Dr. Fan Yang
Professor · Tenured
Department of Media & Communication Studies Language, Literacy and Culture
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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About
Fan Yang is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies and the Director of Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Research interests
modern and contemporary Chinese media, globalization and China, transnationalism, (Asian) American studies
Teaching interests
media, communication and globalization, cultural studies, visual culture, urbanism and urban communication, eco-media
Education
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Ph D, Cultural Studies
— George Mason University (2011) Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and the Postsocialist State in Globalization
- MBA, Business Administration and Management — Strayer University (2005)
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MA, Arts Policy and Administration
— The Ohio State University (2003) Launching an Ethnic-Specific Cultural Organization: A Case Study of an Embryonic Nonprofit - The Weaving Pine
- BA, International Business — Fudan University (2000)
Publications
- Rethinking Commercial Nationalism: the 'Chinese Dream' in Neoliberal Globalization 2016
- Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization 2016
- A Bite of China: Food, Media, and the Televisual Negotiation of National Difference 2015
- Rethinking China’s Internet Censorship: The Practice of Recoding and the Politics of Visibility 2014
- Book Review - Wen Jin’s “Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms” 2014
- China’s ‘Fake’ Apple Store: Branded Space, Intellectual Property, and the Global Culture Industry 2014
Presentations
- An Asian American Reckoning: A Conversation with Cathy Park Hong 2022
- Staying True to Both Decolonizing Practice and China’s Epistemic Alterity? 2022
- Staying True to Both Decolonizing Practice and China’s Epistemic Alterity? 2021
Grants and Contracts
- Residential Faculty Research Fellowship 2020
- Special Research Assistantship/Initiative Support (SRAIS) 2015
- Summer Faculty Research Fellowship 2014
Press topics
China in 21st-century American culture and politics, transnational media