Perverse Taiwan Paperback / softback
Edited by Howard (University of Waterloo, Canada.) Chiang, Yin Wang
Part of the Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987.
Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and cultural representations.
This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia.
Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan’s past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium.
Together, the contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan.
By instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and queer studies, especially those interested in history, anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, 16 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781138349995
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, 16 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:14/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138349995
