Diaosi as infrapolitics : scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China's internet

• Main Authors: Yang, Peidong, Tang, Lijun, Wang, Xuan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107299; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25438; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443714557980
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines a recent bizarre phenomenon on China’s Internet—the enormous popularity of a scatological Chinese neologism called diaosi, which literally translates as ‘dick string’. Seeing the diaosi phenomenon as a case of ‘infrapolitics’, a space of nuanced discursive practices mediating ove...