Tracy Ying Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4184734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Ying Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy Ying |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG T Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0314-0231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Go Panda Go
This article examines the invention and exhibitions of the panda circus to explore the political, economic, and cultural influence of the giant panda on China–Japan diplomacy and the transnational cultural economy. Using oral history interviews and archival materials, the authors explain how, in 1981, a giant panda named Wei Wei became China’s first panda entertainer in Japan, embarking on a cross-country tour supported by friendship-city agreeme…
Introduction
This special issue features five articles written by a group of established and emerging researchers, who carefully examined the challenges and opportunities for women's participation in media production across platforms and nations. Overall, the case studies in this special issue extend and broaden current conversations about gendered media-making practices by emphasizing an intersectional, transnational, and critical feminist perspective on ide…
Erhard, Franz Xaver, and Thomas Wild
Beyond Vice & Vertu
In the summer of 2017, I saw the closing show of Vice & Vertu, a multimedia circus production created for Montreal’s 375th Anniversary and the annual circus festival, Completement Cirque. Vice & Ve
Enchanted masculinities
Most studies on ‘modern magic’ examine the evolution and politics of this performance genre in various Euro-American cultural spaces. This article explores how Chinese people perceived and re-invented modern magic in their encounters with modernity and in the context of China’s nationalist and anti-imperialist struggles. More specifically, this study uses the lens of gender to sketch out the emergence of a cultural economy of modern magic, under …
Bending the body for China
This paper examines how acrobatics was imbued with multiple meanings through the practices of nation-state building and international diplomacy. More specifically, the author discusses why the Chinese government chose acrobatics to facilitate the Sino-US rapprochement and the implications of this cultural diplomacy for the governments as well as the acrobats. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival data, this study demonstrates how the re…
Factory ‘nuns’
Many debates over migrant labor politics in contemporary China rely upon essentialist notions of ethnic identity. In contrast, I identify migrant labor politics as transnational processes through which women migrants from rural Tibet become ethnic workers. Drawing on post-colonial theories of ethnicity and on feminist literature on global capitalism, this article analyzes the uses of migrant laborers in a globalizing Tibetan carpet industry. Firs…
Factory ‘nuns’
Many debates over migrant labor politics in contemporary China rely upon essentialist notions of ethnic identity. In contrast, I identify migrant labor politics as transnational processes through which women migrants from rural Tibet become ethnic workers. Drawing on post-colonial theories of ethnicity and on feminist literature on global capitalism, this article analyzes the uses of migrant laborers in a globalizing Tibetan carpet industry. Firs…
Bending the body for China
This paper examines how acrobatics was imbued with multiple meanings through the practices of nation-state building and international diplomacy. More specifically, the author discusses why the Chinese government chose acrobatics to facilitate the Sino-US rapprochement and the implications of this cultural diplomacy for the governments as well as the acrobats. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival data, this study demonstrates how the re…
Factory ‘nuns’
Many debates over migrant labor politics in contemporary China rely upon essentialist notions of ethnic identity. In contrast, I identify migrant labor politics as transnational processes through which women migrants from rural Tibet become ethnic workers. Drawing on post-colonial theories of ethnicity and on feminist literature on global capitalism, this article analyzes the uses of migrant laborers in a globalizing Tibetan carpet industry. Firs…
Bending the body for China
This paper examines how acrobatics was imbued with multiple meanings through the practices of nation-state building and international diplomacy. More specifically, the author discusses why the Chinese government chose acrobatics to facilitate the Sino-US rapprochement and the implications of this cultural diplomacy for the governments as well as the acrobats. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival data, this study demonstrates how the re…
Enchanted masculinities
Most studies on ‘modern magic’ examine the evolution and politics of this performance genre in various Euro-American cultural spaces. This article explores how Chinese people perceived and re-invented modern magic in their encounters with modernity and in the context of China’s nationalist and anti-imperialist struggles. More specifically, this study uses the lens of gender to sketch out the emergence of a cultural economy of modern magic, under …
Beyond Vice & Vertu
In the summer of 2017, I saw the closing show of Vice & Vertu, a multimedia circus production created for Montreal’s 375th Anniversary and the annual circus festival, Completement Cirque. Vice & Ve
Introduction
This special issue features five articles written by a group of established and emerging researchers, who carefully examined the challenges and opportunities for women's participation in media production across platforms and nations. Overall, the case studies in this special issue extend and broaden current conversations about gendered media-making practices by emphasizing an intersectional, transnational, and critical feminist perspective on ide…
Erhard, Franz Xaver, and Thomas Wild
Go Panda Go
This article examines the invention and exhibitions of the panda circus to explore the political, economic, and cultural influence of the giant panda on China–Japan diplomacy and the transnational cultural economy. Using oral history interviews and archival materials, the authors explain how, in 1981, a giant panda named Wei Wei became China’s first panda entertainer in Japan, embarking on a cross-country tour supported by friendship-city agreeme…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · China (2 works)