As Normal as Possible - Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Ching Yau
ISBN 10: 9622099874 ISBN 13: 9789622099876
Published by Hong Kong University Press, HK, 2010
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In what ways does normativity produce possibilities and limitations for contemporary Chinese sexualities? What are the strategies of queer representation circulating in non-mainstream cultures in Hong Kong and China? The authors of the nine original and innovative essays presented here take a fresh look on Chinese sexuality's complexities. Seller Inventory # LU-9789622099876
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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.
About the Author: 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).
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Title: As Normal as Possible - Negotiating ...
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, HK
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New