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The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse

Author : Yanning Huang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040040287

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The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse by Yanning Huang Pdf

This book offers an in- depth study of the quasi- political, self-deprecating, and parodic buzzwords and memes prevalent in Chinese online discourse. Combining discourse analysis with in- depth audience research among the young internet users who deploy these buzzwords in on- and offline contexts, the book explores the historical and social implications of online wordplay for sustaining or challenging the contemporary social order in China. Yanning Huang adopts a combination of media and communications, social anthropology, and socio- linguistic perspectives to shed light on various forms of agency enacted by different social groups in their embracing, negotiation of, or disengagement from online buzzwords, before addressing how the discourses of online wordplay have been co-opted by corporations and party-media. Offering a rigorous and panoramic analysis of the politics and logics of online wordplay in contemporary China, and providing a critical and nuanced analytical framework for studying digital culture and participation in China and elsewhere, this book will be an important resource for scholars and students of media and communication studies, Internet and digital media studies, discourse analysis, Asian studies, and social anthropology.

A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere

Author : Altman Yuzhu Peng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030599690

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A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere by Altman Yuzhu Peng Pdf

This book makes an original contribution to the field of feminist cultural studies through an analysis of the gender-politics axis established in China’s digital public sphere. While a growing body of literature in contemporary feminist cultural studies has turned attention to the Chinese environment, scholarship remains limited in exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the context of Chinese digital cultures. This book addresses this timely topic. It will appeal to both scholars and students interested in exploring the complex, dynamic interplay between digital cultures, public expressions, as well as representations and perceptions of gender reflected in Chinese Internet users’ everyday communicative practice from a feminist media studies perspective.

Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

Author : Kailing Xie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811611391

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Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations by Kailing Xie Pdf

This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda.

Gender, Discourse and the Self in the Literature

Author : Tam Kwok-kan
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789629968779

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Gender, Discourse and the Self in the Literature by Tam Kwok-kan Pdf

As a Cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity are quite real. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accepts as truth, is at the core of what is most intriguing about the problem of gender. Critiquing this narrative, Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature unravels the strategies that writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors make an innovative marriage to Western gender discourse and the construction and representation of self and identity in contemporary China.

Gender Politics in Modern China

Author : Tani E. Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313898

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Gender Politics in Modern China by Tani E. Barlow Pdf

Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context. Contributors. Carolyn Brown, Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Yu-shih Chen, Rey Chow, Randy Kaplan, Richard King, Wolfgang Kubin, Wendy Larson, Lydia Liu, Seung-Yeun Daisy Ng, Jon Solomon, Meng Yue, Wang Zheng

Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights

Author : Pauline Stoltz,Marina Svensson,Sun Zhongxin,Qi Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136990687

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Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights by Pauline Stoltz,Marina Svensson,Sun Zhongxin,Qi Wang Pdf

This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights. Bringing together scholars and activists who reflect upon challenges to gender equality, citizenship, and human rights in their respective societies; it combines theoretical insights with empirically grounded studies. The volume contextualises feminist political theory in China and the Nordic countries and subsequently puts it into a global perspective. It tackles a complex set of tensions across a dense and shifting landscape and addresses issues including labour, health, democracy, homosexuality, migration and racism. By cutting across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, gender studies, human rights and also those interested in Scandinavian and Asian politics.

Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture

Author : Haomin Gong,Xin Yang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317360261

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Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture by Haomin Gong,Xin Yang Pdf

New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable the formidable soft power of this new medium whilst at the same time handling the ideological uncertainties it inevitably entails. This book investigates the ways in which class, gender, ethnicity and ethics are reconfigured, complicated and enriched by the closely intertwined online and offline realities in China. It combs through a wide range of theories on Internet culture, intellectual history, and literary, film, and cultural studies, and explores a variety of online cultural materials, including digitized spoofing, microblog fictions, micro-films, online fictions, web dramas, photographs, flash mobs, popular literature and films. These materials have played an important role in shaping the contemporary cultural scene, but have so far received little critical attention. Here, the authors demonstrate how Chinese Internet culture has provided a means to intervene in the otherwise monolithic narratives of identity and community. Offering an important contribution to the rapidly growing field of Internet studies, this book will also be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture, literary and film studies, media and communication studies, and Chinese society.

Gender and Education in China

Author : Paul J. Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134142569

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Gender and Education in China by Paul J. Bailey Pdf

Using primary evidence such as official documents, newspapers and memoirs, Paul Bailey analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century.

Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China

Author : Paul J. Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137029683

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Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China by Paul J. Bailey Pdf

Paul J. Bailey provides the first analytical study in English of Chinese women's experiences during China's turbulent twentieth century. Incorporating the very latest specialized research, and drawing upon Chinese cinema and autobiographical memoirs, this fascinating narrative account: - Explores the impact of political, social and cultural change on women's lives, and how Chinese women responded to such developments - Charts the evolution of gender discourses during this period - Illuminates both change and continuity in gender discourse and practice Approachable and authoritative, this is an essential overview for students, teachers and scholars of gender history, and anyone with an interest in modern Chinese history.

Different Worlds of Discourse

Author : Nanxiu Qian,Grace S. Fong,Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004167766

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Different Worlds of Discourse by Nanxiu Qian,Grace S. Fong,Richard Joseph Smith Pdf

During the late Qing reform era (1895-1912), women for the first time in Chinese history emerged in public space in collective groups. They assumed new social and educational roles and engaged in intense debates about the place of women in China's present and future. These debates found expression in new media, including periodicals and pictorials, which not only harnessed the power of existing cultural forms but also encouraged experimentation with a variety of new literary genres and styles - works increasingly produced by and for Chinese women. "Different Worlds of Discourse" explores the reform period from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.

Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature

Author : Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789629963996

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Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature by Kwok-kan Tam,Terry Siu-han Yip Pdf

Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Author : Adeline Koh,Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317662921

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Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia by Adeline Koh,Yu-Mei Balasingamchow Pdf

Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries. Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy. Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Women’s Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Author : Zhuying Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000220957

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Gender Hierarchy of Masculinity and Femininity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Zhuying Li Pdf

Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made. Using feminist methodology and epistemology to locate women’s social identity, this book explores the sociological connections between the masculinisation of women and masculinist domination in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Through film analysis, the author examines whether women, rather than 'liberated', were in fact re-gendered and oppressed by masculinist power. By critically evaluating gender hierarchy during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the book provides hitherto neglected insights into gender within its social and cultural context. This an interdisciplinary book which should appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, Asian studies, China studies, cultural studies and film studies.

Gender, Politics, and Democracy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0804768390

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Gender, Politics, and Democracy by Anonim Pdf

This is the first exploration of women's campaigns to gain equal rights to political participation in China. The dynamic and successful struggle for suffrage rights waged by Chinese women activists through the first half of the twentieth century challenged fundamental and centuries-old principles of political power. By demanding a public political voice for women, the activists promoted new conceptions of democratic representation for the entire political structure, not simply for women. Their movement created the space in which gendered codes of virtue would be radically transformed for both men and women.

Virtual Influencers

Author : Esperanza Miyake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040097946

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Virtual Influencers by Esperanza Miyake Pdf

This book identifies the converging socio- cultural, economic, and technological conditions that have shaped, informed, and realised the identity of the contemporary virtual influencer, situating them at the intersection of social media, consumer culture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital technologies. Through a critical analysis of virtual influencers and related media practices and discourses in an international context, each chapter investigates different themes relating to digitality and identity: virtual place and nationhood; virtual emotions and intimacy; im/ materialities of virtual everyday life; the biopolitics of virtual human-production; the necropolitics of pandemic virtuality; transmedial and mimetic virtualities; and the political economy of virtual influencers. The book argues that the virtual influencer represents the various ways in which contemporary identities have increasingly become naturalised with questions of virtuality, mediated by digital technologies across multiple realities. From practices relating to AI- driven, invasive data profiling needed for virtual influencer production to problematic online practices such as buying digital skin colour, the author examines how the virtual influencer’s aesthetic, social, and economic value obfuscates some of the darker aspects of their role as an extractivist technology of virtuality: one which regulates, oppresses, and/ or classifies bodies and datafied bodies that serve the visual, (bio)political, and digital economies of virtual capitalism. In the process, the book simultaneously offers a critique of the virtual influencer as a representational figure existing across multiple digital platforms, spaces, and times, and of how they may challenge, complicate, and reinforce normative ideologies surrounding gender, race, class, sexuality, age, and ableism. As such, the book sheds light on some of the more troubling realities of the virtual influencer’s existence, inasmuch as it celebrates their transformational potential, exploring the implications of both within an increasingly AI- driven, digital culture, society, and economy. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and students working in the area(s) of: Popular Culture and Media; Internet, Digital and Social Media Studies; Data justice and Governance; Japanese Media Studies; Celebrity Studies; Fan Studies; Marketing and Consumer Studies; Sociology; Human– Computer Studies; and AI and Technology Studies.