Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

by Lisa Rofel

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339471
• ISBN13: 9780822339472
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.2"