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Why Does Queer Theory Need China?
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 291–320.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Petrus Liu This essay resists a common scholarly tendency to treat “queer theory” and “Chinese political economy” as analytically separate issues by arguing that the emergence of new sexual positions and discourses has transnational and material origins. Long before the “linguistic...
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Readymade Mao: Impersonation and Affective Relations
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
...—by their “amateur” performance and the complexity of their personal histories and private lives that they bring into it. Performance studies, queer theory, and theories of postmodernity as a crisis of historical sense illuminate some of these apparent contradictions, but the specifics of China's history and state...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
... “Chineseness” and “queer” are highly contested, overdetermined, heterogeneous, and mobile terms. By showing how boundaries are crossed at all times, the contributors highlight the ways in which transnational queer Chinese politics might contribute to the decolonization of U.S.-dominated theory. Duke...
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The Rise and Fall of Homonationalism in Singapore
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 349–365.
Published: 01 May 2015
... are the
others), Singapore is now, we were told, a “gay paradise.” (Indeed, “Queer
theory,” enthused Yale’s publicity for its new campus, “will be safe in Singa-
pore I believe this claim originates and still circulates not only because of
a long...
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Guest Editor's Introduction
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positions (1994) 2 (1): v–xi.
Published: 01 February 1994
...,” brings together essays that individually
and collectively position themselves interventionally in the critical practice
of lesbian and gay studies and queer theories. In one sense, then, their
shared imperative is the desire to engage...
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Contributors
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positions (2004) 12 (1): 289–290.
Published: 01 February 2004
... and queer theory.
positions 12:1 Spring 2004 290
Celia Lowe is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and is
currently working on a book project, “Cultures...
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Queer positions , Queering Asian Studies
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 183–193.
Published: 01 February 2012
...
relations also include sexuality and gender — long a focus of feminist cri-
tique;7 Queer theory’s insight that sexual subjectivities and identities
are multiple and unstable and need to be constantly shored up and actively
reproduced can...
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Editor's Introduction
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 723–726.
Published: 01 November 2016
... sublime
calmness. Then Villiers and Wu turn on US-rooted scholarly dogma about
“queer performativity.” Their essay suggests that inside the presumptive
heteronormative framework of canonical queer theory, Mao impersonators...
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Chen Xue's Queer Tactics
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 February 1999
... the older
terms lesbian and gay. Queer also appears in Taiwan in queer theory, a
literary-political movement to draw on poststructuralist identity theory as a
means of breaking down essentialized sexuality and gender categories...
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Contributors
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 255–256.
Published: 01 February 2023
... in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He researches transpacific discourses of literature, video games, and new media through the lens of empire studies, Asian American studies, and queer theory. He is an award-winning author of two academic books, Transitive Cultures...
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Exploring Contemporary Asia Pacific Cinemas: Spatiality, Desire, New Technologies
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 505–506.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., digitization, and what these technoimages
mean for visuality, representation, and simulation.
2. Visualization of sex and sexualities examined in the context of power
and discourse. The elaboration of queer theories and criticism in rela...
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“Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”: The Jjimjilbang (Gay Bathhouse) as a Dark Space in Seoul
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 135–159.
Published: 01 February 2025
... factors in twenty-first-century Seoul render such spaces a source of anxious and conflicted intimacy for these men in ways not accounted for in mainstream Western queer theory. On the one hand, gay men experience sexual freedom in these dimly lit spaces (McGuire 2016 ) where they are hidden both from...
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Queerscapes in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 423–447.
Published: 01 May 2001
...-sitting impulses are understandably troubling to
critics who are concerned with misrepresentations of minority groups. For
example, Chau Wah-san devotes two chapters in his introductory work on
queer theory to a critique of Hong Kong films that (mis...
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Gender Transformations in Sinophone Taiwan
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 527–563.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., and the Idea of Gender . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Ho Josephine , ed. 1998 . Ku'er: Lilun yu zhengzhi 酷兒: 理論與政治 (Queer Politics and Queer Theory), special issue, Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies nos. 3–4 . Jungli, Taiwan : National Central University Center for the Study...
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The Limits of Family: Military Law and Sex Panics in Contemporary South Korea
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 607–632.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Hansjörg . 2008 . “ ‘We Are All Going to Die’: Kinship, Belonging, and the Morality of HIV/AIDS-Related Illnesses and Deaths in Rural Tanzania .” Anthropological Quarterly 81 , no. 1 : 207 – 32 . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke...
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Critique of Archived Life: Toward a Hesitation of Sikh Immigrant Accumulation
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 319–346.
Published: 01 May 2021
... : Stanford University Press . Edelman Lee . 2004 . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . El Shakry Omnia . 2015 . “ History without Documents: The Vexed Archives of Decolonization in the Middle East .” American Historical Review 120...
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From Glass Clique to Tongzhi Nation: Crystal Boys , Identity Formation, and the Politics of Sexual Shame
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2010
... orientation, Chang explained how her
encounter with Anglo-American queer theory had led her to “rediscover”
herself as a feminist, further formulating her “current” heterosexual identity
as follows:
Many years ago, the lesbian...
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Inciting Sites of Political Interventions: Queer ‘n’ Asian
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positions (1996) 4 (3): 459–489.
Published: 01 August 1996
...” as a gesture toward its engagement with currents of present politics. For a
useful discussion of the use of “queer”-as in “queer theory”- see Teresa de Lauretis,
“Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualitie+An Introduction,” diflerences 3, no. 2 (sum...
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A World of Corpses: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to AIDS
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1994
... The question of what it might mean to write, speak, and act (or indeed live) as a queer is of
course one of the central foci of that body of work which is coming to be called queer theory;
here let me say merely that the question is most serious...
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The Queer Space of China: Expressive Desire in Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 459–487.
Published: 01 May 2010
....
Writing in the context of contemporary Taiwan, Petrus Liu notes that
queer studies developed in the Republic of China as a materialist practice
with an affinity to various labor movements. More specifically, he argues
that queer theory in Taiwan...
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