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Co-constructing a gender-state entanglement in canonical Three Kingdoms fandom : a discourse-historical approach
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Peng, Altman Yuzhu, Liu, Fengshu and Chen, Zhen Troy (2023) Co-constructing a gender-state entanglement in canonical Three Kingdoms fandom : a discourse-historical approach. Asian Studies Review . doi:10.1080/10357823.2023.2245130 ISSN 1035-7823. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2023.2245130
Abstract
Adopting a discourse-historical approach (DHA), we analyse how male influencers and their followers co-construct a gender–state entanglement through social-mediated discussions about a mythologised historical figure, Zhuge Liang, on Bilibili. The analysis discovers that the historical figure is portrayed as a wen–wu masculinity archetype, whose imaginary is modified against current socio-cultural trends and intertextually linked to China’s nation-building project. The masculinist valorisation of the historical figure of Zhuge reiterates the male takeover of nationalist politics as a defining feature of popular cultural production and consumption in post-reform China. The study makes a meaningful contribution to scholarship about Three Kingdoms fandom by showing how past memories and present events converge in Chinese-language social-mediated communication, where heteronormative visions and worldviews are consistently overrepresented.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Asian Studies Review | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1035-7823 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1080/10357823.2023.2245130 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||||
Re-use Statement: | This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Asian Studies Review on 20 August 2023, available at: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2245130 | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 August 2023 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 September 2023 | ||||||||||
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