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Title As normal as possible : negotiating sexuality and gender in mainland China and Hong Kong / edited by Yau Ching.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Queer Asia
Queer Asia.
Contents Dreaming of normal while sleeping with impossible : introduction / Yau Ching -- I. Travelling bodies. Outcast bodies : money, sex and desire of money boys in mainland China / Travis S.K. Kong -- Lesbianism among Indonesian women migrants in Hong Kong / Amy Sim -- Tung Lo Wan : a lesbian haven or everyday life? / Denisse Tse Shang Tang -- II. Communities. GID in Hong Kong : a critical overview of medical treatments for transsexual patients / Eleanor Cheung -- Opening up marriage : married lalas in Shanghai / Kam Yip Lo Lucetta -- My unconventional marriage or ménage à trois in Beijing / Xiaopei He -- III. Representations. Porn power : sexual and gender politics in Li Han-hsiang's Fengyue films / Yau Ching -- Queering body and sexuality : Leslie Cheung's gender representation in Hong Kong popular culture / Natalia Sui-hung Chan -- Performing gender, performing documentary in post-socialist China / Shi-Yan Chao.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
Summary Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume showcases the work of scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focuses on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sexual minorities -- China.
Sexual minorities.
China.
Sexual minorities -- China -- Hong Kong.
China -- Hong Kong.
Sexual orientation -- China.
Sexual orientation.
Sexual orientation -- China -- Hong Kong.
Gay people -- China -- Social conditions.
Gays.
Social conditions.
Gay people -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
Transsexuals -- China -- Social conditions.
Transsexuals.
Transsexuals -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject LGBTQ+ people.
Sexual minorities.
Sexual orientation.
Sexual preference.
Homosexuals.
Transsexual people.
Added Author Yau, Ching.
Other Form: Print version: As normal as possible. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010 9789622099869 (DLC) 2010402311 (OCoLC)620364878
ISBN 9789882205727 (electronic book)
9882205720 (electronic book)
9789622099869
9622099866
9789622099876
9622099874
Standard No. 9786613016829