618
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Review Essay

Subject making with Chinese characteristics: gender, sexuality, and Chineseness in neoliberal popular and public imaginaries

Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity, by Geng Song, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2022, 252 pp., $29.95 (e-book), ISBN: 9780472220045; Dreadful desires: the uses of love in neoliberal China, by Charlie Yi Zhang, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2022, 280 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478017998

ORCID Icon
Pages 635-646 | Published online: 08 Sep 2022
 

Notes

2 Curtin Citation2010, 118.

3 Harvey Citation2005, 120.

4 Sun and Zhao Citation2009, 98.

5 Sun and Zhao Citation2009, 96; Rofel Citation2007.

6 See Evans Citation1997, Citation2008; Farrer Citation2002; Gilmartin et al. Citation1994; Hershatter Citation2007; Hong Fincher Citation2014; Jeffreys Citation2006; Yang Citation1999.

7 See Hird and Song Citation2018; Louie Citation2002, Citation2014, Citation2016; Louie and Low Citation2003; Song and Hird Citation2014; Zhong Citation2000.

10 See Bao Citation2018, Citation2020, Citation2021; Engebretsen Citation2014; Kam Citation2013; Kong Citation2011; Lavin, Yang, and Zhao Citation2017; Zheng Citation2015.

11 Zhang 2022, 28.

12 Zhang 2022, 29.

13 See Bai and Song Citation2015; Hird and Song Citation2018; Song Citation2004; Song and Hird Citation2014.

14 Song 2022, 7.

15 Song 2022, 15.

16 Song 2022, 6.

17 Song 2022, 24.

18 Song 2022, 35.

19 Song 2022, 37.

20 Song 2022, 85, 100.

21 Song 2022, 102–103.

22 Song 2022, 125.

23 Song defines this as “the fear or hatred of effeminate men.” Song 2022, 126.

24 Song 2022, 149.

25 See Bai Citation2014; Gong Citation2021; Gorfinkel Citation2018; Keane Citation2015; Wen Citation2015; Zhong Citation2010; Zhu Citation2008, Citation2012; Zhu and Berry Citation2009; Zhu, Keane, and Bai Citation2008.

26 Song 2022, 25.

27 Song 2022, 26–29.

28 Zhang 2022, 4.

29 Zhang 2022, 5.

30 Zhang 2022, 6.

31 Zhang 2022, 5, 7.

32 Zhang 2022, 14.

33 Zhang 2022, 58.

34 Zhang 2022, 83–84.

35 Zhang 2022, 83–84.

36 The latter is China's population registration system that was implemented during the Maoist era in the 1950s. This system has always been manipulated to discursively uphold urban gentrification and “stimulate and sustain the exodus of the rural population to urban and coastal areas.” Zhang 2022, 108.

37 Zhang 2022, 146.

38 Zhang 2022, 154.

39 Zhang 2022, 146.

40 Zhang 2022, 154.

41 Zhang 2022, 176.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Jamie J. Zhao

Jamie J. Zhao is an honorary professor and director of the Center for Gender and Media Studies at NingboTech University, China. She holds a PhD in gender studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR and obtained another PhD in film and TV studies from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research explores East Asian media and public discourses on female gender and sexuality in a globalist, digital age. Her academic writings have appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes. She is the editor of Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness (Hong Kong University Press, 2023), and coeditor (with Maud Lavin & Ling Yang) of Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (Hong Kong University Press, 2017), as well as the forthcoming Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (coedited with Hongwei Bao & Diyi Tan, Bloomsbury, 2023), and the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (coedited with Hongwei Bao, Routledge, 2023). In addition, she is the founding coeditor of the “Queering China” book series published by Bloomsbury and the “Transdisciplinary Souths” book series published by Routledge.

Log in via your institution

Log in to Taylor & Francis Online

PDF download + Online access

  • 48 hours access to article PDF & online version
  • Article PDF can be downloaded
  • Article PDF can be printed
USD 53.00 Add to cart

Issue Purchase

  • 30 days online access to complete issue
  • Article PDFs can be downloaded
  • Article PDFs can be printed
USD 172.00 Add to cart

* Local tax will be added as applicable

Related Research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.