"Let's Go, Baby Forklift!": Fandom Governance and the Political Power of Cuteness in China
<jats:p> This article describes how the Chinese state borrows from the culture of celebrity fandom to implement a novel strategy of governing that we term "fandom governance." We illustrate how state-run social media employed fandom governance early in the COVID-19 pandemic when the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications,
2022-08-10T14:31:50Z.
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| Online Access: | Get fulltext |