Queer TV China : Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness

酷兒電視中國 : 性別、 性向與中國性之電視視覺和粉絲想像

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Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationHong Kong
PublisherHong Kong University Press
Number of pages248
ISBN (print)978-988-8805-61-7
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2023

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NameQueer Asia

Abstract

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. © 2023 Hong Kong University Press

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Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness. / Zhao, Jamie J. (Editor).
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 248 p. (Queer Asia).

Research output: Scholarly Books, Monographs, Reports and Case StudiesRGC 14 - Edited book (Editor)peer-review