Queering Chinese Kinship : Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China.

Queering Chinese Kinship : Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China.

1st ed.

9789888754564
9789888528738

HK : Hong Kong University Press, 2022.

©2022.

English

1 online resource (173 pages).

HQ73.3

306.760951

What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China--a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world--and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach--"queering Chinese kinship"--Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture's frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture.

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