Forthcoming Presentations:
Theorizing Real Person Shipping: A Tripartite Affordance Framework of Technology, Text, and Norm
in panel (organized by me) “Technologies of Chinese Real Person Shipping”
The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, 2026.10.23-25
Random Play, Global Joy: Participatory K-Pop Dance and Embodied Circulation in Public Spaces
2026 Global K-Culture Conference, Chungbuk National University, South Korea, 2026.08.20-22
Selected Presentations:
From Fantasy to Friction: Unseen Sexual Capital in Cosplay Commission
Mechademia Conference 2026, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2026.05.29-30
K-pop Random Play Dance in China and Beyond
Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium 2026, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2026.05.28
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
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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