Ian L Tian
Biographic Data
| ID | 809415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian L Tian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian L |
| FAMILY NAME | Tian |
| SIGNATURE | TIAN I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5403-034X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer wandering: Cruising as a contingent practice of placemaking in China’s migrant urban villages
Between Pleasure and Precarity: Surviving Love and Labour in Southern China’s Urban Villages
Between queer sexualities and migrant heteronormative familialism: Chinese rural-to-urban male migrant workers surviving economic precarity and cultural norms
This paper examines how sexual nonconforming, rural-to-urban male migrant workers in mainland China navigate what I term “migrant heteronormative familialism,” a concept grounded in queer Marxist analysis that captures a distinct conceptualization of natal family relations and the ideology of the hetero-reproductive family. Their negotiations are shaped not only by sociocultural norms but also by material concerns specific to migrant workers that…
Asian Canada Is Burning: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, and Praxes
Queering digitally-mediated social reproduction: Using Chinese gay couples’ vlogging as an example
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures
This article inter-references Asian North American theorizing of techno-orientalism and queer Asia as method. Specifically, it develops queer techno-orientalism as method to think beyond Chinese queer and trans bodies’ hyper visibility as “technologized threats” in techno-orientalist representations and their invisibility in China’s cisheteronormative, nationalist hi-tech future. It argues that Chinese queer and trans bodies can reclaim a reparat…
Divine Queer Sorrow, or Beyond Mythical Reparations
This article focuses on the culture and politics of apology for injustice against LGBTQ+ people in the context of Anglo-European, liberal democratic nation-states. I examine the circumstances and limits of Justin Trudeau’s apology for the gay purge and related initiatives since November 2017. I contend that while the normative affective structure of liberal apology mandates a move from mythical homo sorrow to mythical reparation, jettisoned affec…
Being Too Asian: Migrant Student Time and Resistance within the Canadian University
Asian international students in Canadian higher education have long caused anxiety and predicament for domestic (white) students, faculty, and staff. This article considers the contending and multiple timelines in and against which international students (Chinese, South Asians, or otherwise) operate. In particular, this article considers how these students time-trick the neoliberal university by examining reports and advocacy around three tempora…
Unpacking racism during Covid-19: Narratives from racialized Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men
Racism remains a pernicious threat to the well-being of GBQM of colour. CRT highlights the importance of assessing how sexualized and gendered discourses about race shape the experiences of GBQM of colour navigating multiple epidemics like COVID-19 and HIV. These pervasive discourses unevenly affect racial and sexual minorities across multiple epidemics, and negatively impact health outcomes for these populations
Critical Socialist Feminism in China: Xingbie (Gender), the State, and Community-Based Socialism
Recent publicity of Chinese feminist activism highlights the urgency for scholarly attention to historically and contextually grounded knowledge about socialism and feminism. This essay explores current Chinese feminism as a contentious and geopolitically mediated subject, introducing critical socialist feminism within the Chinese feminist theorizing that has emerged in the last decade. Specifically, the essay discusses how several scholars reexa…
On Rescuable and Expendable Life: Bioavailability, Surplus Time, and Queer Politics of Reproduction
This article questions the political branding of settler Canada as a place of sanctuary. I examine two seemingly paradoxical processes: “private-public partnership” in queer refugee settlement programs and migrant detention centres in Canada. This article argues that rescue and capture are not contradictory, but dialectical features of human bioeconomy. Such an economy renders the reproduction of life, vitality, and time bioavailable for extracti…
Perverse Politics, Postsocialist Radicality: Queer Marxism in China
This article offers a queer postsocialist lens to theoretical contestations around neoliberalism, socialist legacies, capitalist reform, and the Chinese state. I foreground a queer Marxist position by situating Chinese capitalist developmentalism in global racial capitalism. I examine a recent GLBTQ hiring event in Shanghai alongside publications and personal involvement with the socialist organization “Queer Workers.” Based on this analysis, I c…
Graduated In/Visibility: Reflections on Ku’er Activism in (Post)Socialist China
Grounded in my activist labor over the past few years, this article delineates the current state of Ku’er (queer)1 politics in (post)socialist China. I contribute to the discussion of GLBTQ politics in a non-Western context by asking questions about the ways in which the power of the state is negotiated by activists.2 I join a conversation with Shirinian about the possibility and the consequences of being seen.3 I begin my reflections with an ove…
Critical Socialist Feminism in China: Xingbie (Gender), the State, and Community-Based Socialism
Recent publicity of Chinese feminist activism highlights the urgency for scholarly attention to historically and contextually grounded knowledge about socialism and feminism. This essay explores current Chinese feminism as a contentious and geopolitically mediated subject, introducing critical socialist feminism within the Chinese feminist theorizing that has emerged in the last decade. Specifically, the essay discusses how several scholars reexa…
Graduated In/Visibility: Reflections on Ku’er Activism in (Post)Socialist China
