Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

Digital Masquerade explores the intersection of digital media, feminist, and queer culture in China, highlighting the emergence of rights feminism and queer activism. It offers a novel theoretical framework of digital masquerade to analyze the co-constitutive role of digital technology in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights. Through interviews, observation, and media analyses, Jia Tan captures the disruptive and conditioned nature of feminist, queer, and rights articulations in China.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2023
Publisher: New York University Press

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.

Weight: 326g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781479811847