腐女[fǔ nǚ]: Rotten+female. This Internet slang term originated from ふじょし [fujoshi, readers of male-male romance narratives]. In China, it refers to female consumers of TV shows, movies, novels, etc. about BL [Boys’ Love] aka emotional (and sexual) intimacy among young men. 攻...
it probes how the violated bodies of comfort women on the screen constantly challenge and disrupt the entrenched gender norms in the interstices of the PRC’
If culture provides people with “tools” for acting in the social world, then Swidler’s model suggests that cultural narratives about motherhood will have an impact on how women actually care for their children, offering up various parenting practices and ways of judging, and justifying those pr...
comprising three semi-structured interviews aimed at dissecting the Chinese audience's interpretations of this cinematic movement. Focusing primarily on the "social discomfort" feature within Dogme 95 films (Gray, 2023), it investigates the resonating segments and characteristics...
By now, those who are familiar with the generic norms of Qiong Yao films would expect to see that Xia was forced to marry He in America and then lived a melancholic life. Xia would finally return to Taipei as a widow or a divorcee to re-kindle the old flame with Gao who had been ...
An earlier version of Chapter 5 has been accepted by positions: asia critique (to be published) and is reproduced here with its permission. Notes on the text This book examines Chinese stardom in participatory cyberculture. It uses the English names of the stars for the keyword-searches on ...
In TOS, the lack of moral norms and Shui’s malicious acts that seem necessary for survival have generated guilt, signifying his spiritual need. On the other hand, despite financial and health crises in her family, Xiao-Li maintains church life as usual and never gets sentimental, suggesting ...
(Zhou 2006). In sum, ethnic social networks, embedded in the broader Chinese immigrant community, function to reinforce common norms and standards and exercise control over those who are connected to them. Involvement in different types of ethnic institutions also helps families and children ...