Transpacific Attachments
The figure of the Chinese sex worker--who provokes both disdain and desire--has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers…
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The figure of the Chinese sex worker--who provokes both disdain and desire--has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media--from literature to film to new media--that have circulated within the United States, China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong explores Asian American writers' articulation of transnational
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