英文摘要 |
The first nurturing idol variety show in China, Creation 101, was launched in 2018. The show was labelled as an ''Idol Girl Group Competitive Reality Show'' and quickly gained widespread attention after its broadcast. By employing feminist critical discourse analysis as a method and with feminism and neoliberal theories as a basis of analysis, this paper explores the flowing ideology and the power structure behind the aforementioned program and infers the current feminist development in China. This study draws the following conclusions. First, the program presents a localized femininity with a pursuit of personality, in combination of traditional Chinese and modern popular culture. Which means that the Western privileges under post-colonialism have failed in China, and that the localized gender subjective consciousness of the Chinese female is beginning to rise. Second, the female has a ''wrested power'' in breaking stereotypes, establishing subjectivity and participating in the public domain, implying that China seems to have entered the post-feminist era. Nonetheless, female characters in the show are still presented as 'charming girls,' resembling sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Thus, the male hegemony still exists, only it has transformed into a form of self-materialization among women, continuing to dominate and control the female. Third and finally, due to the rise of the feminist movement, today's patriarchy is more fragmented than it was before. It has intersected with other forms of power in society and still plays an invisible but destructive role contemporarily. |