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Sexuality in Cultural Studies: Doing Queer Research in Asia Transnationally

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  • What does it mean to do queer research in Asia? I want to begin with Yau Ching’s observation that queer studies in the region, or in her case, Hong Kong and Mainland China, ‘are still marked as territories for the impossible and the unthinkable, inhabited by stigma, silence, risk and frustration’[1]

  • Started in 2008, the Queer Asia series emerged from a longer genealogy of academic activism and scholarship that can be traced to the founding of the AsiaPacifiQueer (APQ) Network in 2000, by a group of scholars who have been working in disciplinary silos researching same-sex and transgender histories and cultures in Asia since the 1990s

  • Facing a kind of double erasure first from established Asian Studies Departments in the region which were ‘often unsympathetic if not hostile’ to the study of non-normative sexualities in the Asia[3]; and, second from US-based queer studies, which were dismissive or ignorant of theoretical and ethnographic developments in Asia, the APQ developed out of a common sense of these issues felt by a pioneer group of scholars, including Shimizu Akiko, Chris Berry, Sharyn Graham Davies, Peter Jackson, Helen Leung, Mark McLelland, Fran

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Citation: Tang, S. 2019. Sexuality in Cultural Studies: Doing Queer Research in Asia Transnationally. Cultural Studies Review, 25:2, 72-77. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr. v25i2.6878 ISSN 1837-8692 | Published by UTS ePRESS | https://epress. lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index. php/csrj

Beginnings and Breadth of Queer Asia
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