Queer China av Hongwei Bao

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<p>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 show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only function as context-specific and culturally sensitive forms of social activism but also produce distinct types of gender and sexual subjectivities unique to China''s postsocialist conditions. </p><p>From poetry to papercutting art, from ''comrade/gay literature'' to girls'' love fan fiction, from lesbian films to activist documentaries, and from a drag show in Shanghai to a public performance of a same-sex wedding in Beijing, the book reveals a queer China in all its ideological complexity and creative energy. Empirically rich and methodologically eclectic, <i>Queer China</i> skilfully weaves together historical and archival research, textual and discourse analysis, along with interviews and