Yan Huang is a research fellow in the School of Geography at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. She received her PhD from Griffith University, Australia. Her research lies at the intersection of political geography, tourism geopolitics, and maritime geopolitics, with a particular focus on the South China Sea. Her recent work examines tourism, territorialisation, and everyday geopolitical processes, and has contributed to conceptual debates on territorial socialisation and tourism as method in the analysis of multi-scalar geopolitics. Her work has been published in Political Geography, Geopolitics, Tourism Geographies, Australian Geographer, among others.
Please see the following academic pages:
researchgate：ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan-Huang-78
Googlescholar：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wkoIgk0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
- Niu, S., Huang, Y., Zhang, Z., & Liu, Y. (2025). The (geo) politics of the marine knowledge production and evolution in the South China Sea: The case of Genglubu. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 35(10), 2205-2228. (JCR Q1, IF 5.4)
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2024). A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progress and future agenda. Tourism Geographies, 26(5), 881-897. (JCR Q1, IF 4.1)
- Liu, X., Liu, Y., Huang, Y*., & Wang, F. D. (2024). Traversing borders and creating networks at sea: The case of fishers in the South China Sea. Geopolitics, 29(3), 1046-1071. (Corresponding author, JCR Q1, IF 3.0)
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2023). Encountering and experiencing the geopolitics of tourism (im)mobilities: A case of China’s tourism in the South China Sea. Australian Geographer, 54(4), 545-559. (JCR Q2, IF 2.4)
- Huang, Y*., & Suliman, S. (2023). Geopolitics, (re)territorialisation, and China’s patriotic tourism in the South China Sea. Geopolitics, 28(4), 1465-1488. (JCR Q1, IF 3.0)
- Huang, Y. (2022). Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China’s patriotic tourism in the South China Sea. Political Geography, 98, 102669. (Q1, IF 4.3)
PUBLICATIONS IN CHINESE (Chinese-language journals with English abstracts)
- Liu, Y., Li, S., Wang, F., Huang, Y., et al. (2026). Progress and Prospects in Maritime Political Geography. Acta Geographica Sinica, 81(01), 219-237. (The top Chinese geography journal)
- Huang, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, T., et al. (2025). A Performativity Perspective on the Mechanism of Tourism Territorialization. South China Geographical Journal. online.
- Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2024). Tourism as method for geopolitical research. Tourism Tribune, 39(8), 8-10.
- Chen, C., Zhao, Z., Huang, Y. (2017). Social landscape sensitivity analysis of western tourism community: A case study of Langmusi town in Gannan. Geographical Research, 36(5), 899-912.
- Huang, Y., et al. (2016). Spatial constitution and group difference of landscape values in tourism community. Tourism Tribune, 31(9), 80-90.
- Huang, Y., et al. (2015). The visual representation of tourism destinations in the Internet Era: Multiple constructions and circulations. Tourism Tribune, 30(6), 91-101.
WORKING PAPERS
Huang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2026). Tourism as Maritime Statecraft: Hainan’s Policy Entrepreneurship in the South China Sea. Territory, Politics, Governance, under revision.
PATENTS
- Liu, Y., Peng, J., Huang, Y., & Tan, Z. (2025). A Machine Reading Comprehension-Based Method for Few-Shot Multi-Label Text Classification. Chinese Patent CN250038CX, granted 26 January 2025.
- Liu, Y., Sun, M., & Huang, Y. (2025). A Knowledge Graph Multi-Hop Retrieval Method Integrating Semantic Parsing and Graph Embedding. Chinese Patent CN50037CX, granted 21 January 2025.