Bringing together two areas of study that tend to be marginalised within their home disciplines Queer Sinophone Cultures innovatively advances both Sinophone studies and queer studies. It not only examines film and literature from Mainland China but expands its scope to encompass the underrepresented 'Sinophone' world at large (in this case Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond). Further, where queer studies in the U.S., Europe, and Australia often ignore non-Western cultural phenomena, this book focuses squarely on Sinophone queerness, providing fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from works by the famous director Tsai Ming-Liang to the history of same-sex soft-core pornography made by the renowned Shaw Brothers Studios.

Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK.

Ari Larissa Heinrich is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

1. "A Volatile Alliance": Queer Sinophone Synergies Across Literature, Film, and Culture 2. (De)Provincializing China: Queer Historicism and Sinophone Postcolonial Critique 3. Unraveling the Apparatus of Domestication: Zhu Tianxin's "The Ancient Capital" and Queer Engagements with the Nation-State in Post-Martial Law Taiwan 4. From Flowers to Boys: Queer Adaptations in Wu Jiwen's The Fin-de-siècle Boy Love Reader 5. Sinophone Erotohistories: The Shaw Brothers' Queering of a Transforming "Chinese Dream" in Ainu Fantasies 6. Queer Sinophone Studies as Anti-Capitalist Critique: Mapping Queer Kinship in the Work of Chen Ran and Wong Bik-Wan, 7. A Queer Journey Home in Solos: Rethinking Kinship in Sinophone Singapore 8. Theatrics of Cruising: Bathhouses and Movie Houses in Tsai Ming-Liang's Films 9. Queerly Connecting: The Queer Sinophone Politics of Tsai Ming-Liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 10. Desire Against the Grain: Transgender Consciousness and Sinophonicity in the Films of Yasmin Ahmad 11. Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan's Butterfly as Sinophone Romance 12. On the Conjunctive Method