Document Type
Introduction
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In this special issue, we attempt to examine and investigate if and how sex(ual) / gender politics is evolving in the cultural context of Greater China, including Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong (but unfortunately not Macau). Articles in this special issue discuss different topics from different theoretical perspectives - Foucauldian, Deleuzean and Daoist theories are engaged to produce and engineer critical and positive lines of arguments. We start with analyzing different discursive definitions of 'xing' (性) (Ying-ying Huang) in Mainland China and how romance discourse for girls is constituted in Hong Kong media (Iris Kam). Joseph Cho from Hong Kong, besides discussing the dialogue between the media and sexual politics, also articulates how the stance and agenda of sexuality are formatted and manipulated by the social majority. While Cho also touches upon the law machine, the law controlling sexual behavior is the focus of Ya-fei Xu's's article: she successfully explores how law reconstitutes and normalizes private monogamous opposite-sex activities. Both George Radics and Man-chung Chiu create a very precarious yet productive scrutiny of recent legal developments in Singapore and Hong Kong respectively in relation to sexuality (Law controlling male to male sexual behavour and Rape Law reform proposal). We all hope that through the discussion of different socio-sexual issues, new paradigms can be created to galvanise more trenchant reforms of both law and society.
Repository Citation
Chiu, Man-Chung. "Introduction: Manufacturing the Sex(ual) / Gender Justice Machine in Greater China and Singapore, Possible?." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1–10. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol15/iss2/1