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Jian Xu is Associate Professor in Communication, Deakin University, Australia. He researches Chinese digital media and celebrity studies using critical approaches. He is Editor-in-Chief of Communication Research and Practice, official journal of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA). He is the Series Editor of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies with Bloomsbury Academic.

Dino Ge Zhang is a media anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His current research primarily focuses on socio-technical, aesthetic and affective dimensions of contemporary internet cultures/arts in the Sinophone world. He is the Founding Editor of the Bureau of Low Theory, a web database dedicated to internet culture and underground theory from China.

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This book utilizes empirically rich case studies explore the nature, regulation and evolution of internet cultural products, vernacular internet cultures and subcultural online communities which have been deemed 'vulgar' by the Chinese state, official media and policy documents.

Inhalt

1. (Introduction): Judgement of ugliness: The politics of 'anti-vulgarity' in China's media and cultural governance Part I: Internet Cultural Products 2. Messy realities and power secrecy: Contested and persistent presences of vulgarities in the governance of Chinese web novels 3. Legitimising musical taste: 'Vulgar internet songs' from 'Mice loves rice' to PG-One 4. Boy's love as 'vulgar' culture? The discourse of anti-boys' love and the cis-heteronormative governance against BL-adapted web dramas in China 5. Vulgar spirits of games and play from state to society: An alternative history of videogames in China Part II: Vernacular Internet Cultures 6. 'Toxic Chicken Soup' as a genre: The dialectics of hope and its governance on We Media 7. Ball-ache, dick hair and serial cunt words: The role of vulgarity in Chinese internet language 8. Negativity as vulgar? The rise of self-mockery culture and its governance 9. In search of the opposite of the canonical: eGao Red Classics and its regulation Part III: Subcultural Online Communities 10. Vulgarising a subaltern taste on Chinese social media: The rise and fall of hanmai rap and social shake dance 11. Eroticised internet celebrity and vulgarity in China: The case of Aoi Sola 12. 'Chasing idols in a rational way': Governing toxic 'fan circle' culture in China