Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture

Download or read book Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture written by Lau Dorothy Wai Sim Lau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.