【新書座談 Book Launch】 Sexuality and the Rise of China

本中心很榮幸邀請到香港大學社會系江紹祺(Travis Kong)教授前來分享他即將出版的新書Sexuality and the Rise of China。江教授研究關懷主要集中在華人的性/性別、男性氣質、愛滋病的社會影響。這次新書座談將聚焦於香港、臺灣與中國年輕男同志的個人認同、社群與文化流變，以及漢文化圈的性別研究對全球性別研究乃至於學術去殖民化的啟示。

主講 / 江紹褀 Travis Shiu Ki Kong
(Associate Professor, Sociology / the University of Hong Kong)
評論 / Sara Friedman
(Professor, Gender Studies / Indiana University)
主持 / 呂青湖 Lake Lui
(Associate Professor, Sociology / National Taiwan University)

日期 / 2023.06.15
時間 / 12:30-14:00
地點 / 社會科學院108室

摘要 /

In Sexuality and the Rise of China (Duke, 2023) Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong’s transnational queer sociological approach shows the complex interplay between personal biography and the dramatically changing social institutions in these three societies. Tracing the alternately diverging and converging paths of being young, “Chinese,” gay, and male, Kong reveals how both Western and emerging inter- and intra- Asian queer cultures shape queer/tongzhi experiences. Most significantly, at this historical juncture characterized by the rise of China, Kong criticizes the globalization of sexuality by emphasizing inter-Asia modeling, referencing, and solidarities and debunks the essentializing myth of Chineseness, thereby decolonizing Western sexual knowledge and demonstrating the differential meanings of Chineseness/queerness across the Sinophone world.

 

*The book talk will be conducted in English.

 

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