Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies

ISBN-13: 9781560231547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str.

Chou Wah-Shan; Huashan Zhou

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This book describes in detail the evolution of homosexual life and culture in various Chinese societies including Hong Kong and Taiwan. Deriving from the communist term for 'comrade', Tonghzi is the most popular contemporary Chinese word for lesbians, bisexuals, and gay people. But terms such as gay, lesbian, and queer are Anglo-Saxon in origin, with specific histories that do not exactly capture the indigenous features of Chinese same-sex relations. Tonghzi implies and includes much more. S/Mers, transvestites, fetishists, and members of the Chinese sexual counterculture who may be quite heterosexual are also tonghzi since the term not only embodie the sexual (legitimising same-sex love), it also denotes the political (sharing the goals of combating heterosexism) and the cultural (reappropriating a Chinese identity).

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Contents

• Introduction: Cultural Politics of Tongzhi
• Section I: The Cultural Construction of Chinese Same-Sex Eroticism
• Chapter 1: A World Without Homo/Hetero Duality: Rewriting the Traditional Chinese History of Same-Sex Eroticism
• The Chinese Conception of Sexuality
• Compatibility Between Heterosexual Marriages and Same-Sex Eroticism
• Chinese Tolerance of Same-Sex Eroticism in the Patriarchal-Classist Hierarchy
• Modernity and the Death of Cultural Tolerance of Same-Sex Eroticism
• Section II: Diversities and Differences Among Contemporary Chinese Societies
• Chapter 2: Colonialism and the Birth of Sexual Identity Politics in Hong Kong
• The Legal Discourse of Homosexuality Under British Colonialism
• From the MacLennan Incident (1980) to Decriminalization (1991)
• The Creation of a New Social-Sexual Subject: The Hong Kong Chinese Gay/Tongzhi
• Classism and the Cultural Construction of Tongzhi
• Chapter 3: Tongzhi Discourses in Contemporary China
• The Absence of Homosexuals, Bisexuals, or Heterosexuals
• Why Are Contemporary Mainland Chinese Suffering the Most?
• Legal Discourse and Medicalization
• Individual Strategies of Tongzhi Empowerment
• Collective Strategies of Tongzhi Empowerment
• Chapter 4: Going Beyond “Cultural Carnival Versus Political Confrontation”: Pluralities of Contemporary Taiwan Tongzhi Discourses
• Formation of Tongxinglian Consciousness and Community Before 1990
• Feminism and the Formation of the Tongzhi Movement
• Resistance Through Cultural Carnivals
• Confrontational Politics and Beyond
• Section III: Gender, Race, and Tongzhi Politics in Hong Kong
• Chapter 5: When Potato Queens Meet Rice Queens: Racial-Sexual Dynamics in Colonial Hong Kong
• Sexual-Racial Politics in Personal Ads
• Rice and Potato Queens in the 1970s
• Language, Food, and Sex
• Tongzhi Strategies of Resistance
• Chapter 6: Cultural Politics of TB/B (Tomboy/Tomgirl) in Hong Kong
• Nü Tongzhi in the 1960s and 1970s
• Identity Formation of TB/Gs in the 1990s
• TB: The Sexual Politics of Breast Binding
• Differences and Similarities Among TBGs
• Westernized Feminist Nü Tongzhi Verses Local Role-Playing TB/Gs
• Section 4: Indigenous Tongzhi Strategies of Resistance
• Chapter 7: From Coming Out to Coming Home
• Coming Out in the Chinese Context
• Redefining the Cultural Boundaries of “Out” and “Closet”
• Tongzhi Experiences of Coming Home
• Why the Legal Discourses of Rights Are Not Sufficient
• Chapter 8: Tongzhi Identity Politics as Queering the Mainstream
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Edmond J Coleman