Undercurrents : Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

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from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territorys postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.