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Associate Professor Qian Gong is an accomplished academic in the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She joined Curtin University in February 2003 and has advanced to the position of Associate Professor, having previously served as Senior Lecturer. Since 2014, she has coordinated the Chinese Major in the Bachelor of Arts program and co-convenes the Applied Linguistics and TESOL research group. Her academic qualifications include a PhD in Media and Culture Studies from the University of Technology Sydney (2006–2011), as well as postgraduate studies in Education (2004–2006) and Tertiary Education (2002–2003) at Curtin University. Before her academic career, Qian Gong was a journalist at China Daily for a decade.

Qian Gong's research specializations cover Chinese media and popular culture, media studies, cultural studies, China studies, cross-cultural communication, and language education, with a special interest in pedagogy and cultural transformations in contemporary China, including socialist culture. She has authored or co-authored over 40 publications, amassing 219 citations on ResearchGate. Key works include books such as Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China: TV Drama as Popular Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and Narrating Chinese Youth Mobilities: Digital Storytelling and Media Citizenship (2024); and highly cited articles like "Learner-generated content and the lexical recall of beginning-level learners of Chinese as a foreign language" (Lambert, Gong & Zhang, Language Teaching Research, 2021, 48 citations), "Translanguaging and “English Only” at Universities" (Dobinson et al., TESOL Quarterly, 2023, 45 citations), "Unpacking ‘baby man’ in Chinese social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis" (Chen & Gong, Critical Discourse Studies, 2023, 35 citations), "‘Telling China’s Story Well’ as Propaganda Campaign Slogan: International, Domestic and the Pandemic" (Xu & Gong, Media, Culture & Society, 2024, 30 citations), and "Maintaining ideological security and legitimacy in digital China: Governance of cyber historical nihilism" (Xu, Gong & Yin, Media International Australia, 2022, 16 citations). In 2022, she was a finalist for the Curtin University Research and Engagement Awards in the Research Team category, highlighting her contributions to the field.