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In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in todays China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute Chinas emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained peoples ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development.

While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined todays queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, Wei interrogates the meanings and functions of mobilities at the forefront of Chinas internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival, when gender and sexuality have become increasingly mobilized with geographical, cultural, and social class migrations and mobilizations beyond traditional and conventional frameworks, categories, and boundaries.

John Wei is a senior lecturer at Media Design School, New Zealand.

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John Wei is a senior lecturer at Media Design School, New Zealand.

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Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities

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