Introduction: Queer Hong Kong across the Transpacific Sinophone Free
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Published:April 2025
The introduction shows how the dynamic queer radicalism of Hong Kong since the 1997 handover demands a theory of unruly comparison. Exploring queer Sinophone visual arts and cross-racial solidarity during the 2019 protests, this chapter demonstrates that queering Hong Kong itself can offer an unruly method of comparison that unsettles the Eurocentrism of queer theory and the China-centrism of area studies. Conceptually, unruly comparison reads queerness in Hong Kong cinema, literature, and visual cultures across the incommensurable terrains of British colonialism, settler colonialism, Chinese governmentality, and late capitalism. Bypassing the anxiety of debunking Eurocentrism, a queer Sinophone approach calls for a queer Hong Kong method that enacts a critique of the presumed hierarchy between an “original” China and its lesser Sinophone copies.