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Guobin Yang
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Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs professor of communication and sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009), The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016), and The Wuhan Lockdown (2022). He is also the editor or co-editor of seven books, the most recent being Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis (with Bingchun Meng and Elaine Yuan, 2024). His 2-volume Drag-on-Carving and the Literary Mind (2003) is an annotated English translation of the sixth century Chinese classic of rhetoric and literary theory Wenxin Diaolong. His current work focuses on digital activism, civic storytelling, and the digital politics of emotions.