Dr HAN, Zhuyuan    韓竺媛 博士
Post-doctoral Fellow
Graduate School
Contact
ORCiD
0009-0004-1989-1330
Phone
(852) 2948 7967
Email
hanz@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Website
https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=311136&name=HAN, Zhuyuan
Scopus ID
58158210600
Research Interests
  • Social Media
  • Youth Culture
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Identity Politics
  • Women's and Gender Studies
  • Knowledge Production and Acceptance

Teaching Interests
  • Globalization and Mobility
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Digital Media
  • Scholarly Identity
Personal Profile

Education:

  1. Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2024)
  2. M.A. in Critical Asian Humanities, Duke University (2020)
  3. B.A. in Chinese (Cross-Cultural Management), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2018)
Research Interests
  • Social Media
  • Youth Culture
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Identity Politics
  • Women's and Gender Studies
  • Knowledge Production and Acceptance

Teaching Interests
  • Globalization and Mobility
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Digital Media
  • Scholarly Identity
Research Outputs
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
韓竺媛 (2023). 想象中的文化雅集: 作為民國上海媒介文化景觀的"咖啡"與"茶". 劉洪濤, 大衛斯‧昂蒂亞諾, 楊明晨, 今日世界文學: 第8輯 (234-257). 中國社會科學出版社.

Journal Publications
Han, Z. (2025). “Fertility fear” on Chinese social media: The disciplined female reproductive bodies and resistance towards motherhood. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 39(2), 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2454456
Han, Z. (2024). Reflecting on love and sexual discourses and becoming knowledge contributors: Chinese women’s critical reading on The Ladies’ Journal. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(6), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2193880

Conference Papers
Han, Z. (2024, July). Critiquing the ‘Love Brain’: Gender dynamics, dichotomies, and new disciplinary mechanism in contemporary Chinese romantic perception on social media. 25th Biennial Asian Studies Association of Australia conference, Perth, Australia. https://www.asaa2024.org/
Han, Z. (2023, February). Bonding with the imaginary sisterhood and becoming knowledge contributors: Chinese women’s critical reading on women’s world and the ladies’ journal. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023, Virtual. https://asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0
Han, Z. (2022, August). Woman as the trope: Perceiving the different conceptions of modernity through women’s posters before and during Mao’s era. British Association of Chinese Studies Conference 2022, Oxford, United Kingdom. https://bacsuk.org.uk/conferences/previous-conferences
Han, Z. (2021, August). The public space in reality and imagination: The coffeehouse and teahouse as cultural phenomena in republican Shanghai (1920s-1930s). The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Leipzig, Germany. https://conference.uni-leipzig.de/eacs2020/

Projects
Digital Storytelling and Intercultural Identity of Hong Kong and UK-Based Overseas Chinese Student Vloggers on Social Media Platforms
This project is one of the Seed Fund projects under the 02194 Formulation of Research Network between EdUHK and IOE (UCL). It investigates the intercultural identity construction of Chinese postgraduate students studying in Hong Kong and the UK, focusing on their vlogging practices on social media platforms like Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, and YouTube. This research contributes to the fields of globalization studies, digital culture, and transnational mobility by highlighting the role of vlogs as digital spaces for identity construction and intercultural negotiation. Beyond academic insights, the findings have practical implications for universities and policymakers, offering strategies to support international students’ cultural adaptation and mental well-being.
Project Start Year: 2025, Principal Investigator(s): HAN, Zhuyuan