Desiring China - Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Rofel Klappentext An ethnography of gender, sexuality, and consumption in post-socialist China. Zusammenfassung Argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent! piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist! neo-liberal-dominated world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Yearnings: Televisual Love and Melodramatic Politics 31 2.  Museum as Women’s Space: Displays of Gender 65 3.  Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities 85 4.  From Sacrifice to Desire: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics 111 5.  Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud 135 6.  Desiring China: China’s Entry into the WTO 157 Coda 197 Notes 205 Works Cited 229 Index 247

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Rofel
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2007
• EAN: 9780822339359
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3935-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology