Making mobile professionals: The reproduction of gender and class in Chinese women’s transnational education

Fran Martin is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She recently concluded a major ethnographic research project on the social and subjective experiences of young women from China studying and living in Australia, whose findings have been published in Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke U.P. 2022). Fran’s prior research has focussed on television, film, literature and other forms of cultural production in contemporary transnational China (The People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong), with a specialization in cultures of gender and sexuality. Her other book publications include Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture (HK U.P., 2003); Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke U.P. 2010); and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (with Tania Lewis and Wanning Sun, Duke U.P. 2016). Her co-edited books include AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (with Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue, Illinois U.P. 2008); Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures (with L.N. Heinrich, Hawaii U.P. 2006); and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue, Duke U.P. 2003).