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Desiring China : experiments in neoliberalism, sexuality, and public culture / Lisa Rofel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Perverse modernities.
Perverse modernities
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex--Social aspects--China.
Sex.
Popular culture--China.
Popular culture.
Culture and globalization--China.
Culture and globalization.
Cosmopolitanism--China.
Cosmopolitanism.
Post-communism--China.
Post-communism.
Neoliberalism--China.
Neoliberalism.
National characteristics, Chinese.
China--Social conditions--2000-.
China.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (263 pages)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An ethnography of gender, sexuality, and consumption in post-socialist China.
Contents:
Introduction
Yearnings : televisual love and melodramatic politics
Museum as women's space : displays of gender
Qualities of desire : imagining gay identities
From sacrifice to desire : cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics
Legislating desire : homosexuality, intellectual property rights, and consumer fraud
Desiring China : China's entry into the WTO
Coda.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.
ISBN:
9786612923272
9781282923270
1282923277
9780822389903
0822389908
OCLC:
654239084

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