Title: Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies
Abstract: Contents * Introduction: Politics of Tongzhi * Section I: The Construction of Chinese Same-Sex Eroticism * Chapter 1: A World Without Homo/Hetero Duality: Rewriting the Traditional Chinese History of Same-Sex Eroticism * The Chinese Conception of Sexuality * Compatibility Between Heterosexual Marriages and Same-Sex Eroticism * Chinese Tolerance of Same-Sex Eroticism in the Patriarchal-Classist Hierarchy * Modernity and the Death of Tolerance of Same-Sex Eroticism * Section II: Diversities and Differences Among Contemporary Chinese Societies * Chapter 2: Colonialism and the Birth of Sexual Identity Politics in Hong Kong * The Legal Discourse of Homosexuality Under British Colonialism * From the MacLennan Incident (1980) to Decriminalization (1991) * The Creation of a New Social-Sexual Subject: The Hong Kong Chinese Gay/Tongzhi * Classism and the Construction of Tongzhi * Chapter 3: Tongzhi Discourses in Contemporary China * The Absence of Homosexuals, Bisexuals, or Heterosexuals * Why Are Contemporary Mainland Chinese Suffering the Most? * Legal Discourse and Medicalization * Individual Strategies of Tongzhi Empowerment * Collective Strategies of Tongzhi Empowerment * Chapter 4: Going Beyond Cultural Carnival Versus Political Confrontation: Pluralities of Contemporary Taiwan Tongzhi Discourses * Formation of Tongxinglian Consciousness and Community Before 1990 * Feminism and the Formation of the Tongzhi Movement * Resistance Through Carnivals * Confrontational Politics and Beyond * Section III: Gender, Race, and Tongzhi Politics in Hong Kong * Chapter 5: When Potato Queens Meet Rice Queens: Racial-Sexual Dynamics in Colonial Hong Kong * Sexual-Racial Politics in Personal Ads * Rice and Potato Queens in the 1970s * Language, Food, and Sex * Tongzhi Strategies of Resistance * Chapter 6: Politics of TB/B (Tomboy/Tomgirl) in Hong Kong * Nu Tongzhi in the 1960s and 1970s * Identity Formation of TB/Gs in the 1990s * TB: The Sexual Politics of Breast Binding * Differences and Similarities Among TBGs * Westernized Feminist Nu Tongzhi Verses Local Role-Playing TB/Gs * Section 4: Indigenous Tongzhi Strategies of Resistance * Chapter 7: From Coming to Coming Home * Coming in the Chinese Context * Redefining the Boundaries of Out and Closet * Tongzhi Experiences of Coming Home * Why the Legal Discourses of Rights Are Not Sufficient * Chapter 8: Tongzhi Identity Politics as Queering the Mainstream * Notes * Bibliography * Index * Reference Notes Included
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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