Desiring China Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

Name: Desiring China Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
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ISBN: 9780822339472

ISBN-10: 0822339471

ISBN-13: 9780822339472

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe

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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, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires--material, sexual, and affective--and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Yearnings: Televisual Love and Melodramatic Politics



Museum as Women's Space: Displays of Gender



Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities



From Sacrifice to Desire: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics



Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud



Desiring China: China's Entry into the WTO


Coda


Notes


Works Cited


Index