Archiving queer feelings in Hong Kong

Leung, Helen Hok‐Sze

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“…45 In a recent special issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, the editors aimed to provide space for "the abundant heteroglossia of 'local' theorizations that inevitably come along with the queer struggles carried out at specific locations." 47 Mak's work, according to Leung, searches for new spaces of thought and writing, a process during which her discomfort with queer and tongzhi (同志) discourse becomes increasingly prevalent. 47 Mak's work, according to Leung, searches for new spaces of thought and writing, a process during which her discomfort with queer and tongzhi (同志) discourse becomes increasingly prevalent.…”

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“…Yet, the appeal to native knowledge runs the danger of becoming an essentializing, hegemonic discourse on its own. 54 As Wong observes aptly, "the dynamics of global and local gay culture should be explored in a more sophisticated manner that avoids the reification of Chinese culture and the polarization of the West and the non-West." 51 It threatens to become culturally essentialist and in convenient compliance with a Chinese nationalism and particularism currently so much endorsed by the authorities.…”

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Gendering China Studies

Kloet

2008

China Information

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This article explores the connections between the field of China studies and the field of gender and sexuality studies. It engages with three questions. First, why is it that theoretical, conceptual and methodological crossfertilization between China studies and cultural studies remains quite scarce? Second, why are popular culture and art important domains of academic inquiry? Third, why is it crucial to theorize and problematize "Chineseness"? Drawing on the debates surrounding the translation of alleged "Western" theories related to the sex-gender distinction, feminism, and queer studies to a "Chinese" context, it is argued that the call for local knowledges runs the danger of becoming an essentializing, hegemonic discourse on its own. The article concludes with a plea for an interdisciplinary approach that combines theoretical and empirical insights from area studies and cultural studies, and an intersectional take in which gender is analyzed in conjunction with other parameters of difference, such as ethnicity, class or age, and, finally, a multisited, comparative research agenda as to avoid a sino-centric or Han-centric analysis. This may help to identify, understand, and hopefully resist the seduction of both cultural essentialism and cultural relativism.

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Gendering China Studies

Kloet

2008

China Information

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“…This demands that the transnational queer paradigm embrace both the empirical practices of local regions and a theoretical, conceptual reformulation of the notion of queer . This stance is most detectable in many Chinese queer studies (Ji, ; Chang, ; Martin, ; Leung, ; Rofel, ; Chu, ; Liu & Rofel, ) and queer sinophone studies (Chiang & Heinrich, ; Martin, ) . As Petrus Liu summarizes, “[t]he possibility of practicing queer theory in Chinese contexts demonstrates that critical attention to local knowledges and concerns does not immediately constitute a categorical rejection of ‘the queer’; rather, it shows that what is ‘queer’ is constantly expanded, supplemented, and revised by what is ‘Chinese’” (Liu, , 297).…”

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The intersection of nationalism, Confucian familism, and queer in Katherine Hui‐ling Chou's He's My Wife, He's My Mother

Chang

2019

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This article examines the transnational and cross-cultural imagination in Katherine Hui-ling Chou's 2009 play My Mother epitomizes the layered complexities of the intersection of nationalism, Confucian familism, and Western queer epistemology. This intersection not only rearticulates Chinese transnational history and reinterprets Chinese cultural resources by absorbing the fruition of Western queer paradigm. It also seeks to transfigure the horizon of queer studies currently limited by the individualization thesis, by deploying the Confucian idea of qing as an originary human affect to emphasize the significance of connectedness and care. Chou's literary vision thus offers both a fresh angle to grasp the cultural discourses in transnational circulation and a reflective perspective to spot the limits and conceivable transformations for the theoretical formation and political praxis concerning queer and Confucianism. K E Y W O R D S Confucian familism, He's My Mother, He's My Wife, individualization thesis, nationalism, qing, queer 366 | CHEN

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“…Beyond studies of popular music and subcultures, additional examples of queer scholarship that engage and expand upon this approach have generally focused on the queer archive (e.g. Davis 2009; Leung 2007).…”

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“…Since then, it has been revised and reprinted in her book, which I reference in the text, as well as in the volumes Queering the Popular Pitch(Whiteley and Rycenga 2006) and Queer Youth Cultures(Driver 2008). Beyond studies of popular music and subcultures, additional examples of queer scholarship that engage and expand upon this approach have generally focused on the queer archive (e.g Davis 2009;Leung 2007)…”

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Claiming Queer Territory in the Study of Subcultures and Popular Music

Taylor¹

2013

Sociology Compass

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For both the heterosexual and queer subject, subcultural participation and stylistic modes of cultural production and consumption, including popular music, are critical mechanisms aiding in the construction and expression of identity. Yet, in spite of abundant empirical examples of queer music cultures, subcultural studies scholars have paid minimal attention to queer sexualities and their concomitant stylistic modalities. In this article, I claim the importance of queer subterranean music cultures by synthesising significant literatures from various fields of inquiry including cultural sociology, popular musicology and queer studies. To begin, I will briefly clarify to whom and about what queer (theory) speaks. I then go on to offer an overview of subcultural and popular music research paying particular attention to the subaltern queer subject and surveying queer criticism within each field. Accordingly, I discuss various sites of popular music production and subcultural style such as punk and hip‐hop, to show how non‐heterosexual subjects carve space for resistant queer sexualities and merge queer sensibilities with pre‐existing cultural forms. This article consolidates interdisciplinary approaches that will benefit scholars invested in the study of queer subcultures and popular music.

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Archiving queer feelings in Hong Kong

Cited by 22 publications

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Gendering China Studies

Gendering China Studies

The intersection of nationalism, Confucian familism, and queer in Katherine Hui‐ling Chou's He's My Wife, He's My Mother

Claiming Queer Territory in the Study of Subcultures and Popular Music

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