Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity

by Song, Geng

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Title Statements

Full title :Televising Chineseness : gender, nation, and subjectivity / Geng Song.

Summary

The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment industry and a new symbol and carrier of China's soft power. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society. Using first-hand data collected through interviews and focus group discussions with audiences comprising viewers of different ages, genders, and educational backgrounds, Televising Chineseness sheds light on how television culture relates to the power mechanisms and truth regimes that shape the understanding of gender and the construction of gendered subjects in postsocialist China.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 240 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0472055291, 9780472055296, 9780472075294, 0472075292
oclc:on1257575855
LC Classification:P96.G442
Dewey Decimal:791.45/655

Introduction: Gendering Chinese Nationalism -- (Post-)Television in China: Entertainment and Censorship -- Anti-Japanese Dramas and Patriotic Patriarchy -- "Straight-Man Cancer" and "Bossy CEO": Sexism with Chinese Characteristics -- Foreign Men and Women on the Chinese TV Screen -- "Little Fresh Meat" and the Politics of Sissyphobia -- Womanhood and the Many Faces of Chineseness -- Epilogue

Subjects

China Gender identity on television Identité sexuelle à la télévision National characteristics, Chinese Rôle selon le sexe à la télévision Séries télévisées -- Chine Sex role on television Television and state Television and state / China Television series Television series -- China