Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys’ love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.
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Introduction: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma)
PART I. TRANS FORMATION
1.Becoming Trans and Already Trans: The Temporality of Trans-Femininity in Late Imperial Chinese Homoerotic Literature (Aixia Huang)
2.‘An Ideal Woman’: Cross-Dressing and Male Homoerotic Desire in Modern Chinese Literature (Dylan K. Wang)
3.Translating the Life of Jin Xing as a Transgender Woman (Yahia Ma)
PART II. QUEER WOMEN’S SPACES
4.Female Same-Sex Love in the Chinese Enlightenment: Lesbian Fiction by Three Women Writers, 1923-1928 (Yixin Liu)
5.Obscure Utopia: Lesbian Continuum in Wang Anyi’s The Brothers (1989) (Hamada Maya)
6.Perverse Lesbianism: BDSM, Rape and Incest in Cyber Chinese Girls’ Love Fanfics (Jamie J. Zhao)
PART III. QUEER INTERSECTIONALITY
7.Troubling Others: Gay Aussie Men in 1990s Sinophone Fiction (Josh Stenberg)
8.Living in/with Ambiguity: Passing in Mu Cao’s In the Face of Death We Are All Equal (Rebecca Ehrenwirth)
9.Chen Xue’s Rags-to-Riches Subversion: An Underside Story of Taiwan’s Economic Miracle told from a Working-Class Perspective (Sophia Huei-Ling Chen)
10.Queering Animality: Identity and Alterity in Chiu Miao-chin’s Fiction (Carlos Rojas)
11.The Little Mushroom as the Queer/Wild: Disordering Desire and Desiring Disorder (Liang Ge)
PART VI. IN QUEER MMEORY
12.Queer Singapore Chinese Theatre: Staging Homosexuality, AIDS and Familial Acceptance (How Wee Ng)
13.Cui Zi’en on Queer Literature: A Conversation (Hongwei Bao and Cui Zi’en)
14.Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature: A Conversation (Howard Chiang with Hangping Xu)
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