Why do women write? Exploring women's empowerment through online literature creation in China

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-07 DOI:10.1177/13678779231172214

Huang Yunyi

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Abstract

As a crucial part of the booming Chinese cultural creative industries, online literature has stood out for its great economic benefit and broad social influence in recent decades. The prospering of online literature in China owes a great deal to the rise of Chinese women as writers in this huge industrial chain. This study explores the initiatives and implications of women's online literature creation in China under the framework of women's empowerment. Drawing on data collected through digital ethnography and semi-structured interviews, it mainly addresses whether online literature creation empowers Chinese women in the digital era. Overall, I conclude that online literature creation might dynamically empower women as writers at both individual and collective levels in both material and non-material forms, yet such creation is still faced with serious challenges stemming from the precarity of the platform economy, the prevalence of patriarchal values, and the rigor of nation-state censorship in contemporary China.

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女人为什么要写作?探索中国网络文学创作中的女性赋权

作为蓬勃发展的中国文化创意产业的重要组成部分，近几十年来，网络文学以其巨大的经济效益和广泛的社会影响脱颖而出。中国网络文学的繁荣在很大程度上归功于中国女性作家在这一巨大产业链中的崛起。本研究探讨女性赋权框架下中国女性网络文学创作的主动与启示。利用通过数字人种学和半结构化访谈收集的数据，主要探讨网络文学创作是否赋予了数字时代的中国女性权力。总的来说，我的结论是，网络文学创作可能会在物质和非物质形式的个人和集体层面上动态地赋予女性作家权力，但这种创作仍然面临着来自平台经济的不稳定性、父权价值观的盛行以及当代中国民族国家审查的严格性的严峻挑战。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.