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Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture

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New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable the formidable soft power of this new medium whilst at the same time handling the ideological uncertainties it inevitably entails. 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 wide range of theories on Internet culture, intellectual history, and literary, film, and cultural studies, and explores a variety of online cultural materials, including digitized spoofing, microblog fictions, micro-films, online fictions, web dramas, photographs, flash mobs, popular literature and films. These materials have played an important role in shaping the contemporary cultural scene, but have so far received little critical attention. Here, the authors demonstrate how Chinese Internet culture has provided a means to intervene in the otherwise monolithic narratives of identity and community. Offering an important contribution to the rapidly growing field of Internet studies, this book will also be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture, literary and film studies, media and communication studies, and Chinese society.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
February 24th, 2017
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
184
ISBN-13
9781138951532
Product ID
23911368

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