1st Edition
The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions and Co-option
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The social power of laughter, the dialogic nature of language, and embodied agency
Chapter 3: Class, gender, and urban–rural divides in China
Chapter 4: A textual reading of Chinese online discourse
Chapter 5: We are all diaosi? The classed practice of self-deprecation
Chapter 6: When “straight-men cancer” meets “spendthrift chicks”: A zero-sum game between men’s anxiety and women’s fantasy?
Chapter 7: The co-option of Chinese online wordplay
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Biography
Yanning Huang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University, China. He received his doctoral degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests include youth and digital culture, audience research, media gender studies, media and social justices, and environmental communication.
