... for the Summer Heat , 86 ; translation modified. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 private public desire male homoeroticism Living across the dynastic transition from the Ming (1368–1644) to the Qing (1644–1912), the prolific writer Li Yu 李漁 (1610–1680) bore witness to an age when...

...Li Guo Abstract This essay offers a study of male homoeroticism in an unconventional and yet seminal nineteenth-century woman-authored tanci work, Fengshuangfei 鳳雙飛 (Phoenixes Flying Together; preface dated 1899) by Cheng Huiying 程蕙英 (before 1859–after 1899). Perhaps the only tanci known today...

... historiography that takes nothing—not East, not West, not past, not present—for granted. 4 The two essays “The Death of His Husband: Contesting Desires in Li Yu's 李漁 (1610–1680) Two Huaben Stories on Male Homoeroticism,” by Zhaokun Xin (hereafter “Two Huaben Stories”), and “Hybrid Subjects, Fluid...

... clearly equates castration with feminization and feminization with social subordination. But the 1992 film performed a stunning cultural coup, turning Asia into one of the most iconic and celebrated queer figures in Chinese-language cinema. Instead of a debased male homosexual, Asia in the film version...