Chinese Male Homosexualities (Routledge Contemporary China Series) ISBN-13: 9780415518987

Author: Kong, Travis S. K.

Brand: Routledge

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780415518987

Release Date: 02-03-2012

Languages: English

Binding: Paperback

Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

Details: This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture.
Kong reports the results of an extensive ethnographic study of contemporary Chinese gay men in a wide range of different locations including mainland China, Hong Kong and the Chinese overseas community in London, showing how Chinese gay men live their everyday lives. Relating Chinese male homosexuality to the extensive social and cultural theories on gender, sexuality and the body, postcolonialism and globalisation, the book examines the idea of queer space and numerous queer flows – of capital, bodies, ideas, images, and commodities – around the world.
The book concludes that different gay male identities – such as the conspicuously consuming memba in Hong Kong, the urban tongzhi, the money boy in China and the feminised golden boy in London – emerge in different locations, and are all caught up in the transnational flow of queer cultures which are at once local and global.