Sex and Desire in Hong Kong by A. Ka Tat Tsang,Petula Sik Ying Ho

The anthology offers an exemplary methodological version of community-based learn during the authors' experiences on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of homosexual males and middle-aged girls in Hong Kong during the last fifteen years. This assortment specializes in matters that experience significant scholastic contribution to the sector, specifically, the voices of girls on problems with intercourse and hope, and the research of a number of intercourse relationships between Hong Kong women and men. It additionally addresses medical mental concerns and intercourse schooling subject matters that serve to complement the present nation of sexuality experiences. The publication unearths the social adjustments, tendencies, routine, and procedures in Hong Kong and throughout China, thereby highlighting the truth of coloniality and the way our adventure of wish/ sexuality is conditioned through wide, worldwide and socio-political forces.

Petula Sik Ying Ho is an affiliate professor within the division of Social paintings and Social management on the collage of Hong Kong.

A. Ka Tat Tsang is a professor of social paintings on the college of Toronto.

"Refreshing, brave, fulfilling, transgressive — those phrases that Ho and Tsang use to explain the heterogeneous narratives of Hong Kong electorate who've shared their wishes and desires with them both observe to this inventive and encouraging textual content. Their demanding situations to Western feminist, queer, and financial theories are the main insightful i have learn in decades. This e-book is a version of the way to mix empirical examine with theoretical mirrored image in its expansive method of intercourse, wish, identification and cash. i like that they concentration not just on these truly marginalized within the sexual order of items but in addition on these socalled ‘normal’ those that prove to have interaction in 'deviance' of their personal means. no matter if discussing middle-aged housewives, inter-racial homosexual undefined, or younger cybersavvy girls, Ho and Tsang eschew uncomplicated binaries (the West as opposed to the East) whereas insisting on admire for the old specificities in their informants' lives. This publication is an idea for students who wish to supply interventions within the identify of erotic justice." — Lisa Rofel, college of California, Santa Cruz

"The authors supply exact and candid reflections at the fight and demanding situations they face of their examine, supplying a infrequently documented and engaging glimpse into the method of educational wisdom construction. They pay specific cognizance to the colonial and postcolonial contexts within which they paintings, the demanding situations posed through language and translation while writing approximately intercourse, in addition to the inventive strategies they constantly search to make sure an area for subjugated voices, a revolutionary beginning of area, and a revolutionary privileging of the conversing subject." — Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Simon Fraser college

"This is a hugely cutting edge, distinctive and thought-provoking booklet that defies effortless categorization. Ho and Tsang display the mundane as impressive and the extreme as mundane as they traverse a number of disciplinary and theoretical limitations to problem assumptions approximately wish, our bodies, and sexuality." — Nicole Constable, college of Pittsburgh