Pornography, Ideology, and the Internet: A Japanese Adult Video Actress in Mainland China

by Zhang Mei

Overview

This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turn reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498560887
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	10/22/2018
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Zhang Mei is assistant professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Sola in Japan: An “Ordinary” Girl and “Unordinary” Idol 2. Sola as a Weapon of Resistance for Chinese Internet Users 3. Two Chinese Agencies Repositioning Sola 4. A Case of Promotion: Negotiation between Commercial News Portals and the Two Agencies 5. Sola’s Image Transformation: Becoming a Site of Contestation 6. Sola’s Image Transformation and Chinese Youth’s Identity 7. Sola Going Back to Japan as “the Most Famous Japanese in China” Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

This is an interesting study in which the author treats a pornographic celebrity as a cultural product. Mei Zhang examines the constant push and pull among the efforts of different agents to reimagine the celebrity in China, with unpredictable consequences.

Robert Guang Tian

An entertaining study with serious research methods, this book is a useful reading of ‘the Aoi Sola phenomenon’ as subculture.

Junchao Wang

Mei Zhang examines an untrodden field—the consumption of Japanese pornographic icons by Chinese internet users as a ‘safe’ weapon of expressing resistance and as a symbol of aspiration.

Takeshi Tanikawa