Women belting out feminist lyrics that denounce gender inequality. Teenagers in glittery dresses dancing to songs celebrating LGBTQ freedoms. The number 1989 — the most sensitive year in modern Chinese politics — displayed in huge type on the theater screen.

This was the scene at a recent showing of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour concert movie in Beijing, as the US pop juggernaut packs theaters across the Asian nation with young, female audiences.