Perverse Taiwan

In: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Perverse Taiwan -- PART I Turning queer in straight times: reframing genealogies -- 2 Archiving Taiwan, articulating renyao -- 3 Plural not singular: homosexuality in Taiwanese literature of the 1960s -- 4 From psychoanalysis to AIDS: the early contradictory approaches to gender and sexuality and the recourse to American discourses during Taiwan's societal transformation in the early 1980s -- PART II Orderly subjects of disorderly conducts: redefining positionalities -- 5 "Are you a T, Po, or bufen?": transnational cultural politics and lesbian identity formation in contemporary Taiwan -- 6 Patrilineal kinship and transgender embodiment in Taiwan -- PART III Normal nation and deviant narrations: refiguring embodiments -- 7 Performing hybridity: the music and visual politics of male cross-dressing performance in Taiwan -- 8 Market visibility: the development and vicissitudes of tongzhi cinema in Taiwan -- 9 Defacing shame -- 10 A canvas of foreign characters: post/colonial modernity in Lai Xiangyin's "The Translator" and Thereafter -- Index