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Yingzi Wang is a doctoral researcher at the School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. Her PhD research examines the transformation of Chinese television in the post-reform era through a temporal comparison of prime-time Chinese TV dramas. This research maps changes and continuities in the narrative content and forms of Chinese TV dramas resulting from intersecting political, economic, social, and cultural forces in post-reform China. Wang's research interests include television entertainment, political communication, the politics of media representations, propaganda, and gender studies.

Sabina Mihelj is a professor of media and cultural analysis at Loughborough University, UK. Her research examines media's involvement in shaping cultural processes and practices across historical and contemporary contexts, with a particular focus on cultural belonging and exclusion, public culture, and memory. She has authored more than sixty journal articles and book chapters as well as three books: Media Nations: Communicating Belonging and Exclusion in the Modern World (Palgrave, 2011), Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2012), and From Media Systems to Media Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2018).