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Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China
Tiantian Zheng
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Description for Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 310.
Tongzhi, which translates into English as same purpose or same will, was once widely used to mean comrade. Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity.Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan city of Dalian in northeast China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork by Tiantian Zheng, the book reveals an array of coping mechanisms developed by tongzhi men in response to rapid social, cultural, and political ... Read more
Tongzhi, which translates into English as same purpose or same will, was once widely used to mean comrade. Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity.Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan city of Dalian in northeast China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork by Tiantian Zheng, the book reveals an array of coping mechanisms developed by tongzhi men in response to rapid social, cultural, and political ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692002
SKU
V9780816692002
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About Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng is the author and co-author of eight books and professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. Tiantian Zheng's book Red Lights (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) was the winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Her book Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China was the winner ... Read more
Reviews for Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China
Tongzhi Living is ethnographically rich, beautifully written, and poignantly descriptive of many social spaces in urban China. Through the lens of tongzhi struggles, desires, and community organizing, we witness people working against marginalization, silence, and invisibility. -Ralph Litzinger, Duke University