Queer China, Crip China

Catalog description

Study of the representation of non-normative bodyminds and desires (e.g. disability and homosexuality) in modern Chinese literature and film. We discuss the meanings embedded in Chinese discourses of gender, sexuality, and disability; investigate how these discourses have been appropriated in the construction of a modern Chinese national identity; and connect our specific inquiry into Queer China and Crip China to our general attempt to answer the broader question of how the modern nation-state China has been imagined into being over the past century. Our approach will be interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational.