Research

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

(2025) (Re)producing Orientalism: Industry Logic of Chinese Mobile Game Reskins in the Global App Empire

Eludamos Journal for Computer Game Culture

(2021) Digitizing Death: Commodification of Joss Paper on Chinese Online Cemetery 

Journal of Cultural Economy 

(2018) Programmatic Dreams: Technographic Inquiry into the Censorship of Chinese Chatbots 

Social Media + Society 

(2016) The Postmodern Aesthetics of Chinese Online Comment Cultures 

Communication and the Public 

Journal of Cultural Economy 

Edited Collections

(2024) DingTalk and Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times

Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis (edited by Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang & Elaine J. Yuan)

(2024) Localizing Empires

Made in Asia/America Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (edited by Christopher Patterson & Tara Fickle)

(2024) Mingbi

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3: A hitchhiker’s guide to informal problem-solving in human life (edited by Alena Ledeneva)

(2021) App Radio: The Reconfiguration of Audible Publics in China through Ximalaya.FM (with Jeremy Morris)

Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production (edited by Guobin Yang & Wei Wang)