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Undercurrents

Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory’s postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions – cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects – and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.

186 pages | © 2008

Sexuality Studies


Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Sex and the Postcolonial City

2 Between Girls

3 Trans Formations

4 In Queer Memory

5 Do It Yourself

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Discography

Index

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