Queer Chinese cultures and mobilities : kinship, migration, and middle classes /
Wei, John,
Queer Chinese cultures and mobilities : kinship, migration, and middle classes / John Wei. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations. - Queer Asia .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Stretched kinship -- Home and migration -- Sinophone mobilities -- The myth of quality -- Gated communities.
In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today's China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China's emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people's ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today's queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, Wei interrogates the meanings and functions of mobilities at the forefront of China's internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival, when gender and sexuality have become increasingly mobilized with geographical, cultural, and social class migrations and mobilizations beyond traditional and conventional frameworks, categories, and boundaries.
9882206301 9789882206304
Gays--China.
Homosexuality--China.
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .Q447 2020 HQ75
Queer Chinese cultures and mobilities : kinship, migration, and middle classes / John Wei. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations. - Queer Asia .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Stretched kinship -- Home and migration -- Sinophone mobilities -- The myth of quality -- Gated communities.
In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today's China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China's emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people's ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today's queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, Wei interrogates the meanings and functions of mobilities at the forefront of China's internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival, when gender and sexuality have become increasingly mobilized with geographical, cultural, and social class migrations and mobilizations beyond traditional and conventional frameworks, categories, and boundaries.
9882206301 9789882206304
Gays--China.
Homosexuality--China.
Electronic Books.
HQ76 / .Q447 2020 HQ75