John Wei
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9789888528271
- eISBN:
- 9789882206304
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528271.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities examines the germination and movements of emergent queer cultures and social practices in the early twenty-first century. Under the dual pressure of compulsory ...
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Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities examines the germination and movements of emergent queer cultures and social practices in the early twenty-first century. Under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development, the configurations and understandings of gender and sexuality have become less sedentary and increasingly mobilized beyond traditional frameworks, categories, and boundaries. Through a reconsideration and requalification of queer mobilities, this groundbreaking project integrates and intervenes into the changing family and kinship structure, internal and international migrations, cultural flows and counterflows, and social inclusion and exclusion in queer China and Sinophone Asia.
It considers the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes that have conjointly structured and sustained queer people’s ongoing longings and sufferings, establishing fresh concepts and new paradigms in a rich and provocative social analysis and cultural critique of queer homecoming and homemaking, cultural production and circulation, and middle class formation and position. Through an interdisciplinary approach and expansive scope, Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities offers a revolutionary framework that interweaves sexual mobility and modernity with geographical, cultural, and social class migration and mobilization to interrogate the meanings of mobilities for queer people amid China’s internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival in the twenty-first century.Less
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities examines the germination and movements of emergent queer cultures and social practices in the early twenty-first century. Under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development, the configurations and understandings of gender and sexuality have become less sedentary and increasingly mobilized beyond traditional frameworks, categories, and boundaries. Through a reconsideration and requalification of queer mobilities, this groundbreaking project integrates and intervenes into the changing family and kinship structure, internal and international migrations, cultural flows and counterflows, and social inclusion and exclusion in queer China and Sinophone Asia.
It considers the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes that have conjointly structured and sustained queer people’s ongoing longings and sufferings, establishing fresh concepts and new paradigms in a rich and provocative social analysis and cultural critique of queer homecoming and homemaking, cultural production and circulation, and middle class formation and position. Through an interdisciplinary approach and expansive scope, Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities offers a revolutionary framework that interweaves sexual mobility and modernity with geographical, cultural, and social class migration and mobilization to interrogate the meanings of mobilities for queer people amid China’s internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival in the twenty-first century.
Sagi Schaefer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199672387
- eISBN:
- 9780191751332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672387.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter picks up where the former left, with the watershed of border formation in the spring of 1952. The chapter studies this violent transformation of East German border policy as part of an ...
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This chapter picks up where the former left, with the watershed of border formation in the spring of 1952. The chapter studies this violent transformation of East German border policy as part of an overall change of course in Soviet policy in Germany. East German state-building took the initiative in border construction from the West at this point, aiming to make West Germany and the Western Allies pay for division and recognize the legitimacy and power of the GDR. This effort, as the chapter shows, affected frontier farmers more dramatically than anyone else. Overnight, it led to much chaos in frontier agriculture, just as harvest season was approaching. A scramble for land ensued on both sides of the border, in which farmers and state agencies from both sides of the forming border tried to determine the future of bounded land. Comparing the results of these conflicts in different areas shows that kinship networks, topography, religion, and access to legal documentation were all key factors.Less
This chapter picks up where the former left, with the watershed of border formation in the spring of 1952. The chapter studies this violent transformation of East German border policy as part of an overall change of course in Soviet policy in Germany. East German state-building took the initiative in border construction from the West at this point, aiming to make West Germany and the Western Allies pay for division and recognize the legitimacy and power of the GDR. This effort, as the chapter shows, affected frontier farmers more dramatically than anyone else. Overnight, it led to much chaos in frontier agriculture, just as harvest season was approaching. A scramble for land ensued on both sides of the border, in which farmers and state agencies from both sides of the forming border tried to determine the future of bounded land. Comparing the results of these conflicts in different areas shows that kinship networks, topography, religion, and access to legal documentation were all key factors.
