{"id":9378,"date":"2022-11-23T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2022-11-23T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:36:33","slug":"the-chinese-governments-unlikeliest-standoff-is-with-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9378","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese government\u2019s unlikeliest standoff is with \u2026 fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In 2016..China formally banned K-pop<\/a>…The ban, ironically, turned many former K-pop stars back into Chinese celebrities whose K-pop influence is still being felt.”
…
“The K-pop ban both is and isn\u2019t<\/a> about Korea. It began as a response to a US-Korea missile deal<\/a>, but really embodied disapproval of three things the Chinese government perceived as tied to K-pop culture: the encroaching influence<\/a> of US individualism, over-zealous fanbases, and effeminate men.
That last one is a major part of the K-pop ban, which forbids men from wearing earrings and excessive makeup on live TV.”
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“Dan Chen<\/a> researches authoritarian politics at the University of Richmond. She told Vox that the CCP\u2019s fixation on masculinity is a recent byproduct of Xi\u2019s growing nationalism \u2014 because \u201cnationalism is a very masculine ideology.\u201d Framing foreign influences like K-pop as anti-masculine plays right into Xi\u2019s narrative of an idealized China that\u2019s strong physically as well as economically and politically. Toward this end, the government has worked to eradicate effeminacy in schoolchildren<\/a> and promoted images<\/a> of strong, muscular soldiers as the masculine ideal.”
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/23404571\/china-vs-fandom-danmei-censorship-qinglang-social-media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In 2016..China formally banned K-pop…The ban, ironically, turned many former K-pop stars back into Chinese celebrities whose K-pop influence is still being felt.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The K-pop ban both is and isn\u2019t about Korea. It began as a response to a US-Korea missile deal, but really embodied disapproval of three things the Chinese government perceived as tied to K-pop culture: the encroaching influence of US individualism, over-zealous fanbases, and effeminate men.<\/p>\n

That last one is a major part of the K-pop ban, which forbids men from wearing earrings and excessive makeup on live TV.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Dan Chen researches authoritarian politics at the University of Richmond. She told Vox that the CCP\u2019s fixation on masculinity is a recent byproduct of Xi\u2019s growing nationalism \u2014 because \u201cnationalism is a very masculine ideology.\u201d Framing foreign influences like K-pop as anti-masculine plays right into Xi\u2019s narrative of an idealized China that\u2019s strong physically as well as economically and politically. Toward this end, the government has worked to eradicate effeminacy in schoolchildren and promoted images of strong, muscular soldiers as the masculine ideal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,321,800,89,660,1361,1359],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-china","tag-dictatorship","tag-entertainment","tag-kpop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}