Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Gendering Chinese Nationalism
- 2. (Post-) Television in China: Entertainment and Censorship
- 3. Anti-Japanese Dramas and Patriotic Patriarchy
- 4. “Straight-Man Cancer” and “Bossy CEO”: Sexism with Chinese Characteristics
- 5. Foreign Men and Women on the Chinese TV Screen
- 6. “Little Fresh Meat” and the Politics of Sissyphobia
- 7. Womanhood and the Many Faces of Chineseness
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
