Shana Ye
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shana Ye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ye |
| SIGNATURE | YE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women’s and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2612-4648 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queer Chimerica
Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (University of Michigan Press, 2024) unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States.By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Ye explores the relationship between the discourse …
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”
Examining the dangai phenomenon and the web series Word of Honor (WoH), this paper investigates the entanglement of neoliberal management of queer desires, authoritarian regulation of consumer-citizenship, and traffic in various forms of nationalism. Creating an ambient space for queer agency, danmei practices is often regarded as utilizing queer “opacity” as liberatory strategy to outfox the state and societal constraints on non-normative gender…
Queering "Postsocialist Coloniality"
This chapter examines the economy of queerness in China in order to illustrate the heterogeneity and plurality of global coloniality in relation to the post-Cold War postsocialist conditions. Contextualizing the transnational emergence and circulation of US queer theory in the 1990s within the context of Cold War anti-Marxism and China’s market economic reform, this chapter argues that the discourse of queer as “fluid” and “anti-normative” is pro…
Paris’ and ‘scar’
This essay explores the imbrications between queer precarity and social reproduction from the perspective of homonormative division of labour. Contextualizing the emergence of China’s HIV/AIDS economy and its reliance on queer intimate labour, it argues that the homonormative division of labour are part and parcel to maintain and nurture the economic, political structures of LGBT liberalism. Instead of providing ‘local case’ of homonormativity, t…
The Drama of Chinese Feminism
Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 783 Shana Ye The Drama of Chinese Feminism: Neoliberal Agency, Post-Socialist Coloniality, and Post-Cold War Transnational Feminist Praxis On September 27, 2015, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted a New York Times news article about Chinese president Xi Jinping cohosting the United Nations Summit Meeting on Women’s Rights with the comment: “Xi hosting a meeting on women’s rig…
Reconstructing the Transgendered Self as a Feminist Subject
This article explores the entangled relations between transgender lives and Chinese feminisms. It starts with a brief overview of how nonbinary genders have been addressed in both Chinese socialist and postsocialist feminisms. Then it outlines existing problems such as homophobia and remarginalization within the coalition of trans activists and feminists. By analyzing how grassroots trans/feminists negotiate such problems, this article argues tha…
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”
Examining the dangai phenomenon and the web series Word of Honor (WoH), this paper investigates the entanglement of neoliberal management of queer desires, authoritarian regulation of consumer-citizenship, and traffic in various forms of nationalism. Creating an ambient space for queer agency, danmei practices is often regarded as utilizing queer “opacity” as liberatory strategy to outfox the state and societal constraints on non-normative gender…
Paris’ and ‘scar’
This essay explores the imbrications between queer precarity and social reproduction from the perspective of homonormative division of labour. Contextualizing the emergence of China’s HIV/AIDS economy and its reliance on queer intimate labour, it argues that the homonormative division of labour are part and parcel to maintain and nurture the economic, political structures of LGBT liberalism. Instead of providing ‘local case’ of homonormativity, t…
The Drama of Chinese Feminism
Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 783 Shana Ye The Drama of Chinese Feminism: Neoliberal Agency, Post-Socialist Coloniality, and Post-Cold War Transnational Feminist Praxis On September 27, 2015, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted a New York Times news article about Chinese president Xi Jinping cohosting the United Nations Summit Meeting on Women’s Rights with the comment: “Xi hosting a meeting on women’s rig…
Reconstructing the Transgendered Self as a Feminist Subject
This article explores the entangled relations between transgender lives and Chinese feminisms. It starts with a brief overview of how nonbinary genders have been addressed in both Chinese socialist and postsocialist feminisms. Then it outlines existing problems such as homophobia and remarginalization within the coalition of trans activists and feminists. By analyzing how grassroots trans/feminists negotiate such problems, this article argues tha…
Queering "Postsocialist Coloniality"
This chapter examines the economy of queerness in China in order to illustrate the heterogeneity and plurality of global coloniality in relation to the post-Cold War postsocialist conditions. Contextualizing the transnational emergence and circulation of US queer theory in the 1990s within the context of Cold War anti-Marxism and China’s market economic reform, this chapter argues that the discourse of queer as “fluid” and “anti-normative” is pro…
Paris’ and ‘scar’
This essay explores the imbrications between queer precarity and social reproduction from the perspective of homonormative division of labour. Contextualizing the emergence of China’s HIV/AIDS economy and its reliance on queer intimate labour, it argues that the homonormative division of labour are part and parcel to maintain and nurture the economic, political structures of LGBT liberalism. Instead of providing ‘local case’ of homonormativity, t…
The Drama of Chinese Feminism
Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 783 Shana Ye The Drama of Chinese Feminism: Neoliberal Agency, Post-Socialist Coloniality, and Post-Cold War Transnational Feminist Praxis On September 27, 2015, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted a New York Times news article about Chinese president Xi Jinping cohosting the United Nations Summit Meeting on Women’s Rights with the comment: “Xi hosting a meeting on women’s rig…
Word of Honor and brand homonationalism with “Chinese characteristics”
Examining the dangai phenomenon and the web series Word of Honor (WoH), this paper investigates the entanglement of neoliberal management of queer desires, authoritarian regulation of consumer-citizenship, and traffic in various forms of nationalism. Creating an ambient space for queer agency, danmei practices is often regarded as utilizing queer “opacity” as liberatory strategy to outfox the state and societal constraints on non-normative gender…
Queer Chimerica
Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child (University of Michigan Press, 2024) unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States.By examining the intersecting timelines of the rise of queer theory and the rise of China in the late Cold War era, Ye explores the relationship between the discourse …
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · China (2 works)