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Email

xiaoyang@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 8318

Office

Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 1002

Xiao YANG 楊霄

Research Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D. in Film Studies, Monash University, Australia
M.A. in Film Studies, University College London, UK
B.A. in Communication Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, PRC

Research Interests

The critical political economy of films and television, Chinese and Asian screen industries, film audiences, streaming platforms, the globalization of Chinese media

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema: Baokuan Film Phenomena under Nationalism, Globalization and Audiences. Taylor & Francis.
  2. Yang, Xiao. 2025. “The Cinematic Construction of Social Acceleration: Nice View (2022) and the Other Side of ‘China Speed’.” Asian Studies Review (2025): 1-16.
  3. Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) “Streaming platforms as cultural intermediaries: Netflix and its representation of Chinese culture.” In Global Storytelling: Cultural Perceptions of Television Dramas, edited by Ying Zhu and Dal Yong Jin.
  4. Yang, Xiao, and Olivia Khoo. 2024. “Projecting China to the World: Cinity, High Frame Rate Cinema, and the Future of Chinese Screening Technology.” Asian Cinema, 35:1&2, pp. 63–79.
  5. Sarkar, Anubha, and Xiao Yang. 2024. “Streaming K-dramas and C-dramas: the different paths of Korean and Chinese online television distribution overseas.” Television & New Media.
  6. Yang, Xiao. 2023. “The ‘Wolf Warrior Cycle’: Chinese Blockbusters in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative.” The China Quarterly 256 (2023): 1053–67.
  7. Yang, Xiao. 2023. “Envisioning global governance in Chinese sci-fi blockbusters: Crazy Alien (2019) and The Wandering Earth (2019).” Studies in World Cinema 4 (1): 78-95.
  8. Yang, Xiao. (upcoming) “Between the male gaze and female expression: Chinese comedienne Jia Ling and her film Hi, Mom.” In Starring Asian Femininities: Evolutions of Femaleness on Asian Screens, edited by Lisa Gotto, Kirsty Fairclough, and Ian Dixon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  9. Yang, Xiao. 2021. “The era of baokuan films: How Chinese social media creates box office successes.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 15, no. 1: 104-120.
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