Catching Chen Qing Ling

Catching Chén Qíng Lìng is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis dedicated to a single Chinese media franchise in the English-speaking world. This groundbreaking collection offers close readings of the transmedia adaptation, transcultural reception, and transformative works of a danmei franchise by situating it in a complicated and constantly shifting web of authorship, fandom, government censorship, media capital, and cultural flows. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in queer popular culture in China and its rising global popularity. -- Ling Yang, Xiamen University Distinguished by its cross-culturally collaborative orientation, Catching Chen Qing brings together a veritable who’s who of established and emerging scholars within the burgeoning fields of Chinese and transnational fan studies. This collection gives the 2019 Tencent web series, Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed), its full due, delving into the intricacies of its generic hybridity, Chinese cultural underpinnings, and transnational popularity in such a way that, like the show itself, what begins in seemingly byzantine complexity achieves a unique depth of clarity by the end. -- Lori Morimoto, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia