Shuai Dang

Shuai Dang is a doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked as a journalist, news photographer, and video editor at a local television station in China. He later spent four years at the Cui Yongyuan Center for Oral History, where he learned that the microphone is never neutral. These experiences inform his research on transnational journalism, narrative authority, temporal gatekeeping, and the politics of visibility.

Dang completed an oral-history project on Chinese broadcasters that examines their broadcasting styles and professional experiences while tracing how generations of voice professionals navigated state institutions and changing technologies. He is also studying temporal gatekeeping in Chinese and American COVID-19 coverage, and the risks and ethics of undercover reporting across the Pacific. Methodologically, he examines listening practices and interviewer-narrator dynamics. His forthcoming article, “An Analysis of Interviewers: Listening in Interviews in Oral History,” explores how interviewers’ listening practices shape the interview encounter and the resulting oral testimony. He has also developed a multi-voiced narrative framework for oral-history analysis.

He is the co-author of A Lifetime Pursuit of Truth: Fang Hanqi’s Oral Autobiography (Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 2025). He holds an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University, an M.A. in Journalism and Communication from Communication University of China, and a B.A. in Broadcast and Television from Hebei Institute of Communications. Outside the archive, he continues to photograph and travel.