Dr Wang Yi

Assistant Professor

BA (Guangxi), MA (Jinan), PhD (Murdoch)
phone: 6488 1736
email: wangyi@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Research Interests

• China—contemporary Chinese culture and media

Wang Yi coordinates and teaches Chinese language units at beginners, advanced and specialist levels. Wang Yi was awarded a PhD in Chinese Studies by Murdoch University, Perth in 1997. The title of her thesis was "From Revolution Culture to Popular Culture: Literature and Television Drama in China, 1987-1991". Her areas of research interest are media and popular culture in contemporary China. Dr Wang Yi's current research project is titled "Globalisation: Media and Peasants in China".

Her co-edited book, titled Popular Cultural Studies, Wang Yi and Lu Yang (eds), Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Press, 2001, was recently published, and included one chapter by Wang Yi on "Terminology of Cultural Studies" (pp.273-295). Other book chapters include "Encoding/Decoding and the Ethnographic Audience Study," "Public Sphere and Media," and "Cultural Economy and the Resistance Theory," all in Popular Culture and Mass Media, Shanghai: Shanghai Sam Lian Press, 2000.

Key Research and Expertise

Media and Popular Culture. Cultural Studies

Other expertise

Chinese culture, literature and Chinese language

Current Projects

Media and Rural residents in contemporary China

Funding Received

UWA Small Grants, Fay Gale Fellowship

Memberships

Chinese Studies of Association of Australia

Current Expernal Positions

Editorial board of the journal Culture Studies (Peiking University, Renmin University and Capital Normal University)

Languages

English, Chinese

Publications

Recent book (with Prof Lu Yang), titled Cultural Studies, was published by Fudan University Press (2006). Article 'Where is Cultural Studies heading ?' in Hebei Social Sciences Review, No. 4, 2004.