Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality

This Handbook offers a rich survey of topics concerning historical, modern and contemporary Chinese genders and sexualities. Exploring gender and sexuality as key dimensions of China's modernisation and globalisation, this Handbook effectively situates Chinese gender and sexuality in transnational and transcultural contexts. It also spotlights nonnormative practices and emancipatory potentials within mainstream, heterosexual-dominated and patriarchally structured settings. It serves as a definitive study, research and resource guide for emerging gender and sexuality issues in the Chinese-speaking world. This Handbook covers interdisciplinary methodologies, perspectives and topics, including: - History - Literature - Art - Fashion - Migration - Translation - Sex and desire - Film and television - Digital media - Star and fan cultures - Fantasies and lives of women and LGBTQ+ groups - Social movements - Transnational feminist and queer politics Paying acute attention to nonnormative genders and sexualities and emphasising the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity and class, this Handbook offers an essential, field-defining text to Chinese gender and sexuality studies.

Jamie J. Zhao is a global queer media scholar and currently Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies and co-director of the Centre for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Introduction. New Directions in Chinese Gender and Sexuality Studies Part 1: Theorising Gender and Sexual Histories 1. He-Yin Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2. Nudity and Modernity-New Forms of Gendered Voyeurism in the Art of Dan Duyu 3. Gendered Language in Modern Chinese History 4. Patriarchal Problems between Revolution and Reform Part 2: Transnational Migration and Transcultural Mobility 5. National Allegory and Media Performativity: Chinese Masculinity in the Context of K-Pop and American Rambo 6. Gender, Sexuality and Educational Mobility: Chinese Women Students in Australia Fran Martin 7. Gender and Sexuality in the Anglophone White Snake Worlds 8. Prostitution and Human Trafficking 9. Enacting Transnational Masculinity Regimes in the Migrant Context: Chinese Migrants in Japan Part 3: Queer/ing China 10. When Queer Theory Speaks Chinese: Translating Queer in China 11. Claustrophobic Sexuality: Mapping Gay Male Urban Subjects and Postmodernity in the Films of Cui Zi'en 12. Theorising Queer Cinemas 13. Speaking the 'L' Elsewhere: Queering Women on TV in a Global China 14. Opening the Door to a New World': Danmei and the Gender Revolution in China Part 4: Shifting Discourses Surrounding Womanhood 15. Funü: The Onion Peeling Stories 16. Chinese Women-in-Suits 17. Rethinking nüxing yishu in the PRC: The Shifting Discourses around Art by Women from the 1990s to Today 18. Beyond Cyborg Prostitutes: Fantasies of Womanhood, Translated Chinese SF, and Soft Power Part 5: Gendered Governance and Contestation in Emerging Cultures and Spaces 19. Women as Dancing Wanghong on Douyin: Affective Affordances and Gender Performativity 20. Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in Postsocialist China: Grassroots Male Images in Cyberspace 21. Sublimated Machismo: Patriarchy, Hegemonic Masculinity and Popular Nationalism in China's Hip-hop Culture 22. From Women's Space to Gendering the Public Sphere: Ai Xiaoming's Practice of Everyday Life and Activism