Sara Liao

457 total citations
20 papers, 263 citations indexed

About

Sara Liao is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Liao has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 263 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Gender Studies, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Sara Liao's work include Gender, Feminism, and Media (12 papers), Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 papers). Sara Liao is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Feminism, and Media (12 papers), Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 papers). Sara Liao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Sara Liao's co-authors include Luwei Rose Luqiu, Jin Lu, Francis Lee and Jinhong Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, Signs and Discourse & Society.

In The Last Decade

Sara Liao

19 papers receiving 257 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Liao United States	10	161	112	63	58	44	20	263
Hester Baer United States	6	227 1.4×	129 1.2×	135 2.1×	29 0.5×	31 0.7×	22	343
Carolina Are United Kingdom	8	112 0.7×	162 1.4×	87 1.4×	12 0.2×	11 0.3×	23	273
Catherine Knight Steele United States	7	102 0.6×	110 1.0×	117 1.9×	18 0.3×	7 0.2×	13	258
Michelle Rodino-Colocino United States	8	124 0.8×	90 0.8×	72 1.1×	6 0.1×	19 0.4×	17	228
Roberta Pearson United Kingdom	7	72 0.4×	124 1.1×	56 0.9×	37 0.6×	11 0.3×	25	254
Karen Hellekson	4	114 0.7×	182 1.6×	57 0.9×	82 1.4×	6 0.1×	6	285
Francis Dupuis‐Déri Canada	9	98 0.6×	155 1.4×	43 0.7×	9 0.2×	59 1.3×	52	251
Alexis Lothian United States	8	75 0.5×	116 1.0×	45 0.7×	48 0.8×	6 0.1×	21	198
Aymar Jean Christian United States	9	70 0.4×	80 0.7×	69 1.1×	28 0.5×	6 0.1×	21	180
Callum Jones Australia	7	131 0.8×	64 0.6×	74 1.2×	9 0.2×	8 0.2×	18	211

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Liao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Liao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Liao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Liao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara Liao. Sara Liao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liao, Sara. (2025). Engineering nationalism: Popular TV, ideological work, and the cultural politics of state propaganda in China. Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies. 20(4). 483–503.

Liao, Sara, et al.. (2024). Streaming Feminism: Women-centered Net Dramas, Global Television Culture, and Feminist Textual Possibilities. Television & New Media. 26(3). 318–335. 3 indexed citations

Liao, Sara. (2024). Unpopular feminism: Popular culture and gender politics in digital China. Communication and the Public. 10(2). 86–93. 2 indexed citations

Liao, Sara. (2023). The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus. Media Culture & Society. 46(1). 191–203. 32 indexed citations

Liao, Sara & Luwei Rose Luqiu. (2022). #MeToo in China: The Dynamic of Digital Activism against Sexual Assault and Harassment in Higher Education. Signs. 47(3). 741–764. 14 indexed citations

Song, Jinhong, et al.. (2022). Femvertising and Postfeminist Discourse: Advertising to Break Menstrual Taboos in China. Women s Studies in Communication. 45(3). 378–398. 15 indexed citations

Liao, Sara, et al.. (2022). Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 29(6). 1535–1554. 9 indexed citations

Liao, Sara, et al.. (2022). The “Little Third”: Changing Images of Women Characters Involved in Extramarital Affairs on Chinese TV. Communication Culture and Critique. 15(3). 355–371. 5 indexed citations

Liao, Sara. (2021). Feeling the 2019 Hong Kong anti-ELAB movement: emotion and affect on the Lennon Walls. Chinese Journal of Communication. 15(3). 355–377. 8 indexed citations

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Luqiu, Luwei Rose & Sara Liao. (2021). Rethinking ‘the personal is political:’ Enacting agency in the narrative of sexual harassment experiences in China. Discourse & Society. 32(6). 708–727. 14 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara, et al.. (2020). Intellectuals Debate #MeToo in China: Legitimizing Feminist Activism, Challenging Gendered Myths, and Reclaiming Feminism. Journal of Communication. 70(6). 895–916. 24 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2020). Fashioning China : Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture. 1 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2020). Fashioning China. Pluto Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2020). Feminism without guarantees: Reflections on teaching and researching feminist activism in China. Asian Journal of Women s Studies. 26(2). 259–267. 20 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2019). “#IAmGay# What About You?”: Storytelling, Discursive Politics, and the Affective Dimension of Social Media Activism against Censorship in China. International journal of communication. 13. 21. 29 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2019). Wang Hong Fashion Culture and the Postfeminist Time in China. Fashion Theory. 25(5). 663–685. 49 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2017). Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity of Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture. Communication Culture and Critique. 10(3). 422–440. 8 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2015). Japanese Console Games Popularization in China. Games and Culture. 11(3). 275–297. 13 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara. (2015). Precarious beauty: migrant Chinese women, beauty work, and precarity. Chinese Journal of Communication. 9(2). 139–152. 10 indexed citations

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Liao, Sara & Francis Lee. (2014). Do journalists believe in gender specificities of news topics? The impact of professionalism and family status. Asian Journal of Communication. 24(5). 456–473. 6 indexed citations

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