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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geng SongPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780472075294ISBN 10: 0472075292 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 30 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviewsTelevising Chineseness is an impressive academic text with adroitly put arguments. It not only offers meticulous analyses of the history and contemporary situations of China's television and other media industries, Chinese audience and fan cultures, and rising issues concerning the Chinese cyber environment and offline social realities but also provides readers with rich details and useful information on Chinese popular culture and media communication in general. --Critical Asian Studies-- Critical Asian Studies Song convincingly maps how Chinese state media conditions its audience to guard its national identity. Recommended. --CHOICE-- CHOICE """Televising Chineseness is an impressive academic text with adroitly put arguments. It not only offers meticulous analyses of the history and contemporary situations of China's television and other media industries, Chinese audience and fan cultures, and rising issues concerning the Chinese cyber environment and offline social realities but also provides readers with rich details and useful information on Chinese popular culture and media communication in general."" --Critical Asian Studies-- ""Critical Asian Studies"" ""Song convincingly maps how Chinese state media conditions its audience to guard its national identity. Recommended."" --CHOICE-- ""CHOICE""" Song convincingly maps how Chinese state media conditions its audience to guard its national identity. Recommended. --CHOICE-- CHOICE Song's examination of gender roles, China's imagined and real relationship to the Other, patriotism, nationalism, and globalization is poignant and insightful. This engaging study of popular entertainment from a leading scholar in masculinity studies and TV studies gauges the temperature and mood of an increasingly diverse body of mainland Chinese spectators, consumers, and citizens. --Sheldon Lu, UC Davis--Sheldon Lu, UC Davis Author InformationGeng Song is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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