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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165042403321

Autore

Gong Haomin

Titolo

Reconfiguring class, gender, ethnicity and ethics in Chinese internet culture / / Haomin Gong and Xin Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-138-35161-X

1-315-66815-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Routledge Contemporary China ; ; 163

Altri autori (Persone)

YangXin <1972->

Disciplina

302.23/10951

303.48340951

Soggetti

Internet - Social aspects - China

Mass media and culture - China

Mass media - Social aspects - China

Popular culture - China

China Civilization 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Cyberspace, heterotopia, and postsocialism in China --  Chapter  1  Digitized parody: The politics of egao in contemporary China -- Chapter  2  Circulating smallness: The dialectics of micro-narratives -- Chapter  3  Constructing gendered desire in online fiction and web dramas -- Chapter  4  Performing ethnicityMedia, identity, and nationalism --  Chapter  5  Caught in the web: Ethics of Chinese cyberspace -- Chapter 6 Postscript: Challenges and prospects

Sommario/riassunto

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.