Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Globalization and Culture Working Group Co-Host Kathalene Razzano discuss Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (University of Michigan Press, 2024) with author Fan Yang, along with writer and historian Mark Tseng-Putterman. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Marcus Breen.
Articles by Fan Yang
Fan Yang is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies and incoming Director of Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she is affiliated with Global Studies and the PhD program in Language, Literacy, and Culture. She is the author of Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) and Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2015). An interdisciplinary scholar, Yang works at the intersection of cultural studies, transnational media studies, globalization, postcolonialism/postsocialism, and contemporary China. She has published widely in media/cultural studies, China studies, global studies, and urban studies. In 2023, she helped to launch the Mellon-funded Global Asias Initiative at UMBC. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.