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Coming out, coming home, coming with

Models of queer sexuality in contemporary China

Bibliographic Data

ID12910046
AuthorsShuzhen Huang, Huang Shu-Zhen (0000-0003-2887-6445, Bloomsburg University, corresponding author), Daniel C Brouwer (Arizona State University)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue2
Pages97-116
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-3065 • E-ISSN: 1751-3057
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17513057.2017.1414867
OpenAlexW2781782935
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited22

The authors investigate coming out and coming home as models of queer sexuality for contemporary Chinese queer subjects. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 Chinese queer subjects, the authors investigate the distinctness of the coming-out and coming-home models, their points of dissonance and consonance, and the ways in which queer subjects take them up (partially or fully, temporarily or enduringly), revise them, or reject them. Finding that interview narratives exceed the normative parameters shaped by these two models, the authors elaborate a third, distinct model—coming with—which better accounts for how some contemporary Chinese queer subjects are crafting livable lives

Aesthetics · Art · China · Cognitive dissonance · Coming out · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Literature · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works41
Citations per year5,86
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 39

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