25/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Thinking "Sissiness" through Trans/national Masculinities in Contemporary China Abstract: Based on a recent paper co-authored with Prof. Tingting Liu (Jinan University), this talk discusses China’s recent “sissy ban” by situating

18/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 International Migration to China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Abstract: With the influx of international migrants, China has been transformed from a traditional sending country of outbound migrants into an emerging destination

11/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Affective Engagement in Women's Empowerment Online: Potentials, Limitations and Backlash Abstract: The relationship between the internet and women’s empowerment has been the subject of extensive inquiry – from Donna Haraway’s

15/03/2024 (Thursday) 16:00-17:00 E21B-G002 Is negativity as the basic news value an illusion? Sentiment evidence from Pulitzer Prize-winning news reports Abstract:Previous studies have observed Linguistic Positivity Bias (LPB) as a universal linguistic phenomenon across

07/03/2024 (Thursday) 18:00 ~ 19:00 E21B-G002 Prof. Guotao ZHANG is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Communication University of China, Chief expert of a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation.

22/02/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Who's afraid of the big bad fake news Abstract: Many people care enough about fake news to harbor strong personal convictions about it, although the bases for these convictions either