Book Talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China
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Date
26 Apr 2023
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Organiser
Sin Wai Kin Chinese Humanities Development Fund
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Time
04:00 - 05:30
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Venue
Online via Zoom
Speaker
Jia Tan
Summary
A Book Talk by Jia Tan:
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China
Abstract
Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls “rights feminism,” or the emergence of rights consciousness in Chinese feminist formations, as well as queer activism and rights advocacy. Expanding on feminist and queer theory of masquerade, she develops the notion of “digital masquerade” to theorize the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights. Drawing from interviews with various feminist and queer media practitioners, participant observation at community events, and detailed analyses of a variety of media forms such as social media, electronic journals, digital filmmaking, film festivals, and dating app videos, Jia Tan captures the feminist, queer, and rights articulations that are simultaneously disruptive of and conditioned by state censorship, technological affordances, and dominant social norms.
Keynote Speaker
Jia Tan
Associate Professor
Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jia TAN is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at Jia TAN . She received her doctoral degree in critical studies of cinema and television from the University of Southern California. She is the author of Jia TAN (New York University Press, 2023). Her research has been funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Social Science Research Council, Harold Lloyd Foundation, and so on. She is on the editorial board of Communication, Culture, and Critique, one of the journals affiliated with the International Communication Association (ICA), as well as Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
