Hu, Tingting;
Ge, Liang;
Chen, Ziyao;
Xia, Xu;
(2023)
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy.
International Journal of Cultural Studies
, 26
(3)
pp. 274-292.
10.1177/13678779231159424.
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Abstract
This article examines the tension between public gender expressions and official regulations in mainland China. Utilizing a critical discourse analysis, we investigate a transition in state-initiated criticism and censorship against the danmei genre and male effeminacy. Focusing on the pandemic period, we use official regulations and state media feature articles as data, ‘reticent / han-xu’ politics as a grounding theoretical basis, and statements from mainstream media platforms as secondary resources. We argue that han-xu politics functions as the Chinese party-state's strategic response to a perceived ‘crisis of masculinity’. They first invisibilize and marginalize soft masculinities, and if this is not effective, then suppress and prohibit cultural forms that violate hegemonic masculinity, which works to perpetuate the hetero-patriarchal social-familial system.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13678779231159424 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779231159424 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200880 |
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