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Dear ANTEQUEERIANS Subscribers, Free postage to UK customers We hope the following title will be of interest to you. [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu "In this quite stunning book, Petrus Liu offers a new intervention into gender and sexuality studies. He establishes queer perspectives as a way of thinking about the doubleness of China, and tracks how sexuality has been produced as a new ethnic identity within an emerging pluralist framework, and how queer Marxism contests this production. Liu argues for a complex materialist social theory that takes into account the relationship between labor power, the reproduction of society, and the material status of sexuality. In the end, he refuses to identify materialism with economic reductionism, showing instead how the reproduction of society requires its cultural articulation, and how the effort to navigate two Chinas produces a non-state-centered form of queer critique. For Liu, queer theorists are in a powerful position to call the theory of the state into question-a move that holds out serious consequences for a new geopolitical reading of Marxism through the powerful framework of sexuality."-Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, University of California, Berkeley In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College and the author of Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History. Duke University Press October 2015 248pp 2 illustrations 9780822360049 PB £16.99 now only £13.59* when you quote CSL1215CHI when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/51928/Queer-Marxism-in-Two-Chinas UK Postage and Packing FREE, Europe £4.50, RoW £4.99 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER:CSL1215CHI**for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ where you can also receive your discount *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia. Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd> or Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Combined-Academic-Publishers/196269570500> Sign up to our newsletter email alerts here<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/content/34-subscribe-to-our-newsletter>