ABSTRACT
Gender and race are key determinants of social agents’ cultural and symbolic capital and thus can influence their positions in the field. How agents are represented on the media creates a symbolic order that promotes/constrains certain dispositions and practices and results in gendered and racialised divides within society. For Bourdieu, the development of a gendered and racialised habitus is the result of an internalisation of external social practices that position women/Asians as different from men/Westerners. Media representations contribute to the embodiment or internalisation of cultural norms that constructs gendered and racialised relations of domination. This chapter draws on data sources from the social media and explores how Chinese bodies are represented in gendered and racialised ways that have helped construct the current public pedagogical landscape.
