This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities
and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a
sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity
and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the
constellation of global culture. Kong reports the results of an
extensive ethnographic study of contemporary Chinese gay men in a
wide range of different locations including mainland China, Hong
Kong and the Chinese overseas community in London, showing how
Chinese gay men live their everyday lives. Relating Chinese male
homosexuality to the extensive social and cultural theories on
gender, sexuality and the body, postcolonialism and globalisation,
the book examines the idea of queer space and numerous 'queer
flows' - of capital, bodies, ideas, images, and commodities -
around the world. The book concludes that different gay male
identities - such as the conspicuously consuming memba in Hong
Kong, the urban tongzhi, the 'money boy' in China and the feminised
'golden boy' in London - emerge in different locations, and are all
caught up in the transnational flow of queer cultures which are at
once local and global.
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