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

Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Yearnings : televisual love and melodramatic politics
  • Museum as women's space : displays of gender
  • Qualities of desire : imagining gay identities
  • From sacrifice to desire : cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics
  • Legislating desire : homosexuality, intellectual property rights, and consumer fraud
  • Desiring China : China's entry into the WTO
  • Coda.