Yang Fan is lecturer of Cultural Creativity and Meida at Hangzhou Normal University. Her research interests are women’s cinema, feminism and sexuality on Chinese social media. Her recent publications are “Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China” and “Feminist podcasting: A new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China.”

• Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 Socialist Feminism Revisited: Socialist Feminist Cinema in Post-Socialist China 25 2 Liberal Feminism and Films about Female Subjectivity 46 3 Post-Feminism and Chick Flicks in China: Subjects, Discursive Origin and New Gender Norms 70 4 The Matrices of Female Bonding and Lesbian Sexuality: Female Homoerotic Cinema in Mainland China 92 5 “East Asian” Mother–Daughter Intimacy in Maternal Melodramas 110 Conclusion 129 Appendix 135 Index 141

Yang Fan is lecturer of Cultural Creativity and Meida at Hangzhou Normal University. Her research interests are women’s cinema, feminism and sexuality on Chinese social media. Her recent publications are “Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China” and “Feminist podcasting: A new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China.”

• Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 Socialist Feminism Revisited: Socialist Feminist Cinema in Post-Socialist China 25 2 Liberal Feminism and Films about Female Subjectivity 46 3 Post-Feminism and Chick Flicks in China: Subjects, Discursive Origin and New Gender Norms 70 4 The Matrices of Female Bonding and Lesbian Sexuality: Female Homoerotic Cinema in Mainland China 92 5 “East Asian” Mother–Daughter Intimacy in Maternal Melodramas 110 Conclusion 129 Appendix 135 Index 141

Yang Fan is lecturer of Cultural Creativity and Meida at Hangzhou Normal University. Her research interests are women’s cinema, feminism and sexuality on Chinese social media. Her recent publications are “Podcasting women’s pleasure: Feminism and sexuality in the sonic space of China” and “Feminist podcasting: A new discursive intervention on gender in Mainland China.”

• Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 Socialist Feminism Revisited: Socialist Feminist Cinema in Post-Socialist China 25 2 Liberal Feminism and Films about Female Subjectivity 46 3 Post-Feminism and Chick Flicks in China: Subjects, Discursive Origin and New Gender Norms 70 4 The Matrices of Female Bonding and Lesbian Sexuality: Female Homoerotic Cinema in Mainland China 92 5 “East Asian” Mother–Daughter Intimacy in Maternal Melodramas 110 Conclusion 129 Appendix 135 Index 141