Queer TV China : Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness / edited by Jamie J. Zhao.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhao, Jamie J., editor.

Series:

Queer Asia.

Queer Asia Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on "vulgar" and "immoral" content grow more prominent. This emerging "queer TV China" culture has generated diverse, cyber, and transcultural queer fan communities. Yet these seemingly progressive televisual productions and practices are caught between multilayered sociocultural and political-economic forces and interests.Taking "queer" as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, this volume counters the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the only way to understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Chinese and Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of "queer/ing TV China" to explore the power of various TV genres and narratives, censorial practices, and fandoms in queer desire-voicing and subject formation within a largely heteropatriarchal society. Through examining nine cases contesting the ideals of gender, sexuality, Chineseness, and TV production and consumption, the book also reveals the generative, negotiative ways in which queerness works productively within and against mainstream, seemingly heterosexual-oriented, televisual industries and fan spaces.

Contents:

Intro

Series

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Notes on Romanization and Chinese Characters

Introduction

I. Queer/ing Genders and Sexualities through Reality Competition Shows

1. Growing Up with "Tomboy Power"

2. When "Jiquan" Fandom Meets "Big Sisters"

3. A Dildonic Assemblage

II. Queer/ing TV Dramas through Media Regulations

4. Addicted to Melancholia

5. Taming The Untamed

6. Disjunctive Temporalities

III. Queer/ing Celebrities across Geocultural Boundaries

7. Queer Vocals and Stardom on Chinese TV

8. Gay Men in/and Kangsi Coming

9. Queer Motherly Fantasy

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789888805150

9888805150

OCLC:

1377390427