1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality
This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities.
Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China’s modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively situates Chinese gender and sexuality in transnational and transcultural contexts. It also spotlights nonnormative practices and emancipatory potentials within mainstream, heterosexual-dominated and patriarchally structured settings. It serves as a definitive study, research and resource guide for emerging gender and sexuality issues in the Chinese-speaking world. This Handbook covers interdisciplinary methodologies, perspectives and topics, including:
- History
- Literature
- Art
- Fashion
- Migration
- Translation
- Sex and desire
- Film and television
- Digital media
- Star and fan cultures
- Fantasies and lives of women and LGBTQ+ groups
- Social movements
- Transnational feminist and queer politics
Paying acute attention to nonnormative genders and sexualities and emphasising the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity and class, this Handbook offers an essential, field-defining text to Chinese gender and sexuality studies.
Introduction: New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies
Jamie J. Zhao and Hongwei Bao
Part 1: Theorising Gender and Sexual Histories
1. He-Yin Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rebecca E. Karl
2. Nudity and Modernity—New Forms of Gendered Voyeurism in the Art of Dan Duyu
Louise Edwards
3. Gendered Language in Modern Chinese History
Coraline Jortay
4. Patriarchal Problems between Revolution and Reform
Harriet Evans
Part 2: Transnational Migration and Transcultural Mobility
5. National Allegory and Media Performativity: Chinese Masculinity in the Context of K-Pop and American Rambo
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
6. Gender, Sexuality and Educational Mobility: Chinese Women Students in Australia
Fran Martin
7. Gender and Sexuality in the Anglophone White Snake Worlds
Liang Luo
8. Prostitution and Human Trafficking
Tiantian Zheng
9. Enacting Transnational Masculinity Regimes in the Migrant Context: Chinese Migrants in Japan
Jamie Coates
Part 3: Queer/ing China
10. When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China
Hongwei Bao
11. Claustrophobic Sexuality: Mapping Gay Male Urban Subjects and Postmodernity in the Films of Cui Zi’en
Alvin K. Wong
12. Theorising Queer Cinemas
Victor Fan
13. Speaking the ‘L’ Elsewhere: Queering Women on TV in a Global China
Jamie J. Zhao
14. Opening the Door to a New World’: Danmei and the Gender Revolution in China
Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu
Part 4: Shifting Discourses Surrounding Womanhood
15. Funü: The Onion Peeling Stories
Xin Huang
16. Chinese Women-in-Suits
Talel Bar and Haiqing Yu
17. Rethinking nüxing yishu in the PRC: The Shifting Discourses around Art by Women from the 1990s to Today
Monica Merlin
18. Beyond Cyborg Prostitutes: Fantasies of Womanhood, Translated Chinese SF, and Soft Power
Angie Chau
Part 5: Gendered Governance and Contestation in Emerging Cultures and Spaces
19. Women as Dancing Wanghong on Douyin: Affective Affordances and Gender Performativity
Han Fu, Anthony Fung and Jindong Leo-Liu
20. Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in Postsocialist China: Grassroots Male Images in Cyberspace
Song Geng and Ran Xi
21. Sublimated Machismo: Patriarchy, Hegemonic Masculinity and Popular Nationalism in China’s Hip-hop Culture
Sheng Zou
22. From Women’s Space to Gendering the Public Sphere: Ai Xiaoming’s Practice of Everyday Life and Activism
Jinyan Zeng and Xibai Xu
Biography
Jamie J. Zhao is a global queer media scholar and currently Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies and co-director of the Centre for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
