In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#AoIR2025 is next week! Easiest programme to read on a mobile is on the Sched app: aoir2025ruptures.sched.com

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you Jeff for giving a fabulous talk! We were honored to host you!

Folks in Philly, don't miss @jwassers.bsky.social 's talk today at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu
cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨

I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."

I have a chapter on Japan's TVer in this new volume on East Asian platforms and media, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. Lots of great work here by @guobin-yang.bsky.social, @hlynn5.bsky.social, @otomedoctor.bsky.social, and others.
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“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”

www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @asc.upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social l

Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to Stephen Hartnett on the publication of his new book! msupress.org/978161186543...

CSCC @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu has a fantastic lineup of speakers for the fall semester, starting next week with Prof @yanlong-soc.bsky.social 's talk on her award-winning new book!

cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68

Here is my latest blog update
guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-en...

Updates about some recent publications guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2025/07/july...

I spotted a few books! @linzhang.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social #ica25

"Every chapter is a gem"!

Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories."
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-...

Congratulations, Jeff!

Love your book!

Thank you Jeff!

In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social

Thank you!

There is some talk about the revival of blogging. For starters, I've updated my Blogger site after almost three years! guobin-yang.blogspot.com

Amazing discovery! Thanks to a piece (www.hssonline.cn/homeNav?site...) I wrote for the Chinese journal Foreign Literature, I came upon a new publishing platform "HSS Online" launched by Foreign Language & Teaching Press in Beijing. It features instant AI translation of Chinese texts into English!

Exciting to have 2 interviews out this month with 2 great journals: one on Chinese internet culture in Spanish
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
and the other on Communication as Translation in Chinese: cjjc.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V47... @asc.upenn.edu @revistaunam.bsky.social