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Soap Opera in China: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 40, Number 1, Fall 2000
- pp. 25-47
- 10.1353/cj.2000.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines Chinese television drama in the 1990s. It focuses on soap operas involving transnational romances between Chinese men and Russian and American women. The construction of Chinese masculinity through the foreign woman has become a new way of imagining national identity in the age of globalization.