Prof. ZHANG Yi Charlie 張毅
Associate Professor
Location: Room 113 Ho Sin Hang Building 何善衡樓113室
Phone: (852) 2616 7494
Fax: (852) 2572 5170
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Feminist Theories and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Media and Cultural Studies, Queer of Color Analysis, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Affect Studies, Political Economy and Cultural Analysis of Globalization, Transnational Asian Studies, New Materialism and Critical Animal Studies, Biopolitics and Biopower, Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, and Giles Deleuze
Ph.D. in Gender Studies (August 2013), Arizona State University
M.A. in Media Studies (June 2007), Fudan University, China
B.A. in English, Minor in Finance (June 2002), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Book
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2022. Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China. Durham. NC and London: Duke University Press (“Thought in the Act” series).
• Winner of the Outstanding Annual Book Prize, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2023.
Edited Special Issue
Feminist and Queer Critiques of Multiple Empires: The Case of Sinophone Asia. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2025, 27 no.4 (with Wen Liu and Lin Li)
Journal Articles
Charlie Yi Zhang, Jiling Duan, and Dušica Ristivojević. 2025. Gender and Sexuality, Still Useful Analytical Categories: Rescoping Knowledge Production about Chinese Feminism for Transformative Change. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27 no.4, 832–859.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2025. Making A Home (from) Afar Through Gender and Sexuality: The Turn to China and Chinese Diaspora in Thai Boys’ Love TV Dramas. Screen, 66, Issue 1 (Spring): 100–107.
Jingxue Zhang and Charlie Yi Zhang. 2023. “Enter with Green Code Only”: Biometric Citizenship and Fragmented Living in China. The Journal of Asian Studies 82 no.3: 385-406.
Charlie Yi Zhang, Wen Liu, and Casey Lee. 2022. Racial Paranoia and Affective Cold Warism: Remapping Rival US-PRC Imperial Formations. American Quarterly 74 no.3 (2022): 499-521.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2021. Releasing Masculinity for a More Just World: Lessons on How to “Be Water” in Hong Kong. The Journal of Asian Studies 80 no.3: 683-704.
• Winner of the Annual Paper Prize, the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2022.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2018. Teaching Feminism as Slow Activism. Feminist Formations 30 no.3: 198-208.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2017. When Feminist Falls in Love with Queer: Dan Mei Culture as a Transnational Apparatus of Love. Feminist Formations 29 no.2: 121-146.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2016. Queering the National Body of Contemporary China. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 37 no.2: 1-27.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2014. Deconstructing the Hyper-Masculine National and Transnational Hegemony in Neoliberal China. Feminist Studies 40 no.1: 13-38.
• Winner of the Best Paper Award for Graduate Students of Feminist Studies, 2012.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2014. Untangling the Intersectional Biopolitics of Neoliberal Globalization: Asia, Asian and the Asia-Pacific Rim. Feminist Formations 26 no.3: 167-196.
Books Chapters
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2022. “Speculative Mattering: Affect and the Stone that Becomes Valuable in Deep Time,” in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, edited by Todd Reeser, 386-393. New York: Routledge.
Wen Liu and Charlie Yi Zhang. 2022. “Homonationalism as Site of Contestation and Transformation: On Queer Subjectivities and ‘Homo-transnationalism’ across Sinophone Societies,” in Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised, edited by Angeliki Sifaki, C.L. Quinan, and Katarina Lončarević, 31-47. London: Routledge.
Charlie Yi Zhang. 2018. “Mapping the Will for Otherwise: Towards an Intersectional Critique of the Biopolitical System of Neoliberal Governmentality,” in Biopolitical Governance: Gender, Race and Economy edited by Hannah Richter, 139-159. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Research Fellowship, Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Bangkok Thailand, 2026, 100,000 Thai Bhat (equivalent to approximately $3,300).
Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taiwan, 2026, 300,000 New Taiwan Dollars (equivalent to approximately $9432).
Teaching East/Southeast Asia and Appalachia, 2024, Henry Luce Foundation Grant, East-West Center, $5000.
United In True Equity (UNITE) Research Priority Area Pilot Grant, 2023, the University of Kentucky, $12000.
The Gaines Center for the Humanities mini grant, 2023, the University of Kentucky, $2000.
Research and Creative Activities Support Program Grant, 2021, the University of Kentucky, $4250.
“Transnational Thai Boys’ Love Cultural Industry.” The Brown China Summit, Brown University, April 12, 2026.
“A City of Two Tales: A Conflicted Story of Bangkok Narrated through Queer Eyes.” Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, April 9, 2024.
“Ethnographies of Global China and the Geopolitics of Theorizing World Order.” Academia Sinica, Taiwan, June 10, 2023.
“Queering China.” China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney, Australia, March 14, 2023.
Keynote Speech, “Dreadful Desires and Queering Love,” Research Week, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, December 2, 2022.
Book Talk, “Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China.” The University of Melbourne, May 25, 2022.
“The Groundswell of Dogland: The Canine Face of Family Making in China.” The University of Michigan, April 2021.
Editorial Board Member, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (2023-present)
President, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (elected, 2025)
Vice President, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (elected, 2024)
Executive Board Member, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (elected, 2023)
Associate Editor, The Global Studies Journal (2013-2014)