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Televising Chineseness China Understandings Today Series Editors: Mary Gallagher and Xiaobing Tang China Understandings Today is dedicated to the study of contemporary China and seeks to present the latest and most innovative scholarship in social sciences and the humanities to the academic community as well as the general public. The series is sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity Geng Song Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China Maggie Greene Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965 Yu Zhang Power over Property: The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China Matthew Noellert The Global White Snake Liang Luo Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu Governing and Ruling: The Political Logic of Taxation in China Changdong Zhang Televising Chineseness Gender, nation, and Subjectivity Geng Song University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Copyright © 2022 by Geng Song All rights reserved For questions or permissions, please contact [email protected] Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid- free paper First published May 2022 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication data has been applied for. ISBN 978- 0- 472- 07529- 4 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978- 0- 472- 05529- 6 (paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978- 0- 472- 22004- 5 (e- book) Library of Congress Control Number: 2022933390 for Tracy, Victor, and Gloria Contents Acknowledgments ix chapter 1. Introduction: Gendering Chinese Nationalism 1 chapter 2. (Post- )Television in China: Entertainment and Censorship 21 chapter 3. Anti- Japanese Dramas and Patriotic Patriarchy 37 chapter 4. “Straight- Man Cancer” and “Bossy CEO”: Sexism with Chinese Characteristics 72 chapter 5. Foreign Men and Women on the Chinese TV Screen 102 chapter 6. “Little Fresh Meat” and the Politics of Sissyphobia 126 chapter 7. Womanhood and the Many Faces of Chineseness 154 Epilogue 182 Notes 191 Bibliography 211 Glossary 223 Index 231 Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following citable URL: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12221862 Acknowledgments Working on an academic book is a process of ongoing dialogues with other scholars, both in real life and in metaphorical terms. This book would not have been possible without the benefit of the excellent work of my fellow scholars. In the process of working on the project, numerous scholars, in the capacity of mentors, friends, students, colleagues, conference copartici- pants, editors, and manuscript reviewers, have provided helpful insights and advice. I feel deeply indebted to all of them. A far from exhaustive list includes Rey Chow, Sheldon Lu, Shu- mei Shih, Ying Zhu, Michael Keane, Chris Berry, Michel Hockx, Wanning Sun, Shuyu Kong, Ruoyun Bai, Peter Jackson, Hui Xiao, Hongwei Bao, Jamie J. Zhao, Travis Kong, Qian Gong, Lauren Gorfinkel, Roald Maliangkay, Yu Zhang, Haomin Gong, Xin Yang, Yongmei Wu, Stefan Harvey, and Xuying Yu. I feel privileged for the many fruitful conversations I have had with Kam Louie, Louise Edwards, Jiwei Ci, and Xiaoying Wang— my lifelong mentors and friends—o ver the years. With funding from the Hong Kong University Faculty of Arts, Stephanie Donald, in the capacity of a “critical friend,” read the entire book in draft form and provided suggestions that have significantly improved it. The book has also benefited from the feedback I received while giving talks on the interim results of my research during my visits to various institu- tions. I am thankful to the colleagues who invited me and hosted my visits: Shuge Wei of the Australian Center on China in the World, the Australian National University; Wenhong Chen of the Department of Radio- Television- Film, University of Texas at Austin; Derek Hird of Lancaster University; Bing- han Zheng of Durham University; Margaret Hillenbrand of the China Cen- ter, University of Oxford; Xi Liu of the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University; Ling Yang of Xiamen University; and Cheng Guangwei of Renmin University in Beijing.
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