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Book Chapter: All Dogs Deserve to be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas
Title | All Dogs Deserve to be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Citation | All Dogs Deserve to be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas. In Louie, Kam (Ed.), Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men, p. 204-219. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The interconnection between nationalism and masculinity in Chinese popular culture has attracted scholarly attention in recent years (Song 2010; Song and Hird 2014). Nationalist sentiments and the images of national heroes in the Chinese media have increasingly become distinctly Chinese characteristics of masculinity in the global age. Perhaps the most conspicuous examples can be found in TV dramas (dianshi lianxuju), an overwhelmingly popular and influential form of entertainment in contemporary China. This chapter discusses the centrality of nationalism in the televisual construction of masculinity in post-socialist China, with a particular focus on a 70-episode drama series entitled The Dog-beating Staff (Dagou gun), a nationwide smash hit in 2013, and explores how television represents a “happy marriage” between the state’s agenda and popular social desire through representations of nationalism and masculinity. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215953 |
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dc.contributor.author | Song, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:45:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:45:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | All Dogs Deserve to be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas. In Louie, Kam (Ed.), Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men, p. 204-219. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789888208562 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215953 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The interconnection between nationalism and masculinity in Chinese popular culture has attracted scholarly attention in recent years (Song 2010; Song and Hird 2014). Nationalist sentiments and the images of national heroes in the Chinese media have increasingly become distinctly Chinese characteristics of masculinity in the global age. Perhaps the most conspicuous examples can be found in TV dramas (dianshi lianxuju), an overwhelmingly popular and influential form of entertainment in contemporary China. This chapter discusses the centrality of nationalism in the televisual construction of masculinity in post-socialist China, with a particular focus on a 70-episode drama series entitled The Dog-beating Staff (Dagou gun), a nationwide smash hit in 2013, and explores how television represents a “happy marriage” between the state’s agenda and popular social desire through representations of nationalism and masculinity. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Hong Kong University Press | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men | - |
dc.title | All Dogs Deserve to be Beaten: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in Chinese TV Dramas | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Song, G: gsong@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Song, G=rp01648 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 246061 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 204 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 219 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |