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Author Feng, Jin, 1971-

Title Romancing the Internet : Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance.

Publication Info. Leiden : BRILL, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages).
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Series Women and Gender in China Studies
Women and gender in China studies.
Contents Romancing the Internet; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: This Is Not Your Mother's Qiong Yao; Fan Production; Interdisciplinary Improvisation; Organization of Chapters; 1. A Short Genealogy; The Politics and Economics of Web Publishing; The Popular Mind; Stud, Farming, and Magic-Space Fiction: Characteristics and Trends; The Pleasure of Repetition; Romantic Love with Chinese Characteristics; 2. Addicted to Beauty; Three Players and the Text; Textual Poaching; Time Travel in Danmei Fiction; The Androgynous Reader; Conclusion.
3. "Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind"Clues from Interviews; The Supreme Heroine; Three Princesses; Conclusion; 4. Rewriting Classics, Righting Wrongs; Tricks of the Trade; Rewriting Classics; Danmei Fanfic; Conclusion; 5. How to Make Mr. Right; Seeking Mr. Right?; The Ideal Hero; Reading Zhifou: Strategies and Negotiations; Making Mr. Right; Conclusion; Coda: What Does Chinese Web Romance Do?; Remaking Popular Romance; Creating the Self in a Crowd; A New Woman Born of the E-Age?; Appendix: Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters; Bibliography; Index.
Summary In Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, Jin Feng examines how shifting socio-cultural forces and gender codes in contemporary Chinese society have shaped the production and consumption of Chinese popular romance on the Internet.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Literature and the Internet -- China.
Literature and the Internet.
China.
Chinese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Romanticism -- China.
Romanticism.
Hypertext literature, Chinese -- History and criticism.
Hypertext literature, Chinese.
Chronological Term 2000 - 2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Feng, Jin. Romancing the Internet : Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 9789004222052
ISBN 9789004259720 (electronic book)
9004259724 (electronic book)
9789004222052 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004222057 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004259720