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

ISBN-13: 9781138351615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 184 str.

USA) Haomin (Case Western Reserve University Gong; USA) Xin (Macalester College Yang

Opis

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 range of theories on Internet culture, and explores a variety of online cultural materials, including microblog fictions, web dramas and films.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cyberspace, Heterotopia and Postsocialism in China 1. Digitized Parody: The Politics of Egao in Contemporary China 2. Circulating Smallness: The Dialectics of Micro Narrative 3. Constructing Gendered Desire in Online Fictions and Web Dramas 4. Figuring Ethnicity: Media, Identity, and the Internet 5. Caught in the Web: Ethics of Chinese Cyberspace