| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Bodhisattva incarnate / Chu T'ien-wen -- Platonic hair / Qiu Miaojin -- A story of spring butterflies / Chu T'ien-hsin -- Stones on the shore / Hsu Yoshen -- The boy in the pink orchid tree / Lin Yuyi -- Who is singing? / Lin Chun Ying -- Searching for the lost wings of the angel / Chen Xue -- Poem from the glass womb / Hong Ling -- A stranger's ID / Chi Tawei -- Rose is the past tense of rise / Wu Jiwen |
| Summary |
Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this new genre was a defining feature of Taiwan's literary scene in the 1990s. Queer fiction was also instrumental in forming self-identifying subcultural gay readerships, thus serving a significant political function. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese communities worldwide. The startlingly fresh, brave voices that speak through these stories attest to the powerful social ferment of the past ten years in Taiwan, which have witnessed a revolution in discourses on sex and sexuality in the public sphere. Contributors: Chu T'ien-Wen, Qiu Miaojin, Chu T'ien-Hsin, Hsu Yoshen, Lin Yuyi, Lin Chun Ying, Chen Xue, Hong Ling, Chi Tawei, Wu Jiwen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Chinese fiction -- Taiwan
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Chinese fiction -- 20th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- General.
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Chinese fiction
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Literatur
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18.86 Chinese language and literature.
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Chinese fiction -- Taiwan.
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Short stories, Chinese -- 20th century.
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Gays -- Fiction.
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Taiwan
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Taiwan
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Chinesisch.
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short stories.
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Short stories
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Gay fiction
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Fiction
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Anthologies (form)
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Translations (form)
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Stories (texts)
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Short stories.
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Gay fiction.
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Nouvelles.
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Romans homosexuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Fran, 1971- translator.
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| LC no. |
2002012328 |
| ISBN |
9780824861469 |
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0824861469 |
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