@inbook{6a0db602e38c4733a672d4d8aa4c52b5,
title = "Production of Consumption, Consumption of Production: Readers Empowered, Authors Enabled and Digital Prosumption Facilitated in the Landscape of Popular Literature in China.",
abstract = "This paper analyzes gender performativity in the form of cross-dressing cuteness through cosplaying by a popular male-cosplaying-female fan group “Ailisi Weiniang Tuan (Alice Cos Group)” based in China. Drawing from cute studies, gender/queer studies, and fan studies, this paper examines the phenomenon of fake girls as a venue of redefining the boundaries of identity and gender using cosplaying and the notion of cuteness to achieve queerness to address the issue of gender performativity through queered cuteness in today{\textquoteright}s China.",
keywords = "Book Culture, China, Internet Literature",
author = "Shih-Chen Chao",
year = "2016",
month = dec,
language = "English",
isbn = "9783447107280",
series = "Kodex: Jahrbuch de International Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft",
publisher = "Harrassowitz ",
pages = "225--247",
editor = "Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella",
booktitle = "Kodex 6: Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016",
address = "Germany",
}