Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction—queer Sinophone studies: Interdisciplinary synergies
	Interdisciplinary evolutions: continuities and ruptures
	Keyword approach
	Overview of the book: convergences and relations
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Transpacific—transfiguring Asian North America and the Sinophonic in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang\'s Small Beauty
	Valuing Small Beauty
	Queer Sinophonic accumulation
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Viscerality—choreographies of flesh: The geopolitics ofvisceral violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
	Sinophone cinema: Hollywood, indigeneity, and Taiwanese nationalism
	Cinematic archives of visceral violence
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Postcoloniality—postcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone transnationalism in Hong Kong cinema
	Introduction
	Happy Together and the queer Sinophone trajectory of non-arrival
	Capitalism, complicity, and queer nonrelationality to China in Scud’s films
	Hong Kong, queer Sinophone studies, and worldly intimacies
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Ethnicity—a queerness of relation: The plight of the \'ethnic minority\' in Chan Koon-Chung\'s Bare Life
	The relational queerness of the Chinese ethnic minority
	On relation
	The queerness of the ethnic minority in Chan Koon-chung’s Bare Life
	A queer trauma of ethnic proportions
	The cost of feeling
	A relational future?
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Liminality—so happy together … too: ContemporaryPhilippine gay comedy and the queering of Chinese-Filipino liminality
	The ChineseFilipino merchant as the middle man
	The ChineseFilipino in contemporary cultural texts
	Chinese origins, Filipino ways: Soft Hearts (1998)
	The Chinese-Filipino woman as queer: So … Happy Together (2004)
	No of/to the father: Mano Po 4: I Legal Wife (2005)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Fandom—transcultural desires and lesbian fandom: Takarazuka revue in Taiwan
	Introduction
	Takarazuka Revue
	Queer readings and pleasures
	Becoming fans
	Mapping queer desires and popular culture in Taiwan
	Fan types, activities, pleasures and censorship
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Adaptation—recognition, reproach, repression: The RenLikui case in 1947 Tianjin and the cultural politics of homosexual murder in the Sinophone world
	Discovering the homosexual murderer
	“This homosexual murderer is abnormal”
	Ren Likui’s afterlife, heteronormative adaptation
	Isomorphic adaptation of Ren’s case in the Sinophone world
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Intermediality—\"a weird concept\": Queer intermediality in Dung Kai-cheung\'s fiction
	Fables of creation
	Androgyny
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Activism—language, class, and the Hoenggong-gwailou divide in Hong Kong\'s LGBTI activist communities
	The Sinophone and its queer anthropological potential
	Defining hoenggongjan and gwailou
	Expat activism and the hierarchization of language
	Local Cantonese and local English
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Residual—the polite residuals of heteronormativity: Legalizing transgender marriage from the European Court of Human Rights to Sinophone Hong Kong
	The weight of a fairer past
	The veil of queer interpellations
	Coda: queer Sinophone politics
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Cases cited
Index