Date: 19 Jan 2022 (Wed)

Time:12:30 – 14:00

Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)

Speaker: Prof. SONG, Lin (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University)

Moderator: Prof. SUEN, Yiu-tung (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Abstract:

This talk discusses Lin Song’s new book Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). The book demonstrates that the interactions between queerness and Chinese kinship not only animate transnationally influenced yet locally rooted queer cultures, but also critically shape contemporary Chinese cinematic, popular, and public culture more broadly. Contending that kinship relations must be understood as central to, rather than separate from, any articulation of queer selfhood and culture in China, the book challenges Euro-American centric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from the blood family, and argues for an alternative approach of “queering Chinese kinship” to underline the vitality and complexity of queerness within Chinese kinship institutions.

Speaker’s Biography:

Lin Song is an Assistant Professor in communication at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He holds a PhD in gender studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). His other works can be found in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Asian Studies Review, Convergence, and Continuum, and edited books Contesting Chineseness (Springer 2021), Queering Paradigms VII (Peter Lang 2018), and The Cosmopolitan Dream (Hong Kong University Press 2018).

Language: English

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13644401