Wendy Weile Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 4171260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Weile Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy Weile |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9627-2489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagining “Us” and “Them”
How do people emotionally imagine political others and the competing sovereignty claims they represent, and how are these imaginaries tied to different visions of the collective “us”? Drawing on 93 interviews with Chinese college students in China and the United States between 2019 and 2021, this study examines how Chinese youth’s visions of China’s future organize their emotional responses to Hong Kong and Taiwan. We develop a typology along two…
Self-Authorization Amid Transculturation and Appropriation
“Cultural stealing,” the perceived appropriation of Chinese cultural symbols by the Korean entertainment industry for commercial gain, has become a flashpoint for Chinese K-pop fans negotiating between national identity and transnational consumer culture. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, online texts, and participant observation, the study examines the controversy surrounding the K-pop group NCT and disentangles the dynamic relationships am…
Different Shades of Nationalism
Current scholarship on Chinese public perceptions of international affairs tends to highlight the growing hawkishness and nationalistic tendencies in popular public opinion during the Xi Jinping era. Whereas these studies tend to deal with cases and contexts directly involving China, little is known about how the Chinese public responds to geopolitical crises in which China is not a direct participant. Our study attempts to address this gap by ex…
Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism
What are the dynamics of the participatory online discourse in an authoritarian context? More specifically, what patterns of Chinese state-society interactions can be drawn from the existing nexus of top-down control and bottom-up participation? To explore the questions, this study examines the Chinese nation-state personifications produced by ‘fanquan girls’, nationalistic fans of pop stars, during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Three types of ima…
Disrupted or sustained? Chinese international students’ perceptions of transnational hybrid learning amid politics and pandemic
Impacted by the global COVID-19 crisis and its sociopolitical shockwaves, pre-existing physical mobility patterns and traditional study-abroad experiences have been thoroughly disrupted and transformed. US higher education institutions have utilized the practices of transnational hybrid learning to sustain the quality and progress of international higher education. This article focuses on a study programme that integrates online and offline learn…
Different Shades of Nationalism
Current scholarship on Chinese public perceptions of international affairs tends to highlight the growing hawkishness and nationalistic tendencies in popular public opinion during the Xi Jinping era. Whereas these studies tend to deal with cases and contexts directly involving China, little is known about how the Chinese public responds to geopolitical crises in which China is not a direct participant. Our study attempts to address this gap by ex…
Disrupted or sustained? Chinese international students’ perceptions of transnational hybrid learning amid politics and pandemic
Impacted by the global COVID-19 crisis and its sociopolitical shockwaves, pre-existing physical mobility patterns and traditional study-abroad experiences have been thoroughly disrupted and transformed. US higher education institutions have utilized the practices of transnational hybrid learning to sustain the quality and progress of international higher education. This article focuses on a study programme that integrates online and offline learn…
Disrupted or sustained? Chinese international students’ perceptions of transnational hybrid learning amid politics and pandemic
Impacted by the global COVID-19 crisis and its sociopolitical shockwaves, pre-existing physical mobility patterns and traditional study-abroad experiences have been thoroughly disrupted and transformed. US higher education institutions have utilized the practices of transnational hybrid learning to sustain the quality and progress of international higher education. This article focuses on a study programme that integrates online and offline learn…
Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism
What are the dynamics of the participatory online discourse in an authoritarian context? More specifically, what patterns of Chinese state-society interactions can be drawn from the existing nexus of top-down control and bottom-up participation? To explore the questions, this study examines the Chinese nation-state personifications produced by ‘fanquan girls’, nationalistic fans of pop stars, during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Three types of ima…
Different Shades of Nationalism
Current scholarship on Chinese public perceptions of international affairs tends to highlight the growing hawkishness and nationalistic tendencies in popular public opinion during the Xi Jinping era. Whereas these studies tend to deal with cases and contexts directly involving China, little is known about how the Chinese public responds to geopolitical crises in which China is not a direct participant. Our study attempts to address this gap by ex…
Imagining “Us” and “Them”
How do people emotionally imagine political others and the competing sovereignty claims they represent, and how are these imaginaries tied to different visions of the collective “us”? Drawing on 93 interviews with Chinese college students in China and the United States between 2019 and 2021, this study examines how Chinese youth’s visions of China’s future organize their emotional responses to Hong Kong and Taiwan. We develop a typology along two…
Self-Authorization Amid Transculturation and Appropriation
“Cultural stealing,” the perceived appropriation of Chinese cultural symbols by the Korean entertainment industry for commercial gain, has become a flashpoint for Chinese K-pop fans negotiating between national identity and transnational consumer culture. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, online texts, and participant observation, the study examines the controversy surrounding the K-pop group NCT and disentangles the dynamic relationships am…
Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · China (3 works) · Nationalism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works)