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...Fran Martin Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.0-03 Martin 1/7/00 3:23 PM Page 61 SURFACE TENSIONS Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan Fran Martin It is probably impossible to think about the English term...

... , edited by Chiang Howard Heinrich Ari Larissa , 19 – 51 . New York : Routledge . Ching Leo . 2001 . Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation . Berkeley : University of California Press . Chou Wah-shan . 2000 . Tongzhi: Politics...

... and accessible to a greater number of women, but renders these spaces a “middle ground” between public and private, and between lesbian and nonlesbian. These spaces can also serve as a jumping-­off point for involvement in political and cultural activism. The tongzhi (“comrade” or queer) rights movement...

... — with the fervor they did.2 But the surprising level of emotion it stirred and the overwhelmingly positive reaction it received made such an impression on me that the phenomenon continues to influence my thinking about contemporary tongzhi life, which is centered on a strikingly affective under- standing...

... . xiv + 180 pp . Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, and Golden Boy . Kong Travis S. K. . London : Routledge , 2011 . xxiv + 296 pp . The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China . Vitiello Giovanni . Chicago : University of Chicago...

... of “queer time,” then disruptions to this narrative can be understood as queer public interventions.6 In Hong Kong these frequent inter- ventions took place in the media to alert the public not only of a queer/tongzhi presence but also of an unwillingness to comply with its death...

... Halberstam’s usage of “queer time,” then disruptions to this narrative can be understood as queer public interventions.6 In Hong Kong these frequent inter- ventions took place in the media to alert the public not only of a queer/tongzhi presence but also of an unwillingness to comply...

... contribution to sexuality studies in Asia. Kong's approach decenters Western-centric accounts of queer history by providing simultaneously transnational and local histories of the development of contemporary tongzhi identities and cultures. ( Tongzhi is the Mandarin term adopted to refer to gay men...

... Same-­ Markets, Media, and Rights; reviewed by Sex Relations in China, 1900 – 1950; James Welker  181 – 98 Travis S. K. Kong, Chinese Male Jagose, Annamarie Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi, Orgasmology; reviewed by Erica...

... transnational.2 For example, tongzhi, or comrade, as a political slogan and sex/gender identificatory category has emerged in and been appropriated by queer communities in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and other Chinese-­speaking groups within Asia. Tongzhi’s...

... their appropriation of the term tongzhi [comrade]. Indeed, the appropria- tion originated in Hong Kong. Chou Wah Shan, a Hong Kong sociologist, explains: The word [tongzhi] . . . has very positive historical references. . . . After 1949 [when the socialist government in China came to power...

... of the future. Impure hopes were perhaps once found predominantly on the margins of hegemonic dreamworlds. Queer communities in the United States, and the opaque and inscrutable tongzhi spaces of China, have long been sites for critical and creative articulations as hopes were forged in hostile...

... perspectives on sexuality, beginning with the work of one of the most widely read and cited writers on tongzhi identities in Hong Kong, Chou Wah-shan.32 Chou suggests that Chinese cultures treat same-sex-desiring persons with “silent tolerance rather than outright violence (as happens in the West33...

... looking, preco- cious, and paradigm shifting. Notes 1. See Chou Wah-­shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997). 2. See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); Judith...

..., but I anticipate that critics will soon find the insights of Backward Glances forward looking, preco- cious, and paradigm shifting. Notes 1. See Chou Wah-­shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997). 2. See Lee Edelman, No Future...

... looking, preco- cious, and paradigm shifting. Notes 1. See Chou Wah-­shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997). 2. See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); Judith...

..., but I anticipate that critics will soon find the insights of Backward Glances forward looking, preco- cious, and paradigm shifting. Notes 1. See Chou Wah-­shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997). 2. See Lee Edelman, No Future...

... looking, preco- cious, and paradigm shifting. Notes 1. See Chou Wah-­shan, Houshimim tognzhi (The Postcolonial Tongzhi) (Hong Kong: Hong Kong tongzhi yanjiushe, 1997). 2. See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); Judith...

..., lesbian, homosexual, and queer. In China activists promote the use of the term tongzhi and speak of “com- ing home” rather than “coming out” as an appropriate rubric for understanding the dilemmas of tongzhi in a society profoundly structured by familial relations rather than individual identities...

..., lesbian, homosexual, and queer. In China activists promote the use of the term tongzhi and speak of “com- ing home” rather than “coming out” as an appropriate rubric for understanding the dilemmas of tongzhi in a society profoundly structured by familial relations rather than individual identities...