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...Zhaokun Xin Abstract Li Yu's two huaben stories, “A Male Mencius's Mother Raises Her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times” and “House of Gathered Refinements,” stand out from the writer's brief yet highly novel dabbling in the genre thanks to their similar concern with male same-sex desire...

... understanding of the dynamic textual spaces that harbor same-sex intimacies, erotic desires, and clandestine longings in vernacular traditions. Narratives of male intimacy, camaraderie, and homosexual love in Cheng's text facilitate the construction of queer subjectivities through character focalization...

...森 (fl. 19th cent.) Pinhua baojian 品花寶鑑 (Precious Mirror for the Appreciation of Flowers; hereafter Precious Mirror ), Wu also resorts to the world of xianggong to explore male same-sex desires and relations. The question here is not whether these fin de siècle invocations of the figure...

... of accepted sensual pleasures.” 14 Zhang Zaizhou characterizes the traditional attitude toward same-sex desire and relations as “an opposition that leans toward neutrality.” 15 I have argued elsewhere that the belief in China's tolerance of homosexuality could, when carried too far, lead...

... same-sex desire Dung Kai-Cheung Chiu Miao-Chin Chu T'ien-wen Wang Xiaobo Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a relapsed heretic...

...), while “Hybrid Subjects” draws our attention to Cheng Huiying's 程蕙英 (before 1859 to after 1899) tanci Fengshuangfei 鳳雙飛 (Two Phoenixes Flying Together; 1899). All three of these narratives engage male same-sex relations against a spectrum of male-male interaction, pitting the agency—sexual...

...) has been rendered differently by other translators, as to bed or to screw (Ye Rugang), to lie with (Siyi Chu), and to lay (Xinlu Yan); Dian Li rendered the line as “sex is almost the same [whether on top or at the bottom].” 25 The proliferation of translations perhaps points to the various...

... landscapes? And second, how do these narratives intersect with passion and sex? 7 As the work of many scholars has shown, throughout various periods of Chinese history filial piety touches and gives voice and shape to a whole protean gamut of emotions; love and desire, especially when illegitimate...

... out with the tofu seller and install themselves for months on end across the street from the girl's house, they set their eyes on those two white dogs and their mistress by following their “instinctive desires” (256). This vignette of “sex in the haystack” in broad daylight recalls the exuberant...

... identifies a lyrical vision with the power to bring forth primeval energy and imagination inhibited by modern civilization. Rather than subordinate “the subject of passion to the rhetoric of hard-core realism,” 9 the lyrical vision allows hidden passions, desire, and vitality to burst through the regular...

... and their lives, depictions of safe same-sex activity, historical facts of government regulation and oppression of homosexuality, and real-life hostility toward gay men, instead is by nature a dialogue with and reflection of the popular BL conventions that attempt to ignore or downplay homosexuality...

..., Tze-lan Deborah . The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2003 . Satō, Dōshin . Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty . Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute , 2011 . Shenbao 申報 [ English...

... of precarity shouldered by working-class women without US citizenship, living and working in close proximity to the sex industry. Following the Atlanta shootings, in mainstream English-language media, first-person accounts of the experiences of Asian American women largely featured the voices of highly...

... mapping, I also attend to his engagement with the block structure. According to my analysis, this block structure has two variations: the first includes several connected stories in different geographical areas whereas the second comprises several unconnected stories in the same physical region. More...

... during and after the Second World War married girls of various Asian ancestry.” 19 At the same time, US soldiers' experiences with “R & R” in Asia-Pacific theaters of war, along with the growth of sex work surrounding US military bases in the region, perpetuated the hypersexualization of Asian...

... or encountered before. Ding Ling uses these intertexts to shed light on Sophia's negotiations with the New Woman's identity, as well as with the medium of the written word. At the same time, Sophia's diary is perennially in dialogue with anticipated readers or interlocutors. The story's thematization of reading...

... to the breadth of queerness in studies on the cinematic performance of same-sex subjectivities and invites new understandings of queer performance in Love Eterne as a vehicle that can inspire alternative imaginings of gendered selfhoods and nations. 2 The creation of Love Eterne mainly adapted the script...

... and into a life of reflection regarding the philosophical foundations for modern society. Absorbing Western knowledge and science, and revamping the hidden strands of Confucianism, he wrote the famous Book of the Great Community ( Datong shu 大同書), proposing to abolish all boundaries of nation-state, class, sex...

... that differed from one race and/or gender to another, and the widespread fear of losing one's identity under colonialism. The inconspicuous niche of poetry and the arcane practice of language-mixing afforded scattered opportunities to address society's taboos, including cross-dressing and same-sex relations...

...), including Haishanghua , as vivid illustrations of the late Qing novelists' experiments with the expressions of desire. Nevertheless, focusing on the theme and ideology of the novel, his discussion leaves room for further explorations on the technical level, on the one hand, and the uniqueness...