The Construction and Application of the Chinese Contextual Internet Buzzword “Male Virtuousness”

A Study of Cyber Feminist Discourse Symbols

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.474How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cyberfeminism; male virtuousness; Chinese feminism

Abstract

In recent years, courses focusing on Confucian principles have spread across China, once again bringing Confucian teaching for women back to the classroom as a classic. Such education calls for women to return to the home. Meanwhile, in today’s Chinese society, where women play an important role in the public sphere, such ideas have provoked a revolt from feminists. By constructing a discourse of male virtuousness, feminists have made society aware of the fallacies of female virtuousness and reclaimed their discourse in subverting the male-centered discourse order. This paper takes the Internet buzzword “male virtuousness” as an example to explain the construction and application of feminism discourse through new media platforms, with critique and discussion of such symbol at the end.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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AU  - Xinyu Fei
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TI  - The Construction and Application of the Chinese Contextual Internet Buzzword “Male Virtuousness”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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