The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture

Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China

Bibliographic Data

ID12918272
AuthorsJamie J Zhao (0000-0001-5106-4563, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue3
Pages208-212
Publication date2024-03-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcae005
OpenAlexW4393265451
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

This commentary focuses on a rising transnational queer Chinese digital culture—Girls’ Love (GL) webtoons. I consider this queer women-focused entertainment as an epitome of the queer convergence of transnational flows, women’s cultures, and digital platform technologies in today’s Asia. My discussion sheds light on its multilayered queer-transnational characteristics, as well as the controversies surrounding its transcultural mediation of queer women. Rather than simplifying it as an anti-heterocentric Chinese convergence culture in an age of globalization and digitization, I highlight GL webtoons’ role in stimulating various voices concerning women during transnational encounters of gender and sexual knowledge

Aesthetics · Art · China · Entertainment · Epitome · Globalization · Human sexuality · Literature · Political science · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising