Chinese (physical) cultural elements has become an increasingly utilised choreographic trend in Chinese DanceSport. In major competitions and televised events, choreographers have sought to create distinctive performance-based identities and practices that at once adhere to Western stylistic and competitive conventions but also incorporate traditional Chinese physical and cultural aesthetics. In …
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market
Esports is often described as a growing industry ripe with financial opportunities for young professional, competitive gamers. However, these claims rarely consider how income is distributed amongst players. This study uses prize earnings data from 2005 to 2019 to examine labor market inequality and related social inequalities and social stratifications. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients show that inequality has increased in the labor market ov…
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport
In recent decades, the political, economic, and social environment in the Peoples' Republic of China has opened up to inflows of commerce and culture from around the world. Consequently, the physical cultural practices within China have undergone a double-dialectical shift-whereby performing bodies now influence, and are influenced by, a shifting body politic (e.g. sport and physical activity practices opening up to global markets and brands, tra…
To Live, Play, and Die in Tianjin: Football as Biopolitical Assemblage in Contemporary China
In this article, the authors provide a Deleuzoguattarian tracing of a specific set of relationships between traditional Chinese medicine, life, death, and football (soccer). More specifically, the authors examine political, economic, and cultural associations formed in and around the Quanjian Group, a major traditional Chinese medicine company once located in the burgeoning industrial hub of Tianjin. The authors follow Aihwa Ong in abductively ex…
Representations of Wrigley Field Redevelopment(s) in the Chicago Tribune: Neoliberal Discourse and Urban Politics
Since the concept of redeveloping Wrigley Field became prevalent, the Chicago Tribune has notably constructed a variety of narrative strands on related urban dynamics. Through a framework that connected post-Gramsci insights of hegemony, discourse, and critics of spatial and economic neoliberalism, this study examined how the newspaper strategically assembled discourses in mediatizing urban politics surrounding the Wrigley renovation. First, the …
Gaming Gone Viral: An Analysis of the Emerging Esports Narrative Economy
In this article, we use narrative economics to analyze the social conditions promoting the growth in private investment in esports—specifically in North American esports teams and franchises. Investment in the esport industry has outpaced revenue growth and esport teams do not have a proven cash flow model. To understand this disjuncture, we draw upon the narrative economic approaches developed by Robert Shiller and colleagues who have demonstrat…
Narratives, identity and community in esports
The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and outside the digital gaming field. Indeed, one major concern for self-identifying ‘gamers’ around the world is the extent to which the logics of professionalisation, spectacularisation and rationalisation that pervade contemporary esports will unsettle existing identities withi…
The transition game: Toward a cultural economy of football in post-socialist China
Following decades of significant economic and political reform, a once-closed China has emerged as the world's fastest growing and arguably most interconnected political economic system. In the context of what has been termed a 'post-socialist' transition, China's sport system has similarly undergone rapid marketization (bringing in market actors and action). In this article, we examine the changing state and function of football (soccer) within …
Framing the Olympic Elite Athlete Funding Issue: A Case Study of Canadian Newspaper Coverage
This article employs media framing theory to examine the debate over public funding to support elite athlete development. More specifically, it examines the discourse in Canadian newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games surrounding funding for elite athletes. The article first provides an overview of government funding support for elite athletes in Canada and then reviews relevant literature on media framing theory. Methods are disc…
Sporting Shanghai: Haipai Cosmopolitanism, Glocal Cityness, and Urban Policy as Mega-Event
In recent years, Shanghai has become one of Asia’s major players in the bidding for, and hosting of, international sporting events. Uniquely positioned by history (e.g., China’s liberalized urban node to the globalizing economy, an imbedded urban cosmopolitanism) and geopolitics (e.g., a shift toward free market domestic political economy, a growing pro-corporatist governing alliance), sporting Shanghai provides a critical site of analysis for co…
Narratives, identity and community in esports
The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and outside the digital gaming field. Indeed, one major concern for self-identifying ‘gamers’ around the world is the extent to which the logics of professionalisation, spectacularisation and rationalisation that pervade contemporary esports will unsettle existing identities withi…
Gaming Gone Viral: An Analysis of the Emerging Esports Narrative Economy
In this article, we use narrative economics to analyze the social conditions promoting the growth in private investment in esports—specifically in North American esports teams and franchises. Investment in the esport industry has outpaced revenue growth and esport teams do not have a proven cash flow model. To understand this disjuncture, we draw upon the narrative economic approaches developed by Robert Shiller and colleagues who have demonstrat…
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market
Esports is often described as a growing industry ripe with financial opportunities for young professional, competitive gamers. However, these claims rarely consider how income is distributed amongst players. This study uses prize earnings data from 2005 to 2019 to examine labor market inequality and related social inequalities and social stratifications. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients show that inequality has increased in the labor market ov…
Framing the Olympic Elite Athlete Funding Issue: A Case Study of Canadian Newspaper Coverage
This article employs media framing theory to examine the debate over public funding to support elite athlete development. More specifically, it examines the discourse in Canadian newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games surrounding funding for elite athletes. The article first provides an overview of government funding support for elite athletes in Canada and then reviews relevant literature on media framing theory. Methods are disc…
The transition game: Toward a cultural economy of football in post-socialist China
Following decades of significant economic and political reform, a once-closed China has emerged as the world's fastest growing and arguably most interconnected political economic system. In the context of what has been termed a 'post-socialist' transition, China's sport system has similarly undergone rapid marketization (bringing in market actors and action). In this article, we examine the changing state and function of football (soccer) within …
