Manufacturing Racialised Misogyny in China’s Digital Manosphere

Altman Yuzhu Peng, Salma El Bourkadi, Chunyan Wu, Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Department of Information Communication, University of Lille, Faculty of Social Sciences, Northeastern University London

Communication & Sport

Published online on March 28, 2026

Abstract

Communication & Sport, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the consumption of WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) games within China’s sports fandom through a dual gender-racial lens, using celebrity basketball player Caitlin Clark as a case study. Drawing on a dialectical-...