Romancing the Internet

Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22205-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feng, Jin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: This is Not Your Mother's Qiong Yao
Fan Production
Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Organization of Chapters

1. A Short Genealogy
The Politics and Economics of Web Publishing
The Popular Mind
Stud, Farming, and Magic-Space Fiction: Characteristics and Trends
The Pleasure of Repetition
Romantic Love with Chinese Characteristics

2. Addicted to Beauty
Three Players and the Text
Textual Poaching
Time Travel in Danmei Fiction
The Androgynous Reader
Conclusion

3. "Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind"
Clues from Interviews
The Supreme Heroine
Three Princesses
Conclusion

4. Rewriting Classics, Righting Wrongs
Tricks of the Trade
Rewriting Classics
Danmei Fanfic
Anti-Qiong Yao Fanfic
Conclusion

5. How to Make Mr. Right?
Seeking Mr. Right?
The Ideal Hero
Who Is More "Economical and Serviceable"?
Reading Zhifou: Strategies and Negotiations
Making Mr. Right
Conclusion

Coda: What Does Chinese Web Romance Do?
Remaking Popular Romance
Creating the Self in a Crowd
A New Woman Born of the E-Age?

Appendix: Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jin Feng, Ph.D. (2000), from the University of Michigan, is Professor of Chinese at Grinnell College. She has published monographs, translation, and articles in English and Chinese on Chinese culture, including Ginling College (1915-1952): The Making of a Family Saga (SUNY, 2009).