[Commlist] new book: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

Jia TAN is happy to announce the publication of the book /Digital 
Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China/ (New York 
University Press, 
2023).https://nyupress.org/9781479811847/digital-masquerade/ 
<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.



/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. She can be reached at (jiatan /at/ cuhk.edu.hk) 
<mailto:(jiatan /at/ cuhk.edu.hk)>

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