Queer Sinophone Cultures

Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK. Ari Larissa Heinrich is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

This provocative collection seeks to exfoliate the layers that have bundled Chinese Studies within the strictures of traditional area studies. Looking to transnational routes and roots, the contributors elegantly deploy a "queer Sinophonic" framework that refuses geographic and conceptual limits to understanding the conjunctions and intersections of wayward bodies, intimacies, and attachments as these are produced in film, literature and other cultural genres. Traipsing various sites and contexts of the Sinophone world, from Singapore to Hong Kong to Taiwan and beyond, the essays in this expansive collection de-essentialize Chineseness and queer by circumventing the traps and tribulations of antipodal dualities such as China and its diasporas.Martin F. Manalansan IV, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaThis impressive anthology brings queer theory and Sinophone studies into a critically challenging and mutually transformative conjuncture. Showcasing an eclectic range of scholarship that is historically nuanced, theoretically adventurous and globally aware, the book demonstrates that the vital projects to, respectively, "deprovincialize china" and "reroute the geopolitics of desire" not only go hand in hand but inform each other in the most thoughtful and provocative way. This book stands at the forefront of a vibrant new field and should be read by anyone who is interested in pushing the boundaries of sexuality studies and Asian studies.Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

• 1. "A Volatile Alliance": Queer Sinophone Synergies Across Literature, Film, and Culture 2. (De)Provincializing China: Queer Historicism and Sinophone Postcolonial Critique 3. Unraveling the Apparatus of Domestication: Zhu Tianxin’s "The Ancient Capital" and Queer Engagements with the Nation-State in Post-Martial Law Taiwan 4. From Flowers to Boys: Queer Adaptations in Wu Jiwen’s The Fin-de-siècle Boy Love Reader 5. Sinophone Erotohistories: The Shaw Brothers’ Queering of a Transforming "Chinese Dream" in Ainu Fantasies 6. Queer Sinophone Studies as Anti-Capitalist Critique: Mapping Queer Kinship in the Work of Chen Ran and Wong Bik-Wan, 7. A Queer Journey Home in Solos: Rethinking Kinship in Sinophone Singapore 8. Theatrics of Cruising: Bathhouses and Movie Houses in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Films 9. Queerly Connecting: The Queer Sinophone Politics of Tsai Ming-Liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone 10. Desire Against the Grain: Transgender Consciousness and Sinophonicity in the Films of Yasmin Ahmad 11. Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan’s Butterfly as Sinophone Romance 12. On the Conjunctive Method