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Queer China : lesbian and gay literature and visual culture under postsocialism / Hongwei Bao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bao, Hongwei, author.
- Series:
- Literary Cultures of the Global South.
- Literary Cultures of the Global South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities in art.
- Sexual minorities' writings, Chinese.
- Sexual minority community.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon : Routledge India, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Series editors' preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on translation, transliteration and names
- 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 a 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
- Appendix: Queer history, culture and activism in postsocialist China: a brief chronology (1981-2019)
- Bibliography
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 9781003027898
- 100302789X
- 9781000069020
- 1000069028
- OCLC:
- 1460325314
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