Xin Yang

Xin Yang specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture and film, with a special focus on gender politics and Internet studies. She is currently working on migrant workers’ writing and video-making. Her most recent publication, “Aestheticizing Labor: The Construction of the ‘Good China Story’ in Li Ziqi’s Videos” (Chinese Literature and Thought Today 53, no. 3-4, 2022), examines rural vloggers in China.

Xin has also authored a number of journal essays and book chapters. The journals in which her articles have appeared include Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, China information, Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Frontier of Literary Studies in China and Chinese Literature and Thought Today.

Her book, Re-configuring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture (co-author with Haomin Gong, London & New York: Routledge, 2017) addresses how Chinese Internet culture has provided a means to intervene in the otherwise monolithic narratives of identity and community. Her monograph From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever: A Critical Study of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers (Peter Lang Publishing, 2011), discusses women’s writings in post-socialist China.

Xin received her B.A. at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Ph.D. at University of Oregon. Courses taught at Macalester include: China on Screen, Gender and Sexuality in China, Translating Chinese, Revolution and Love in Chinese fiction and film, Chinese language at all levels.