Desiring China : experiments in neoliberalism, sexuality, and public culture / Lisa Rofel.

Author/creator Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Descriptionx, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Sex--Social aspects. --China.
Popular culture--China.
Culture and globalization--China.
Cosmopolitanism--China.
Post-communism--China.
Neoliberalism--China.
National characteristics, Chinese.
China--Social conditions. --2000-.

SeriesPerverse modernities
Perverse modernities. ^A486667
Contents Introduction -- Yearnings : televisual love and melodramatic politics -- Museum as women's space : displays of gender -- Qualities of desire : imagining gay identities -- From sacrifice to desire : cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics -- Legislating desire : homosexuality, intellectual property rights, and consumer fraud -- Desiring China : China's entry into the WTO -- Coda.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.
LCCN 2006033807
ISBN9780822339359 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339358 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822339472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339471 (pbk. : alk. paper)