Research

Research overview, master's thesis, methods, projects, and academic presentations.

Research Overview

My research focuses on popular music, queerness, cross-strait cultural politics, East Asian media culture, and digital ethnography.

Current Doctoral Project

Doctoral research in progress

Doctoral research details forthcoming. Current interests include popular music, queerness, cross-strait cultural politics, East Asian media culture, and digital ethnography.

Methods

  • Digital Ethnography
  • Ethnography
  • Popular Music Studies

Keywords

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

Ongoing Research Themes

Queering Taiwan Popular Music in Mainland China

Completed

A study of how daily listening to Taiwanese popular music opens cross-strait queer imagination among listeners in mainland China.

Taiwan Popular Music · Queer Listening · Cross-Strait

Doctoral research in progress

Ongoing

Doctoral project summary and current research questions forthcoming.

Popular Music · Queerness · Digital Ethnography

Papers

Master's Thesis: Queering Taiwan Popular Music in Mainland China

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Japanese Title
中国大陸における台湾ポピュラー音楽の「クィアリング」--日常聴取から生まれる両岸にまたがるクィア想像
English Title
Queering Taiwan Popular Music in Mainland China: From Daily Listening to Cross-Strait Queer Imagination

Based on ethnographic research with queer audiences of Taiwanese music in mainland China, this thesis examines how everyday listening practices in highly normative social contexts can generate alternative political and social imagination.

Feel free to contact me if you're interested.

Selected Presentations

  • Queering Taiwan Popular Music in Mainland China: From Daily Listening to Cross-Strait Queer Imagination

    Cultural Typhoon 2025, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

  • Mandopop Industry Dynamics in the 2010s: Change and Persistence in China-Taiwan Cultural Relations

    Cultural Typhoon 2024, Kobe, Japan.