| Title | : | Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (Queer Asia) |
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9888139460 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-01 |
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This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas' everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desires with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women active and legitimate sexual agency. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads discourses on homophobia in China, including the rhetoric of "Chinese tolerance," and considers the heteronormative demands imposed on tongzhi subjects. She treats "the politics of public correctness" as a newly emerging tongzhi practice developed from the culturally specific, Chinese forms of regulation that inform tongzhi survival strategies and self-identification. Alternating between Kam's own experiences with queer identity and her extensive ethnographic findings, this text offers a contemporary portrait of fe
Editorial : More than just an ethnographic observation of women who identify as lala in China, this compelling and impressively researched study analyzes the numerous social forces that produce sexual normativity and documents the intricate ways through which women with same-sex desire negotiate these forces, in public as well as in private. Written with tremendous insight and compassion, this admirable and timely work sheds important light on the injurious effects of sexual normalization in contemporary Chinese society.
(Helen Hok-Sze Leung, author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong)
Weaving between her own queer biography and extensive ethnographic data of twenty-five lala women, Lucetta Yip Lo Kam presents the up-to-date lesbian communities and politics in urban China which contribute to the international debates of same-sex intimacies, coming out politics, and the nature of homophobia.
(Travis S. K. Kong, University of Hong K
This book predates modern system-on-chip design, so it doesn't get to the level of on-chip busses and networks. Chapters on handwriting and Wordstar don't really add much. If the owners manual for your Boxster is missing and this is the only book you can find to buy, fine. I bought this as a stocking stuffer but it was so good I had to read the whole thing before I wrapped it. With the help (and sometime hindrance) of local law enforcement, Olivia and her team must scour the countryside with minimal clues to find the missing children and capture the kidnapper.
As team leader, one of Olivia's responsibilities is team dynamics and she is adamant that the growing attraction between her and Sophie will never develop.
Will the kidnapper be found in time and can both women maintain the professional distance required to solve the mystery of who is behind these crimes.
This is PJ Trebelhorn's third published novel and I swear they continue to get better. Liv Andrews and he
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