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9%OFFPetrus Liu - Queer Marxism in Two Chinas - 9780822360049 - V9780822360049
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Queer Marxism in Two Chinas

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Description for Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Paperback. In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360049
SKU
V9780822360049
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About Petrus Liu
Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History. 

Reviews for Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
"Liu’s book charts a bold intellectual path for queer studies, Marxist theory, and Chinese studies. . . . The book provides truly transdisciplinary insights on how the normative reproduction of society depends on queer marginalization and social existence. It is in this way that Queer Marxism in Two Chinas demonstrates how queer theory, Marxism, and Chineseness matter to each other." ... Read more

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