Unlocking the Red Closet

"This book would be the first book to locate the necropolitical within gays, heterosexual wives, and marriage fraud with Chinese characteristics. This book will be the first to explain how the notion of necropolitics is useful for the purposes of understanding how gay bodies in an East Asian setting are already subject to certain conditions of state-sanctioned stigma that result in slow death"--

Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of several books about China, including China's Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice and Blending East and West: Understanding the Changing Chinese Society.