Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity - Couverture rigide

Song, Geng

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472075292 ISBN 13 : 9780472075294

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Geng Song is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472075292
• ISBN 13: 9780472075294
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
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• Personne responsable: non disponible