... has generally been analyzed for its representation of (queer) sexuality, the essay shows that it is the Cultural Revolution and its Cold War legacies that explain the emergence of its main character. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 Cold War Jin Yong martial arts cinema Cultural...

... brotherly bonds and sexual fascinations. The narrative progression is fueled by the very (im)possibility of satisfying the desire of the queer subject. To conclude, Phoenixes Flying Together offers a vital example of early modern queer literary tradition by illustrating fluid male-male bonds...

... and homosexuality, which further highlight the educational function of the queer space for readers to explore more fluid understandings of gender and sexuality. In this educational queer space, real-life gays and their lifestyles are emphasized; (potential) misunderstandings of homosexuality are corrected. As I...

... linkages. 22 Ibid., 35. 23 Ibid. 24 Ibid., 25. 25 Ibid., 30. 26 Ibid. For his full discussion on Altman and Rofel, see ibid., the section titled “Epistemology, Chinese (Homo)sexual Identity, and Global Queer Studies,” esp. 27–28. 27 Ibid., 23. 28 Ibid., 28...

... of theoretical approaches—feminist studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, Sinophone studies, to name the most obvious. Taken together, these essays explore how queer formations intersect with heteronormative institutions and discourses in new and unexpected ways. One of the common...

... the marginalized. Decades after the publication of This Bridge Called My Back , one can still observe ongoing problems of building feminist and queer coalitions across lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other difference. At the same time, this repeated failure might also signal possibility...

... her stay in the cottage. To the extent that the biological description the narrator uses to introduce the gender-queer anzhuozhenni lizards functions as a stand-in for a broader set of scientific discourses that have been used to categorize and regulate an array of genders and sexualities deemed...

... literature. The second cluster, “Mapping the Taxonomies of Same-Sex Sexuality,” consists of two articles that complement each other in both chronology and theme. Liang Shi's article traces the evolving perceptions of male-male sexuality from antiquity through the early Republican period, as reflected...

...: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.201 . Muñoz, José Esteban . Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity . New York : New York University Press , 2009 . Nagel, Joane . “ Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations .” Ethnic and Racial Studies...

...Liang Shi Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century Chinese sexuality underwent a metamorphosis, resulting in the replacement of a rich indigenous discourse by imported Western theories. This article traces the evolution of a modern subject and episteme emerging from the historical...

... between ‘self’ and ‘other,’ whether racial, social, or sexual.” 4 Like Bertolucci, Julien tackles the question of seeing modern China in a sympathetic, allegedly non-Western way, 5 but Julien has complicated viewing positions in Ten Thousand Waves because, as an internationally celebrated black...

... the family and destroy marriage, which successfully linked Chinese anarchist movements from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with contemporary leftist queer discourse of sexual minority or multitude in Taiwan. However, the question was how to foreground even more prominently the historical...

... Rousseau's (1712–1778) Emile, or On Education (1762), tying Sophia's behaviors to the “imported Enlightenment philosophy of sexual difference.” 31 By means of her name Sophia tries to set herself apart from those around her whose names are simply Chinese; but her attempts at self-articulation...