ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses of gender and the media within Chinese studies, providing a theoretical foundation and epistemological localization for the uses of gender and the media in this particular field, hinting at some of the narrative turns that Chinese studies discourse has taken with regard to both gender and the media. She deals with a brief and (self-)critical discussion on the challenges and limitations of studying gender and the media within her own field and through the transcultural lens, elaborating on a multidisciplinary reading practice, something she have called ‘reading-in-conjunction’. The author discusses the possibilities opened for the field of media studies and gender in the handling of these dauntingly multifarious sources by making use of digital media and tools. She outlines few reflections on how reconsidering our narrations of gender and the media can be one way of rethinking historical narration on a larger scale to arrive at something one might call ‘history-in-common’.
