Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web RomanceIn 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. |
Contents
This Is Not Your Mothers Qiong Yao | 1 |
1 A Short Genealogy | 17 |
2 Addicted to Beauty | 53 |
3 Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind | 85 |
4 Rewriting Classics Righting Wrongs | 109 |
5 How to Make Mr Right | 139 |
What Does Chinese Web Romance Do? | 167 |
Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters | 177 |
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