In Unruly Comparison, Alvin K. Wong examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist, colonial, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy, Chinese rule, or global capital. Wong analyzes queer interracial desire in WWII; a cinema of gay male cosmopolitanism; queer intimacy among migrant workers; trans visuality and legality; cross-border sex work; and the queer diaspora of Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Through Wong’s readings, Hong Kong becomes a queer region of racial, gender, and sexual incommensurability. By foregrounding the friction, asymmetry, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies.
5 有用 山下林 2025-06-09 05:03:37 英国
挺失望的,有点继Howard Chiang的后尘,核心观点无非就是:香港是一个好地方,什么东西(人种、国家、性别、阶级、性取向)都能通过香港来解构和酷儿化,但笔者的功底没有匹配上应有的close reading,每个章节选三本小说/三部电影走马观花式地介绍下剧情和相关性就浅尝辄止了。好一点的是没Howard Chiang那么极端无脑的去大陆中心,保留了一点两岸的critical thinking。