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Yin, Muchun

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“…Jinjiang Literature City (www.jjwxc.net), known as Jinjiang, is one of the earliest and most influential women's literature websites in China. Since launched in 2003, Jinjiang has established an almost exclusively female readership well-known for enthusiasm, loyalty and power of articulation (Yin 2005), and has developed into an elaborate organisation constituted of an e-bookstore, a discussion forum, a users' feedback forum, as well as a website to obtain entertainment, satisfy creative impulses and derive emotional nurturance (Feng 2009). Statistics show that 93% of Jinjiang users are female, and 83% of them are aged between 18 and 35 (Linder 2005, Xu andYang 2013), who are perceived International Journal of Media, Culture and Literature Volume 6 Issue 2 -December 2020 (137-169) as possessing 'three highs', viz.…”

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Censorship and Circumvention in China: How Danmei Writers ‘Drive a Car’ on Jinjiang

Wang¹

2015

İstanbul Aydın univ. int. j. media culture literature

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Danmei, aka Boys Love or BL, denotes a literature genre featuring malemale romantic or erotic relationships, predominantly created by and for heterosexual women who are referred to as 'rotten girls'. This subculture is characterised by explicit depiction of sexual encounters and erotic spectacles, which is metaphorically represented by a newly coined Internet neologism kaiche 'to drive a car' in China. As a consequence of its dual connection with homosexuality and pornography, as well as its accused transgression of traditional norms, danmei is subject to severe moral scrutiny and state censorship in China. As a leading danmei website with the largest readership and prominent commercial success, Jinjiang has been sensitive to government policy shifts and anti-pornography campaigns, and hence has enforced strict self-censorship standards comprising both automatic detection of transgressive keywords and multiple rounds of manual review. Consequently, writers at Jinjiang adopt a variety of circumvention tactics, including metaphor, codeswitching and satire strategies, so as to accommodate readers' requirement for homoerotic depictions. More significantly, erotic representations illustrate writers' sexual desires and identity as 'rotten girls', as well as illuminate writers' rebellion against online censorship and restriction on freedom of creation imposed by authorities.

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Section: Jinjiang and Censorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Censorship and Circumvention in China: How Danmei Writers ‘Drive a Car’ on Jinjiang

Wang¹

2015

İstanbul Aydın univ. int. j. media culture literature

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Censorship and Circumvention in China: How Danmei Writers ‘Drive a Car’ on Jinjiang

Censorship and Circumvention in China: How Danmei Writers ‘Drive a Car’ on Jinjiang

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