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4. Existing Scholarship

  • Abbas, Ackbar. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

  • Chiang, Howard, and Ari Larissa Heinrich, eds. Queer Sinophone Cultures. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 

  • Chiang, Howard. “Intimate Equality and Transparent Selves: Legalising Transgender Marriage in Hong Kong.” Culture, Theory and Critique 58.2 (2017): 166-181.

  • Chiang, Howard, and Alvin K. Wong, eds. Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.

  • Chou, Wah-shan. Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2000. 

  • Chow Rey, “Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together.Camera Obscura 42 (1999): 31-49.

  • Dasgupta, Romit. “The Film Bishonen and Queer(N)Asia through Japanese Popular Culture.” In Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan. Edited by Matthew Allen and Rumi Sakamoto, 56-74. New York: Routledge, 2006.

  • Kong, Travis S.K. Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy. London: Routledge, 2011.

  • Kong, Travis S. K. Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.  

  • Lai, Francisca Yuenki. Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2020. 

  • Leung, Helen Hok-sze. “Queerscapes in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema.” Positions 9.2 (2001): 423-447. 

  • Leung, Helen Hok-sze. Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008.

  • Leung, Helen Hok-sze. “Unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities in Hong Kong Action Cinema.” In Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema. Edited by Laikwan Pang and Day Wong, 81-98. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

  • Lim, Song Hwee. Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

  • Marchetti, Gina. “Interview with Yau Ching: Filming Women in Hong Kong’s Queerscape.” In Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier. Edited by Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam, 213-223. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

  • Marchetti, Gina. “Hong Kong as Feminist Method.” In Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method, edited by Yiu-Wai Chu, 59-76. Singapore: Springer, 2017.

  • Martin, Fran. Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

  • Tang, Denise Tse-Shang. Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. 

  • Tang, Denise Tse-Shang. “Everyday Erotics in Urban Density: An Ethnography of Older Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong.” Gender, Place and Culture 28, no. 11 (2020): 1649-1668. 

  • Tang, Denise T-S. “Of Longing and Waiting: An Inter-Asia Approach to Love and Intimacy Among Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women.” Sexualities 25, no. 4 (2022): 365-380.  

  • Wong, Alvin K. “Including China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-centrism.” Interventions 20, no. 8 (2018): 1101-1120.

  • Yau, Ching, ed. As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2010. 

  • Yue, Audrey, and Helen Hok-Sze Leung. “Notes Towards the Queer Asian City: Singapore and Hong Kong.” Urban Studies 54, no. 3 (2017): 747-764.

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