In his new book, Petrus Liu draws from a varied ensemble of Chinese materials to establish a theoretical approach he calls “queer Marxism.” Liu's innovative project presents the historical fracture between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) as a site of creative tension from which he assembles a “queer Marxist archive” (p. 4). Over the course of five chapters, Liu engages with theoretical texts, cultural production, and social history from this archive in order to mount a critique of liberalism in queer studies. While recent efforts to bridge queer studies and Marxism have been largely based on readings of theory,1 Liu's approach establishes an innovative set of dialogues between cultural production, social activism, and queer theory that serve as fertile ground for a sustained critique of liberal politics. Given Liu's eclectic selection of sources and provocative theoretical ambitions, scholarly interest in this work...
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November 01 2016
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
. By Petrus Liu. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2015
. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780822359722 (cloth, also available in paper).
Harlan D. Chambers
Harlan D. Chambers
Columbia University
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1108–1110.
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Harlan D. Chambers; Queer Marxism in Two Chinas. Journal of Asian Studies 1 November 2016; 75 (4): 1108–1110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191181600125X
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