| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
HuangHans Tao-Ming, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Hong Kong [China] |
| Published: |
Hong Kong University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 275 p.). |
| Series: |
Queer Asia |
| Subject: |
Gays in literature - |
| Subject: |
Queer theory - Political aspects - Taiwan - |
| Subject: |
Feminism - Political aspects - Taiwan - |
| Subject: |
Male homosexuality - Political aspects - Taiwan - |
| Subject: |
Gays - Taiwan - |
| Personal Subject: |
Bai - Xianyong - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789888053803/ |
| Notes: |
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| Summary: |
This book analyses the critical reception of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys, one of Taiwan's first recognized gay novels, and one which has played an important role in redefining sexual modernity and linking this to ongoing cultural dialogues on state building. It examines the deployment of sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan by paying particular attention to male homosexuality and prostitution. In addition toliterary and film material, the study engages a number of relevant legal cases and media reports. Through Hans Huang's primary research and historical investigations, thebook not only illuminates the construction of gendered sexual identities in Taiwanese culture but also, in a reflexive fashion, critiques the culture that produces them |
| ISBN: |
9789888053803electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9789888083077hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction -- 1. Mental hygiene and the regime of sexuality : the case of the man who escapes marriage -- 2. Prostitution, perversion andAIDS : the secrets of the "glass clique" -- 3. State power, prostitution and sexual order : towards a genealogical critique of "virtuous custom" -- 4. From glass clique to Tongzhi Nation : crystal boys, identity formation and politics of sexual shame -- 5. Modernising gender, civilising sex : state feminism and perverse imagination -- 6. Mourning the monogamous ideal : anti-prostitution feminism, conjugal sentimentality and the formation of melancholic sexual modernity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of special clmes and terms -- Bibliography -- Index |