Recent Scholarship on Queer East Asia: History and Present

Abstract

Since its emergence in North America in the early 1990s as a challenge to conventional heteronormative thought, queer theory has created new conceptual tools and frameworks for understanding gender and sexuality and their relationships to race, class, colonialism, capitalism, and neoliberalism. Its innovative thought and methods have inspired new queer scholarship in the East Asian field. In his groundbreaking 2015 monograph, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu questions