Grounded in my activist labor over the past few years, this article delineates the current state of Ku’er (queer)1 politics in (post)socialist China. I contribute to the discussion of GLBTQ politics in a non-Western context by asking questions about the ways in which the power of the state is negotiated by activists.2 I join a conversation with Shirinian about the possibility and the consequences of being seen.3 I begin my reflections with an ove…
Perverse Politics, Postsocialist Radicality: Queer Marxism in China
This article offers a queer postsocialist lens to theoretical contestations around neoliberalism, socialist legacies, capitalist reform, and the Chinese state. I foreground a queer Marxist position by situating Chinese capitalist developmentalism in global racial capitalism. I examine a recent GLBTQ hiring event in Shanghai alongside publications and personal involvement with the socialist organization “Queer Workers.” Based on this analysis, I c…
Graduated In/Visibility: Reflections on Ku’er Activism in (Post)Socialist China
Grounded in my activist labor over the past few years, this article delineates the current state of Ku’er (queer)1 politics in (post)socialist China. I contribute to the discussion of GLBTQ politics in a non-Western context by asking questions about the ways in which the power of the state is negotiated by activists.2 I join a conversation with Shirinian about the possibility and the consequences of being seen.3 I begin my reflections with an ove…
On Rescuable and Expendable Life: Bioavailability, Surplus Time, and Queer Politics of Reproduction
This article questions the political branding of settler Canada as a place of sanctuary. I examine two seemingly paradoxical processes: “private-public partnership” in queer refugee settlement programs and migrant detention centres in Canada. This article argues that rescue and capture are not contradictory, but dialectical features of human bioeconomy. Such an economy renders the reproduction of life, vitality, and time bioavailable for extracti…
Perverse Politics, Postsocialist Radicality: Queer Marxism in China
This article offers a queer postsocialist lens to theoretical contestations around neoliberalism, socialist legacies, capitalist reform, and the Chinese state. I foreground a queer Marxist position by situating Chinese capitalist developmentalism in global racial capitalism. I examine a recent GLBTQ hiring event in Shanghai alongside publications and personal involvement with the socialist organization “Queer Workers.” Based on this analysis, I c…
Critical Socialist Feminism in China: Xingbie (Gender), the State, and Community-Based Socialism
Recent publicity of Chinese feminist activism highlights the urgency for scholarly attention to historically and contextually grounded knowledge about socialism and feminism. This essay explores current Chinese feminism as a contentious and geopolitically mediated subject, introducing critical socialist feminism within the Chinese feminist theorizing that has emerged in the last decade. Specifically, the essay discusses how several scholars reexa…
Divine Queer Sorrow, or Beyond Mythical Reparations
This article focuses on the culture and politics of apology for injustice against LGBTQ+ people in the context of Anglo-European, liberal democratic nation-states. I examine the circumstances and limits of Justin Trudeau’s apology for the gay purge and related initiatives since November 2017. I contend that while the normative affective structure of liberal apology mandates a move from mythical homo sorrow to mythical reparation, jettisoned affec…
Being Too Asian: Migrant Student Time and Resistance within the Canadian University
Asian international students in Canadian higher education have long caused anxiety and predicament for domestic (white) students, faculty, and staff. This article considers the contending and multiple timelines in and against which international students (Chinese, South Asians, or otherwise) operate. In particular, this article considers how these students time-trick the neoliberal university by examining reports and advocacy around three tempora…
Unpacking racism during Covid-19: Narratives from racialized Canadian gay, bisexual, and queer men
Racism remains a pernicious threat to the well-being of GBQM of colour. CRT highlights the importance of assessing how sexualized and gendered discourses about race shape the experiences of GBQM of colour navigating multiple epidemics like COVID-19 and HIV. These pervasive discourses unevenly affect racial and sexual minorities across multiple epidemics, and negatively impact health outcomes for these populations
Asian Canada Is Burning: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, and Praxes
Queering digitally-mediated social reproduction: Using Chinese gay couples’ vlogging as an example
Queer techno-orientalism as method: Mr. Robot, Uterus Man , and other Chinese techno futures
This article inter-references Asian North American theorizing of techno-orientalism and queer Asia as method. Specifically, it develops queer techno-orientalism as method to think beyond Chinese queer and trans bodies’ hyper visibility as “technologized threats” in techno-orientalist representations and their invisibility in China’s cisheteronormative, nationalist hi-tech future. It argues that Chinese queer and trans bodies can reclaim a reparat…
Queer wandering: Cruising as a contingent practice of placemaking in China’s migrant urban villages
Between Pleasure and Precarity: Surviving Love and Labour in Southern China’s Urban Villages
Between queer sexualities and migrant heteronormative familialism: Chinese rural-to-urban male migrant workers surviving economic precarity and cultural norms
This paper examines how sexual nonconforming, rural-to-urban male migrant workers in mainland China navigate what I term “migrant heteronormative familialism,” a concept grounded in queer Marxist analysis that captures a distinct conceptualization of natal family relations and the ideology of the hetero-reproductive family. Their negotiations are shaped not only by sociocultural norms but also by material concerns specific to migrant workers that…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Queer (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · China (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works)