Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
(Part of the Perverse Modernities Series)
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Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822339471
ISBN13:9780822339472
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.1" x 9.2"
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