More than three decades of research since reforms were launched has significantly
expanded our understanding of China's changing political landscape. In that period, new …

In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres.
This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen 修真 (immortality …

This article analyzes the Internet-based campaign for the “shanzhai” Spring Festival Gala in
connection with the rise of “digital democracy” and the burgeoning economy of grassroots …

Post-Mao marketization policies have produced complex transformations in men's
subjectivities, which, in turn, have contributed to configuring China's postsocialist modernity …

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle
without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self …

Postsocialist China is marked by paradoxes: economic boom, political conservatism, cultural
complexity. Haomin Gong's dynamic study of these paradoxes, or “unevenness,” provides a …

Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in
constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a …

K-Pop—contemporary Korean dance music—is currently becoming one of the noticeable
popular music genres in the world. It was firstly globalized in East Asian region, and recently …

Much has been made of the use of the micro-blog Twitter in political campaigning and
mobilisation. But questions have been raised about how effective the limited medium of …

In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic,
examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the epicenters of the …