Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order -- Theory -- Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus -- The Specter of Materialism -- History -- The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun's Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolutions -- The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia -- The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus -- Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism.
Summary:
"In The Specter of Materialism Petrus Liu examines what "materialism" means for progressive queer theory and Marxist approaches to China's postsocialist economy. Liu recasts the history of queer theory in light of the Beijing Consensus, arguing that North American queer theory's inability to sustain a materialist analysis is the result of its positioning of the United States, rather than China, as the focal point of contemporary global capitalism. Analyzing relations of gender and sexuality that have been reconfigured by China's global capitalist accumulation-such as dagongmei (female migrant laborers in China's export-oriented sunbelt) and money boys (rural-to-urban sex workers)-Liu argues for a materialist queer theory that positions China at the center"-- Provided by publisher.
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