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Subject(s)

• Literature and the Internet—China [Browse]
• Chinese literature—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Romanticism—China [Browse]
• Hypertext literature, Chinese—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Women and gender in China studies ; v. 5. [More in this series]
• Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; volume 5 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction: This is Not Your Mother’s Qiong Yao
• A Short Genealogy
• Addicted to Beauty
• “Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind”
• Rewriting Classics, Righting Wrongs
• How to Make Mr. Right
• Coda: What Does Chinese Web Romance Do?
• Appendix: Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

90-04-25972-4

OCLC

857800541

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004259720

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