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Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Petrus Liu
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Description for Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Hardback. In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359722
SKU
V9780822359722
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Ref
99-50
About Petrus Liu
Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.
Reviews for Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
"Liu’s book charts a bold intellectual path for queer studies, Marxist theory, and Chinese studies. . . . The book provides truly transdisciplinary insights on how the normative reproduction of society depends on queer marginalization and social existence. It is in this way that Queer Marxism in Two Chinas demonstrates how queer theory, Marxism, and Chineseness matter to each other."
Alvin K. Wong
Twentieth-Century China
"Overall, Liu’s new book is beautifully written, theoretically rich, and intellectually rigorous, enabling a critical lens to scrutinize queer cultural productions and reproductions in Taiwan and mainland China."
John Wei
China Review International
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is a theoretically rigorous, intellectually stimulating, and conceptually rich book.... The book is an important contribution to both queer studies and China studies, and it is well-positioned to (re)define the emergent field of queer China studies."
Jia Tan
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
"Liu’s approach establishes an innovative set of dialogues between cultural production, social activism, and queer theory that serve as fertile ground for a sustained critique of liberal politics. Given Liu’s eclectic selection of sources and provocative theoretical ambitions, scholarly interest in this work will go far beyond the field of modern Chinese studies; readers drawn to Marxism, queer studies, literature, and cinema will all find much to ponder in these pages."
Harlan D. Chambers
Journal of Asian Studies
“A powerful and insightful analysis. . . . Petrus Liu’s book is impressive precisely because it helps us reimagine queer theory, Marxism, and the Chinas, as well as their novel potential reconfigurations.”
Calvin Hui
GLQ
"Liu offers a poignant corrective to the relationship between culture and economy for queer Marxism."
J. Daniel Luther
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is an important work that promises to radically change perspectives and alter proportions, not least because it brings into clear focus three subjects rarely thought about together and somewhat peripheral in Chinese studies: Marxism, queerness, and Taiwan. The effect is like looking at a non-Mercator map: once you have seen it, the world will never look the same again."
Yün Peng
Cultural Critique
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is the most exciting book I have read in a long time in the overlapping but distinct fields of queer theory, China studies, Marxism, and cultural theory. We have all been reading so many insightful but depressing books that offer us a feeling of no way out of systems of domination, especially capitalism. This book instead gives us some hope to think about and act on projects of social justice that are expansive in their reach and imagination."
Lisa Rofel
Asian Journal of Social Science
Alvin K. Wong
Twentieth-Century China
"Overall, Liu’s new book is beautifully written, theoretically rich, and intellectually rigorous, enabling a critical lens to scrutinize queer cultural productions and reproductions in Taiwan and mainland China."
John Wei
China Review International
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is a theoretically rigorous, intellectually stimulating, and conceptually rich book.... The book is an important contribution to both queer studies and China studies, and it is well-positioned to (re)define the emergent field of queer China studies."
Jia Tan
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
"Liu’s approach establishes an innovative set of dialogues between cultural production, social activism, and queer theory that serve as fertile ground for a sustained critique of liberal politics. Given Liu’s eclectic selection of sources and provocative theoretical ambitions, scholarly interest in this work will go far beyond the field of modern Chinese studies; readers drawn to Marxism, queer studies, literature, and cinema will all find much to ponder in these pages."
Harlan D. Chambers
Journal of Asian Studies
“A powerful and insightful analysis. . . . Petrus Liu’s book is impressive precisely because it helps us reimagine queer theory, Marxism, and the Chinas, as well as their novel potential reconfigurations.”
Calvin Hui
GLQ
"Liu offers a poignant corrective to the relationship between culture and economy for queer Marxism."
J. Daniel Luther
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is an important work that promises to radically change perspectives and alter proportions, not least because it brings into clear focus three subjects rarely thought about together and somewhat peripheral in Chinese studies: Marxism, queerness, and Taiwan. The effect is like looking at a non-Mercator map: once you have seen it, the world will never look the same again."
Yün Peng
Cultural Critique
"Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is the most exciting book I have read in a long time in the overlapping but distinct fields of queer theory, China studies, Marxism, and cultural theory. We have all been reading so many insightful but depressing books that offer us a feeling of no way out of systems of domination, especially capitalism. This book instead gives us some hope to think about and act on projects of social justice that are expansive in their reach and imagination."
Lisa Rofel
Asian Journal of Social Science