Description
Book SynopsisThe first study of its kind, Tongzhi Living offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in northeast China and shows that their attempts to practice both conformity and rebellion paradoxically undercut the goals they aspire to reach.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: A Walk in the Park
1. A Cultural History of Same-Sex Desire in China
2. Popular Perceptions of Homosexuality in Postsocialist China
3. The 1s and the 0s: Defining, Socializing, and Disciplining Gender Roles in the Tongzhi Community
4. The Normal Postsocialist Subject: Class, Wealth, and Money Boys
5. Organizing against HIV in China
6. Embracing the Heterosexual Norm: The Double Lives of Tongzhi
7. Safe Sex among Men: Condoms, Promiscuity, and HIV
Conclusion: Maybe Not Marriage: A Future Free of the Closet
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
