[Commlist] Special Issue of Global Media and China published：The Future of Wanghong

We are pleased to share the special issue of*/Global Media and China 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch>/**(Volume 10 Issue 3, September 
2025): <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/3>*

● *Special Issue: The Future of Wanghong 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/3>*

    Guest Editor: Crystal Abidin
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364251368943>

    This Special Issue brings together research on the cultures and
    economies of /wanghong/, or Chinese internet celebrities and
    influencers. The contributions examine parenting influencers,
    representations of women’s singleness, ethnic identity,
    transnational content creation, livestream guilds, entrepreneurial
    labor, and the relationship between /wanghong/ and e-commerce.

● *Introduction:* <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/3>

    ■ *Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘The Future of Wanghong’*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364251368943>

    Crystal Abidin
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364251368943>

● *Special Issue Articles:* <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/3>

    ■ *Overseas Chinese parent wanghong on Douyin: Discursive
    constructions of diasporic parenthood*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278090>

    Xinyu Zhao <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278090>

    ■ *‘Living-alone’ wanghong: Women’s singleness as a wanghong genre
    and the configuration of Chinese postfeminist wanghong culture*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278101>

    Jia Guo <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278101>

    ■ *Algorithmic imaginary in surveillance technicity: The
    renegotiation of minzu identity among China’s ethnic minority
    wanghongs on Douyin*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241307478>

    Lei Hao <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241307478>

    ■ *Homeland social media as a field of negotiation: Creative
    strategies of China’s Wanghong in Japan*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241293216>

    Yan Du <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241293216>

    ■ *Satellite intermediaries: Media management and entrepreneurial
    labour in the Chinese Wanghong livestream guilds*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278102>

    Xiaoting Yu 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278102>

    ■ *Wanghong e-commerce in/as China’s economic transformation: A case
    study of beauty wanghong*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278103>

    Zexu Guan
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278103>, Oscar
    Tianyang Zhou
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364241278103>

● *Book Reviews:* <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/3>

    ■ *Book Review: The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer
    Culture in Contemporary China*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231192378>

    Daniella Gáti
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231192378>

    ■ *Book Review: Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social
    Media in China*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231196352>

    Meijiadai Bai
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231196352>

    ■ *Book Review: Digital Masquerade. Feminist Rights and Queer Media
    in China* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231197867>

    Yiu Fai Chow
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20594364231197867>

*Current Issues in 2026: <https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/gch>*

● *Volume 11 Issue 1, March 2026 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/11/1>*

● *Volume 11 Issue 2, June 2026 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/11/2>*

    ■ *Special Issue: Games, Play and Fictional/Virtual Worlds in China
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/11/2>*

*Past Issues in 2025: 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/gcha/group/d2020.y2025>*

● *Volume 10 Issue 1, March 2025* 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/1>

    ■ *Special Section: Artistic Interventions in Community and its
    Media Practices in a Global Context*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/1>

● *Volume 10 Issue 2, June 2025* 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/2>

    ■ *Special Section: Handshake or standoff? Global media and the high
    stakes of Sino–American diplomacy
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/2>*

● *Volume 10 Issue 4, December 2025* 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/4>

    ■ *Special Issue: Human-Machine Communication Cultures: Artificial
    Intelligence, Media and Cultures in a Global Context*
    <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gcha/10/4>

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