Sexuality and everydayness in a transnational context

Toward a re-imagined West-China relationship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15099485
AutoresYingying Huang (0000-0003-0297-2420, Renmin University of China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen19
Número6
Páginas667-679
Fecha de publicación2017-06-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2017.1298842
PMID28318418
OpenAlexW2599996452
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

This paper examines how Chinese immigrants to Canada perceive and experience sexuality in a transnational context as revealed in a qualitative study. It identifies cultural interactions and tensions between 'the West' and 'China' embedded in participants' sexual narratives. Three thematic aspects of sexuality are explored: different views toward 'relationships' and how sex is involved in different stages of a relationship; physical desire and sexual attraction based on individuals' dialogues with contemporaries and their own cross-racial dating experience; and perceptions of sexual risks associated with an increasing awareness of China's opening up, in particular risks associated with attitudes towards condom use. The paper also discusses how such sexual narratives challenge dichotomous imaginings of 'sexual openness/conservativeness' in the West-China relationship. Findings help us to better understanding how Chinese immigrants to Canada view the West through the lens of sexuality, and how their transnational experiences have challenge the West-China dichotomy in the sexual imagination and shape understandings of sexual risk

China · Geography · Human sexuality · Immigration · Literature · Narrative · Openness to experience · Perception · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology