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A collection of essays on the uses of new media in the formation of East Asian and Pacific queer identities

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1
I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections
I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, “Globalization," and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21
Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52
Guided Fan Fiction: Western “Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70
Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace in 1990s Taiwan and Korea / Chris Berry and Fran Martin 87
Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal / David Mullaly 115
II. Mobile Sites: New Screens, New Scenes
Singaporean Queering of the Internet: Toward a New Form of Cultural Transmission of Rights Discourse / Baden Offord 133
Pop and ma: The Landscape of Japanese Commodity Characters and Subjectivity / Larissa Hjorth 158
From Khush List to Gay Bombay: Virtual Webs of Real People / Sandip Roy 180
III. Circuits: Regional Zones
Queer Voyeurism and the Pussy-Matrix in Shu Lea Cheang's Japanese Pornography / Katrien Jacobs 201
Sexing the City: Malaysia's New “Cyberlaws" and Cyberjaya's Queer Success / Olivia Khoo 222
Paging “New Asia": Sambal Is a Feedback Loop, Coconut Is a Code, Rice Is a System / Audrey Yue 245
Bibliography 267
Contributors 293
Index 297

About the Author

Chris Berry is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire and editor of several books including Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation, published by Duke University Press.

Fran Martin is Lecturer in the Cinema Studies Program at La Trobe University in Australia.

Audrey Yue is Lecturer in the Cultural Studies Program and Department of English at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Reviews

"Mobile Cultures is a feast of a collection. This compelling anthology renders the mediated queer realities of Asia within a more dynamic global frame. Studies of the Internet, cinema and other technologies unmoor queer Asia from its static and sedentary locations. A necessary addition to the burgeoning field of transnational queer cultural studies!" Martin F. Manalansan IV, co-editor of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism