Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism

ISBN-13: 9780367462840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 214 str.

Hongwei Bao

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.