Selected publications
Monograph
Tan, Jia. 2023. Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China. New York: New York University Press. Book monograph.[https://nyupress.org/9781479811847/digital-masquerade/] You can purchase the book through the NYU Press website and receive a 30% discount by using the promo code TAN30-FM.
Reviewed in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Dialogues on Digital Society, The China Journal, Gender & Society, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Global Media and China, International Journal of Communication
Podcast: New Books Network, https://newbooksnetwork.com/digital-masquerade
Journal articles and book chapters
- Tan, Jia. 2025. Slow resistance, queer haunting, and feminist humor in Chinese digital feminisms. Dialogues on Digital Society.
- Tan, Jia. 2024. “Rights feminism, historiography, and Chinese queer women’s digital filmmaking in We Are Here.” in New Digital Feminist Interventions. edited by Giuliana Sorce, Tanja Thomas, Routledge, 80-96.
- Tan, Jia. 2024. “Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts.” European Journal of Cultural Studies.
- Tan, Jia. 2023. “We Were Smart: Chinese Working-class Youth Culture and Mobile Phone Aesthetics.” Doculogue. https://docalogue.com/we-were-smart/
- Yam, Shui-Yin Sharon and Jia Tan. Digital Masquerade: A Conversation with Jia Tan. Made in China Journal. 16 August 2023. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/08/16/digital-masquerade-a-conversation-with-jia-tan/
- Tan, Jia. 2023. “Digital Feminist and Queer Activism Against Gender-based Violence in China” in Routledge Companion to Gender, Media & Violence, edited by Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge. 563-572. Winner of MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) Outstanding Achievement Award for Edited Collection of the Year, 2024. DOI: 10.4324/9781003200871-61
- Chan, Sam Lik, Jia Tan, and Elija Cassidy. 2023. “Introduction” Special Issue of “Queer Cultures in Digital Asia”. International Journal of Communication. 2455-2462. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21105
- Wang, Yiming and Jia Tan. 2023. “Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of Boys’ Love Culture in China”. International Journal of Communication. 2554–2572. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19802
- Tan, Jia. 2023. “Materializing the Digital Landscape: The Cinema-ecology Complex and Chinese fantasy media.” International Journal of Asian Studies. Volume 20 , Issue 2 , July, 367 – 383. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S1479591422000444
- Tan, Jia. 2022. “Platformized Seriality: Chinese Time Travel Fantasy from Prime-time Television to Online Streaming.” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 2(1): 57-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/gs.2663.
- Tan, Jia. 2022. “Decolonizing Hong Kong Television: Decolonial Vernaculars and the History of RTHK” in Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism, edited by Wen Liu, JN Chien, Christina Chung and Ellie Tse, 139-151. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
[full article] - Tan, Jia. 2019. “Networking Asia Pacific: Queer Film Festivals and the Spatiotemporal Politics of Inter-referencing.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20, no. 2: 204-19.
[abstract] - Tan, Jia. 2018. “Transpacific Inter-Referencing.” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 198 (Summer): 20-22.
- Tan, Jia. 2017. “Digital Masquerading: Feminist Media Activism in China.” Crime, Media, Culture 13, no. 2: 171-86. DOI: 10.1177/1741659017710063.
[abstract] - Tan, Jia. 2017. “Aesthetics of Queer Becoming: Comrade Yue and Chinese Community-based Documentaries Online.” In Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence, edited by Katherine Senders and Adrienne Shaw, 38-52. New York: Routledge (reprint).
- Tan, Jia. 2017. “Beijing Meets Hawaii: Reflections on ku’er, Indigeneity, and Queer Theory.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 23, no. 1: 137-50. DOI: 10.1215/10642684-3672429.
[abstract] - Tan, Jia. 2016. “Aesthetics of Queer Becoming: Comrade Yue and Chinese Community-based Documentaries Online.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 33, no. 1: 38-52. DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2015.1129064.
[abstract] - Tan, Jia. 2015. “Toward a Spatiotemporal Consciousness in Media Studies: Locational Aesthetics and Digital Filmmaking in China’s Special Zones.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 9, no. 3: 187-203. DOI:10.1080/17508061.2015.1067992.
[abstract] - Tan, Jia. 2015. “Neoliberalized Romantic Encounter: If You Are the One and the Gender Politics of Chinese Reality TV.” Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies 20 (Spring): 79-102. (in Chinese)
[full article] - Tan, Jia. 2014. “Provincializing the Chinese Mediascape: Cantonese Digital Activism in Southern China.” In China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Matthew D. Johnson, Keith B. Wagner, Kiki Tianqi Yu, and Luke Vulpiani, 197-211. New York: Bloomsbury.
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