Speaker主讲人
游自荧，佐治亚大学比较文学与跨文化研究系副教授、博士生导师，同时也是该校亚洲研究中心和女性与性别研究所的兼任教授。她是美国民俗学会执行董事会成员以及跨国别亚太分会的前任会长。研究领域包括中国文学和文化、民俗研究、批判遗产研究、女性和性别研究、全球亚洲研究、数智人文和全球健康等。新书《新冠疫情对中国女性与华裔美国女性的影响：种族主义、女性主义与饮食方式》（印第安纳大学出版社[简称印大出版社]，2025）荣获美国民俗学会Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize专著奖。她的英文专著还有《当代中国的民间文人、有争议的传统与遗产：香火不断》（印大出版社，2020）。合编英文论文集《当下中国民俗研究：话语与实践》（印大出版社，2019），合编英文特刊“非物质文化遗产在亚洲：变迁中的传统”（《亚洲民族学》特刊）（2020）、“新冠叙事在中国和美国”（《叙事文化》特刊）（2025）和“中国民俗与民俗学中的关键概念：延续、断裂与关联”(2025)(《西部民俗》特刊)。
Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia (UGA), and affiliated Professor at the Center for Asian Studies and at the Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies at UGA. She is an Executive Board Member (2024-2026) of the American Folklore Society (AFS) and was the Senior Convener (2023-2025) of the Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of AFS. Her research interests include Chinese literature and culture, folklore studies, critical heritage studies, women’s and gender studies, global Asias, digital humanities, and global health. She is the author of Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (IUP, 2025) (Winner of Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, AFS, 2025), and Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (IUP, 2020). She is co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (IUP, 2019), and co-editor of the special issues “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition” (2020) for Asian Ethnology, “Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the US” (2025) for Narrative Culture, and “Key Vernacular Concepts in Chinese Folklore and Folkloristics: Continuities, Ruptures, and Connections” (2025) for Western Folklore.
Discussants评议人
陈茁，现任美国佐治亚大学卫生政策与管理系教授暨公共卫生博士项目主任，宁波诺丁汉大学健康经济学客座教授暨健康经济研究中心学术主任。曾任中国留美经济学会会长，中国卫生政策与管理学会会长，美国疾控中心亚太裔雇员协会会长，及佐治亚大学教授协会会长。担任Social Science & Medicine等学术杂志编委及Health Equity副主编。研究领域为健康经济学，应用计量经济学，基因测序经济学，健康不均等，卫生体系分析，及政策评估等。在Lancet， Journal of Health Economics等知名期刊上发表140余篇论文,曾获得美疾控2013年最佳行为和社会科学论文奖，2016年获美联邦亚太裔雇员协会多元化优异奖。
Dr. Zhuo (Adam) Chen is Professor and DrPH Program Coordinator, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia (UGA), USA; Visiting Chair Professor of Health Economics and Director (0.2FTE), Centre for Health Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Dr. Chen leads the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Determinants of Health Pre-Seed Team at UGA. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Lancet, Journal of Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Statistics from the Iowa State University. Before Dr. Chen joined the University of Georgia, he was a senior health economist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He was a recipient of the CDC Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science Research Award in 2013.
Discussants评议人
赵语晰 (Sebastian Yuxi Zhao)是约克大学传播与文化专业的博士生，拥有渥太华大学传播学硕士学位及西蒙弗雷泽大学传播学学士学位。其博士研究主要探讨中国留学生在新冠疫情期间及疫后的数字媒体使用模式，以及不同的使用方式对他们在加拿大生活的影响。该研究同时关注留学生的媒体使用习惯如何影响其对反亚裔种族主义浪潮的回应。他的研究视野涵盖数字媒体、离散社群，以及流行文化在形塑文化认同中所发挥的作用。
Sebastian Yuxi Zhao is a doctoral candidate in the Communication and Culture program at York University, with an MA in Communication from the University of Ottawa and a BA in the same field from Simon Fraser University. His doctoral research examines the digital media consumption patterns of Chinese international students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and their influence on identity negotiation. The project also investigates how these media habits shape students’ responses to rising anti-Asian racism. His broader research interests focus on digital media, diaspora communities, and the role of popular culture in shaping cultural identity.
