Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations in China, 1900-1950 (Queer Asia)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9622099815 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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james N. Kvale said One Star. This was someone's doctoral dissertation-I found it tedious
Documenting how nationalism and colonial modernity reconfigured Chinese discourses on sex between men in the early twentieth century, Wenqing Kang has amassed 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.. This is the most serious study to date 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
Obsession is a model of how to think about sex in a historically nuanced fashion." – Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz. Drawing upon tabloid gossip, popular and highbrow fiction, Beijing opera, and sexological writings, Wenqing Kang explores the varied domains where this discussion erupted. He provides a deft and observant guide to a semicolonial world and its debates about what it meant for men to desire men. "Can sex between men threaten the emergence of a virile modern nation? In the early twentieth century, that is what the urban Chinese reading public was told
Wenqing Kang is assistant professor of History at Cleveland State University.