Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Yang earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University.
His research focuses on digital media and social theory, global communication, and media and politics in China.
Representative Publications
Yang, Guobin. “A Chinese Internet? History, Practice, and Globalization.” Chinese Journal of Communication 5.1 (2012): 49-54.
Yang, Guobin. “Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony.” The China Quarterly 214 (2013): 337-355.
Yang, Guobin. “China’s Zhiqing Generation Nostalgia, Identity, and Cultural Resistance in the 1990s.” Modern China 29.3 (2003): 267-296.
