Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media

Bai, Meijiadai

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Title

Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media

Author(s)

Bai, Meijiadai

Issue Date

2015-01-21

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Valdivia, Angharad N.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Valdivia, Angharad N.

Committee Member(s)

• Nerone, John
• McCarthy, Cameron R.
• Chan, Anita S.

Department of Study

Inst of Communications Rsch

Discipline

Communications

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Media regulation
• Media Censorship
• Discursive Regulation
• Private Topics in Public
• Regulation of Sexual Content
• Representation of Sexuality
• If You Are the One
• Feichengwurao
• Dwelling Narrowness
• Woju
• Lost in Beijing
• Pingguo

Abstract

This dissertation explores the regulation of sex-related popular media text in contemporary China, across the expected lifespan of procreative heterosexual marriage. The three case studies encompass regulation of television programming, television drama, and film. The regulative actions vary from public notices to official prohibition of the media text. Following the Foucauldian tradition of studying media regulation, and borrowing from feminist, queer and class studies, this dissertation records the contradiction-rifle contemporary history of media regulation in post-socialist, neoliberal China. Under what appear to be conservative, theocratic-like regulations, I argue that nationalism, the Party’s localized socialist ideology, and hetero-patriarchy are intertwined to secure a legitimized but under-supervised party-state governance. However, it is through these very prohibitions that a space for text about women’s gender consciousness has opened.

Graduation Semester

2014-12

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