Shunan You

Assistant Professor at Xiamen University. Studying the mobility of people, emotions, ideas, and knowledge, nationalism & cosmopolitanism

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

What happens when cross-cultural encounters fail?
Why do the most cosmopolitan-oriented students withdraw from cosmopolitanism?
My new paper analyzes how interpersonal, structural, and circumstantial barriers produce friction and fragility.
“open access”: https://t.co/EAhSoQHbNx

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

Quanzhou wind guardian lion as this year’s token：）

[Anni Ni @nianni0313]

So thrilled to share that my first sole-authored paper has being published on Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. I explored how transnational migration potentially facilitates the gendered individualization among never-married Chinese skilled-labor women in Singapore.

[Zichen Wang @ZichenWanghere]

Mike Gallagher @chairmang today wrote in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal about two Chinese students at the University of Michigan.

Here is the truth of the case.
https://t.co/Jnr5r9nKTC

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@yanwenwang24 @zhengmusoc Big Congrats Yanwen!! So proud of you:))

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

I defended my dissertation titled “Science on the Move: US-China Transnational Migration in the Global Biopharmaceutical Industry”- officially Dr. You now! This Ph.D. almost killed me🤣

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

Today's event: My first time attending the China Town Hall at MassArt:)

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

Received an interesting award from Wiley as a top viewed article🤣

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

After years of getting rejected by ACLS，I regard the “alternate” nomination of ACLS China Studies Long-term Early Career Fellowship as a milestone progess 🤣🤣

[Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪 @JiaqiLiu_soc]

I’ll be attending @AASAsianStudies for the first time! I’ll present my latest research on China’s policies toward diaspora youth and how younger generations of Chinese emigrants leverage the rise of Global China. Looking forward to a critical discussion on China’s overseas reach!

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@CoraLinglingXu Thanks Cora！we’ll be sure to get a meal together when U’re in Boston！

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

Today I will present my work in progress titled "The myth of bamboo ceiling? How Chinese immigrant professionals perceive and experience workplace inequality in the US biopharmaceutical industry" at Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop https://t.co/OvZks7J13z

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

wow big congrats！welcome to Boston Cora！I’ll be there and thrilled to catch up！

[Dr Cora Lingling Xu许玲玲博士 @CoraLinglingXu]

Excited to hold my first book talk on 'The Time Inheritors' @SUNYPress at Boston College's
@BC_CIHE. Join me on 18 March at 12:30 in Campion 306. Folks in Boston, see you soon! @DerronWallace
@GuoWeirong @yddshunan @philip_thai @Liu_Chuncheng

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@hof_helena I also look forward to your presentation and greatly appreciate the opportunity to connect!

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

Wonderful conference on skilled migration! I'm excited to present my work on how US-China geopolitical tensions shape the transnational mobility of Chinese skilled professionals in the global biopharmaceutical industry:)

[HelenaHof @hof_helena]

Join us for the QuaMaFA hybrid workshop Recalibrating ‘Skill’ in Changing Immigration Regimes: Skilled Migrants and the Nature of Work in Asia https://t.co/QkpRLi7O40 @nus_ari in Singapore on Jan. 16-17! Looking forward to my own presentation and to another 16 exciting papers!

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@biblio_vijay Thanks Vijay！

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

What happens when cross-cultural encounters fail?
Why do the most cosmopolitan-oriented students withdraw from cosmopolitanism?
My new paper analyzes how interpersonal, structural, and circumstantial barriers produce friction and fragility.
“open access”: https://t.co/EAhSoQHbNx

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@BesenyoJ Thanks

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@zhang_dechun Thanks dechun～

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

@Victor_Asal Thanks Victor for your reading！

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

3. It pinpoints the limits of cosmopolitan ideals in practice and interrogates the extent of openness and diversity. It accentuates that cosmopolitan practices depend on specific conditions and can be challenging to implement in contexts marked by exclusionary nationalism.

[Shunan You @yddshunan]

2. This study unveils frictional experiences in cross-cultural interactions that are widely ignored, resulting in what can be described as ‘unbecoming cosmopolitan’—a common yet less explored experience.