Hi, this is Fan Xiao!
I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). My research takes a broader feminist approach in examining grassroot communities and creative culture in Chinese speaking contexts. Focusing on cultural production and popular gender discourses, my publications discuss issues such as labor and individual agency, transnational activist networks, and cultural resilience. My research approach combines ethnography and digital analyses, with the goal to dissect power relations of cultural production and social mobilisation in contemporary Chinese societies.