ABSTRACT

This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies.

Engaging with contemporary debates and controversies, Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies presents a definitive collection of original contributions, which are both theoretically and empirically grounded and cross-disciplinary in nature. Individual chapters offer an in-depth study of new empirical data and case studies, covering keywords such as transpacific, viscerality, fandom, postcoloniality, ethnicity and activism.

Imagining new conversations across several fields, including literature, film, communication, ethnic studies, anthropology, history, sociology and politics, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Queer Studies and Asian culture, literature and film, as well as gender and sexuality.

chapter 1|15 pages

1Introduction—queer Sinophone studies

Interdisciplinary synergies

chapter 3|24 pages

Viscerality–choreographies of the flesh

The geopolitics of visceral violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)

chapter 4|18 pages

Postcoloniality—postcoloniality beyond China-centrism

Queer Sinophone transnationalism in Hong Kong cinema

chapter 5|23 pages

Ethnicity—a queerness of relation

The plight of the “ethnic minority” in Chan Koon-Chung’s Bare Life

chapter 6|29 pages

Liminality—so happy together … too

Contemporary Philippine gay comedy and the queering of Chinese-Filipino liminality

chapter 7|21 pages

Fandom—transcultural desires and lesbian fandom

Takarazuka revue in Taiwan

chapter 8|22 pages

Adaptation—recognition, reproach, repression

The Ren Likui case in 1947 Tianjin and the cultural politics of homosexual murder in the Sinophone world

chapter 9|15 pages

Intermediality—“A weird concept”

Queer intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung’s fiction

chapter 11|21 pages

212Residual—the polite residuals of heteronormativity

Legalizing transgender marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong