Love on the Finish Line: A Gendered Chinese Dream in "Women Dating Younger Men" Web Romance.
This article examines the emergence of Women Dating Younger Men (WDYM) as a subgenre of Chinese web romance, contextualizing it against the socio-political backdrop of the Chinese Dream. The study analyzes two representative WDYM novels, Mr. Little by Yao Chunbing and Blazing Tracks by Twentine, to...
| Publicado en: | Chinese Literature & Thought Today Vol. 55; no. 3/4; pp. 26 - 46 |
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2024
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