Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader, Paperback - Howard Chiang

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to tra...

Presents a collection of essays that will aid teachers in broaching traditional literary topics in a diverse and representative manner. Instructors...

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Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan's modern history and its fra...

Contains articles published in "Screen" between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period during which queer studies and the 'New Queer Cinema' flourished...

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Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the hist...

Aims to bring together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of theorists and activists, including Han...

Publisher: Museum of Modern ArtAuthor(s): Phil TaylorIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimen...

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Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

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Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian writers, providing an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in ...

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Militarization: A Reader offers an anthropological perspective on militarization's origin and sustained presence as a cultural process in its full ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts on contemporary c...

Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms ...

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Publisher: SAGE Publications IncNumber of pages: 416Collection: Published in Association with The Open UniversityPublication date: 2001Dimensions: ...

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New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have become two of the most powerful and appealing movements in modern criticism. This reader pulls the di...