Negotiating Womanhood in the post-socialist China: A critical discourse analysis on Chinese Women’s Rejection of Being Defined

Tianhua  Xu

doi:10.54691/dab0jk66

Authors

Tianhua Xu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/dab0jk66

Keywords:

Chinese Women, Rejection, Post-socialist China.

Abstract

This research aims to explore and analyse women’s roles defined in People’s Daily in the post-socialist China. Combining the quantitative corpus analysis with qualitative analyses using critical discourse analysis (CDA), it examines the underlying grounds of Chinese women’s rejection of these roles mediated for them in the mainstream newspaper. This research provides a micro level analysis of the presentation of women’s roles in the post-socialist China depicted in the mainstream newspaper People’s Daily, underpinning the drive behind; at the same time, a macro level empirical evidence for the reasons of Chinese women’s rejection from the gender perspective. Approaching women’s silent rejection of the roles defined by the official mouth in China is a nascent field yet to be explored.

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