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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964801903321

Autore

Rofel Lisa <1953->

Titolo

Desiring China : experiments in neoliberalism, sexuality, and public culture / / Lisa Rofel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

9786612923272

9781282923270

1282923277

9780822389903

0822389908

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages)

Collana

Perverse modernities

Disciplina

306.70951/090511

306.70951090511

Soggetti

Sex - Social aspects - China

Popular culture - China

Culture and globalization - China

Cosmopolitanism - China

Post-communism - China

Neoliberalism - China

National characteristics, Chinese

China Social conditions 2000-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Yearnings : televisual love and melodramatic politics -- Museum as women's space : displays of gender -- Qualities of desire : imagining gay identities -- From sacrifice to desire : cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics -- Legislating desire : homosexuality, intellectual property rights, and consumer fraud -- Desiring China : China's entry into the WTO -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

An ethnography of gender, sexuality, and consumption in post-socialist China.