This paper examines the popularity of caricatures of Qi in modern China and
applies an approach of “medium/body” to understand the visuality and fluidity of
Qi in caricatures. Based on the analysis of the appearance of and transition between
“male space” and “affective space” constructed by Qi caricatures, I argue that these
caricatures not only echo and respond to the resistance discourses in different
stages, but also indicate a dialectic relationship between medium and body: while
the caricatures enter the media system by means of body representation thus
limited by its content and form, they actually participate in the construction of the
network of media culture as a result of their open and fluid nature as well as the
capacity to produce and develop media relationship.