1Introduction—queer Sinophone studies

The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China

“…Perhaps most directly relevant is her analysis of the negotiation of notions of appropriate practice in an SGA men's focus group in Beijing, as this pertains to the overlapping normativities that shape such men's sense of self and community belonging. Arguably, however, Rofel ( 2007) also slips into problematic overreliance on spuriously stable notions of identity, for example by leaving the notion of 'Chinese gay men' insufficiently problematised (Chiang 2013). Also relevant here is Engebretsen's (2014) ethnographic analysis of the tensions between conformity and transgression amongst Beijing SGA females (lalas), which exposes the matrices of traditional pressures and modern opportunities that tended to emerge in their lives.…”

The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa

“…For example, Travis S. K. Kong’s (2019) “transnational queer sociology” focuses on queer cultures in different parts of the Chinese-language societies in order to tease out how globalization and various forms of state governance have combined to shape queer cultures in distinct ways. Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich, and Alvin K. Wong (Chiang & Heinrich, 2013; Chiang & Wong, 2020) come up with the critical term “queer Sinophone cultures” to decenter the PRC (People’s Republic of China)-centrism in transnational queer studies. Audrey Yue (2017) and Helen Hok Sze Leung (Yue & Leung, 2017) use “queer Asia as method,” whereas Howard Chiang and Alvin K. Wong (2016, 2017) study “queer Asia as critique”: in both cases, “queer Asia” is treated with a great theoretical vigor, rather than simply reproducing the West/Asia and theory/method dichotomies in academic knowledge production.…”

Queer processes of Hong Kong as a global formation post‐2019: LGBTIQ+ Hong Kong migrants and their experiences in Taiwan

“…Second, it extends recent research on Taiwan's role in global queer migration by investigating how the island nation became a place of exception for LGBTIQ+ Hongkongers and, by extension, other ethnically Chinese queers (Yu, 2021b, 2022). Lastly, it concludes by highlighting how Hong Kong and Taiwan are linked by a structure of queer Sinophone consciousness and demonstrating how queerness and Chineseness are mutually productive and most amplified in transnational settings (Chiang, 2021; Chiang & Heinrich, 2014; Chiang & Wong, 2020).…”