Chair主持人
白若云，伊利诺伊大学传播学博士，现任多伦多大学文化和媒体研究系以及比较文学中心副教授，系该校UTSC校区媒体研究专业创建者。此前曾任纽约大学媒介、文化和传播系助理教授。她的研究兴趣包括媒体与社会、媒体与性别、大众文化和比较媒体研究。她出版了英文专著《屏幕上的贪腐：中国的电视与政治》（Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics，UBC Press 2015年版)和另外两本合编英文著作Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century（Routledge 2014年版)和TV Drama in China（香港大学出版社2009年版)。她目前在研究丑闻事件中新媒体、流行文化与政经和社会因素间的相互作用及影响。她和陈利合编《学术之路：跨学科国际学者对谈集》（商务印书馆2023年版）。
书籍荣誉
该书获得美国民俗学会Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize专著奖。
获奖介绍
Book Title: Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, Foodways (IU Press 2025).
The 2025 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize goes to Ziying You for her monumental study, Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, Foodways.
Impacts is a groundbreaking work of virtual ethnography and social media analysis that is meticulously researched, smartly framed using feminist, antiracist, and decolonizing theories, and activist in its engagement with current realities. In her introduction, You deftly summarizes theories of racialization that are so often missing in folklore research to present a compelling story about the lived experiences of differently situated Chinese and Chinese-American women: Chinese immigrant mothers, international students, transracial adoptees, and Chinese Lay Buddhist women during the Covid-19 epidemic and the Anti-Asian racism the epidemic amplified. She traces the ways these women’s subjectivities transformed through struggle. Accounts of emerging racialized identities among adoptees on the one hand are contrasted with immigrant mothers’ blossoming activism on the other. Throughout this beautifully written book, replete with the narratives of her interlocutors, You offers her own experiences, implicating herself in the larger project of combatting anti-Asian racism in education and in the public square. The study is replete with You’s own policy recommendations as well as examples of how Chinese and Chinese American women drew on their traditions and identities to build antiracist solidarities in a time of crisis.
2025 年 Elli Köngäs-Maranda 专业奖授予游自荧，以表彰她的划时代巨著《新冠疫情对中国女性与华裔美国女性的影响：种族主义、女性主义与饮食方式》
《影响》是一部真正意义上具有开拓性的网络民族志与社交媒体研究成果。全书资料翔实、论证严密，以女性主义、反种族主义与去殖民理论为根基建构其深邃的思想框架；与此同时，它又以一种关怀现实、面向公共的姿态，参与并回应着我们所身处的时代。在绪论中，游教授娴熟地梳理了在民俗学研究中屡被忽略的“种族化”理论，以此为钥匙，开启了一段关于多样群体——中国移民母亲、国际留学生、跨种族被收养的人以及佛教女居士——在新冠疫情与其激化的反亚裔种族歧视中如何挣扎、如何生存、如何重塑自我的动人叙事。书中细致追踪了这些女性主体性在困境与抗争中所发生的深刻转变：跨种族被收养的人逐渐觉醒的种族化身份，与移民母亲在社区行动中日渐绽放的力量，形成了意味深长的对照。这本文笔优美的著作中散落着许多真切而动人的声音，而游教授也毫不回避将自身经历纳入叙事，让自己的生命成为抵抗反亚裔种族主义的公共实践之一部分——无论在教育领域，抑或更广阔的公共空间。本书不仅提出具前瞻性的政策建议，也生动展示了中国女性与华裔美国女性如何在危机之中召唤自身的传统、信仰与身份，凝聚成跨越差异的反种族主义团结力量。
新书免费开放获取链接(Open Access Link)是：https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-chinese-and-chinese-american-women
Abstract
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women adopts inclusive frameworks that integrate decolonizing, antiracist, and feminist perspectives to study the diverse lived experiences, struggles, actions, and achievements of various marginalized Chinese and Chinese American (CCA) women, including Chinese immigrant mothers, international students, transracial adoptees, and Chinese lay Buddhist women, from 2020 to 2023.
