Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia

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contents ix acknowledgments 1 introduction mediations and Transmediations: erotics, sociality, and "asia" Purnima mankekar and Louisa schein 33 chapter 1 Wayward erotics: mediating Queer Diasporic return martin F. manaLansan iV 53 chapter 2 For Your reading Pleasure: self-health (Ziwo Baojian) information in Beijing in the 1990s Judith Farquhar 75 chapter 3 Zines and Zones of Desire: mass-mediated Love, national romance, and sexual citizenship in Gay indonesia tom BoeLLstorFF 111 chapter 4 correspondence marriages, imagined Virtual communities, and countererotics on the internet nicoLe constaBLe 139 chapter 5 Flows between the media and the clinic: Desiring Production and social Production in Urban Beijing eVerett Yuehong Zhang 173 chapter 6 Dangerous Desires: erotics, Public culture, and identity in Late Twentieth-century india Purnima mankekar chapter 7 homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and hmong american Video Louisa schein chapter 8 another kind of Love? Debating homosexuality and same-sex intimacy through Taiwanese and chinese Film reception sara L. Friedman chapter 9 Born under Western eyes: The Politics and erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels heather deLL chapter 10 american Geishas and oriental/ist Fantasies anne aLLison references contributors index acknowledgMentsAs academic projects transform into collective endeavors, they become truly pleasurable and rewarding. Over the years that it has taken to bring this project to fruition, many colleagues, friends, and family members have generously contributed guidance, provocations, and support. Our earliest musings on erotics, media, and Asia emerged from numerous meals at conferences from which developed a close friendship coupled with intensely generative intellectual synergy that gave rise to this work. At the same time, our commitments emerged from the urgency of the aids crisis, which has called so many of us to take action around the complex, uneven interplay of meanings and practices inherent in sexualities and erotics.We first began presenting pieces of the collection at the Association for Asian Studies annual meetings in 2000, where we benefited from astute comments from Paroma Roy and several members of the audience.