Ang Lee's fiLm The Wedding BanqueT could be classic introductory material for tongzhi studies and, particularly, for research on cooperative marriage. 1 In the film, Wai-Tung, a Taiwanese landlord who lives happily with his American boyfriend Simon in New York, is troubled by his parents' constant efforts to try and find him a bride. His partner Simon suggests he could arrange a marriage of convenience with Wai-Tung's tenant Wei Wei who is from mainland China and is also in need of a green card to stay in the United States. However, their plan backfires when Wai-Tung's enthusiastic parents arrive in the United States and plan a big wedding banquet. As the film critic and scholar Chris

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This essay offers a feminist political economic analysis of the development of Chinese urbanbasedLGBT activism since the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women. First, it meditates on the gendered politics within LGBT activism; second, it explores how LGBT groups' NGO-isation process in the context of transnational movements is playing out vis-à-vis the Party-State's attempts to eliminate organisations linked to the 'imperial West'. According to the author, the onset of a new era of precarity is calling for Chinese LGBT activists to come up with urgent and creative strategies for survival and care.