Yue‐Jian Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5656639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yue‐Jian Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yue‐Jian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN Y J |
| AFFILIATIONS | South China University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6840-9197 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Waterways, Lineages, Borders
The Dragon Boat Festival as understood by villagers of Guangzhou’s urban villages is not a festival of a single day, but a sequence of dragon boat-related activities, locally called Pa Longzhou, that lasts for nearly a month. During the festival, waterways are used as interactive spaces across villages through the organization of collective rituals, which softens the rigid boundaries and divisions between these villages. In this article, we argue…
What Gods Want
This paper explores the nature of deities in South China through the perspectives of ritual service providers (RSPs) working at village temples dedicated to the local god Hou Wang. Diverging from traditional sociological frameworks, the study adopts a folklore studies approach to examine personal experiences and vernacular meanings of the sacred. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews conducted in Guangzhou and Dongguan between 2024 and 2025, …
Representations of Miao Ethnicity in Social Media Posts Concerning Chinese Ethnic Minority Photography
This study investigates the representation and production of Miao ethnicity within the practice of ‘ethnic photography’ on the Chinese social media platform RedNote. Analyzing a corpus of 100 RedNote posts from 2021 to 2025, the research explores how Han Chinese cultural tourists perform minority identities through staged photography involving Miao-style costumes. The findings reveal that while the primary motivation is the creation of aesthetici…
In the Darkness of the Gods
This visual autoethnographic and interview-based folklore study asks how darkness and light relate to social, cultural, and religious meaning at a village temple in South China. The relationship between darkness and light is important in religious traditions in China and elsewhere. Over the course of a year, the researchers observed how a village temple in Dongguan, Guangdong Province underwent renovations that changed it from a dark space (in li…
Examining maternal agency in family language policy among African-Chinese intermarriage families in Guangzhou from the lens of the actor-network theory
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
Identity Negotiation and Segregated Integration of African-Chinese Mixed-race Children in Guangzhou, China
This article examines the lives of African-Chinese mixed-race children in Guangzhou, China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city, the article explores the negotiation of identity and belonging of these children of mixed African and Chinese heritage. Occupying a third space between two or more ethnicities and cultures, mixed African-Chinese children often develop a sense of double consciousness and hybrid identities in response to the Chine…
In the Darkness of the Gods
This visual autoethnographic and interview-based folklore study asks how darkness and light relate to social, cultural, and religious meaning at a village temple in South China. The relationship between darkness and light is important in religious traditions in China and elsewhere. Over the course of a year, the researchers observed how a village temple in Dongguan, Guangdong Province underwent renovations that changed it from a dark space (in li…
Examining maternal agency in family language policy among African-Chinese intermarriage families in Guangzhou from the lens of the actor-network theory
Waterways, Lineages, Borders
The Dragon Boat Festival as understood by villagers of Guangzhou’s urban villages is not a festival of a single day, but a sequence of dragon boat-related activities, locally called Pa Longzhou, that lasts for nearly a month. During the festival, waterways are used as interactive spaces across villages through the organization of collective rituals, which softens the rigid boundaries and divisions between these villages. In this article, we argue…
What Gods Want
This paper explores the nature of deities in South China through the perspectives of ritual service providers (RSPs) working at village temples dedicated to the local god Hou Wang. Diverging from traditional sociological frameworks, the study adopts a folklore studies approach to examine personal experiences and vernacular meanings of the sacred. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews conducted in Guangzhou and Dongguan between 2024 and 2025, …
Representations of Miao Ethnicity in Social Media Posts Concerning Chinese Ethnic Minority Photography
This study investigates the representation and production of Miao ethnicity within the practice of ‘ethnic photography’ on the Chinese social media platform RedNote. Analyzing a corpus of 100 RedNote posts from 2021 to 2025, the research explores how Han Chinese cultural tourists perform minority identities through staged photography involving Miao-style costumes. The findings reveal that while the primary motivation is the creation of aesthetici…
China (4 works) · Folklore (4 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Liminality (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Tourism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)