Queer China - Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Dr Hongwei Bao is a queer East Asian scholar, writer and poet. He works closely with queer and Asian communities in the UK and internationally to raise awareness of issues of identity, community, rights and social justice. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge, 2022). His flash fiction won the Second Prize for the Plaza Prizes for Microfiction in 2023. His poetry collections include The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press 2024) and Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (Big White Shed Press 2024).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hongwei Bao, Bao Hongwei
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367819071
• ISBN: 978-0-367-81907-1
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Literary Cultures of the Global South
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Gay & Lesbian studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics