ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a critical analysis of We Are Here by focusing on how the film represents queer women’s history in China and in what discourses such a representation is situated. It provides a brief account of the history of feminist and queer activism in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the postsocialist era. The chapter analyses how the film We Are Here represents China’s queer feminist history in relation to the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women (UNWCW) and what discourses such a representation is situated in. Feminism in the PRC context did not start with the Fourth UNWCW. It has a long history and can be traced to China’s enlightenment thinkers such as He-Yin Zhen at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. The Fourth UNWCW, held in Beijing on 4–15 September 1995, was a landmark event for the international women’s movement.
