ZHANG Xinyue

PhD student in Chinese Internet literature, fan studies and popular culture


Conferences & Seminars

Remediation of Internet Literature through Video: Exploring BookTok, Reaction Videos, and Visually Filled Audiobooks 网络文学视听传播的三重另类路径:扫文视频、反应视频与有声书的再媒介化实践

The 10th Annual Conference of the Internet Literature Research Branch, Chinese Association of Literary and Art Theory​, Shanghai University, China, 中国文艺理论学会网络文学研究分会第十届学术年会暨“网络文学与新大众文艺”研讨会, 2025.10.24-26


Infinite Metaphors of Genre: Flow (Liu) as the Transcultural Suffix in Chinese Internet Literature

2025/26 School of Chinese Research Student Seminar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 2025.10.24


Flow as Genre: Liu, Fixed Tropes, and Transcultural Lexicon in Chinese Internet Literature

2025 British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference (BACS), University of Leicester, UK, 2025.09.03-05


From Fantasy to Friction: Unseen Sexual Capital in Cosplay Commission

3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Interdisciplinary Doctoral Forum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Challenges: Innovation, Aspiration, Solution, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, 2025.08.21-22


Y Yang, K Zhou & X Zhang, “Dancing the Space Away: Reframing Public Space Through K-Pop Fan Dance Practices.”

75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, USA, 2025.06.12-16


Chinese Cosplay Commission and Its Discontent: Sexual Capital in Negotiating Virtual Intimacy Beyond Transactions

in organized panel “Technologies of Desire: Queer Intimacy, Digital Architectures, and Fan Practices in and Beyond East Asia”

Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Conference 2025 (AAS-in-Asia), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2025.06.01-04


Chinese-Style Horror: Sinicization of Anxieties from Below

in organized seminar “China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective”

Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2025 Annual Meeting, held virtually, 2025.05.29-06.01


Invisible Yet Present: The Afterlife of The Spirealm in China’s Queer Media

in panel (organized by me) “Resilient Queer Narratives in Chinese Transmedia Fandoms: Gender, Sexuality, and Fan Agency”

Media for All 11 Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2025.05.28-30


Revisiting The World of Fanworks: Subculture Visibility, Research Ethics, and Acafan Positionality 重访《同人的世界》:可见性、研究伦理与学术粉丝

Platform, Industry, Identity, Affect: Symposium on Fan Culture in the New Media Era, Xiamen University, China, 平台·产业·身份·情感:新媒体时代的同人文化研讨会, 2024.12.20-22


K Zhou & X Zhang, invited seminar, “Narcissistic, My God I Love It: Fans’ Subjective Well-being in K-pop Random Dance

Louis Cha Seminar Series on Transcultural Fandom Series, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2024.08.23


Anxiety as Horror: How Contemporary Chinese-Style Horror Reappropriates Horror.

Hong Kong Convergence: (Re)connection: communication, and contact, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2024.06.07-08


Celebrity, Fandom and Gender Discourse in Chinese Showbiz Fiction

SJTU-USC Symposium on Transcultural Fandom, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2024.05.16


Infinite Genre Fiction in Chinese Internet Literature

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2023, University of Liverpool, UK, 2023.06.29-30



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About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. My research interests are Chinese webnovels, particularly female-oriented writings, fan studies and popular culture. I have a background in social and cultural anthropology (UCL) and philosophy and psychology (UoE).

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