Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture

By Dorothy Wai Sim Lau

Book Overview

As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474430341
• ISBN13: 9781474430340
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"