This article describes emerging misogynistic labels involving the morpheme biăo 'slut'as a
gendered personal suffix in the Chinese cyber lexicon. We analyze the morphological …

While the notion of hegemonic masculinity has received a lot of attention in recent
scholarship, hegemonic femininity remains largely underdeveloped. We aim to address this …

Although the phenomenon of “leftover” women and men in China has been hotly debated
over the past decade, there are few comparative studies investigating similarities and …

Although the ideology of pro-work conservatism prevails in East Asia, scholars have largely
overlooked its discursive construction in media communication from a linguistic perspective …

This article examines the tension between public gender expressions and official
regulations in mainland China. Utilizing a critical discourse analysis, we investigate a …

The government of China introduced the lexicon of “leftover women,” or sheng nu, to publicly
signify the “eligible but unmarried women between age 27 to 35” in 2010. Although it was a …

Chinese university students' promotion and performance of the feminist play The Vagina
Monologues in 2013 triggered a heated debate and a strain of misogyny in social media …

The 'niangpao'phenomenon has recently elicited heated discussion in China. However,
existing studies related to it mainly focus on the field of showbiz or personal care (cosmetics …

This article presents an analysis of the evolving representations of feminism on Weibo,
China's foremost microblogging platform, employing a corpus-based methodology. The self …

Although the Chinese media's construction of unmarried citizens as 'leftover'has incited
much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways 'leftover men'are …