Queer TV China
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An examination of the rise and influence of the internationally popular queer TV China genre. Since the 2010s, Chinese television has seen an explosion in popularity in dramas 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 sizable transcultural queer fan communities both online and off. Still, these seemingly progressive TV productions are caught between multilayered sociocultural and political-economic forces and interests. Taking up the many definitions of “queer,” this volume counters the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the primary lens to understand nonnormative identities and desires in the Chinese and Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of “queer/ing TV China” to explore the impact of various genres, narrative tropes, censorial practices, and fandoms on subject formation and desire within heteropatriarchal Chinese broadcasting. Jamie J. Zhao is honorary professor and director of the Center for Gender and Media Studies in the Department of Journalism and Communication at NingboTech University.
Acknowledgments
Notes on Romanization and Chinese Characters
Introduction: Making “TV China” Perfectly Queer
I. Queer/ing Genders and Sexualities through Reality Competition Shows
1. Growing Up with “Tomboy Power”: Starring Liu Yuxin on Post-2010 Chinese Reality TV
2. When “Jiquan” Fandom Meets “Big Sisters”: The Ambivalence between Female Queer (In)Visibility and Popular Feminist Rhetoric in Sisters Who Make Waves
3. A Dildonic Assemblage: The Paradoxes of Queer Masculinities and Desire on the Chinese Sports Variety Show Let’s Exercise, Boys
II. Queer/ing TV Dramas through Media Regulations
4. Addicted to Melancholia: Negotiating Queerness and Homoeroticism in a Banned Chinese BL Drama
5. Taming The Untamed: Politics and Gender in BL-Adapted Web Dramas
6. Disjunctive Temporalities: Queer Sinophone Visuality across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
III. Queer/ing Celebrities across Geocultural Boundaries
7. Queer Vocals and Stardom on Chinese TV: Case Studies of Wu TsingFong and Zhou Shen
8. Gay Men in/and Kangsi Coming
9. Queer Motherly Fantasy: The Sinophone Mom Fandom of Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana
References
About the Contributors
Index
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