Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

Jia Tan

Published by New York University Press 2023

Digital Masquerade

Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

Jia Tan

Volume 30 in the series Postmillennial Pop

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811854.001.0001

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Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China

Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls “rights feminism,” or the emergence of rights consciousness in Chinese feminist formations, as well as queer activism and rights advocacy. Expanding on feminist and queer theory of masquerade, she develops the notion of “digital masquerade” to theorize the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights.

Drawing from interviews with various feminist and queer media practitioners, participant observation at community events, and detailed analyses of a variety of media forms such as social media, electronic journals, digital filmmaking, film festivals, and dating app videos, Jia Tan captures the feminist, queer, and rights articulations that are simultaneously disruptive of and conditioned by state censorship, technological affordances, and dominant social norms.

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Tan Jia :

Jia Tan is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.Jia Tan is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Introduction. Digital Masquerade: Assemblages and Entanglements of Gender, Sexuality, Rights, and Technology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Digital Masking and Masquerade: Rights Feminist Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 Performative Rights: Practices of Quan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3 Queer Becoming: Community-Based Digital Filmmaking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4 Networking Asia Pacific: Queer Film Festivals and Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5 Platform Presentism: Female Same-Sex Intimacy in App Videos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
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