Publications
Xie, J. & Xu, Y (2025) From Stigma to Shared Suffering: Tracing Transformation in Online Representations of Illness During Coronavirus. Narrative Culture: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Zhou, H., & Xie, J. (2024). Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond? International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30(6), 687–702. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2315242
Xie, J. (2023). The Construction of the Silk Roads as World Heritage in China. In Chan, V.C.M., Hui, Y.F., Hui, D.C.K. & Vafadari, K. (Eds.), Heritage conservation and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (pp. 31-44). Routledge.
Rao, Y., & Xie, J. (2023). Digital distinction: class as mediated dispositions in China’s Animal Crossing fever. Chinese Journal of Communication,17(2), 226–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2023.2248524
Smith L, Hou, S. & XIE, J. (2014). Reflection and Reconstruction: Rethinking Heritage and Museum: An Interview with Prof. Laurajane Smith. Southeast Culture, 2(238), 11-16.
Selected Conference Paper
2022 “Leisure or Labour? The “punching-card” analogy of museum visits among urban middle class women in China, co-authored with LI, Yifang.
2022 ICSAAnnual Conference
2019 “Authorized Narrative of a World Heritage Site vs. New Narratives of the Local”
The Cultural Governance in Asia conference
2016 “Heritage Diplomacy and the Silk Roads World Heritage”
The Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy conference
2016 “The Silk Roads World Heritage Making”
The ACHS 2016 conference: What does heritage change?
Research Projects
Principal Investigator: Faculty Development Grant, Research Grants Council (Hong Kong) for project “The Chinese Making of the Maritime Silk Road Heritage” (01/2025-06/2026), (HK$ 650,811).
Principal Investigator: Chinese Heritage Research Grant, “The Heritage as Method: World Cultural Heritage Making of the Maritime Silk Roads in China” (2023-2024), (HK$ 49,202.64).
Co-Inivestigator: “Meme-driven Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of the ‘Speechless Buddha’ Internet Celebrity Artefact in Jingdezhen” (11/2025 – 10/2027). University Resarch Grants, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, (HK$39,960).