Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
Geng Song, "Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity "
English | ISBN: 0472055291 | 2022 | 252 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0472055291 | 2022 | 252 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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,
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