Queer Literature in the Sinosphere

Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China, Queer Media in China and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. He co-edits, with Dr Jamie J. Zhao, the Bloomsbury book series Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities. Yahia Ma is a PhD candidate in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on queer translation studies and queer Chinese literature. His critical work can be found in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne Asia Review, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book’s clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma)PART I. TRANS FORMATION 1.Becoming Trans and Already Trans: The Temporality of Trans-Femininity in Late Imperial Chinese Homoerotic Literature (Aixia Huang) 2.‘An Ideal Woman’: Cross-Dressing and Male Homoerotic Desire in Modern Chinese Literature (Dylan K. Wang) 3.Translating the Life of Jin Xing as a Transgender Woman (Yahia Ma) PART II. QUEER WOMEN’S SPACES4.Female Same-Sex Love in the Chinese Enlightenment: Lesbian Fiction by Three Women Writers, 1923-1928 (Yixin Liu) 5.Obscure Utopia: Lesbian Continuum in Wang Anyi’s The Brothers (1989) (Hamada Maya) 6.Perverse Lesbianism: BDSM, Rape and Incest in Cyber Chinese Girls’ Love Fanfics (Jamie J. Zhao) PART III. QUEER INTERSECTIONALITY 7.Troubling Others: Gay Aussie Men in 1990s Sinophone Fiction (Josh Stenberg) 8.Living in/with Ambiguity: Passing in Mu Cao’s In the Face of Death We Are All Equal (Rebecca Ehrenwirth) 9.Chen Xue’s Rags-to-Riches Subversion: An Underside Story of Taiwan’s Economic Miracle told from a Working-Class Perspective (Sophia Huei-Ling Chen) 10.Queering Animality: Identity and Alterity in Chiu Miao-chin’s Fiction (Carlos Rojas) 11.The Little Mushroom as the Queer/Wild: Disordering Desire and Desiring Disorder (Liang Ge) PART VI. IN QUEER MEMORY 12.Queer Singapore Chinese Theatre: Staging Homosexuality, AIDS and Familial Acceptance (How Wee Ng) 13.Cui Zi’en on Queer Literature: A Conversation (Hongwei Bao and Cui Zi’en) 14.Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature: A Conversation (Howard Chiang with Hangping Xu)