Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Translations and Transliterations xi
Introduction: Love and Remembrance 1
1. Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story 29
2. Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong 49
3. Postsocialist Melancholia: "Blue Sky Green Sky" 75
4. No Future: Tomboy Melodrama 93
5. Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan's Sad Young Women 118
6. Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema 147
Epilogue 180
Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou 187
Character List 199
Notes 205
Filmography 255
Selected Bibliography 259
Index 281

Fran Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture and a co-editor of AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities; Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures; and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, also published by Duke University Press.