Jamie J. Zhao

Prof. Jamie J. Zhao, 趙婧

  • CMC-M7073

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20142025

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5106-4563
Scopus Author ID: 57203532915
Google Scholar Profile: pckLgIQAAAAJ

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Biography

Jamie is a global queer media scholar and currently Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, and received another PhD in Film and TV Studies from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist age.

She is the editor of the first English-language anthology exploring Chinese queer television and related celebrity and fan cultures, Queer TV China (HKUP, 2023), and coedited Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (HKUP, 2017), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2023). She also (co)edited 10 special issues for highly selective journals, including ContinuumFeminist Media Studies, Screen, and JCMS, on the topics of global media, celebrity and fan studies.

She is the founding coeditor of Bloomsbury's ‘Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities’ book series and Routledge's ‘Transdisciplinary Souths’ book series. In addition, she is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Intercutural Studies, and currently serves on the editorial board of the ICA- and NCA-affiliated journals Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, Television & New Media, and Critical Studies in Media Communication, as well as Bloomsbury’s ‘Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies’ book series.

Research Interests/Areas

  • Queer Media Studies
  • Celebrity Culture
  • Stardom
  • Fandom
  • Globalization
  • Chinese TV
  • Global TV
  • Chinese and Sinophone Studies
  • Orientalism
  • Occidentalism
  • Female Masculinity
  • Tomboyism
  • Female Homoeroticism
  • Lesbianism
  • Androgyny

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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