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In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, an...

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, an...

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Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised consumers. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia d...

Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

A multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian Pacific

A multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian Pacific

Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese communities worldwide.

Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese communities worldwide.

Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised consumers. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia d...

By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices.

Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Analysing the rise of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s, this volume approaches the queer sexualities represented in Taiwanese fiction, film and public culture as dynamic formations that combine local knowledge with globalizing discourses on gay and lesbian identity.