Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

Abstract

This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity & queer activism in the PRC today is more than a study of `queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines identity, power and governmentality in contemporary China, as shaped by China's historical conditions and contemporary situations. Introduction: Queer Comrades -- Imagined Cosmopolitanism: Queer Spaces in Shanghai -- From Comrade to Queer: A Genealogy of Tongzhi -- How to Transform the Self: Lessons from Conversion Therapy -- Cui Zi'en the Queer: Portrait of A Filmmaker -- 'To the People': Travelling Queer Film Festivals -- 'Comrades Are Also People': Tongzhi in Mobilization.