Queer Resistance by Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi - ISBN: 9780520413795
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LGBTQ+ Chinese navigate intimacy, resist norms, and forge new identities.
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Queer Resistance

Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China

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  • Paperback

    280 pages

  • Release Date

    8 September 2026

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Summary

Queer Resistance examines transformations in intimate lives in post-socialist China through the experiences and resistance of LGBTQ+ people. Drawing on ten years of research conducted between 2015 and 2025, and possibly one of the largest qualitative datasets of its kind, the book traces shifting modes of power governing intimacy and the weakening of the state-society-family alliance and its capacity to enforce Confucian and heteronormative norms. It illustrates how LGBTQ+ people con…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780520413795
ISBN-10:0520413792
Author:Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi
Publisher:University of California Press
Imprint:University of California Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:8 September 2026
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi

Susanne Y.P. Choi is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also lead author of Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China.

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