ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the experience of sexual mobility, not only of expatriates but also of the Chinese who participate in the transnational sexual field that grew out interactions with expatriate society in the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter deliberately questions the demarcation between locals and expatriates, while still making clear the intersectionality of race and gender. It looks at sexuality not only as a site of mobility for expatriates and resident Chinese but also as a space of mooring, or integration into Shanghai expatriate society, for both.