Perverse Taiwan [Hardcover]

Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwanis 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 cross-dressing 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.

1. Perverse Taiwan by Howard Chiang and Yin Wang

Part I: Turning Queer in Straight Times: Reframing Genealogies

2. Archiving Taiwan, Articulating Renyaoby Howard Chiang
3. Plural Not Singular: Homosexuality in Taiwanese Literature of the 1960s by Ta-wei Chi
4. From Psychoanalysis to AIDS: The Early Contradictory Approaches to Gender and Sexuality and the Recourse to American Discourses during Taiwans Societal Transformation in the Early 1980s by Jens Damm

Part II: Orderly Subjects of Disorderly Conducts: Redefining Positionalil“M