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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Narrow Dwelling: Extra-marital Sex and the City

Author : Wing Shan Ho

Published in: Screening Post-1989 China

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Despite the fact that SARFT once rigidly warned against “unhealthy” sexual depictions and promoted sanitization of the screen, the ban on sexual material proved transient. In fact, TV dramas depicting extra-marital affairs and sexual openness reappeared not long after SARFT’s campaign. One such drama, Woju or Narrow Dwelling, was even labeled as “the most obscene TV drama in history” and was criticized for bringing negative influences to society.1 Its Chinese title, Woju, literally “snail dwelling,” even became one of the most popular terms in 2009 mainstream media.2Woju as a verb means to inhabit a narrow dwelling; as a noun, it is the name for the narrow dwelling itself.

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Metadata
Title
Narrow Dwelling: Extra-marital Sex and the City
Author
Wing Shan Ho
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Book
Screening Post-1989 China

Print ISBN: 978-1-349-50646-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-51470-7

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514707_5