Tingyu Liu

Ph.D. Student in Cultural StudiesRikkyo University

I am a Ph.D. student in cultural studies at Rikkyo University. My research focuses on popular music, cross-strait cultural politics, East Asian media culture, and digital ethnography.

  • Popular Music
  • Cross-Strait Cultural Politics
  • East Asian Media Culture
  • Digital Ethnography

Latest Activities

Thesis abstract available in the Rikkyo Repository

The abstract of my master's thesis is now available through the Rikkyo University Academic Repository.

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Tingyu's Weekly Selection

A weekly Apple Music selection of recent listens, research-adjacent sounds, and songs worth keeping close.

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Mandopop Studies Database in progress

I am preparing an open academic resource for mapping literature, methods, and keywords in Mandopop studies.

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Current Focus

  • Popular Music and Queerness

    Researching queer listening practices around Taiwanese popular music in mainland China.

  • Cross-Strait Cultural Politics

    Examining how cultural circulation shapes political and social imagination across the Taiwan Strait.

  • Digital Ethnography

    Developing ethnographic approaches to everyday listening, fandom, and East Asian media culture.

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Tingyu's Weekly SelectionUpdated Friday nights

A weekly Apple Music selection of recent listens, research-adjacent sounds, and songs worth keeping close.

Mandopop Studies Database

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Open academic resource

Mandopop Studies Database

A developing annotated bibliography and field map for Mandopop, Sinophone popular music, Taiwanese popular music, Cantopop, fandom, media, politics, gender, queer studies, and related fields.

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Switch between a scrollable list for citation work and a gallery for browsing annotated entries.
Labels
Entries can be filtered by type, year, language, region, artist, theme, method, genre or scene, and platform or institution.
Status
Work in progress. Current sample entries are placeholders for testing the structure.

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