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An illuminating and provocative read. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of essays to trace the development of unruly sexual bodies, communities, and cultural imaginings in Taiwan from the immediate postwar era to the present. A welcome addition to the bourgeoning field of queer Asian studies, the volume is especially impressive for its combination of geographical focus, historiographical depth, interdisciplinary breadth, and theoretical vision. Drawing on fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, sociology, medical anthropology, performance studies, and cinema studies, the volume compellingly establishes Taiwan as a fascinating transit point in East Asia where multiple modernizing regimes intersect and produce evershifting meanings of normality and transgression.

Tzelan D. Sang, author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China

Examining the multiple genealogies of queer cultural politics in Taiwan and teasing out how transnational sexual modernities intersect on this island as it has been subjected to the forces of imperial China, colonial Japan, Cold War US, the neoliberal Asia Pacific, and the transcolonial Sinophone world, Perverse Taiwan offers fresh critical angles to look at the emergence of queer Taiwan in trans-national cultural circuits. A must read for anyone interested in gender politics, global queer studies, East Asian history and culture, Sinophone studies, and Taiwan studies.

Kueifen Chiu, author of Regarding Taiwan: The New Taiwan Documentary

Perverse Taiwan

Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards nonnormative genders and sexualities after the lifting of martial law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on its genealogical roots, sociological manifestations, and cultural representations.

This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwans past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics, from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of crossdressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and transformations of queer cultures in post World War II Taiwan.

By instigating new dialogues across disciplinary divides, this book will have broad appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies and queer studies, especially those interested in history, anthropology, literature, film, media, and performance.

Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Yin Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

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5 Gender and Family in East Asia

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6 Dalit Womens Education in Modern India

Double discrimination

Shailaja Paik

7 New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics

Ya-chen Chen

8 Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia

Edited by Adeline Koh and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

9 Women and Conflict in India

Sanghamitra Choudhury

10 Gender, Governance and Empowerment in India

Sreevidya Kalaramadam

11 Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal

A gender perspective

Punam Yadav

12 Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

Junko Nishimura

13 Gender, Violence and the State in Asia

Edited by Amy Barrow and Joy L. Chia

14 Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan

Genaro Castro-Vzquez

15 Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore

Re-thinking global sexualities

Shawna Tang

16 Unmarried Women in Japan

The drift into singlehood

Akiko Yoshida

17 Perverse Taiwan

Edited by Howard Chiang and Yin Wang

First published 2017
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ISBN: 978-1-138-22796-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-39402-2 (ebk)

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Amy Brainer is an Assistant Professor of womens and gender studies and sociology at the University of MichiganDearborn. Her current book project examines queer and transgender kinship in Taiwan, with a focus on how family approaches to sexuality and gender are changing from one generation to the next. She is published in various anthologies and journals, including Sexualities , Journal of Family Issues , and Feminist Formations . A second research project explores how queer and trans people navigate family-based immigration to the United States.

Ta-wei Chi (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UCLA) currently teaches Taiwanese literature at National Chengchi University. His science fiction novella, featuring queer desire, has been translated into French and Japanese. His monograph in Chinese, a history of Taiwanese tongzhi literature, is forthcoming.

Howard Chiang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada. After receiving his Ph.D. in the history of science program at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Warwick for four years. His research lies at the intersections of modern Chinese and East Asian history, the history of science and medicine, comparative and global studies of gender, sexuality, and the body, theories of empire, and Sinophone studies. He is the editor of Transgender China (2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013, with Ari Larissa Heinrich), Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014), and Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (2015). He is currently completing a monograph on the historical and epistemological transformations of sex in twentieth-century China.

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