Shuwen Yang

Shuwen Yang received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and German from the University of Hong Kong and her M.A. in East Asian Studies from UCLA. Her research focuses on Chinese television history, particularly the New Documentary Movement, minsheng news (news about people's livelihood), and reality shows. In her dissertation-in-progress, Scripting Life, she examines how the concept of "script" structures individual life narratives, televised intimacy, and the public sphere in Chinese reality programming from the 1980s to the present. She is also interested in science fiction and posthuman studies. Her work has appeared in Comparative Literature & World Literature, Global Storytelling, and Novel Review (小說評論).