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Title As normal as possible : negotiating sexuality and gender in mainland China and Hong Kong / edited by Yau Ching
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Series Queer Asia
Queer Asia.
Contents Dreaming of normal while sleeping with impossible : introduction / Yau Ching -- I. Travelling bodies. Outcast bodies : money, sex and desire of money boys in mainland China / Travis S.K. Kong -- Lesbianism among Indonesian women migrants in Hong Kong / Amy Sim -- Tung Lo Wan : a lesbian haven or everyday life? / Denisse Tse Shang Tang -- II. Communities. GID in Hong Kong : a critical overview of medical treatments for transsexual patients / Eleanor Cheung -- Opening up marriage : married lalas in Shanghai / Kam Yip Lo Lucetta -- My unconventional marriage or ménage à trois in Beijing / Xiaopei He -- III. Representations. Porn power : sexual and gender politics in Li Han-hsiang's Fengyue films / Yau Ching -- Queering body and sexuality : Leslie Cheung's gender representation in Hong Kong popular culture / Natalia Sui-hung Chan -- Performing gender, performing documentary in post-socialist China / Shi-Yan Chao
Summary Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume showcases the work of scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focuses on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sexual minorities -- China
Sexual minorities -- China -- Hong Kong
Sexual orientation -- China
Sexual orientation -- China -- Hong Kong
Gay people -- China -- Social conditions
Gay people -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
Transsexuals -- China -- Social conditions
Transsexuals -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Gays -- Social conditions
Sexual minorities
Sexual orientation
Transsexuals -- Social conditions
Asians (LGBTQ).
Gay Asians.
Transgender Asians.
Lesbian Asians.
China
China -- Hong Kong
Form Electronic book
Author Yau, Ching
LC no. 2010402311
ISBN 9789882205727
9882205720
9789882206625
988220662X