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Author: Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham, UK) ,
Yahia Zhengtang Ma (University of Melbourne, Australia) ,
Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham, UK) ,
Jamie J. Zhao (City University of Hong Kong, HKSAR)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.460kg
ISBN: 9781350415379
ISBN 10: 1350415375
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 May 2026
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book's clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world."" --Professor Ari Heinrich, Australian National University, Australia ""This book challenges orthodox assumptions about queerness, Chineseness and literature itself by provoking us to think across political borders, scholarly disciplines, sex-gender identities and literary hierarchies. It is a treasure-trove of a collection, definitively illustrating the precious contribution that Chinese-language works and their translations and interpretations make to global queer literature."" --Professor Fran Martin, University of Melbourne; author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (2010) and Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (2003) ""This volume ushers in a new era of queer literary criticism in the Sinosphere. From Ming-Qing homoerotic literature to current GL (girl love) fanfic, from novels about sexual agency to the intersection of queer and working-class perspectives, to the queering of animality, and much more, these essays lead the way forward to queer futures by opening out to a multitude of trans-formations, of gendered and sexual embodiments. The capaciousness is inspiring; this volume broadens our imaginations of the possible."" --'Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (2007) ""I particularly welcome Queer Literature in the Sinosphere as a collection of scholarly research addressing queer literature as literature, and to this end it is a significant contribution to the open intellectual project of testing where we are in relation to historical and literary categories and genres."" --Professor Wu Cuncun, The University of Hong Kong; author of Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (2004) and and Xi wai zhi xi (Drama beyond the drama) (2017) ""The achievements of Queer Literature in the Sinosphere are considerable, and it is highly recommended reading for anyone-whether undergraduate, graduate, or general reader-interested in queer works from the Sinosphere. It provides valuable insights into the intersection of queerness, culture, and politics across different Sinophone regions, and serves as an important starting point for further exploration."" --MCLC
This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book’s clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world. * Professor Ari Heinrich, Australian National University, Australia * This book challenges orthodox assumptions about queerness, Chineseness and literature itself by provoking us to think across political borders, scholarly disciplines, sex-gender identities and literary hierarchies. It is a treasure-trove of a collection, definitively illustrating the precious contribution that Chinese-language works and their translations and interpretations make to global queer literature. * Professor Fran Martin, University of Melbourne; author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (2010) and Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (2003) * This book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular. Moreover, it brings to the fore transness, queer woman and the queer working-class ... It is the editors’ and contributors’ shared attentiveness to these topics that makes this anthology stand out as a queer friendly and innovative project. * The Shanghai Literary Review * Queer Literature in the Sinosphere ... presents a groundbreaking and timely scholarly achievement, celebrating the richness and depth of queer literature of the Sinosphere through contributions from a distinguished cohort of scholars … This collection integrates an impressive array of theoretical frameworks, concepts, and perspectives to analyse queer literature in the Sinosphere, challenging dominant narratives in literary criticism. * Journal of Intercultural Studies * This volume ushers in a new era of queer literary criticism in the Sinosphere. From Ming-Qing homoerotic literature to current GL (girl love) fanfic, from novels about sexual agency to the intersection of queer and working-class perspectives, to the queering of animality, and much more, these essays lead the way forward to queer futures by opening out to a multitude of trans-formations, of gendered and sexual embodiments. The capaciousness is inspiring; this volume broadens our imaginations of the possible. * 'Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (2007) * I particularly welcome Queer Literature in the Sinosphere as a collection of scholarly research addressing queer literature as literature, and to this end it is a significant contribution to the open intellectual project of testing where we are in relation to historical and literary categories and genres. * Professor Wu Cuncun, The University of Hong Kong; author of Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (2004) and and Xi wai zhi xi (Drama beyond the drama) (2017) * The achievements of Queer Literature in the Sinosphere are considerable, and it is highly recommended reading for anyone—whether undergraduate, graduate, or general reader—interested in queer works from the Sinosphere. It provides valuable insights into the intersection of queerness, culture, and politics across different Sinophone regions, and serves as an important starting point for further exploration. * MCLC *
This rich and stimulating volume brings together a diverse cross-section of scholars looking at queer literature from all over the Sinosphere. The book’s clever organization and impressive breadth (chronological, geographic, cultural, epistemological) ensure that it will become required reading in classrooms centering LGBTQ material from around the world. * Professor Ari Heinrich, Australian National University, Australia * This book challenges orthodox assumptions about queerness, Chineseness and literature itself by provoking us to think across political borders, scholarly disciplines, sex-gender identities and literary hierarchies. It is a treasure-trove of a collection, definitively illustrating the precious contribution that Chinese-language works and their translations and interpretations make to global queer literature. * Professor Fran Martin, University of Melbourne; author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (2010) and Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (2003) * This volume ushers in a new era of queer literary criticism in the Sinosphere. From Ming-Qing homoerotic literature to current GL (girl love) fanfic, from novels about sexual agency to the intersection of queer and working-class perspectives, to the queering of animality, and much more, these essays lead the way forward to queer futures by opening out to a multitude of trans-formations, of gendered and sexual embodiments. The capaciousness is inspiring; this volume broadens our imaginations of the possible. * 'Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (2007) * I particularly welcome Queer Literature in the Sinosphere as a collection of scholarly research addressing queer literature as literature, and to this end it is a significant contribution to the open intellectual project of testing where we are in relation to historical and literary categories and genres. * Professor Wu Cuncun, The University of Hong Kong; author of Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China (2004) and and Xi wai zhi xi (Drama beyond the drama) (2017) * The achievements of Queer Literature in the Sinosphere are considerable, and it is highly recommended reading for anyone—whether undergraduate, graduate, or general reader—interested in queer works from the Sinosphere. It provides valuable insights into the intersection of queerness, culture, and politics across different Sinophone regions, and serves as an important starting point for further exploration. * MCLC *
Author Information
Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Queer Comrades, Queer China, Queer Media in China and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance. He co-edits, with Dr Jamie J. Zhao, the Bloomsbury book series Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities. Yahia Ma is a PhD candidate in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on queer translation studies and queer Chinese literature. His critical work can be found in the American Journal of Chinese Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Melbourne Asia Review, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
