Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courag...

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Main Author:	Miller, Casey James (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press [2023]
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Gay liberation movement > China Gay rights movement > China Gays > China Homosexuality > China Sexual minorities > China
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi'an: a grassroots gay men's HIV/AIDS organization called Tong'ai and a lesbian women's group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from "the circle," a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society. The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (206 pages) 8 B-W photograph, 3 color photographs, 3 tables
ISBN:	9781978835399
DOI:	10.36019/9781978835399