ABSTRACT
Much of the analysis so far has been to problematise local/global, modernity, the politics of storytelling and fi eldwork, same-sex articulations and the researcher’s agency in setting the research agenda.1 A central element of analysis has been how the articulation of seemingly modern and authentic Chinese gay and lesbian identities bespeaks a peculiar paradox: an expression of a new sense of national identity, coupled with a growing disenchantment with traditional culture. This articulation is imagined around the social realities of opening up, which are further negotiated around a re-articulation of ‘local’ and ‘global’ cultural politics, under contingent circumstances that are constantly being contested.
