• Published by Hong Kong University Press

This is a serious study on the topic of male same-sex relations in China during the early twentieth century, illuminating male same-sex relations in many sites: language, translated sexological writings, literary works, tabloid newspapers, and opera. Documenting how nationalism and colonial modernity reconfigured Chinese discourses on sex between men in the early twentieth century, the book utilizes a wealth of material previously overlooked by scholars, such as the entertainment news and opinion pieces related to same-sex relations published in the tabloid press. It sheds new light on several puzzles, such as the process whereby sex between men became increasingly stigmatized in China between the 1910s and 1940s, and shows that the rich vocabulary and concepts that existed for male-male relations in pre-modern China continued to be used by journalists and writers throughout the Republican era, creating the conditions for receiving Western sexology.

• Published/Released: October 2010
• Original Copyright: 2009
• ISBN 13: 9789888052615
• ISBN 10: 9888052616
• Product number: 261846
• Shipping Weight: 0.00 lbs (0.00 kgs)

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