Not Just Slash
Transformation of Aesthetic Relations and Feminist Utopian Narratives in Chinese Gender-Switching Videos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zheng Yang (0000-0003-4275-0590, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-73 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01417789221107360 |
| OpenAlex | W4294343543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
In 2020, Yiwen Wang published an article about gender-switching videos, a Chinese gender subculture in the digital media environment. Different from Wang, who identified gender-switching videos as an example of the slash (especially boys' love) subgenre, through a more comprehensive investigation of this subgenre this study found that gender-switching videos-which can be divided into two categories of complete and selective-involve homoerotic (including both boys' love and girls' love), heteroerotic and queer narratives. This article starts by demonstrating the multi-gender/sexual orientation narrative in gender-switching videos, and further analyses their social and cultural functions as a gender subculture in reconstructing gendered relationships in traditional Chinese aesthetics and narratives. The theory of feminist utopian narratives is further introduced to better understand how Chinese women intervene in the grand historical narrative as an important force to influence the development of history and story plots via fiction content creation in the digital media environment
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Narrative · Queer · Slash (logging) · Sociology · Subculture (biology) · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media
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Women's Liberation and the Sublime
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Critically Queer
Tanbi Novels and Fujoshi
Masculine Compromise
Contemporary Feminist Utopianism
Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture
The Sword or the Needle
Slice of life in a live and wired masquerade
Queer China
Releasing the pursuit of bouncin' and behavin' hair
Poetic prosumption of animation, comic, game and novel in a post-socialist China
The paradox of queer aura
The Chinese female spectatorship
Mapping the Rebel Image
Loving Boys Twice as Much
On feminist utopias
Male Myths and Icons
Desiring T, Desiring Self
Fandom, youth and consumption in China
Romancing the Internet
Media, Society, World
Gender in Hamid’s Fiction
Queer, yet never lesbian
Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
On Female Identity and Writing by Women
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |