Xiao YANG

Research Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Film Studies, Monash University, Australia
  • M.A. in Film Studies, University College London, UK
  • B.A. in Communication Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, PRC

Research areas

The critical political economy of films and television, Chinese and Asian screen industries, film audiences, streaming platforms, the globalization of Chinese media

Selected publications

  • Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema: Baokuan Film Phenomena under Nationalism, Globalization and Audiences. Taylor & Francis.
  • Yang, Xiao. 2025. “The Cinematic Construction of Social Acceleration: Nice View (2022) and the Other Side of ‘China Speed’.” Asian Studies Review (2025): 1-16.
  • Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) “Streaming platforms as cultural intermediaries: Netflix and its representation of Chinese culture.” In Global Storytelling: Cultural Perceptions of Television Dramas, edited by Ying Zhu and Dal Yong Jin.
  • Yang, Xiao, and Olivia Khoo. 2024. “Projecting China to the World: Cinity, High Frame Rate Cinema, and the Future of Chinese Screening Technology.” Asian Cinema, 35:1&2, pp. 63–79.
  • Sarkar, Anubha, and Xiao Yang. 2024. “Streaming K-dramas and C-dramas: the different paths of Korean and Chinese online television distribution overseas.” Television & New Media.
  • Yang, Xiao. 2023. “The ‘Wolf Warrior Cycle’: Chinese Blockbusters in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative.” The China Quarterly 256 (2023): 1053–67.
  • Yang, Xiao. 2023. “Envisioning global governance in Chinese sci-fi blockbusters: Crazy Alien (2019) and The Wandering Earth (2019).” Studies in World Cinema 4 (1): 78-95.
  • Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) “Between the male gaze and female expression: Chinese comedienne Jia Ling and her film Hi, Mom.” In Starring Asian Femininities: Evolutions of Femaleness on Asian Screens, edited by Lisa Gotto, Kirsty Fairclough, and Ian Dixon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Yang, Xiao. 2021. “The era of baokuan films: How Chinese social media creates box office successes.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 15, no. 1: 104-120.

Invited talks

  • “Netflix’s representation of Chinese women through its curation of television dramas”, Miami University, 2025
  • “Disseminating Chinese media products overseas: cultural policies, the transition of media industries, and the role of platforms”, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2025
  • “The consequences of censorship in Korean and Chinese television industries”, The University of Melbourne, 2024
  • “Blockbuster (baokuan) films and the sci-fi genre in mainland China since the 2010s”, Monash University, 2023 & 2024

 

Grants and Awards

  • Postdoctoral Writing Grant, Asian Studies Association of Australia, 2025
  • Travel grant, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, 2025
  • Faculty of Arts International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Monash University, 2019-2023
  • Co-funded Monash Graduate Scholarship, Monash University, 2019-2023
  • Monash Residential Services Graduate Research Accommodation Scholarship, 2021 & 2022
  • Faculty of Arts Virtual Travel Grant, Monash University, 2021
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2016
  • Academic Achievement Award, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2016

Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 1002
E-mail: xiaoyang@um.edu.mo
Tel: (853) 8822 8318