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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.

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

Televising Chineseness

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472075294, 978-0472075294
      ISBN10: 0472075292

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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

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