Felt bad about not including some books in this post–I always like to recommend further reading when I can–so I came back to this thread after finishing dinner when I can crack open my library.
China’s Path to Development: Against Neoliberalism, Ali Kadri is a great look at the functions of imperialism as a waste-commodity producing system, and Chinese economic development in the face of neoliberal wars of encroachment. (The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction is where the theory is most strongly laid out, but the one I recommended gives a decent overview and really hones in on China’s refusal of the world neoliberal order.)
For a look at some more cultural explorations of queer identity in China (including Taiwan, which is more accepting of queer people than much of mainland China) from a variety of perspectives both critical and supportive of the CPC:
Transgender China, Howard Chiang
Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life, Denise Tse-Shang Tang
Oral History of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten, Travis S. K. Kong
Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies, Chou Wah-shan
Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China, Tiantian Zheng
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, Jamie J. Zhao
Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures, Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder, Hongwei Bao
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Hongwei Bao
Queer Comrades 2018: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China, Hongwei Bao
Queer Media in China, Hongwei Bao
Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, Jing Jamie Zhao
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Francisca Yuenki Lai
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan, Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader, Susan Brownell, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Thomas Laqueur is a good background on a lot of the strict gender roles and their historical context that is at play.
Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change, Dr. Qiang Ren, Prof. Baochang Gu, Prof. Xioayin Zheng (this one is more a policy analysis, but gives a lot of insight into sexual policy in China, especially in regards to sex work (which has traditionally been on the fringes of “queer” sexual theorizing).
A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China, Cai Hua (not traditionally “queer” per LGBT theorizing, but the Na are a culture in the Himalayan region that practice communal child rearing, which has historically been attacked by Christian colonial missionaries in Turtle Island and abroad as a perverse and “queer” family form that very much falls outside of the cisheteronormative social structure).
Felt bad about not including some books in this post–I always like to recommend further reading when I can–so I came back to this thread after finishing dinner when I can crack open my library.
China’s Path to Development: Against Neoliberalism, Ali Kadri is a great look at the functions of imperialism as a waste-commodity producing system, and Chinese economic development in the face of neoliberal wars of encroachment. (The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction is where the theory is most strongly laid out, but the one I recommended gives a decent overview and really hones in on China’s refusal of the world neoliberal order.)
For a look at some more cultural explorations of queer identity in China (including Taiwan, which is more accepting of queer people than much of mainland China) from a variety of perspectives both critical and supportive of the CPC:
Transgender China, Howard Chiang
Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life, Denise Tse-Shang Tang
Oral History of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten, Travis S. K. Kong
Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies, Chou Wah-shan
Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China, Tiantian Zheng
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness, Jamie J. Zhao
Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures, Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder, Hongwei Bao
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism, Hongwei Bao
Queer Comrades 2018: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China, Hongwei Bao
Queer Media in China, Hongwei Bao
Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, Jing Jamie Zhao
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, Francisca Yuenki Lai
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan, Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader, Susan Brownell, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Thomas Laqueur is a good background on a lot of the strict gender roles and their historical context that is at play.
Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change, Dr. Qiang Ren, Prof. Baochang Gu, Prof. Xioayin Zheng (this one is more a policy analysis, but gives a lot of insight into sexual policy in China, especially in regards to sex work (which has traditionally been on the fringes of “queer” sexual theorizing).
A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China, Cai Hua (not traditionally “queer” per LGBT theorizing, but the Na are a culture in the Himalayan region that practice communal child rearing, which has historically been attacked by Christian colonial missionaries in Turtle Island and abroad as a perverse and “queer” family form that very much falls outside of the cisheteronormative social structure).
great recommendations comrade
this is awesome (both your first comment with thoughts and analysis and also all these reading recommendations), thank you!
Yup, saving this post. Definitely one of the best of hexbear.