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List of contents
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
About the author
Haomin Gong is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA.
Xin Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Summary
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.
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"Gong and Yang’s skillful exploration of these topics demystifies the ubiquitous transgressiveness, heterogeneity, and contentiousness of the Chinese Internet that are often intertwined with issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and ethics within the context of Internet-ization, neoliberalism, and postsocialism...
Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture is a rigorous work that casts light on the promises and struggles the Internet has brought about in contemporary China... It provides readers with both an in-depth theorization of cyberspace and persuasive analyses of relevant Internet-related cultural and media events. Meanwhile, it impressively connects the fields of Chinese literature and history with new media research on online communication and the entertainment industry. Through well-researched case studies, the authors afford a comprehensive and sophisticated consideration of emerging pop cultural terms (e.g., “green tea whore” 绿茶婊 and “silly sweet girl” 傻白甜) and digital practices over the past decade. Both Chinese and Western scholars will find the rich, detailed information in the book fundamentally useful and stimulating....
Overall, the book is a powerful, illuminating contribution to both Chinese Internet culture and media studies. Its dedicated engagement with China studies, literary studies, communication studies, and entertainment industry and celebrity studies in the context of an online mediated environment will be of great interest and use to both academics and the general public."
Jamie J. Zhao, University of Warwick, MCLC Resource Center Publication
