Dr. Yiben Ma

CELE Content Tutor in International Communications

Centre for English Language Education
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Contact

Office

Trent Building 378

Campus

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Address

199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo, 315100, China

Telephone

+86 0574 88180000(ext.8720)

Email

yiben.ma@nottingham.edu.cn

Qualifications

PhD, Media and Communication Studies (University of Leeds)

MA, Cultural and Creative Industries (King’s College London)

BA, International Communications Studies 1st Class (Nottingham Ningbo, China)


Biography

As one of the first graduates of the University of Nottingham Ningbo (UNNC), Dr. Yiben Ma completed his undergraduate degree here in 2008. Before joining The Centre for English Language Education (CELE) as a Preliminary Year Tutor in International Communication, he was a teaching fellow in UNNC’s School of International Communications where he taught various modules on media and communication. He obtained an MA from King’s College London and a PhD from the University of Leeds.

His research mainly focuses on Chinese nationalism and the role of the internet in shaping nationalist politics in contemporary China. Specifically, he is interested in the specificity, structure and power relations of Chinese nationalism in the context of online communication. In addition, he also has keen research interests in political communication in China, including but not limited to critical discourse analysis of political texts, propaganda, media and social changes.


Teaching

Media and Texts: Society

Media and Texts: Culture


Awards / Patents

Winner for the 2021 Lord Dearing Award (Individual)

Winner for the 2017 Lord Dearing Award (Team)


Publications

Edited Book

Rawnsley, M. T., Ma, Y. and Rawnsley, G. (forthcoming in 2025). Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media II. London: Routledge.

Rawnsley, G., Ma, Y. and Pothong, K. (2021). Research Handbook on Political Propaganda. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Journal Articles

Zhang, C. and Ma, Y. (2023). ‘Invented borders: the tension between grassroots patriotism and state-led patriotic campaigns in China’. Journal of Contemporary China 32 (144), pp. 897-913. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2167054

Ma, Y. (2018). ‘Online Chinese nationalism and the discursive construction of a nationalist hero: the case of Jin Jing’. Languages Cultures Mediation 5, No.2. pp. 97-114. https://doi.org/10.7358/lcm-2018-002-mayi

Ma, Y. (2018). ‘Online Chinese nationalism: a competing discourse? A discourse analysis of Chinese media texts relating to the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Paris’. The journal of International Communication 24, No. 2, pp. 305-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2018.1444662

Book Chapters

Ma, Y. and Zhang, C. (2023). ‘The politics of remembering: commemorating the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in an era of China-US rivalry’. In Zhang, S. and Peng, A. eds. China, Media and International Conflict. London: Routledge, pp74-91.

Zhang. S. and Ma, Y. (2022). ‘Teaching media management in China – filed notes’. In Kuang, X. and Garrisi, D. eds. Teaching Journalism in Global South. London: Palgrave, pp. 21-46.

Zhang. X. and Ma, Y. (2022) ‘Digital diplomacy at China’s local level’. In Zhang. X. and Schultz, C. eds. China’s International Communication and Relationship Building. London: Routledge, pp. 31-46.

Zhang, X. and Ma, Y. (2021). ‘Political communication in the age of Media Convergence in China’. In Rawnsley, G., Ma, Y. and Pothong, K. eds. Research Handbook on Political Propaganda. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 111-126.

Rawnsley, G. and Ma, Y. (2017) ‘“New media” and democratization in East Asia’. In Cheng, T. J. and Chu, Y. H. eds. Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 314-326.

Ma, Y. (2015) ‘Online Chinese nationalism and its nationalist discourses’. In Rawnsley, G. and Rawnsley M. Y. eds. Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media, London: Routledge, pp. 203-216.