Emerging lesbian: female same-sex desire in modern china

THE EMERGING LESBIAN: FEMALE SAME-SEX DESIRE IN MODERN CHINA. By Tze-lan D. Sang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xii, p. The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern. China. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pp. Hardcover $, isbn 0–– The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. By Tze-lan D. Sang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, xii, p.

 · Same-sex attracted women are typically less visible than men in Chinese literature or history for reasons that can be found, for example, in research by Tze-lan D. Sang () and Ruan Fang Fu (). As Sang (, p. 3) explains, female same-sex relationships are often uncritically linked with notions of friendship and www.adult by: Yet, Tze-lan D. Sang's The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China as the first one in both Chinese and North American academia is the first full-length English work devoted to the studies of Chinese lesbianism. As a scholar with solid background in literary studies, Sang marks her book with an innovative approach. In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity. As women's participation in social, economic, and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the societal significance of their romantic and sexual relations/10(27).

Tze-lan D. Sang. The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, , pages; ISBN (paper) US$ ISBN: (cloth) US$ reviewed by Hui Xiao. In the past decade, a large amount of scholarly works on feminism and the women's movement have touched. She is the author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (Chicago, ), which is the first monograph to trace the formation of new female identities organized by same-sex desire during China's transition from empire to modernity. In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity. As women's participation in social, economic, and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the societal significance of their romantic and sexual relations.

Tze-Lan D. Gender and Sexuality. History: Asian History. Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages.