Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Sociology, Rikkyo University
Popular Music, Cross-Strait Cultural Politics, and East Asian Media Culture
I am a sociology Ph.D. student working at the intersection of popular music studies, queer theory, and East Asian media cultures. My work traces how sound, fandom, and everyday listening practices shape political imagination across the Taiwan Strait and beyond.
An ethnographic study of how LGBTQ+ listeners in Taipei and online diaspora communities build political and affective worlds through Mandarin-language pop—from ballads to club remixes.
Examines how broadcast, streaming, and fan translation networks reframe cross-Strait cultural exchange through popular music archives and reunion concerts.
Brief reflections on bass, bodies, and the politics of Mandarin-language DJ sets after midnight.
On treating Apple Music collections as personal historiography—and what sociology might learn from them.
Watching a legacy act return to the stage as a lesson in generational politics and deferred longing.
Ballads and quiet B-sides for late-night writing sessions.