Dr Qian Gong is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, Curtin University. Her research interest is in Media and Culture Studies, covering the cultural transformation in contemporary China, Chinese media and working class identity, etc. She is also interested in cross-cultural communication, translanguaging and second language education. She has published in international journals such as China Perspectives, Language Teaching Research, Continuum, Discourse, and Media International Australia, Tesol Quarterly, Critical Discourse Analysis etc, as well as book chapter in edited volumes. Her sole-authored research monograph ‘Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China TV Drama as Popular Media’ was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2021. She is the co-editor of Dovchin, S., Gong, Q., Dobinson, T., & McAlinden, M. (Eds.). (2023). Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia. Routledge and co-author of Zhang, H., & Gong, Q. (In Press). Narrating Chinese Youth Mobilities: Digital Story Telling and Media Citizenship. Routledge.