A new sub-culture, “Rotten Culture (腐文化) ”, evolved from Japanese Boys’ Love (BL) manga, has rapidly spread in China and dramatically influenced many areas of Chinese artistic creation. “Rotten Culture” is an extension of Boys’ Love, which indicates that Boys’ Love elements not only existed in manga, but emerged in anime, movies, TV series, and so on. As a start of an analysis of this phenomenon, this thesis will focus on the core of “Rotten Culture”, Boys’ Love, which exists in Chinese manga and web fiction. The central issues addressed by this thesis are: exploring the circulation of Boys’ Love from Japan to China; examining the aesthetics and themes of some of these works; and analyzing the motivations that explain why such a huge amount of people, both professional and non-professional, have joined in creating Boys’ Love art works. / Graduate

In this research I address the phenomenon of female fans’ fascination with online boys’ love fiction in China, and the discussion centers on the questions of why these women are interested in the boys’ love theme, why they prefer boys’ love to traditional heterosexual romance, and how they define and identify with male–male relationships in the boys’ love fiction. Through focusing research on a popular Chinese online-fiction website for women (www.jjwxc.net), I use historical review, online observations, and content analysis of online boys’ love fiction to collect data on my research questions. Understanding female fans’ expectation of and attitudes towards love and romance and analyzing the content of boys’ love fiction allow for a comprehension of the interactions of gender, sexuality, identity, and culture in shaping these women’s practice and choice of boys’ love genre in China. / text

色情不只是男性的專利，女性非但有權享受色情，近年來，更發展出一種專為女性打造的特殊色情類型：男性愛（boys' love）作品中具有明顯的性器官暴露或性行為描述之內容者，本研究稱之為「女性色情」。在女性色情中，觀看主體和慾望客體的性別位置受到翻轉，展現長久以來遭受壓抑和漠視的女性情慾。研究從Butler的「言說暴動」（insurrectionary speech）概念切入，探討女性色情是否隱含顛覆父權體制下性別權力結構的另類論述，重新詮釋女性色情背後所具有的社會意涵。 在對女性色情遊戲文本進行敘事分析，並對女性閱聽人展開深度訪談後，研究結果發現：遊戲文本倒置性別觀看位置，將男性身體予以性感化和客體化，且具有超脫異性戀鐵則的情慾思維；女性閱聽人則從其中獲得逃逸和想像的歡愉，一方面逃離現實性別權力結構的壓迫，一方面從性別權力的倒置中重獲觀看權力，以女性的主動觀看，對男性進行性感化想像。此外，她們亦在實踐中展現情慾能動性，並對父權異性戀宰制性意識形態進行反思，開放情慾態度，反對對性別弱勢的歧視。 / This article defines "women's porn" as the productions which depict genitals or sexualities explicitly in the genre of boys' love, and focus on realizing whether women's porn has a metaphor for alternative discourse of subverting the structure of gender authority in a patriarchal society. The article draws from Butler's notion of "insurrectionary speech" theoretically, and uses narrative analysis and in-depth interviews to study the discourse in a game of women's porn and the reception of female audiences. The study findings are as follows: First, the game text breaks heterosexual rules by sexing maleness body and overturning traditional viewing position. Second, female audiences get their pleasures from two major parts through the reading experiences: Escaping and imaging. That is, evading from the oppression of gender authority in daily life, and put maleness body in a sexing way by viewing actively which empower them to claim their rights of viewing. Besides, they also reveal their agency in sexuality practices, reflect on dominant ideology of patriarchy-heterosexuality, and open their mind toward multiple gender-sexuality practices which differ from mainstream.