This book examines how these women responded to anti-Asian racisms and the multiple crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they define, articulate, and exert their strengths, agencies, and strategies to enable their marginalized communities to not only survive but also achieve success and well-being. Drawing on virtual ethnography, interviews, surveys, social media analysis, and personal experience narratives of Chinese immigrant mothers, international students, transracial adoptees, and lay Buddhist women, You shows that the racism triggered by COVID-19 echoes longstanding racist tropes such as “the yellow perils” and discriminations faced by Chinese people in different parts of the world throughout the history of the Chinese diaspora. You further explores how the global pandemic changed CCA women’s everyday lives, (dis)identifications, and foodways, and how individuals relating to one or more identities can form communities in which folklore helps them bond and express shared, unique cultural values.
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women highlights women’s agencies in response to the pandemic and racisms as well as the dynamic processes of their identity construction through foodways, religion, and community building in a time of crisis.
《新冠疫情对中国与华裔美国女性的影响》采用包容性的研究框架，将去殖民、反种族主义与女性主义视角结合起来，探讨2020年至2023年间多种处于边缘位置的中国与华裔美国女性的多样化生活经验、挑战、行动与成就。这些女性群体包括中国移民母亲、国际学生、跨种族被收养者以及佛教女居士等。
本书考察这些女性如何回应反亚裔种族主义以及新冠疫情带来的多重危机，并分析她们如何界定、表达并发挥自身的力量、主体性与策略，使其边缘化社群不仅能够在危机中生存下来，而且能够追求成功与福祉。通过网络民族志、访谈、问卷调查、社交媒体分析以及中国移民母亲、国际学生、跨种族被收养者与佛教女居士的个人经历叙事，本书指出，由新冠疫情引发的种族主义延续并再现了诸如“黄祸论”等长期存在的种族主义话语，也是中国人在漫长历史中在世界各地所经历的歧视与排斥的新轮回。同时，本书进一步探讨全球疫情如何改变中国与华裔美国女性的日常生活、身份认同与（去）认同过程以及饮食文化实践，并揭示具有一种或多种身份的人们如何通过建立社群而彼此连接，在这些社群中，民俗成为凝聚情感、表达共享而独特文化价值的重要纽带。
《新冠疫情对中国与华裔美国女性的影响》突出呈现了女性在面对疫情与种族主义时所展现的主体能动性，同时揭示了她们在危机情境中通过饮食文化、宗教实践与社区建构不断形成与重塑身份认同的动态过程。
内容大纲/Table of Contents
· Cover
· Half-Title Page
· Title Page
· Copyright
· Contents
· Acknowledgments
· List of Abbreviations
· Chapter 1. Global Asian Folklore Studies, Feminisms, and Anti-Asian Racisms
· Chapter 2. Building New Homes: Chinese Immigrant Mothers, Communities of Support, and Political Activisms during the Pandemic
· Chapter 3. To Return or to Stay: Chinese Women International Students and Their Transnational Experiences during the Pandemic
· Chapter 4. Coming Out of “the Fog”: Chinese Adoptees, Antiracist Solidarities, and Remaking Chinese/Asian American Identities
· Chapter 5. “Going Home”: Chinese Lay Buddhist Women, Diverse Agencies, and Hybrid Communities
· Chapter 6. Fluid Foodways, Racisms, and Everyday Lives
· Chapter 7. Conclusion
· Appendix: List of Contributors
· Bibliography
· Index
· About the Author
