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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feng, Jin, 1971-

Series:

Women and gender in China studies ; v. 5.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and the Internet--China.

Literature and the Internet.

Chinese literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Romanticism--China.

Romanticism.

Hypertext literature, Chinese--History and criticism.

Hypertext literature, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-25972-4

OCLC:

857800541

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004259720 DOI