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 China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to reveal a queer China in all its ideological complexity and creative energy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780367819071
• ISBN-10: 0367819074
• Artikelnr.: 59927395

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.