'Empowerment' and 'funeng' 3 September 2024
This essay examines how the term 'empowerment' ('funeng' in Chinese) takes on different meanings and implications in various fields and social practices across China and the West.
QMOPAL52: New paper exploring ADHD and student narrative discourse 30 August 2024
#RefusingMenstrualShame (#拒绝月经羞耻): Affective Feminist Catchphrases on Chinese Social Media 13 August 2024
This blogpost explores #RefusingMenstrualShame as a catchphrase adopted by digital feminist activists in China, aiming to challenge patriarchal taboos around menstruation whilst sparking both feminist solidarity and anti-feminist backlash.
Graduate awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 7 August 2024
SAVANT project receives extension to ESRC grant 2 August 2024
Queen Mary MA student awarded Swiss Scholarship 1 August 2024
'Involution' (neijuan) 22 July 2024
This essay discusses a catchword 'neijuan', which originated in scholarly discourse but has seen a dramatic increase in everyday usage to describe the intense pressure and competition in educational and work environments in China.
SAVANT project launches open-source lexicon repository 12 July 2024
‘China and the West’ 11 July 2024
This post unpacks the increasingly used phrase 'China and the West', highlighting ongoing anxieties, complex relationships, and persistent preconceptions of differences between the two, despite efforts to foster understanding.
PhD awarded to Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado 1 July 2024