Digital Masquerade

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce the publication of my book Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (New York University Press, 2023). 

https://nyupress.org/9781479811847/digital-masquerade/

You can purchase the book through the NYU Press website and receive a 30% discount by using the promo code TAN30-FM. Please feel free to share this code. 

Jia Tan

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.

Author: Jia Tan is currently Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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