ATH 350 - Queer China

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirements DE and IL.
Meets requirement: IEL
Prerequisite(s): ATH 112 Cultural Anthropology
This course explores the emergence and expression of queer identities, cultures, and communities in modern and contemporary mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora through the critical reading and analysis of texts from the disciplines of cultural anthropology and literature/film studies. Major themes include shifts in popular and official attitudes toward queer sexualities during the late traditional, early modern, and contemporary periods; “hooligan” and other unruly sexualities under Maoism; the explosion of Chinese gay and queer literature and film in the 1990s and 2000s, and contemporary queer cultures and communities in China and the Chinese diaspora.