Queer Resistance : Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Queer Resistance examines transformations in intimate lives in post-socialist China through the experiences and resistance of LGBTQ+ people. Drawing on ten years of research conducted between 2015 and 2025, and one of the largest qualitative datasets of its kind, Susanne Y.P. Choi traces the weakening of the state-society-family alliance and its capacity to enforce Confucian and heteronormative ideals, and shows how LGBTQ+ people build communities amid intensified state crackdowns, develop new forms of personhood that subvert collectivist frameworks, and renegotiate intergenerational contracts. They navigate sexual possibilities opened up by marketization and digitalization while confronting hierarchies of desirability structured by class inequality and gender norms. The book demonstrates that younger Chinese people's efforts to resist traditional obligations and pursue nonnormative life projects are relational, partial, and intersectional, shaped through encounters with changing configurations of power and inequality at the intersection of global forces and local histories.

Contents:

Front cover

Luminos page

Half title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

Abbreviations

Glossary

Introduction: LGBTQ+ Life Stories

Chapter 1 - State Governance and Public Opinions

Chapter 2 - Changing Social Landscapes

Chapter 3 - Solidarity and Hierarchies

Chapter 4 - New Chinese Queer Personhood

Chapter 5 - Pursuing Love

Chapter 6 - Care and Coming Out to Parents

Chapter 7 - Contesting Marriage

Conclusion: Reflection on Power and Queer Resistance

Appendix: Method, Data, and Research Ethics

Notes

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping Queer Resistance

ISBN:

9780520413801

OCLC:

1602627781