Everyday Erotics

Denise Tse-Shang Tang is Associate Professor and Department Head of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and is author of Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life.

• Note on Romanization ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 11. Hong Kong Is Where I Begin 262. Of Longing and Waiting: Love and Desire 473. Everyday Erotics and Inter-Asia Spatial Practices 674. Activism, Coming Out, and the Know-How to Zoujan/Zouren 855. Imagining Futures: Resilience and Spontaneity 118Glossary 137Notes 139Bibliography 161Index 181

“Everyday Erotics vividly presents abundant, fascinating data from a generation of older women, many of whom rarely speak publicly about their intimate lives. Tang provides a new, much-needed oral history of an Inter-Asian formation of queer female sexuality and community from the 1960s to the present.”—Amie Elizabeth Parry, English Department and the Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan“This singular study of older Chinese lesbians presents a series of unexpected life histories of self-making. Tang’s engrossing ethnography offers a comparative analysis that neither replicates Euro-American accounts of sexual identity politics nor mimics the evolution of its authorized women’s movements. Instead, we encounter a world of same-sex desires, longings, and practices that reveal the day-to-day building of relationships and communities against the odds.”—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy