Dr Lei Peng PhD

My research interests are broadly focused on modern Chinese social transformation and cultural history, especially concerning the popular/alternative music culture from a transcultural perspective. My research work, therefore, lies at the crossroads of several areas: Chinese studies, Cultural/Subcultural studies, and also geopolitical studies. In the wider context, I'm also interested in questions concerning the concept of modernity, the construction and circulation of ideologies, knowledge, and imagination through popular culture; questions of the cultural identity of "others" (ethnical background, marginal groups, cross-cultural background figures); as well as the representation of Eastern philosophies in the cultural sphere of the greater China.

Studies of relationship between power, ideology, gender, classes, formation of imagination and everyday life of individual.