<i>If You Are the One</i>: Dating shows and feminist politics in contemporary China

Li, Luzhou

doi:10.1177/1367877914538906

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“…Many interviewees frankly conceded that wrapped in all the ‘flaunting’ with the attention and pleasure it brought them was a harsh reality that they were forced to accommodate. As Jiajia said, ‘Apart from the rings, the bags, and the designer outfits you buy at out-of-season discounts, nothing in this world truly belongs to you.’ This corroborates the findings of a number of studies that find it impossible to untangle contemporary Chinese feminism from Western-style consumerism, and that even though women are still objectified by the consumerist discourse, they are empowered to wrestle from it a certain degree of autonomy by smashing the blunt egalitarian discourse – ‘Men and women are the same’ – deeply ingrained in Chinese Communist traditions (Gill, 2007; Li, 2015; Thornham and Feng, 2010).…”

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A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism

Chang

Ren

Yang

2016

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article applies the framework of critical discourse analysis to the in-depth interviews of 73 young Chinese women residing in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It examines their discursive practices of choosing and editing their profile pictures on social media, which is in turn placed in the unique sociocultural context of contemporary China for interpretation. This article argues that Chinese women’s self-empowerment through using social media is derived not from a straightforward struggle against the patriarchy or for woman power, but from a gentle, rational yet resolute stance that incorporates a new female identity into the ‘harmonious society’ enshrined in Confucian ideals, thus creating a new digital feminism with Chinese characteristics.

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Section: The Creation Of the ‘Middle-class Women’supporting

confidence: 81%

A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism

Chang

Ren

Yang

2016

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Many of these daughters will become mothers. The pressure to marry and have children is still substantial (see e.g., the literature on “Leftover Women,” Fincher, 2016; Gaetano, 2014; Ji, 2015; Li, 2015; To, 2013, 2015). Therapy sessions show that over time “empowered daughters” become “anxious mothers,” especially when they have sons.…”

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Tight-Knit Webs and Telescoping Families: Conversations With Psychological Experts in India and China

Chen

2019

The Family Journal

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This qualitative exploratory study based on therapy observations and interviews with psychological experts and family therapists in Beijing, China, and Delhi, India, compares and contrasts families’ psychotherapeutic experiences in India and China. Analysis suggests that the economic growth enjoyed by middle- and upper-class, urban families has also brought with it substantial anxiety and guilt. Therapists in India and China report some similar family dynamics, such as a belief in and striving for a special mother–son bond, alongside differences, such as the greater participation of men in therapy in India. This article argues this striking difference in the gender composition of clients in India compared to China is best understood in relation to the greater political and social context of each country. Elite families in India and China are differently positioned in ways that significantly impact their respective concerns about their children and their family’s future class reproduction.

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“…Responding to and reinforcing the panic over singleness, television dating shows have experienced a resurgence in recent years. The most watched Chinese dating show is If You Are the One , which emphasizes that being single is both an individual and a social problem (Li 2015).…”

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Video Games as Dating Platforms: Exploring Digital Intimacies through a Chinese Online Dancing Video Game

Liu

2017

Television & New Media

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In the relatively young field of new media studies, both video games and online dating platforms are identified as being important and popular genres of digital products, which are often discussed separately. This article argues that these two genres of digital products are not so much separate but entangled elements of the same processes of technological shifts in media industry, development of people’s online leisure activities, and the convergence of digital genres. To provide empirical evidence, this article examines a Chinese dancing video game, QQ Dazzling Dance (QQ Xuan Wu), which creatively juxtaposes these two genres of participatory digital culture and recognizes the analytical and critical values in doing so.

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If You Are the One: Dating shows and feminist politics in contemporary China

Cited by 62 publications

References 31 publications

A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism

A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism

Tight-Knit Webs and Telescoping Families: Conversations With Psychological Experts in India and China

Video Games as Dating Platforms: Exploring Digital Intimacies through a Chinese Online Dancing Video Game

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