Desiring China (second half of book):
Dennis Altman:
-global gay identity
-what constitutes a universal gay identity?
-it “contests sexual rather than gender norms; replaces the idea of male homosexuals as would-be women with new self-concepts; leads to primary homosexual relationships rather than to marriage within homosex on the side; expressed sexual identity openly; develops a public gay political consciousness; and creates a ense of community based on sexuality.” (pg. 90)
-Gay Kinship
-Should you tell your parents that you are gay? Should you take care of your parents by getting married and having a child? The focus mainly on parents (pg. 97)
-the idea of coming out as selfish and only causing grief to parents
-Wang Tao talking about how gay men shouldn’t follow “western” ways of being gay; that China should create their only social construction of the term. (pg. 98)
-“If the passion to pursue the meaningfulness of sexual desire lies at the heart of creating cultural citizenship, the same passion propels some Chinese gay men in transnational networks.” (pg. 106)
-the ideas of culture citizenship and cultural belonging
Legislating Desire
Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud
-the case between Fang Gang and Mr. Xu (pg. 135)
-the writer mentioned a salon where gay men met up at for Valentines Day. He didn’t mention the name of the bar, but rather the name of the bar manager, who once the publication came out, lost his job, his fiancé, and his friends from being outed by such a book.
-this idea that homosexuality is ok under wraps, but once exposed to the public, action must take place to put it back under the covers.
-another case about two women living together (emotional and sexually), and one fo th father’s reporting “hooliganism”.
-he reported their actions as reprehensible that was damaging to public morals since their relationship was carried out in view of other townspeople.
-these cases are known by most Chinese people mainly because gay legal cases are rarely picked up, so these garnered more attention because of the topic of homosexuality associated with them.
Property Rights
-Xuan Bo asked to work on adapting Tale of a Demoted Official for the Shenyang Opera House (pg. 141)
-it aired on television, but did not mention his name at all
-he changed singing stylization
-argued that stylization is not covered under intellectual property rights law
-China’s Copywrite Protection Authentication Committee concluded that certain scenes were entirely different and they supported Bo’s case.
-Bo’s lawyer argues that “It’s like a painting. After I have finished the painting, I sell the painting to you. As the buyer, you enjoy full rights of ownership, but the rights of creation are still in my hands as the painter.” (pg. 141)
-Bo won the case.
-possessive individualism
Desiring China
China’s Entry into the WTO
-“China’s relationship to transnational capitalism clearly delineates the contours for the longings needs, and interests people seek to embody in China.” (pg. 159)
-consumer fundamentalism
-the world as consumers and China as one of the largest exporters of trade
-this innate idea that “the deep answers to life’s dilemmas lie in consumption.” (pg. 164)
-China’s joined to World Trade Organization (WTO)
-lays out pure forms of neoliberal capitalism
-China and their problems with “dumping” or exporting products for more money than they are worth, which inevitable hurts other country’s economies.
Coda
-“Those who have embraced a gay identity debated how to be properly gay by combining their engagement with transnational gay networks and a desire for cultural citizenship within Chineseness.” (pg. 198)
-China attempting to become a cosmopolitan society, but who is it marginalizing along the way and who is being affected for the worse? (pg. 204)
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