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Desiring China - Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Desiring China - Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and 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 are imagining and practicing
appropriate desires for the post-Mao era.Drawing on her research
over the past two decades among urban residents and rural migrants
in Hangzhou and Beijing, Rofel analyzes the meanings that
individuals attach to various public cultural phenomena and what
their interpretations say about their understandings of
post-socialist China and their roles within it. She locates the
first broad-based public debate about post-Mao social changes in
the passionate dialogues about the popular 1991 television soap
opera Yearnings. She describes how the emergence of gay identities
and practices in China reveals connections to a transnational
network of lesbians and gay men at the same time that it brings
urban/rural and class divisions to the fore. The 1999-2001
negotiations over China's entry into the World Trade Organization;
a controversial women's museum; the ways that young single women
portray their longings in relation to the privations they imagine
their mothers experienced; adjudications of the limits of
self-interest in court cases related to homoerotic desire,
intellectual property, and consumer fraud-Rofel reveals all of
these as sites where desiring subjects come into being.
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