Description
Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is the most up-to-date English-language study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) themed literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world. From classical homoerotic texts to contemporary boys' love fan fiction, this book showcases the richness and diversity of queer Chinese literature across the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics. The book features authors and literary works from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the global Chinese diaspora. Featuring chapters by leading scholars from around the world, this book rewrites literature, history and culture from a queer lens in China and globally.
Examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world from ancient times to the present.
About the Author
Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China, Queer Media in China and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. He co-edits, with Dr Jamie J. Zhao, the Bloomsbury book series Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities. Yahia Ma is a PhD candidate in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on queer translation studies and queer Chinese literature. His critical work can be found in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne Asia Review, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Reviews
This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book's clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world. * Professor Ari Heinrich, Australian National University, Australia *
This book challenges orthodox assumptions about queerness, Chineseness and literature itself by provoking us to think across political borders, scholarly disciplines, sex-gender identities and literary hierarchies. It is a treasure-trove of a collection, definitively illustrating the precious contribution that Chinese-language works and their translations and interpretations make to global queer literature. * Professor Fran Martin, University of Melbourne; author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (2010) and Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (2003) *
This volume ushers in a new era of queer literary criticism in the Sinosphere. From Ming-Qing homoerotic literature to current GL (girl love) fanfic, from novels about sexual agency to the intersection of queer and working-class perspectives, to the queering of animality, and much more, these essays lead the way forward to queer futures by opening out to a multitude of trans-formations, of gendered and sexual embodiments. The capaciousness is inspiring; this volume broadens our imaginations of the possible. * 'Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (2007) *
I particularly welcome Queer Literature in the Sinosphere as a collection of scholarly research addressing queer literature as literature, and to this end it is a significant contribution to the open intellectual project of testing where we are in relation to historical and literary categories and genres. * Professor Wu Cuncun, The University of Hong Kong; author of Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (2004) and and Xi wai zhi xi (Drama beyond the drama) (2017) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350415331
Author Hongwei Bao
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) literature and culture in the Chinese-speaking world from ancient times to the present.
About the Author
Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China, Queer Media in China and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. He co-edits, with Dr Jamie J. Zhao, the Bloomsbury book series Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities. Yahia Ma is a PhD candidate in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on queer translation studies and queer Chinese literature. His critical work can be found in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne Asia Review, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Reviews
This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book's clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world. * Professor Ari Heinrich, Australian National University, Australia *
This book challenges orthodox assumptions about queerness, Chineseness and literature itself by provoking us to think across political borders, scholarly disciplines, sex-gender identities and literary hierarchies. It is a treasure-trove of a collection, definitively illustrating the precious contribution that Chinese-language works and their translations and interpretations make to global queer literature. * Professor Fran Martin, University of Melbourne; author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (2010) and Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (2003) *
This volume ushers in a new era of queer literary criticism in the Sinosphere. From Ming-Qing homoerotic literature to current GL (girl love) fanfic, from novels about sexual agency to the intersection of queer and working-class perspectives, to the queering of animality, and much more, these essays lead the way forward to queer futures by opening out to a multitude of trans-formations, of gendered and sexual embodiments. The capaciousness is inspiring; this volume broadens our imaginations of the possible. * 'Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (2007) *
I particularly welcome Queer Literature in the Sinosphere as a collection of scholarly research addressing queer literature as literature, and to this end it is a significant contribution to the open intellectual project of testing where we are in relation to historical and literary categories and genres. * Professor Wu Cuncun, The University of Hong Kong; author of Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (2004) and and Xi wai zhi xi (Drama beyond the drama) (2017) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350415331
Author Hongwei Bao
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
