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Shaoyu Tang

Ph.D. Student
Shaoyu Tang
Email shaoyuta@usc.edu

Biography

Shaoyu Tang, coming from Dalian, China, studies Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Performance Studies at USC Anthropology Department. His research focuses on (stand-up) comedians and public culture in contemporary mainland China. Particularly, he asks how performing stand-up comedy, as an affective configuration, participates in (re)shaping the politics of culture and affect in China. Besides, Shaoyu is dedicated to extending the limit of ethnography by looking into various forms of media and arts such as film, sound, and theatre. Currently, Shaoyu is passionate about provoking the rethinking and remapping of...

Education

  • Sociology , University Of Hong Kong, 2023
  • MA Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University, 2020
  • BE Chemical Engineering , Sichuan University , 2018

  • Research Keywords

    Cultural Politics and Nationalism; Public/Popular/Folk Culture;
    Performance Studies;
    Experimental Ethnography;
    Media and Visual Culture;
    Indigenous Culture and Conservation; China and Global Sinophone Culture; Tibet