Queer Marxism in Two Chinas - Softcover

Liu, Petrus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822360047 ISBN 13: 9780822360049

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.

 

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About the Author

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822360047
• ISBN 13: 9780822360049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256