Xuanxuan Tan is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research project focuses on China’s pandemic responses and examines the complex nexus among anti-pandemic technologies, culture, and power. Her study intends to map out the complex influences of anti-epidemic technologies on society, politics, and culture and illustrates how to study anti-epidemic technologies and pandemics from a cultural perspective.

Xuanxuan’s broader research interests focus on nationalism, affect, and activism in contemporary China, especially as they relate to fandom, memorials, and media affordances.