Date of Award
Summer 2025
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Marc L. Moskowitz
Abstract
This study examines how Chinese male audiences reconstruct postcolonial masculinity through the consumption and reinterpretation of Japanese pornography. By analyzing commentary videos produced by "Team Strawberry," I argue that this phenomenon constitutes a symbolic revenge against Japan's historical dominance. Through degrading Japanese female performers and mocking Japanese culture and male actors, Chinese viewers invert colonial hierarchies, transforming sexual consumption into a nationalist project. However, this mimicry of colonial violence ultimately reinforces patriarchal structures rather than subverting them, while also framing nationalism through sexual conquest that mimics collective historical trauma. The re-editing and mocking of Japanese pornography by Chinese content creators functions as a form of postcolonial digital “revenge porn”—not in the conventional sense of the term, but as a form of national, masculine reassertion through the symbolic appropriation, ridicule, and devaluation of Japanese sexual media.
Rights
© 2025, Yichi Zhang
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Y.(2025). Editing Japan: Pornography Commentary as Postcolonial Revenge in China's Digital Sphere. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/8429