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YANG Yushuang

Department / Course Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Graduate School of Sociology Major in Applied Sociology

Job

Books and theses
Papers		Rethinking 'The Personal is Political': Becoming and Being Feminists in Contemporary China Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review 61 (3),pp.13-32 (Sole-authored) 2025/12
Papers		Ambivalent effects of anger in Chinese feminists’ refusal to patriarchal marriage and family Social Movement Studies 25 (1),pp.40-56 (Sole-authored) 2024/06/23
Papers		Appropriating the Propaganda Symbol in a Chinese Feminist Upsurge: The Construction of a Collective Identity on Social Media Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University 5,pp.16-31 (Sole-authored) 2023/10/23
Papers		From Hashtag to Social Movement: Participants' Emotions in the Unfolding of China's #MeToo Movement (Sole-authored) 2021/01/15

Academic background
2021/04/01～	Doctorial Course Graduate School, Division of Sociology Ritsumeikan University
2019/04/01～2021/02/21	Master Course Ritsumeikan University Completed (Sociology)

Business career
2025/09/01 ～ 2026/02/28	Part-time lecturer Kyoto Women's University Contemporary Social Studies
2025/04/01 ～ 2026/06/30	Academic tutor College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Academic Consultanting Centre
2024/10/01 ～	Global Project メンター立命館大学社会学研究科国際調査教育センター
2024/04/01 ～ 2026/07/31	Writing tutor Writing Support Centre, Ritsumeikan University
2023/10 ～ 2024/02	Global Project メンター立命館大学社会学研究科国際調査教育センター

Academic conference attendance and presentation
2025/07/08	The Transformation of Diaspora Political Subjectivity through Social Movement Participation: A Case Study on Young Chinese Feminists Organising in Japan (5th ISA Forum of Sociology)
2025/02/14	Affecting Feminist Identities in the Age of Neoliberalism and Grassroots Activism (International Postgraduate and Academic Conference)
2024/06/18	Who is the real feminist? Online feminist identities and emotions in contemporary China (Alternative Futures & Popular Protest Conference)
2023/06/13	How Emotion Cultures Affect Solidarity Building in the Chinese Online Feminist Movement (Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2023)
2023/02/17	Participation from Afar: The Representation of Solidarity in Chinese Diaspora Feminists' Use of Social Media (International Postgraduate and Academic Conference 2023)
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Research activities
2026/06/25 ～	British Sociological Association
2023/01/01 ～ 2026/12/31	ISA - RC48 (Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change)
2022/04/01 ～	Association for Cultural Typhoon

Works
2022/12/14	Introduction to International Society
2022/03/18	SNS and anti-sexual violence movement: A case study of China's #Metoo movement

Research topic, funded research, and KAKENHI
2024/10/01 ～ 2025/09/30	Explore the change of diaspora political agency through social movement participation Research by External Competitive Fund
2023/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	The use of ICTs in women's movement organisations against sexism Research by External Competitive Fund
2021/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	Emotion cultures in digitally networked social movements -- An analysis focusing on solidarity

Teaching experiences and subject names
Civic Activism Studies （Kyoto Women's University）

Website
ResearchGate

Study Abroad and Overseas Travel History
2023/09/16 2023/12/04	Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements, University of Kent

Internal Scholarship and Research Grants receiving status
2020 2021	Prize fellowship for postgraduate II
2021 2022	Prize fellowship for the doctoral students A
2021 2024	RARA Student Fellow, Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy
2022 2023	Prize fellowship for the doctoral students A
2023 2024	Prize fellowship for the doctoral students B
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External Scholarship and Research Grants receiving status
2023 2024	KDDI Foundation Investigative Research Grant
2024 2025	K. Matsushita Foundation Research Grant (Humanities & Social Sciences)