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Confusing desires: Representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Confusing desires: Representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature./
Author:	Guo, Jie.
Description:	249 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4699.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3288466
ISBN:	9780549313427

Confusing desires: Representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature.
Guo, Jie.

Confusing desires: Representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature. - 249 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4699.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2008.

This dissertation concentrates on representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature. Challenging the existing scholarship that treats male-male sexual relations in late imperial China as something unified and easily identifiable, I contend that in the period under study, there was no umbrella term that was capable of labeling a wide range of homoerotic practices or desires. Rather, efforts to name and categorize these practices and desires were sometimes contradictory, which often resulted in powerfully transformative ambiguities about homoerotic identity.

ISBN: 9780549313427Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Confusing desires: Representations of male same-sex relationships in late Ming and early Qing literature.
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520 $a In order to explore the "chaos" surrounding male same-sex relations, I examine a set of related areas---language, friendship, transvestite performance, and women. This study begins by looking at the "muddled" ways in which words are invented and/or (mis)used to label same-sex erotic acts and identities in everyday situations. My analysis aims to show that not all same-sex erotic acts and identities are named/namable. This, however, does not mean that individuals lack effective means to communicate about matters related to male love; indeed, vague as they are, words such as the indicative pronoun "this" have played an important role in situations where no handy terms are there for people to use. I then look at the sensuousness of the body of the friend by studying the meaning of "dizu" (bed-sharing), a practice commonly found in stories of exemplary friendships in late imperial China. My analysis seeks to show that this allegedly nonsexual act actually is often invested with energetic sexual potential. The last two chapters consider female impersonation, which features many late imperial representations of male love. While Chapter Three concentrates on the fluid relationship between the theatrical and the real, the last chapter deals with the inside/outside dimension of cross-dressing by asking what the spectator desires, the boy actor, or the woman the boy impersonates. I contend that the triple relation among the three cannot be simplified into three twofold relations; rather, the spectator's desire is complicated by the inseparability of the boy actor and his female role and becomes ambiguous. The Epilogue makes a "radical" turn to the twentieth century by probing the relationship between the past and the present, and raise questions for further research. Problematizing the historiography that sees the history of homosexuality as the supersession of one model of male-male relations by another, I argue that the past is constantly present in contemporary China's imagining of gay identities.
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