The Visual Representation of Chinese and Thai Women in the Contemporary Media

Abstract

In recent years, the role of women has become a heated topic, dominating the trend of gender studies in many academic studies in sociology and anthropology, and the question of whether or not women have completed their role change and broken the mould of traditional styles has become one of the cultural connotations of multimedia on the Internet. As large Asian countries, China and Thailand are both growing countries in which traditional agrarian societies are gradually moving towards new technologies. This paper makes an exploration of the power and image of Chinese and Thai females in different magazines, media and films over time, including the media representation of Asian women in western countries and the local media effects. Whereas, further expansion of the definition of femininity as distinct from biological sex, in different countries, religious regions, technological means and other multifaceted individual representations, a deeper perspective on the culturally unfolding nature of gender definitions, promoting an extension of the fixed term feminine.