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A Socialist Superwoman for the New Era

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Wang, Yingzi, Mihelj, Sabina·2019·Feminist Media Histories
DOI 10.1525/fmh.2019.5.3.36
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This paper examines changing representations of women in Chinese television dramas since the early 1990s and interprets them within a framework of global socialist media cultures, considering both domestic developments and transnational trends. Drawing on the analysis of three selected dramas, it traces the trajectory of televised femininity from exemplary socialist worker-citizens devoted to family and community, to more individualized middle-class urbanites. It is tempting to see this transformation as an outcome of China's integration into the global capitalist economy, the attendant retreat of the party-state from the private realm, and the infusion of Western cultural gender ideals. Yet this interpretation downplays important continuities, and misses intriguing parallels with TV dramas produced in socialist Eastern Europe. The argument pays particular attention to the enduring appeal of the socialist-style superwoman who shoulders the double burden of a professional career and unpaid domestic work while also acting as a discerning citizen-consumer.

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  1. Jintang Pan, “Jingji zhuangui zhong de zhongguo nüxing jiuye yu shehui baozhang” [Chinese women's employment and social security in the economic transition], Guanli shijie [Management world] 7 (2002): 59–68.
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  5. The National Radio and Television Administration, formerly known as the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (1998–2013), and then reorganized as State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013–2018), is currently the main governing body of the Chinese television sector. It falls under the direct supervision of the State Council and the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department.
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  9. For example, Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger, Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

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Authors
Wang, Y., & Mihelj, S.
ORCID
Venue
Feminist Media Histories
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2019
Volume
5
Issue
3
Pages
36-59
ISSN
2373-7492 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1525/fmh.2019.5.3.36
OpenAlex
W2952248003
Cited by
11
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2
FWCI
0.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
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  • Feminist Media Histories (publishedVersion)
  • Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
Keywords
Chinese television drama, representation of women, transnational media, gender ideals

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