Romancing the Internet
Subtitle: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789004259720
Description: "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."--Publisher website.