Dr Yi Wang

Dr Yi Wang

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
y.wang.33@bham.ac.uk
Address
POLSIS - School of Government
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

Assistant Professor

  • PhD in Political Science, Waseda University, 2018

Biography

Yi Wang is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies. Prior to taking up this position, he served as an assistant professor at Waseda University and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester. Dr Wang’s research focuses on memory politics, nationalism, international security, and political communication. He is an area expert on China and East Asia. His scholarly works have appeared in journals such as The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Memory Studies, Media, Culture & Society, among others. 

Teaching

LH China: State and Society

LH The Politics of Memory

LC Debates in World Politics II

Research

Research Interests

  • Memory politics
  • Nationalism and national identity
  • Contemporary China
  • International relations of East Asia
  • Political communication

 

Publications

Wang, Y. (2024). “The divisive past and the conflicted other: how Chinese netizens views Russia,” Journal of Contemporary China 33(148): 634-648.

Wang, Y. (2022). “Contesting the past on the Chinese Internet: Han-centrism and mnemonic practices,” Memory Studies 15(2): 304-317.

Chew, M.M. & Wang, Y. (2021). “How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame, Kangzhan Online,” Media, Culture and Society 43(8): 1431-1448.

Wang, Y. and Chew, M.M. (2021). “State, market, and the manufacturing of war memory: the case of television dramas on the War of Resistance against Japan,” Memory Studies 14(4): 877-891.

Gries, P. and Wang, Y. (2021). “Proscribing the ‘spiritually Japanese’: popular indignation, authoritarian responsiveness, and regime legitimation in China today,” The China Quarterly 245: 122-141.

Wang, Y. (2020). “‘The backward will be beaten’: historical lesson, security, and nationalism in China,” Journal of Contemporary China 29(126): 887-900.