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Fran Martin is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Prior to her current work on the subjective and gendered effects of international student mobility, her best known research has focused transnational Chinese youth and media cultures. She has published widely on television, film, literature, Internet culture and other forms of cultural production in the contemporary transnational Chinese cultural sphere, with a specialization in representations and cultures of gender and queer sexuality.

She is co-author, with Tania Lewis and Wanning Sun, of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (Duke U.P. 2016). Her other publications include Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2010); Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (co-edited with C. Berry and A. Yue, Duke UP, 2003); Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (Hong Kong UP, 2003); Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan (Hawaii UP, 2003); AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (co-edited with P. Jackson, M. McLelland and A. Yue, Illinois UP, 2008); and Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation and Chinese Cultures (co-edited with LN Heinrich, Hawaii UP, 2006).

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Project PhD student (2024–)

Yichen Zhang is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral project, which is funded by the ARC as part of Martin’s larger research project, explores homeland-returned Chinese international students of gender studies’ social experiences of gender and negotiation of gender equality in China. Yichen is particularly interested in the micro-dynamics of everyday gender power relations and feminist politics.
Before doing her PhD, Yichen obtained a BA in English at Shanghai University and an MA in Gender, Media and Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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Project research assistant (2015–)
Yuxing Zhou obtained his PhD in screen and media culture from the University of Melbourne, where he has taught Screenwriting and Asian Cinema courses in the School of Culture and Communication. Yuxing is currently Senior Tutor at the UoM Asia Institute and teaches Chinese Studies subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests focus on Chinese cinema and media culture; creative industries and cultural policies; cinema and soft power; new media education in China. He publishes in journals of Chinese studies and translates film scripts.

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Email: zyx@unimelb.edu.au

Project Research Assistant (2015 – 2020)
Can Qin was born in China, where she studied Environmental Sciences. She migrated to New Zealand in 1999, and gained a Master in Social Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology in 2004. She then moved to Melbourne in 2005, and completed her PhD thesis in Sociology at La Trobe University in 2012.

She has contributed to various social research projects, e.g., the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation project – Access, Recognition and Representation Philanthropy and Ageing in a Multicultural Society, conducted by The Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology in 2013. Can’s primary research interest is in international education development, particularly associated with the Chinese experience.