Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Mediations and Transmediations: Erotics, Sociality, and "Asia" / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein 1
1. Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return / Martin F. Manalansan IV 33
2. For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in Beijing in the 1990s / Judith Farquhar 53
3. Zines and Zones of Desire: Mass-Mediated Love, National Romance, and Sexual Citizenship in Gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorff 75
4. Correspondence Marriages, Imagined Virtual Communities, and Countererotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable 111
5. Flows between the Media and the Clinic: Desiring Production and Social Production in Urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang 139
6. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India / Purnima Mankekar 173
7. Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video / Louisa Schein 203
8. Another Kind of Love? Debating Homosexuality and Same-Sex Intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese Film Reception / Sara L. Friedman 233
9. Born under Western Eyes: The Politics and Erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels / Heather Dell 267
10. American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies / Anne Allison 297
References 323
Contributors 357
Index 359

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About the Author

Purnima Mankekar is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India, also published by Duke University Press.

Louisa Schein is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

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"Poised at the intersection of Asian studies, media studies, and sexuality studies, Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia recasts those fields. The book is an outstanding selection for any course focusing on globalization or sexual modernity." Ara Wilson, author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City