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

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2017

Author dc:creator

• Bai, Meijiadai

Contributors dc:contributor

• Valdivia, Angharad N.
• Nerone, John
• McCarthy, Cameron R.
• Chan, Anita 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

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2014 Meijiadai Bai

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/73013

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/73013