Sporting Shanghai: Haipai Cosmopolitanism, Glocal Cityness, and Urban Policy as Mega-Event
In recent years, Shanghai has become one of Asia’s major players in the bidding for, and hosting of, international sporting events. Uniquely positioned by history (e.g., China’s liberalized urban node to the globalizing economy, an imbedded urban cosmopolitanism) and geopolitics (e.g., a shift toward free market domestic political economy, a growing pro-corporatist governing alliance), sporting Shanghai provides a critical site of analysis for co…
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport
In recent decades, the political, economic, and social environment in the Peoples' Republic of China has opened up to inflows of commerce and culture from around the world. Consequently, the physical cultural practices within China have undergone a double-dialectical shift-whereby performing bodies now influence, and are influenced by, a shifting body politic (e.g. sport and physical activity practices opening up to global markets and brands, tra…
Framing the Olympic Elite Athlete Funding Issue: A Case Study of Canadian Newspaper Coverage
This article employs media framing theory to examine the debate over public funding to support elite athlete development. More specifically, it examines the discourse in Canadian newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games surrounding funding for elite athletes. The article first provides an overview of government funding support for elite athletes in Canada and then reviews relevant literature on media framing theory. Methods are disc…
Sporting Shanghai: Haipai Cosmopolitanism, Glocal Cityness, and Urban Policy as Mega-Event
In recent years, Shanghai has become one of Asia’s major players in the bidding for, and hosting of, international sporting events. Uniquely positioned by history (e.g., China’s liberalized urban node to the globalizing economy, an imbedded urban cosmopolitanism) and geopolitics (e.g., a shift toward free market domestic political economy, a growing pro-corporatist governing alliance), sporting Shanghai provides a critical site of analysis for co…
Narratives, identity and community in esports
The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and outside the digital gaming field. Indeed, one major concern for self-identifying ‘gamers’ around the world is the extent to which the logics of professionalisation, spectacularisation and rationalisation that pervade contemporary esports will unsettle existing identities withi…
The transition game: Toward a cultural economy of football in post-socialist China
Following decades of significant economic and political reform, a once-closed China has emerged as the world's fastest growing and arguably most interconnected political economic system. In the context of what has been termed a 'post-socialist' transition, China's sport system has similarly undergone rapid marketization (bringing in market actors and action). In this article, we examine the changing state and function of football (soccer) within …
Gaming Gone Viral: An Analysis of the Emerging Esports Narrative Economy
In this article, we use narrative economics to analyze the social conditions promoting the growth in private investment in esports—specifically in North American esports teams and franchises. Investment in the esport industry has outpaced revenue growth and esport teams do not have a proven cash flow model. To understand this disjuncture, we draw upon the narrative economic approaches developed by Robert Shiller and colleagues who have demonstrat…
To Live, Play, and Die in Tianjin: Football as Biopolitical Assemblage in Contemporary China
In this article, the authors provide a Deleuzoguattarian tracing of a specific set of relationships between traditional Chinese medicine, life, death, and football (soccer). More specifically, the authors examine political, economic, and cultural associations formed in and around the Quanjian Group, a major traditional Chinese medicine company once located in the burgeoning industrial hub of Tianjin. The authors follow Aihwa Ong in abductively ex…
Representations of Wrigley Field Redevelopment(s) in the Chicago Tribune: Neoliberal Discourse and Urban Politics
Since the concept of redeveloping Wrigley Field became prevalent, the Chicago Tribune has notably constructed a variety of narrative strands on related urban dynamics. Through a framework that connected post-Gramsci insights of hegemony, discourse, and critics of spatial and economic neoliberalism, this study examined how the newspaper strategically assembled discourses in mediatizing urban politics surrounding the Wrigley renovation. First, the …
Opportunity and inequality in the emerging esports labor market
Esports is often described as a growing industry ripe with financial opportunities for young professional, competitive gamers. However, these claims rarely consider how income is distributed amongst players. This study uses prize earnings data from 2005 to 2019 to examine labor market inequality and related social inequalities and social stratifications. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients show that inequality has increased in the labor market ov…
The dancefloor is now open: A dispositional analysis of the glocalization and sportification of Chinese DanceSport
In recent decades, the political, economic, and social environment in the Peoples' Republic of China has opened up to inflows of commerce and culture from around the world. Consequently, the physical cultural practices within China have undergone a double-dialectical shift-whereby performing bodies now influence, and are influenced by, a shifting body politic (e.g. sport and physical activity practices opening up to global markets and brands, tra…
Hybrid choreographic femininities: DanceSport, physical culture, and performative corporeality in contemporary China
The integration of conventional Western styles and Chinese (physical) cultural elements has become an increasingly utilised choreographic trend in Chinese DanceSport. In major competitions and televised events, choreographers have sought to create distinctive performance-based identities and practices that at once adhere to Western stylistic and competitive conventions but also incorporate traditional Chinese physical and cultural aesthetics. In …
Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prada’s Use of China Women’s National Football Team Athletes as Brand Embodiments
In this study, we examine Prada’s 2024 social media advertising campaign featuring the Chinese women’s national soccer team, analyzing the intersection of popular nationalism, consumer culture, and sportsbased luxury branding in China’s evolving marketplace. Using critical discourse analysis, we investigate how this global luxury brand utilized specific communication strategies to adapt to local markets through sport figures within China’s post-c…
Exclusion in the Name of Dissuasion: Framing Moral Panic, Disposable Gamers, and Esport Regulation in China
In early 2021, “esport dissuasion” emerged as a popular, yet contested, phenomenon in Chinese online media. This service simulates professional esport training’s demanding regimens to discourage gaming addiction, with discourses thereabout reflecting broader social anxieties about youth gaming practices. This study examines these competing discourses through content analysis of Chinese online media sources, including news articles, social media p…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · China (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)