Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

241 Pages·2016·3.734 MB·English

by  Tiantian Zheng (editor)

CULTURAL POLITICS OF GENDER AND
SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA
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CULTURAL POLITICS
OF GENDER AND
SEXUALITY IN
CONTEMPORARY
ASIA
Edited by Tiantian Zheng
University of Hawai‘i Press
Honolulu
© 2016 University of Hawai‘i Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Cultural politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary Asia / Edited by Tiantian Zheng.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8248-5296-2 (cloth : alk. paper)— ISBN 978-0-8248-5297-9 (paperback : alk. paper)
1. Sex role— Asia. 2. Gender identity— Asia. 3. Sex— Social aspects— Asia. 4. Asia—
Social life and customs—21st century. I. Zheng, Tiantian, editor.
GN479.65.C85 2016
305.3095— dc23
2015024798
University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on
acid- free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence
and durability of the Council on Library Resources.
Composition by Westchester Publishing Ser vices
I dedicate this book to
Dave Grass
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Contents
Ac know ledg ments ix
Introduction: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia 1
tiantian zheng
Chapter One
Sexuality, Class, and Neoliberal Ideology: Same- Sex Attracted Men
and Money Boys in Postsocialist China 23
tiantian zheng
Chapter Two
Producing Purity: An Ethnographic Study of a Neotraditionalist Ladies’
Academy in Contemporary Urban China 41
kevin carrico
Chapter Tree
“To night, You Are a Man!”: Negotiating Embodied Re sis tance in Local
Tai Nightclubs 57
danielle antoinette hidalgo and tracy royce
Chapter Four
Feeling like a “Man”: Managing Gender, Sexuality, and Corporate Life in
Afer-H ours Tokyo 74
nana okura gagné
Chapter Five
Mobilizing the Masses to Change Something Intimate: Te Pro cess of
Desexualization in China’s Family Planning Campaign 92
danning wang
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Chapter Six
Plea sure, Patronage, and Responsibility: Sexuality and Status among
New Rich Men in Contemporary China 108
john osburg
Chapter Seven
Labor, Masculinity, and History: Bangbang Men in Chongqing, China 124
xia zhang
Chapter Eight
Boyz II Men: Neighborhood Associations in Western India as the Site
of Masculine Identity 140
madhura lohokare
Chapter Nine
Marriage and Reproduction in East Asian Cities: Views from
Single Women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo 156
lynne nakano
Chapter Ten
Media, Sex, and the Self in Cambodia 171
heidi hoefinger
Chapter Eleven
Islam, Marriage, and Yaari: Making Meaning of Male Same- Sex
Sexual Relationships in Pakistan 187
ahmed afzal
Chapter Twelve
Racialization of Foreign Women in the Transnational Marriage
Market of Taiwan 205
hsunhui tseng
Contributors 223
Index 227
Ac know ledg ments
Over the years of my research and writing, I have accumulated a great deal of
debt to my professors, colleagues, and friends. I would like to thank my advisers
at Yale— Helen Siu, Deborah Davis, William W. Kelly, and Harold W. Schefer—
for their generous mentorship and supportive encouragement of my professional
development, without which I would not be where I am today. I was blessed with
four advisers who have always shown me an im mense amount of support and
faith and ofered me helpful professional advice. It is their generous mentorship,
continuous inspiration, and precious advice that have shaped who I am today
as an anthropologist and scholar. I thank them for having taught me, supported
me, and encouraged me more than they could realize, for which I am forever
grateful.
My thanks also go to the anonymous reviewers for their generous support of
the project and for their encouraging, incisive, and constructive comments,
which have helped improve the quality of the volume.
I express my gratitude to Vanessa Fong, Ralph Litzinger, Susan Brownell,
Mayfair Yang, Federico Varese, Jun Jing, Marc Blecher, Wanning Sun, Mark
Selden, and Xin Liu for their continuous inspiration and unwavering encourage-
ment and support. Tank you to all the contributors for their willingness to be
involved and their dedication to the volume. Nana Okura Gagné and Xia Zhang
have generously contributed their feldwork pictures to be considered as the
cover for the book. I owe special thanks to my life partner Dave Grass for his
generous help with the book cover as well as his precious emotional support,
positive encouragement, inspirational discussions, and generous patience during
my feldwork in China.
I am especially grateful to my editor at the University of Hawai‘i Press,
Pamela Kelley, for her enthusiasm about this project, for her insight and ingenu-
ity that have improved its quality, and for her support in guiding me through the
editorial pro cess.
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