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"Chinese Top, British Bottom": Becoming a Gay Male Internet Celebrity in China

Zhou, Oscar Tianyang (2019) "Chinese Top, British Bottom": Becoming a Gay Male Internet Celebrity in China. In: EGUCHI, S. and CALAFELL, B., eds. Queer Intercultural Communication: The Intersectional Politics of Belonging in and across Differences. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 79-95. ISBN 978-1-5381-2140-5. E-ISBN 978-1-5381-2142-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:97632)

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Abstract

In 2012, a viral online video titled The Josh & Eddie Show—Ep13—20 Days to Go offered the world an intimate window into the wedding of a Chinese–Caucasian gay male couple, Ye Fan and Josh Taylor (RMIUC and J.T.). They soon became the most successful of China’s gay Internet celebrities, with legions of fans both within and outside of China. In contrast to the long-lasting “dominant White top versus submissive Chinese bottom” cultural stereotypes, the couple have been framed as zhongguo xiaogong—yingguo xiaoshou (“Chinese top, British bottom”) across social media platforms. This study investigates the discursive construction of RMIUC and J.T. as a “role-inverted” interracial gay male couple to answer the call for queer(y)ing intercultural communication studies (e.g., Chávez, 2013; Eguchi, 2015; Eguchi & Asante, 2016; Yep, 2013).

Item Type: Book section
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Oscar Zhou
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2022 21:03 UTC
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 14:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/97632 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Zhou, Oscar Tianyang.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-9351
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