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Sponsored by Critical Gender Studies, Literature, the 21st Century China Center, and the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UCSD

Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023)

By JIA TAN, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

https://www2.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/faculty-staff/teaching-faculty/tan-jia/

Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls “rights feminism,” or the emergence of rights consciousness in Chinese feminist formations, as well as queer activism and rights advocacy. Expanding on feminist and queer theory of masquerade, she develops the notion of “digital masquerade” to theorize the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights.

Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (U of MN Press, 2023)

By FENG-MEI HEBERER, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University

https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/cinema-studies/97348122

Does media representation advance racial justice? Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora, Asians on Demand uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media. Rather than accepting the notion that inclusion requires an uncomplicated set of appearances, the works explored in this volume spotlight a staunch resistance to formulating racial identity as an instantly accessible consumer product.

RESPONDENTS

Lisa Rofel, Professor Emerita, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=lrofel

Eve Oishi, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University

https://www.cgu.edu/people/eve-oishi/

MODERATOR

Nguyen Tan Hoang, Associate Professor of Literature & Cultural Studies, UCSD