Kaixuan (Kai) Yao

she/they

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

425 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Kai's dissertation explores how queer, feminist, and diasporic encounters with media technologies shaped the industrial history of Sinophone cinema. Kai runs a reading group on affect theory and media studies. Get in touch to join!

Educational Background

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Educational Background

Master of Arts (Research): Comparative Literary Studies, Utrecht University, 2018-2020
Bachelor of Arts: Integrated Humanities, New York University Shanghai, 2014-2018

Publications

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Publications

Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "The Crimson Palm (1964)" Chinese Theater Collaborative .
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Event Review: 100 Years of China's All-Female Yue Opera." CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 43.2 (2025-01-03): 217-224.
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Entanglement in Time: Nostalgic Affect as Cine-Choreography in The White Crow (2018) and Suspiria (2018)." The International Journal of Screendance 13 (2022-09-09): 110-132.
Yao, Kaixuan (Kai). "Schizo-Historicising With the Body: Representation of Dance in Recent Cold War Nostalgia Films." The Odyssey of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture (2021-05-26): 164-182.

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