As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in China and Hong Kong (Queer Asia Series)

Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exciting challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. The essays here showcase the work of emerging and established scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focus on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. This book is one of the first sustained collections on Chinese non-normative sexual subjectivities and contemporary sexual politics published in English. It highlights the various ways in which different individuals and communities––including male sex workers, transsexual subjects, lesbians and Indonesian migrants––negotiate with notions of normativity and modernity, fine-tuned according to the different power structures of each context, and making new and different meanings.

Yau Ching teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is the author of five books in Chinese, including Sexing Shadows A Study of Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Hong Kong Cinema (2005) and The Impossible Home (2000), and a book in English, Filming Margins Tang Shu Shuen, a Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director (2004). She has also edited Sexual Politics (2006).