1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality

Edited By Jamie J. Zhao, Hongwei Bao Copyright 2024
398 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.

'A lively collection that will satisfy a wide readership, stimulate debate, and enrich thinking for years to come.'

Chris Berry, King's College London