Entangled Empowerment: Postfeminist Sensibility, Platform Capitalism, and Gendered Narratives in Chinese Costume Idol Dramas
Published online on May 26, 2026
Abstract
Television & New Media, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how postfeminist empowerment is mediated and reconfigured within China’s platformed media ecology, focussing on narrative design and affective mechanisms. Drawing on two female-centred Chinese costume idol dramas,A Dream of Splendor...
This article examines how postfeminist empowerment is mediated and reconfigured within China’s platformed media ecology, focussing on narrative design and affective mechanisms. Drawing on two female-centred Chinese costume idol dramas,A Dream of Splendor...