...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...

...—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...

... “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...

... 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...

...,” 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... of empire studies, Asian American studies, and queer theory. He is an award-winning author of two academic books, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (2018) and Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games (2018), as well as the novels Stamped: An Anti...

..., 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...

...-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...

..., 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...

... 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 University Press . Flentje Annesa , Heck Nicholas C. , and Cochran Bryan N. 2014 . “ Experiences...

... : 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...

... 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...

...” 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... of colonized futurity. Meditations on brownness by women of color and queer theorists such as Teaiwa, Canaan, Muñoz, and others allow us to trace a nascent yet unarticulated field of brown theory by broadening our gaze to the brown transpacific, the site of the first theorizations of brownness but also one...