Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader
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The Crisis of Identity and the Rise of Internal Orientalism The Crisis of Identity and the Rise of Internal Orientalism
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Minority Women and the Production of Difference Minority Women and the Production of Difference
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The Eroticized Other: Danger and Allure The Eroticized Other: Danger and Allure
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Miao Women, Ambivalence, and the Reproduction of Difference Miao Women, Ambivalence, and the Reproduction of Difference
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Minority Men and Self-objectification Minority Men and Self-objectification
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The Powers and Perils of Modernity The Powers and Perils of Modernity
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The State and the Social Order The State and the Social Order
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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Fifteen Gender and Internal Orientalism in China
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Published:07 January 2002
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Abstract
This chapter discusses gender and internal orientalism in China. It explores the ramifications of some uneven configurations in society as a means of gaining insight into China's post-Mao social order. In representations of 1980s China, minority women were fraught with contradictions. They were both othered and incorporated sources of contrast as well as identity. In popular consciousness they were objects of desire, but an ambivalent desire that was saturated with other meanings, particularly those concerning the tension between tradition and modernity. Minority men also regularly appeared in performances and images as objects of dominant consumption. However, minority women, as emblematic of the natural, the traditional, and the exotically titillating, were foregrounded in such representations, with men simply serving as a foil to highlight the women's distinctiveness and allure. It was within this complex and highly charged ideological context that minority women and men colluded in reproducing their difference.
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