MA Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Contemporary Chinese popular culture and media
- Fandom culture and fandom practice
- Neoliberal govermentality in contemporary Chinese society
- Cybercommunity and cyber regulation in China
- Gender Studies
- Urban Media
Biography
Siyun Pan is a MA student of East Asian Studies who is interested in contemporary Chinese media, popular culture, and fandom. She is interested in exploring the many practices adopted by the colossal fandom of celebrities on major social media platforms such as Weibo and Douban. Using the ethnographical approach, she conducts in-depth interviews with fans from different online communities, and locates the surprisingly well-organized internal structure with the overwhelming narrative of neoliberal governmentality in China today. She is also seeking to localize and materialize fan culture in China, particularly how fandom and celebrity culture mediates the reimagination and visualization of the urban landscape in China.
Awards
- 2021 Graduate Program Award East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
- 2021 Ruben Cheng And Pui Yuk Cheng Graduate Scholarship in The Humanities University of Toronto
Education
BA, McGill University
Presentations
“Epic Performance, Legitimacy, and Idol Culture in Contemporary China.” 2022 CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association Conference. University of Colorado Boulder, Virtual Conference. February 2022.
Administrative Service
Undergraduate Co-curricular Programming Assistant, East Asian Studies Department, 2021-2022.