China is Burning: Fashion, Bodies, and Gender in Chinese Ballrooms

随着变装时尚的发展和性别观念的开放，中国的地下舞厅越来越多。以往的研究，无论是对酷儿研究、西方变装时尚，还是中国传统的变装表演，都未能解释当代中国新兴的变装时尚。为了梳理近年来中国主要的歌舞厅的形式、特征和影响，探讨其中的性别建构、身体规训和反抗，本文将运用扎根理论，结合多民族志、深度访谈、多模态话语分析和符号学分析等方法进行研究.本研究将呈现变装文化在当代中国的发展和价值，以补充前人对中国酷儿群体和时尚的研究

With the development of drag fashion and more open-minded views on gender, there are more and moreunderground ballrooms in China. Previous studies, whether on queer studies, western drag fashion, or Chinesetraditional cross-dressing performances, have failed to explain the emerging drag fashion in contemporaryChina. In order to sort out the forms, characteristics, and impacts of major Chinese drags and ballrooms inrecent years, and explore the gender construction, body discipline, and resistance, I will use grounded theoryto conduct this study, combined with multiple ethnographies, in-depth interviews, multimodality discourseanalysis, and semiotics analysis. This study will present the development and value of drag culture incontemporary China to complement previous studies about Chinese queer communities and fashion