Pornography, Ideology, and the Internet - A Japanese Adult Video Actress in Mainland China

This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turnreveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.

List of contents

Introduction

1. Sola in Japan: An "Ordinary" Girl and "Unordinary" Idol
2. Sola as a Weapon of Resistance for Chinese Internet Users
3. Two Chinese Agencies Repositioning Sola
4. A Case of Promotion: Negotiation between Commercial News Portals and the Two Agencies
5. Sola's Image Transformation: Becoming a Site of Contestation
6. Sola's Image Transformation and Chinese Youth's Identity
7. Sola Going Back to Japan as "the Most Famous Japanese in China"

Conclusion

About the author

By Zhang Mei

Product details

• Authors: Zhang Mei, Mei Zhang, Zhang, Mei Zhang, Zhang Mei
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781498560887
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6088-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality