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Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, J., McLelland, N., & Dauncey, S. (2022). Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2134879

Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulg... Read More about Negotiating Mongolian ethnic identity through the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a second language.

Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China (2018)
Journal Article
Dauncey, S. (2018). Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China. NAN Nü, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00192P05

This article advances new perspectives on disability culture in contemporary China. Using gender – specifically masculinity – as an “intersection,” it addresses key questions that both help to explain, but also further trouble, the way in which the “... Read More about Gentlemen, heroes, real men, disabled men: explorations at the intersections of disability and masculinity in contemporary China.

Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction (2017)
Journal Article
Dauncey, S. (2017). Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction. Chinese Literature Today, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2017.1319213

A “pantheon of deformity” emerged in Chinese literature in the 1980s, when writers consciously began exploiting the metaphorical potential of disability to produce subversive literary works. Shi Tiesheng, by contrast, continued to write about disabil... Read More about Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction.

A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China (2014)
Journal Article
Dauncey, S. (2014). A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 25(2),

This essay explores the concept of a “disabled crowd” in the Chinese cultural and social imagination. It highlights key terms, analogies, and cultural locations of disability that are seen to relate to and inform group identity and collective behavio... Read More about A face in the crowd: imagining individual and collective disabled identities in contemporary China.