An ethnography of gender, sexuality, and consumption in post-socialist China.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Yearnings: Televisual Love and Melodramatic Politics 31
2.  Museum as Women’s Space: Displays of Gender 65
3.  Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities 85
4.  From Sacrifice to Desire: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics 111
5.  Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud 135
6.  Desiring China: China’s Entry into the WTO 157
Coda 197
Notes 205
Works Cited 229
Index 247

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism and a coeditor of Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State.