Category: Asian Interest

Posted in Asian Interest Biographical Fiction

Last Words From Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

Qiu Miaojin | Last Words From Montmartre | ‘An NYRB Classics Original Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lov

Posted in Asian Interest Canadian Eh Mystery

The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton

Ian Hamilton | The Wild Beasts of Wuhan | Meet Ava Lee, alluring but deadly, with a mind like a steel trap, as she chases millions of dollars and dangerous criminals around the globe in this e

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Shanghai Lalas by Kam; Lucetta Yip

Kam; Lucetta Yip | Shanghai Lalas | The lives of lalas and transgender people in China have changed in some dramatic ways in the past two decades, with communities rapidly expanding with

Posted in Asian Interest Film and Television

Genders And Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema by Ben Murtagh

Ben Murtagh | Genders And Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema | ‘Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of transgender cultures, with many festivals and local rites involving members of transgender communities. Th

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Queer Activism in India by Naisargi N. Dave

Naisargi N. Dave | Queer Activism in India | Over the last two decades in India, the silence around queerness has been decisively broken. Today, there are queer groups, writers, activists, academ

Posted in Asian Interest Historical History Literary Criticism Literary History

Crossing Borders by Sahar Amer

Sahar Amer | Crossing Borders | Crossing Borders argues that the interpretation of lesbian relationships in medieval French literature can be enriched by reading these texts together

Posted in Asian Interest History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Falling Into The Lesbi World by Evelyn Blackwood

Evelyn Blackwood | Falling Into The Lesbi World | Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (fem

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

(Un)Familiar Femininities – Studies In Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Rajendran Aneeta

Rajendran Aneeta | (Un)Familiar Femininities – Studies In Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts | The female homosexual in South Asia is not always a visible lesbian person. She is often a figuration of an act that challenges hegemonic ideas of gen

Posted in Asian Interest Sexuality

The Emerging Lesbian by Tze-Lan D. Sang

Tze-Lan D. Sang | The Emerging Lesbian | In early twentieth-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread p

Posted in Asian Interest History

Backward Glances by Fran Martin

Fran Martin | Backward Glances | Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese ma