Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." - Wenqing Kang (Modern Chinese Literature And Culture) "The Specter of Materialism is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead." - Rebecca Karl (Chinese Literature) "Petrus Liu’s work constitutes an indispensable force in both queer studies and Chinese studies." - Flair Donglai Shi (Asian Studies Review) "Together with his previous book Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism makes a major and invaluable contribution to creating a truly global queer Marxism. . . . Queer Marxists have a lot to learn from Liu about China’s central place in the spheres of geopolitics, economics, gender and sexuality. At the same time, queer Marxists will enthusiastically welcome his insistence that queer studies need to be far more materialist." - Peter Drucker (Dialogues in Human Geography) "A groundbreaking work. . . . This book offers insightful interventions that carry substantial significance." - Charlie Yi Zhang (Journal of Asian Studies)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order  1Part I: Theory1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus  212. The Specter of Materialism  52Part II: History3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution  814. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia  1045. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus  135Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism  161Notes  165Bibliography  195Index

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." - Wenqing Kang (Modern Chinese Literature And Culture) "The Specter of Materialism is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead." - Rebecca Karl (Chinese Literature) "Petrus Liu’s work constitutes an indispensable force in both queer studies and Chinese studies." - Flair Donglai Shi (Asian Studies Review) "Together with his previous book Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism makes a major and invaluable contribution to creating a truly global queer Marxism. . . . Queer Marxists have a lot to learn from Liu about China’s central place in the spheres of geopolitics, economics, gender and sexuality. At the same time, queer Marxists will enthusiastically welcome his insistence that queer studies need to be far more materialist." - Peter Drucker (Dialogues in Human Geography) "A groundbreaking work. . . . This book offers insightful interventions that carry substantial significance." - Charlie Yi Zhang (Journal of Asian Studies)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order  1Part I: Theory1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus  212. The Specter of Materialism  52Part II: History3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution  814. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia  1045. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus  135Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism  161Notes  165Bibliography  195Index

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

"Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." - Wenqing Kang (Modern Chinese Literature And Culture) "The Specter of Materialism is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead." - Rebecca Karl (Chinese Literature) "Petrus Liu’s work constitutes an indispensable force in both queer studies and Chinese studies." - Flair Donglai Shi (Asian Studies Review) "Together with his previous book Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu’s The Specter of Materialism makes a major and invaluable contribution to creating a truly global queer Marxism. . . . Queer Marxists have a lot to learn from Liu about China’s central place in the spheres of geopolitics, economics, gender and sexuality. At the same time, queer Marxists will enthusiastically welcome his insistence that queer studies need to be far more materialist." - Peter Drucker (Dialogues in Human Geography) "A groundbreaking work. . . . This book offers insightful interventions that carry substantial significance." - Charlie Yi Zhang (Journal of Asian Studies)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order  1Part I: Theory1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus  212. The Specter of Materialism  52Part II: History3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution  814. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia  1045. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus  135Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism  161Notes  165Bibliography  195Index