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Qian Huang 黄倩

@qianhuang.bsky.social
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Asst Prof. in media studies @UoGroningen. Comparative research on digital vigilantism, visibility, participatory surveillance & digital cultures. qianxeniahuang.super.site

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/11/2025
🚨new open-access article!🚨 what do drastically different representations of the Paris Olympic opening ceremony on Chinese social media tell us about competing narratives of civilization & transversal alignment in digital reactionary politics? academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Abstract: Scholarship on “non-Western” civilizational discourse in international relations remains largely limited to the versions crafted or endorsed by the state. This paper takes the representation of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Chinese social media as an entry point to exploring vernacular and competing narratives of civilization in global cultural politics. Drawing on data from multiple platforms, I scrutinize visions of civilizational progress, decay, and betrayal, interlaced with contested imaginaries of “China”, “France”, and “the West”, in celebratory and demonizing discourses on the spectacle. First, I argue that ideas of “civilizational standards” have always been co-produced, appropriated, and negotiated by actors from the peripheries, rather than monopolized by the centre. A nuanced and situational reading of the celebratory discourse shows how users employ civilizational and universalist vocabularies to contest locally hegemonic structures, which may simultaneously reproduce and challenge homonationalist logics. Secondly, the paper contributes to the emerging literature on the co-opting of the anticolonial language in reactionary politics, showing that in this case, the accusation of coloniality is turned inwards to target the internal other, whose identification with progressive values is recast as colonial subservience and betrayal. Finally, I show that the trope of “Western civilizational decay” and certain constructions of difference/affinities are instrumental to queerphobic nationalist narratives. However, civilizational signifiers such as “West” and “East” function in digital reactionary discourse less as a tool for narrating cultural distinctiveness than as flexible transnational codes, allowing for transversal alignment to emerge across conventional geopolitical and ideological boundaries.
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Absolutely enjoyed the session!
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I look forward to serving the community in the coming years!
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The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Our episode on China’s incel community explored discourse on gender expectations in Chinese society. @qianhuang.bsky.social from the University of Groningen weighs in on how state and incel perspectives differ on articulating women’s roles. Listen to the full episode: omny.fm/shows/the-li...
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The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
How does the Chinese manosphere compare to the Western one? In our latest episode, guests @qianhuang.bsky.social and Ling Tang weigh up on similarities and differences between incel discourse across cultures. Listen to the full episode: omny.fm/shows/the-li...
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The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In the latest in our series on belief, we’re examining the emergence of incels in the world’s largest manosphere. China’s growing incel community is fuelled by state-approved nationalism and simple demographics—by one estimate, 30 million Chinese men won’t find a life partner. (1/3)
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 31/07/2025
Mass #voyeurism scandal hits #China… how can the misuse of almost invisible cameras be regulated? #surveillance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Anger grows in China over reports of online groups sharing explicit photos of women
Chinese media said more than 100,000 were members of Telegram group that shared pictures taken without consent
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A milestone! I’m awarded a VENI Grant (€ 320k) by NWO for a 4-year project. I will compare digital visibility negotiation practices of public intellectuals in 3 sectors in China and NL to conceptualize cautious labor. I am extremely thankful for the support of RUG FA and so many colleagues/friends.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 30/06/2025
did I contentify this blog post? yes I did by creating a thumbnail image!
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
After 2 years of dedicated work, our special issue is finally out! We present to you 19 articles in Convergence. Together with my brilliant co-editors — Jing Zeng, Hiromi Tanaka & @saifshahin.bsky.social — we rethink digital visibility negotiation grounded in Asia. Read our intro: shorturl.at/4xLZJ
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François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My latest on social media platforms and logics of knowledge production in East Asian independent music, out in Convergence now: doi.org/10.1177/1354... Special thanks to @qianhuang.bsky.social for helping bring this out into the world!
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
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CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
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Leiden Asia Centre @leidenasiacentre.nl · 12/02/2025
During this month’s CKN Knowledge Session, the latest developments around Chinese social media platform #xiaohongshu were discussed🔎. Many thanks to Dr. @qianhuang.bsky.social and Dr. @carwynmorris.bsky.social for presenting their insights! Learn more on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9sO...
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Ziying Meng @ziyingm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How do content creators learn about a dozen platforms and push their content into the ‘for you’ page?🤔 In this new OA paper in New Media & Society, I explore transnational creators' algorithmic and visibility practices across multiple Chinese and US-based platforms. 🔗 shorturl.at/f0mAC
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Viola Zhou @violazhou.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you are interested in learning more about #Xiaohongshu #RedNote, @restofworld.org has published many in-depth stories about the community: My story on XHS as an ultra-consumerist app, showing young women a polished, bougie, often-unattainable way of life. restofworld.org/2023/xiaohon...
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Xiaohongshu is teaching young Chinese women how to buy the perfect life
Known as China’s “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
From 2018 but good context: art19.com/shows/tech-b... Some cultural context: thechinaproject.com/2023/06/07/h... thechinaproject.com/2022/11/17/p... thechinaproject.com/2023/06/06/w... thechinaproject.com/2023/08/10/w... thechinaproject.com/2023/06/20/w...
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Ep. 31: Alibaba and the Little Red Book (Xiaohongshu): Powering Ecommerce With Content
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 14/01/2025
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu AKA RedNote en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban. New from @kinlinglo.bsky.social and @violazhou.bsky.social restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...
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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.
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Engaging with Xiaohongshu (RED/REDnote/LittleRedBook): A Reading List
In the mold of other reading lists and bibliographies that have inspired us (see Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List, TikTok Researcher Network, and Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic), and given t...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Engaging with #Xiaohongshu ( #RED / #REDnote / #LittleRedBook): A Reading List. @qianhuang.bsky.social and I curated this crowdsourced reading list on Xiaohongshu - qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi... We're happy to add more suggestions! Hosted by Qian to make it accessible in China.
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Content creators on TikTok worldwide have been rebuilding their communities on Xiaohongshu (or ‘Red Note’), which generates much research interest. It’s all great, but there are some points I have to get out of my chest. If you are planning to research or comment on the ‘TikTok Refugee’, pls read:
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our symposium "Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?" opens later today. Details here: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @ascmediarisk.bsky.social
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Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?
Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.
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Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
‼️ First single-author pub in iJoC: ijoc.org/index.php/ij... Through 2 years of fieldwork and 27 interviews, I trace how participants of underground electronic' dance music scenes reconfigured their shared culture of secrecy with the advent of smartphones.
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Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hey friends studying influencers, creators, livestreamers and the like... Be sure to check out our ICA Pre-conference on "Debating Creator Culture," which is slated for June 11, 2025. Submissions are open through January 31. More details here: www.ccsn.site/ica
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