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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452387603321

Autore

Feng Jin <1971->

Titolo

Romancing the internet : producing and consuming Chinese web romance / / by Jin Feng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25972-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Women and gender in China studies, , 1877-5772 ; ; volume 5

Disciplina

895.1/30850906

Soggetti

Literature and the Internet - China

Chinese literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Romanticism - China

Hypertext literature, Chinese - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: This is Not Your Mother’s Qiong Yao -- A Short Genealogy -- Addicted to Beauty -- “Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind” -- Rewriting Classics, Righting Wrongs -- How to Make Mr. Right -- Coda: What Does Chinese Web Romance Do? -- Appendix: Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance , Jin Feng examines the evolution of Chinese popular romance on the Internet. She first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio-cultural forces have shaped new writing and reading practices and created new subgenres of popular romance in contemporary China. Integrating ethnographic methods into literary and discursive analyses, Feng offers a gendered, audience-oriented study of Chinese popular culture in the age of the Internet.