The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Digital Media
Will be published approx. on 6. October 2026
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-19-767469-7 (ISBN)
Description
With forty-four original articles by contributors from Asia, Europe, and North America and working in a variety of different disciplines, the Oxford Handbook of Chinese Digital Media offers the most comprehensive exploration to-date of the burgeoning field of Chinese digital media. Each chapter uses cutting-edge research to illustrate a different concept, principle, or methodology relevant to this interdisciplinary field, and collectively the chapters showcase some of the field's most exciting work while at the same time looking ahead to new directions the field may take in the future. While many of the chapters focus on phenomena related to mainland China, several look beyond mainland China to consider phenomena linked to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the global Chinese diaspora. Topics include digital photography, internet literature, digital games, and social media, as well digital videos, documentaries, animation, and feature films. Themes include internet censorship, internet activism, digital ethnography, and piracy. Even as it attends carefully to many of the regional, national, linguistic, and cultural specificities of different digital formations associated with the Chinese nation, the Chinese language, Chinese culture, or technologies associated with Chinese corporations, the Handbook also offers a roadmap for how one might approach the broader category of digital media itself.
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Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University, and is the founding co-director of the Humanities Research Center at Duke Kunshan University. He has authored, edited, and translated many volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas and the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures.
Yomi Braester is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Among his books are Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China (2003) and Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (2010, Joseph Levenson Book Prize ). His current research projects include a book on urban media in 21st-century China and cinephilia in the PRC, which was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jinying Li is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she teaches media theory,
animation, and digital cultures in East Asia. She co-edited two special issues on Chinese animations for The Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and a special issue on regional platforms for Asiascape: Digital Asia. Her first book, Anime's Knowledge Cultures (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), explores the connection between anime culture and global geekdom. She is currently completing her second book, Walled Media and Mediating Walls, which studies the wall as a critical dispositif to interrogate the relations between digital media and enclosure.
Yomi Braester is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Among his books are Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China (2003) and Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (2010, Joseph Levenson Book Prize ). His current research projects include a book on urban media in 21st-century China and cinephilia in the PRC, which was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jinying Li is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she teaches media theory,
animation, and digital cultures in East Asia. She co-edited two special issues on Chinese animations for The Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and a special issue on regional platforms for Asiascape: Digital Asia. Her first book, Anime's Knowledge Cultures (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), explores the connection between anime culture and global geekdom. She is currently completing her second book, Walled Media and Mediating Walls, which studies the wall as a critical dispositif to interrogate the relations between digital media and enclosure.
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