Surviving in between Neoliberalism and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Chinese Women in Negotiation with the Nation and Public Culture
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou15881722630897642021-08-03T07:14:50Z Surviving in between Neoliberalism and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Chinese Women in Negotiation with the Nation and Public Culture Li, Xiaomeng Mass Communications Mass Media China Postsocialism Neoliberalism Women Public Culture Nationalism The people’s Republic of China under President Xi Jinping’s administration has demonstrated an intense agenda of nation-building, observable through the country’s ardent participation in the global economy on the one hand, and domestic propagation of national and cultural pride on the other. While new ideologies such as “Core Socialist Values” and “Chinese Dream” are prevailing in almost every aspect of Chinese people’s daily lives, women are largely overlooked as part of the “citizens” in the official discourses even though they undertake more pressure than their male counterparts due to China’s enduring patriarchal culture and gender norms. Moreover, the mass media in China, known as the “mouthpiece” of the Communist party-state, play a crucial role in promoting both the authorities’ guiding ideologies and sustaining the stereotypes of women in the name of preserving “Chineseness.” With this observation and realization, this dissertation regards China, a country that implements “Socialism with Chinese characteristics,” as in a “postsocialist” stage, and delves into the mass media’s representations of women in the political, social, and cultural aspects to find out women’s specific positionality in today’s China.Through case studies ranging from the media coverage of China’s “first lady” and the general working-class women, to the representations of the unmarried female PhDs and women with heightened economic power, this dissertation tries to be as inclusive as possible to address the heterogeneity of Chinese women while probing two questions: first, what is the manifestation and interplay between Chinese women’s heightened agency in a postsocialist China and the mass media’s hegemonic representations of them? Second, what is the relationship between Chinese women and the Communist party-state’s construction of nationalism? It argues that although today’s Chinese women have attained a certain degree of empowerment due to the country’s development, the media and public culture have also revealed that women are continuously constrained by a regime that has a long tradition of patriarchy and gender inequalities. Thus, Chinese women are experiencing a conundrum with a partial and contradictory “postsocialist empowerment” while endeavoring to create their unconventional femininity. 2020-09-23 English text Ohio University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1588172263089764 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1588172263089764 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Surviving in between Neoliberalism and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Chinese Women in Negotiation with the Nation and Public Culture |
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Surviving in between Neoliberalism and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Chinese Women in Negotiation with the Nation and Public Culture |
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Surviving in between Neoliberalism and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Chinese Women in Negotiation with the Nation and Public Culture |
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