ABSTRACT
This book proffers an understanding of how a renewed form of Chineseness, with an emphasis on an emerging form of Chinese same-sex identity, is paradoxically enacted and enunciated through four competing discourses, framed within the paradigms of opening up. The four discourses are predominantly represented in the contexts of: (1) an increasingly globalised gay culture; (2) the ongoing construction of an ‘indigenous’ Chinese identity; (3) a hybridised transnational/ Chinese identity; and (4) the emergence of a gay space in Chinese cyberspace. Crucially, these discourses have emerged to contest one another and to create new forms of tension, inequality, knowledge and identity.
