Takes an autotheoretical approach to critiquing the propaganda embedded in millennial Chinese pop culture, particularly TV dramas, films, and web novels, from both within and outside China.

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of over a dozen books, including The Tao of S: America's Chinee & the Chinese Century in Literature and Film, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora, and The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity.