“A tour de force of critical analysis and critical fabulation, Queer Chimerica speculates on the future of queer studies, identity, and identity politics in the age of U.S. and Chinese empires, and democratic and authoritarian neoliberalisms.”— David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
"The book’s originality of form is a great strength. It makes the material digestible, highly readable, and links it in a visceral way to critical theory that can so often be disembodied."
— Ari Heinrich, the Australian National University
“Queer Chimerica is a highly original inquiry into the intersections of queer theory and practice with neoliberal capitalism and postsocialism. Ye challenges the celebration of queer identities as fluid and antinormative, arguing that queerness in China is predicated on China as the symbolic other of the West, and that respectability politics among LGBT people supports the increasing economic exploitation in postsocialist China. One of the many original insights of Queer Chimerica is Ye’s attention to a ‘politics of living’ over a politics of visibility. A politics of living reveals the unsettled nature of queer lives that challenges teleologies of oppression and liberation. Queer Chimerica takes ethnography into the future by combining autoethnography with science fabulation to simultaneously confirm and disrupt the logic of capital and its force in shaping sexuality, injury and desire. A must read for all who care about a truly liberating future.”
— Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The form of the book is bold and may inspire others to write on queer identity in a more fluid form. The connections between China, the U.S., and queerness will make a valuable contribution to global queer studies."
— Olivia Khoo, Monash University
“A tour de force of critical analysis and critical fabulation, Queer Chimerica speculates on the future of queer studies, identity, and identity politics in the age of U.S. and Chinese empires, and democratic and authoritarian neoliberalisms.”— David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
"The book’s originality of form is a great strength. It makes the material digestible, highly readable, and links it in a visceral way to critical theory that can so often be disembodied."
— Ari Heinrich, the Australian National University
“Queer Chimerica is a highly original inquiry into the intersections of queer theory and practice with neoliberal capitalism and postsocialism. Ye challenges the celebration of queer identities as fluid and antinormative, arguing that queerness in China is predicated on China as the symbolic other of the West, and that respectability politics among LGBT people supports the increasing economic exploitation in postsocialist China. One of the many original insights of Queer Chimerica is Ye’s attention to a ‘politics of living’ over a politics of visibility. A politics of living reveals the unsettled nature of queer lives that challenges teleologies of oppression and liberation. Queer Chimerica takes ethnography into the future by combining autoethnography with science fabulation to simultaneously confirm and disrupt the logic of capital and its force in shaping sexuality, injury and desire. A must read for all who care about a truly liberating future.”
— Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The form of the book is bold and may inspire others to write on queer identity in a more fluid form. The connections between China, the U.S., and queerness will make a valuable contribution to global queer studies."
— Olivia Khoo, Monash University
"The form of the book is bold and may inspire others to write on queer identity in a more fluid form. The connections between China, the U.S., and queerness will make a valuable contribution to global queer studies."
— Olivia Khoo, Monash University
“Queer Chimerica is a highly original inquiry into the intersections of queer theory and practice with neoliberal capitalism and postsocialism. Ye challenges the celebration of queer identities as fluid and antinormative, arguing that queerness in China is predicated on China as the symbolic other of the West, and that respectability politics among LGBT people supports the increasing economic exploitation in postsocialist China. One of the many original insights of Queer Chimerica is Ye’s attention to a ‘politics of living’ over a politics of visibility. A politics of living reveals the unsettled nature of queer lives that challenges teleologies of oppression and liberation. Queer Chimerica takes ethnography into the future by combining autoethnography with science fabulation to simultaneously confirm and disrupt the logic of capital and its force in shaping sexuality, injury and desire. A must read for all who care about a truly liberating future.”
— Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz
“A tour de force of critical analysis and critical fabulation, Queer Chimerica speculates on the future of queer studies, identity, and identity politics in the age of U.S. and Chinese empires, and democratic and authoritarian neoliberalisms.”— David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
"The book’s originality of form is a great strength. It makes the material digestible, highly readable, and links it in a visceral way to critical theory that can so often be disembodied."
— Ari Heinrich, the Australian National University
