Made in China Journal: Volume 10, Issue 2, 2025
Edited by: Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere
, Christian Sorace, Ling TangPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
Across the world, questions of gender, sexuality, and intimacy have become central to struggles over belonging, citizenship, and moral order. In China, these questions have acquired a particular urgency as the state seeks to stabilise social life through an increasingly narrow vision of family, reproduction, and normative personhood, even as people continue to forge relationships, identities, and communities that exceed those boundaries. Global LGBTQIA+ discourses, meanwhile, circulate widely but often unevenly, translating local experiences into familiar scripts of rights, visibility, and repression that do not always fit. It is within this dense and contested terrain that this issue of Made in China Journal, ‘Queer China’, intervenes, treating queerness as a critical lens for understanding contemporary Chinese politics, culture, and everyday life.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 2652-6352
- ISSN (online):
- 2206-9119
- Publication date:
- Feb 2026
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.10.02.2025
- Journal:
- Made in China Journal
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies; Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies
- Countries:
- East Asia: China
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Op-Eds
- MaskPark and the Silence around China’s Gender-Based Violence Online (PDF, 921 KB) – Ling Li doi
- The Distance Between Us (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Ting Guo doi
- Rectifying Names, Erasing Mongols: The Unmaking of Mongolian Education in China (PDF, 1.4 MB) – James Leibold and Soyonbo Borjgin doi
- Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan (PDF, 1.5 MB) – Craig A. Smith doi
- What Is the Purpose of ‘China-Watching’ in the United States Today? (PDF, 845 KB) – Arthur Kaufman doi
- The Repetition of China (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Alex Taek-Gwang Lee doi
- Scale Is Not a System: Learning from China without Mimicry (PDF, 947 KB) – Stefan Messingschlager doi
- Engineers, Lawyers, and the Costs of ‘Building’: Anxiety-Driven Lessons and America’s China Mirror (PDF, 318 KB) – (Clark) Aoqi Wu doi
China Columns
- Excavating a History Already Found: Archaeology and the Politics of the Past in the People’s Republic of China (PDF, 2.1 MB) – Tristan G. Brown doi
- A Grey Beard in the Silver-Hair Market: One Month in China’s Retirement City (PDF, 2.1 MB) – Brian DeMare doi
- Rural Spaces of Digital Labour: Taobao Villages and New Cycles between Tradition and Platformisation (PDF, 2.3 MB) – Sofia Leoni doi
- The Curious Case of the Cyber-Based ‘New Federal State of China’ (PDF, 1.7 MB) – Sia X. Yang doi
Focus
- Queer Unintelligibility in China (PDF, 837 KB) – Petrus Liu doi
- Performing the Rabbit God: Imagining Queer Identity and Heritage in the Chinese Diaspora (PDF, 1.4 MB) – Hongwei Bao doi
- Queer Manifestos: Editorials from Chinese Queer Zines (PDF, 1.3 MB) – Hongwei Bao doi
- Between Pleasure and Precarity: Surviving Love and Labour in Southern China’s Urban Villages (PDF, 912 KB) – Ian Liujia Tian doi
- ‘Marriage Fraud’? Reflections on Marriage of Older Queer Men in Shanghai (PDF, 874 KB) – Qing Shen doi
- When Heteropatriarchy Turns You On: Masculinity, Masochism, and the Erotics of Normativity (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Bingchang Sun doi
- Liuxue (‘Studying Abroad’): A Pathway to Sexual Freedom for China’s Gay Youth? (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Cai Chen doi
- Queering the University: Student Activism and Heterotopia (PDF, 1.4 MB) – Ida Huang doi
- Only Two Genders?: On Jin Xing’s Reaffirmation of Gender Binarism and Heteronormativity (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Yahia Ma doi
- Jesus on Mars (PDF, 886 KB) – Cui Zi’en, translated and introduced by Yahia Ma doi
- Queer Festival Troubles: What the Beijing Queer Film Festival Reveals about Queer Subjectivity in Contemporary China (PDF, 2.3 MB) – Jenny Man Wu doi
- Queer-Feminist Journeys as Critical Counter-Frame: Chinese Diasporic Subjectivities in C. Pam Zhang’s Work (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Kimiko Suda doi
- Queer Chimerica: A Conversation with Shana Ye (PDF, 784 KB) – Qing Shen and Shana Ye doi
Forum
- Gender-Critical Chinese Feminisms: Valid Local Feminist Theorisation Endeavours (PDF, 930 KB) – Ling Tang doi
- Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China (PDF, 1.6 MB) – Yangyang Cheng doi
- Pathways to Empowered Motherhood in Contemporary China: Between Asserting Independence and Seeking Help (PDF, 1.4 MB) – Mingxuan Li and Anna Lora-Wainwright doi
- Gendered Organisation of Platform Food Delivery Work in China (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Zihao Zhang and Jenny Chan doi
- Gendered Genres: Women’s Poetry in Postmao China (PDF, 1.3 MB) – Elena Monaldo doi
Conversations
- Forever Hong Kong: A Conversation with Ching Kwan Lee (PDF, 784 KB) – Shui-Yin Sharon Yam and Ching Kwan Lee doi
- Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: A Conversation with Jingyu Mao (PDF, 769 KB) – Hongkun Wang and Jingyu Mao doi
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