Yihuan Zhang (they/he) is a doctoral student at the University of Macau and a cultural studies scholar specialising in the affective politics of gender in contemporary China. Their research draws on digital ethnography, critical discourse analysis, and affect theory to explore how gender, class, and emotion intersect in digitally mediated contexts. Yihuan’s recent work on digital gender politics in China has been published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies and Feminist Studies. Beyond academia, they are an active public intellectual and media activist, and the founder and host of the podcast 歧义 La politique, which features critical conversations on gender, labour, and popular culture in the Chinese public sphere.
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese political leaders throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to legitimise authority, mobilise emotion, and shape state ideology. The book traces a genealogy from Sun Yat-sen’s […]
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