Hongwei Bao

Queer China

Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in Chinaà â â s post-Mao and postsocialist era to reveal a queer China in all its ideological complexity and creative energy.

Produktdetails

• Literary Cultures of the Global South
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 233mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780367462840
• ISBN-10: 0367462842
• Artikelnr.: 59354223

Autorenporträt

Hongwei Bao is an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Queer China, Postsocialist Metamorphosis Part I. Queer
Emergence 1. Imagining Modernity: The (Re-)Emergence of Homosexuality 2.
Women Fifty Minutes: In Search of Queer Women's Spaces Part II. Queer
Becoming 3. Beijing Story: Becoming Gay in Postsocialist China 4. Pink
Affairs: Narrating Desire in A Girls' Love Fan Fiction Part III. Queer
Urban Space 5. 'New Beijing, New Marriage': Performing Same-Sex Wedding in
Central Beijing 6. The Forgotten Critical Realism: Reification of Desire
in Mu Cao's Poetry Part IV. Queer Migration 7. 'Shanghai is Burning':
Becoming Trans in a Global City 8. Life of a Butterfly: Subjectivation and
Autonomy in Xiyadie's Papercutting Art. Epilogue.