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Gender, sexuality, modern Chinese literature and film, urban studies, performance studies, Taiwan studies. My first book, The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (2003), sought to shed light on China's formative bourgeoisie's pursuit of modernity and cosmopolitanism by tracing the rise of a system of sexuality revolving around the heterosexual/homosexual binary, of which the woman-preferring woman is a crucial, contested link. By closely examining fiction, the mass media, popular medical discourse, and recent feminist and queer identity movements, I detail the localization, in the Chinese-speaking world, of global regimes of sexual knowledge and disciplines of the self. My second book (in progress), entitled Vernacular Modernisms: Popular Fiction and Urban Culture in Republican China, 1912-1949, looks at the thematic, formal and affective innovations of Chinese commercial fiction in a larger web of urban entertainment culture. Another area of research is Taiwan--particularly Taiwanese women writers and documentary films.
Books - The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 380 p.
"Failed Modern Girls." In Performing "Nation": Gender Politics in the Literature, Theater and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940, ed. Doris Croissant, Catherine Vance Yeh, and Joshua S. Mostow. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. 179-202. "The Transgender Body in Wang Dulu's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." In Modernity Incarnate: Refiguring Chinese Body Politics, ed. Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. 98-112. "Women's Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu's Popular Novels." In Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. 287-308. "The Female Bildungsroman in Wang Dulu's Beijing-Flavored Novels." In Beijing: Urban Imagination and Cultural Memory, ed. Chen Pingyuan and David Der-wei Wang. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2005. 209-38. [In Chinese] "At the Juncture of Censure and Mass Voyeurism: Narratives of Female Homoerotic Desire in Post-Mao China." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8, no. 4 (2002): 523-52. Duke University Press. "The Discourse of Urban Space in The Old Capital." In Space, Region and Culture, ed. Li Fengmao and Liu Yuanru. Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 2002. 439-74. [In Chinese] "FeminismÕs Double: Lesbian Activism in the Mediated Public Sphere of Taiwan." In Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China, ed. Mayfair Yang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 132-61. "Translating Homosexuality: The Discourse of Tongxing'ai in Republican China (1912-1949)." In Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. Lydia H. Liu. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 276-304. "Eileen Chang's Eighteen Springs and The Affinity of Half a Lifetime: A Study of the Popular Novel." In Chinese Literary Theory and Popular Culture, ed. Peng Hsiao-yen. Taipei: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, 1999. 677-705. [In Chinese]
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